The Lady from Texas

The Lady from Texas is a 1951 American comedy Western film directed by Joseph Pevney and starring Howard Duff, Mona Freeman and Josephine Hull.

Plot

A ranch cook and a cowboy save a poor old Civil War widow from a land grabber in the Old West.

Cast

Howard Duff as Dan Mason
Mona Freeman as Bonnie Lee
Josephine Hull as Miss Birdie Wheeler
Gene Lockhart as Judge George Jeffers
Craig Stevens as Cyril Guthrie
Jay C. Flippen as Sheriff Mike McShane
Ed Begley as Dave Blodgett
Morgan Farley as Lucian Haddon
Chris-Pin Martin as José
Barbara Knudson as Mabel Guthrie
Kenneth Patterson as Craig Toland
John Maxwell as Mr. Deevers

Reception

In a contemporary review for The Philadelphia Inquirer, critic Mildred Martin called the film "a winning, warm-hearted comedy" and wrote: "A sort of sage brush fairy story, 'The Lady from Texas' has appeal without sogginess, humor and gentleness. Joseph Pevney's direction has the light, right touch and Howard Shumate's original has been deftly whipped into an ingratiating script by Gerald Drayson Adams and Connie Lee Bennett."