Der Vagabund von Texas (1945)
24KDer Vagabund von Texas: Directed by Stuart Heisler. With Gary Cooper, Loretta Young, William Demarest, Dan Duryea. A good-natured saddle tramp traveling with his sidekick is mistaken for a ruthless outlaw with a price on his head.
“A good premise runs out of ideas and becomes a talkfest, even getting a little mean spirited near the end. Cooper is good as Melody Jones, an amiable but inept cowpoke mistaken for a surly killer named Monte Jarrad played suitably well by one of the greatest movie villains of all-time, Dan Duryea. The first 20 minutes of the story has real promise but this is one of those movies which somehow didnu0026#39;t get developed beyond its first draft. Some good dialogue and a great cast get kind of squandered as the muddled plot thickens. Would have succeeded better with less talk and characters and more gags and action. A miss but worthy of a look. Not Cooperu0026#39;s worst by any means.”
