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The Kid from Texas
The Kid from Texas
	Film poster
Directed by	Kurt Neumann
Written by	Robert Hardy Andrews; Karl Kamb
Based on	a story by Robert Hardy Andrews
Produced by	Paul Short
Starring	Audie Murphy; Gale Storm
Cinematography	Charles Van Enger
Edited by	Frank Gross
Production; company	Universal Pictures
Distributed by	Universal-International Pictures
Release date	March 1, 1950 (United States);
Running time	78 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

The Kid from Texas is a 1950 American Western film that was Audie Murphy's first Technicolor Western and the first feature film on Murphy's Universal-International Pictures contract. It was directed by Kurt Neumann and featured Gale Storm and Albert Dekker.^[1]

Plot

The film starts 11 July 1879 in Lincoln County, New Mexico Territory. A group of men who work for Major Harper, led by gunslinger Minniger, attempt to arrest rancher Alexander Kain and his English partner Jameson. They are stopped by William Bonney, aka Billy the Kid, who shoots and injures them.

Jameson offers Billy a job as a ranch hand. A drunken group of Harper's men attack the ranch and kill Jameson. Billy goes on a killing rampage, encouraged by the manipulative Kain, who publicly decries Billy's efforts. Governor Lew Wallace offers Billy a pardon which he turns down. Pat Garrett is sent to catch Billy.

Cast

Audie Murphy as Billy the Kid
Gale Storm as Irene Kain
Albert Dekker as Alexander Kain
Shepperd Strudwick as Jameson
Will Geer as O'Fallon
William Talman as Minniger
Martin Garralaga as Morales
Robert H. Barrat as General Lew Wallace
Walter Sande as Crowe
Frank Wilcox as Pat Garrett
Dennis Hoey as Major Harper
Ray Teal as Sheriff Rand
Don Haggerty as Morgan
Paul Ford as Sheriff Copeland
John Phillips as Sid Curtis
Harold Goodwin as Matt Curtis
Zon Murray as Lucas
Tom Trout as Denby
Rosa Turich as Maria
Dorita Pallais as Lupita
Pilar Del Rey as Marguarita

Production notes

The film fictionalises the true events of the Lincoln County War but follows the basic facts. Jameson (Shepperd Strudwick) is based on John Tunstall and Alexander Kain (Albert Dekker) on Alexander McSween.

Murphy was cast after his performance as a juvenile delinquent in Bad Boy, with Billy the Kid being depicted as a 19th-century juvenile delinquent. J. Edgar Hoover offered to narrate the film.^[2] However, Parley Baer was chosen as the narrator.

References

^ The Kid from Texas at the Audie Murphy Memorial Site
^ Hedda Hopper (September 8, 1948). "Audie Murphy Set as 'Kid From Texas'". Los Angeles Times. p. A6.