Good story, Not enough for a whole film

Don't listen to the Hype. It's awful

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

John Wayne plays a sheriff who mistakenly believes he killed his best friend. So he turns in his badge and goes to live in the woods. A year later the dead friend's citified daughter shows up. Wayne has to rescue her and she offers him a job as foreman on the ranch she inherited from her father. Romance follows but not without some troubles. Eventually Wayne finds out who really killed his pal and straps on his guns to get justice. In many ways this is a routine B western, the type Duke made plenty of early in his career. The plot elements and even some of the stunts seem familiar to other Wayne oaters I've seen from the period. But there are some interesting things I haven't seem before. John Wayne being broody, for one thing. At one point we see him with a beard and trying to look disheveled. Kind of funny. Gabby Hayes is also in this but without the grizzled old-timer shtick we all love. It's enjoyable enough for the type of unchallenging movie it is. I think these were mostly aimed at kids back in the day so don't expect anything deep.

Encore Westerns presented "Texas Terror" in November of 2014 and I was able to see it for the first time. That I had not seen it before surprised me, and that I got to see it this night gratified me: It is an excellent entry of the Lone Star movies.Robert North Bradbury wrote and directed and had a cast of good actors, including John Wayne giving an unusual performance, one that merely foretells even greater performances to come.Wisely, director and make-up and costuming allowed him to look like the "desert rat" he was supposed to be.His leading lady, the lovely Lucile Browne, was one of the ablest among his B-Western co-stars, a very, very watchable young lady who I wish had made more movies.Leroy Mason is, as usual, the chief bad guy, but he is such a smooth and good-looking guy, I wish he had had his own series with him as the hero.All the players, even as the most minor characters, are totally believable and usually likable, helping make "Texas Terror" an excellent B-Western movie that I highly recommend.There is a lot of story in "Texas Terror," with lots of good action, marred somewhat by (in my opinion) out-of-place stock shots that could have been omitted to the improvement of the still good movie.One complaint: Neither the film credits nor even IMDb tells us who played Chief Black Eagle. That is a shame, a slap in the face to him and to us, the viewers and fans. I hope someone somewhere knows who he was and corrects this terrible omission.

This B-western begins with John Wayne as a town's sheriff. However, following a robbery, Wayen chases the baddies and thinks he's accidentally shot and killed an old friend--not knowing that the leader of the gang actually killed the man. Saddened by the death, he decides to quit the job and become a recluse...for a while. Eventually, he gets his act together and eventually unravels the mystery--saving the day.Compared to other Wayne films of the era, this one is about average--entertaining but with a few problems here and there. The one big problem for me was the use of stunts--which were usually the highpoint of these films. Instead of staging new stunts, they sloppily took clips from other Wayne films and stuck them in--less than seamlessly. For example, though the grass is short and they are in a semi-wooded area, when baddies are shot, they fall in very high grass with no trees about them! Sloppy...and obviously recycled. Still, the rest of the film is breezy light entertainment--what you'd expect from such an unpretentious film.A couple things to look for is a particularly bad job of acting and directing when the heroin enters the film. She talks directly to the camera and her delivery is less than magical...in fact, it's craptastic. Also, look for Gabby Hayes as the new sheriff. Unlike many of his other western roles, here he wears his dentures and sounds very erudite--without that 'old coot' voice you usually expect from him. This isn't too surprising, as in these Wayne westerns, Hayes experimented a lot with his characters--even sometimes playing bad guys or action heroes...of sorts.

This entry in Wayne's series of Lone Star westerns that he made for Monogram in the 30's is a cut above the average. It has a good plotline and plenty of action crammed into its 51 minute running time.In the early part of the film we see Wayne depart from his usual clean-cut hero image when he thinks that he has killed his best friend. He grows a beard and has a generally unkempt appearance almost foreshadowing a similar appearance at the end of "Three Godfathers" (1948).The film is also enhanced by the appearance of such "B" western stalwarts as LeRoy Mason as the villain and a pre-Gabby George Hayes as the sheriff. There is also an unusually large cast of extras in the "Indians to the rescue" sequence which does not appear to be stock footage. The stunt work (likely coordinated by Yakima Canutt) is also superb.Not a bad way to spend an hour.