Streets of Laredo
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Leslie Fenton
William Holden
Macdonald Carey
Mona Freeman
William Bendix
Stanley Ridges
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
In 1878, outlaws Jim Dawkins, Lorn Reming and Wahoo Jones rob a stagecoach, but later save teenager Rannie Carter from ruthless tax collector Charley Calico, who has murdered her uncle and stolen his cattle. When orphan Rannie tags along, Wahoo tells her that they are cattle inspectors. To get rid of Rannie, Lorn pays elderly rancher Pop Lint $500 to pretend that he is a family friend and take Rannie in as a boarder. Lorn is then separated from Jim and Wahoo when Calico and his gang chase them. Over the course of the next year, Lorn earns a reputation as a notorious outlaw. In order to save Lorn's life, Jim and Wahoo foil his attempt to rob a stagecoach carrying Texas Rangers, and are reluctantly sworn in as Rangers. Jim and Wahoo are quickly tested, however. after Lorn escapes, apparently due to their negligence. After the Rangers are assigned to protect a large cattle herd being driven to Mexico, Lorn steals a portion of the herd, then allows Jim and Wahoo to capture the herd to regain their standing with the Rangers. From then on, Jim and Wahoo give Lorn advance notice of all cattle drives. Not long after, Rannie, now a young woman, asks the Rangers to protect her and Pop Lint from Calico, who controls the territory. By law, the Rangers can only respond to a request made by the mayor of a town, so Jim and Wahoo convince Lorn to help. Lorn agrees to get rid of Calico, but secretly intends to take over Calico's domain. Lorn first forces the sheriff to file a formal request for help with the Rangers. Jim and Wahoo then head out to arrest Calico, whose ranch is near Pop's, and find that Calico and his gang have burned down Pop's stables, causing Pop to die of a heart attack. Jim kills Calico after he brutally tortures one of the Rangers, and Jim is declared a hero. Now determined to go straight, Jim calls off his arrangement with Lorn, who agrees to stay out of the territory. Lorn starts pursuing Rannie, however, becoming Jim's rival for her affection. Rannie rejects Jim's marriage proposal in favor of the suave Lorn, but soon realizes her mistake when Lorn tries to force himself on her. Thrown out by Rannie and rejected by his friends, Lorn busies himself with making trouble for the Rangers. When Lorn is shot and wounded after falling into a Ranger trap, he escapes to Rannie's house, where Jim removes the bullet. Rannie takes care of Lorn while he convalesces, and becomes as convinced of Lorn's evil nature as she is of Jim's goodness. Jim resigns from the Rangers after a manhunt is mounted to find Lorn, but is then arrested for his prior crimes. Wahoo goes after Lorn alone, but is killed in cold blood. Jim demands to be released so he can avenge Wahoo's death, and after Lorn takes Rannie hostage, having promised to leave Jim unharmed, Jim tracks him down in Laredo and refuses to let him escape. The former friends are forced into a gunfight, but it is Rannie who ultimately kills Lorn and avenges Wahoo's death.
Director
Leslie Fenton
Cast
William Holden
Macdonald Carey
Mona Freeman
William Bendix
Stanley Ridges
Alfonso Bedoya
Ray Teal
Clem Bevans
James Bell
Dick Foote
Joe Dominguez
Grandon Rhodes
Perry Ivins
Mike Lally
William Hamel
Carl Andre
Wade Crosby
Julian Rivero
Alex Montoya
Joaquin Elizondo
Marguerite Martin
James Davies
Bob Kortman
Frank Cordell
Pat Lane
Hank Worden
Byron Foulger
Frank Hagney
Crew
Claire Behnke
Guy Bennett
Henry Bumstead
Monroe W. Burbank
Art Camp
Harry Caplan
William Cline
Carl Coleman
Sam Comer
Frank Cordell
Archie Dalzell
Francisco Day
C. Kenneth Deland
Frank Delmar
Mary Kay Dodson
Hans Dreier
Andy Durkus
Phil Eastman
Farciot Edouart
Don English
Ray Evans
Robert Fellows
Ed Fitzharris
Robert Goodstein
Bertram Granger
John Hamilton
Hazel Hegarty
Elizabeth Hill
Robert Hosler
Natalie Kalmus
Wallace Kelley
Howard Kelly
Charles Leahy
Harry Lindgren
Jay Livingston
Al Mann
Harry Marsh
Archie Marshek
Robert Miles
Hedvig Mjorud
Mickey Moore
Herman Nowlin
Walter Oberst
Bill Rand
Roland Ray
Ray Rennahan
Karl Silvera
Lavaughn Speer
Louis Stevens
Darrell Turnmire
Jim Vincent
Charles Marquis Warren
Marvin Weldon
Wally Westmore
Victor Young
Film Details
Technical Specs
Quotes
I figure that a man's friendship for another man is about as honest as anything that comes along.- Jim Dawkins
He wasn't much of a hand at nothing but a jug. But he was decent enough to me. I sure hope there's plenty of filled-up jugs wherever he's gone.- Rannie Carter
Trivia
Notes
This film is a remake of Paramount's 1936 film The Texas Rangers, directed by King Vidor and starring Fred MacMurray, Jack Oakie, Jean Parker and Lloyd Nolan (see AFI Catalog of Feature Films, 1931-40; F3.4519). Although The Texas Rangers was based in part on a Walter Prescott Webb book of the same name, Streets of Laredo is based on Louis Stevens and Elizabeth Hill's screenplay for The Texas Rangers, and they are given onscreen story credit for Streets of Laredo. According to an August 1947 Hollywood Reporter news item, Paramount bought the rights to a Norman Reilly Raine story titled "Streets of Laredo," intending to produce a film from it "on a major scale." However, although Raine is listed in connection with this film along with writers Charles Marquis Warren and Lynn Root in papers in the Paramount Collection at the AMPAS Library, and Warren and Root collaborated on a draft of the script, neither Raine nor Root are credited in any other source, and the extent of their contribution to the final film has not been determined. Although Paramount initially hoped to shoot the film "against the panorama of Texas," location filming was done in Gallup, NM, according to Hollywood Reporter. Some scenes were shot at the Ray Corrigan Ranch in Simi Valley, CA.
