Dallas

Dallas. 1950 Warner Bros. Pictures.
Starring: Gary Cooper, Ruth Roman, Steve Cochran, Raymond Massey, Barbara Payton
Director: Stuart Heisler
Part of the Gary Cooper Signature Collection, available from Amazon.

Blayde Hollister (Cooper) is a former Confederate officer whose home and family are destroyed by the Marlow brothers during the Civil War. Hollister vows revenge, and ventures west to Texas, faking his death in a staged gunfight with his friend Wild Bill Hickock (Reed Hadley). After that, he befriends Martin Weatherby (Leif Erickson), the newly appointed U.S. Marshall to the new settlement of Dallas. Weatherby isn't really experienced in his job, but he does allow Hollister assume his identity in his quest to lure the Marlows out into the open.

The eldest Marlow, Will (Massey) is posing as a law-abiding real estate dealer feigning outrage at the antisocial activities engaged in by his brothers Cullen and Bryant, who are happily terrorizing the citizens of Dallas.

Dallas is a decent, good looking Technicolor western with a good performance by Gary Cooper, with some comedy and plenty of dialogue courtesy of writer John Twist. Recommended, especially if you've never seen it before.