Texas Lady (1955) [N/A]
Featuring:
Claudette Colbert, Barry Sullivan, Ray Collins
Written by:
Horace McCoy
Directed by:
Tim Whelan
Release Date:
November 23, 1955
Original Title:
Texas Lady
Genres:
Western
Production Companies:
Nat Holt Productions
RKO Radio Pictures
Production Countries:
United States of America
Ratings / Certifications:
DE: 12
Runtime: 82
WOMANLY WILES WERE HER WEAPONS!
Claudette Colbert plays Prudence Webb, who arrives in the wide-open town of Fort Ralston, Texas, to assume control of her late father's newspaper. Her first major print crusade is aimed at gambler Chris Mooney (Barry Sullivan), whom Prudence holds responsible for her dad's suicide. She then takes aim at a couple of crooked cattle barons (Ray Collins and Walter Sande), who'd like nothing better than to put Prudence out of the way for keeps.
Prudence travels to an isolated Texas town where she has inherited the local paper. She finds the place ruled over by the two men who wrested the area from the Indians twenty-five years before, and it is clear they do not welcome her free-spirited intervention. Support comes in the unexpected shape of the gambler she has just bested in New Orleans for her own family reasons.
