The Man from Texas

James Craig loves wife Lynn Bar and his kids (who are never seen), but his work annoys her: he leads a criminal gang as the Pecos Kid. He keeps trying to go straight, but circumstances and his temper keep getting in the way.

One of a half dozen or so movies with the exact same title, this movie was Eagle-Lion's attempt to rise above its PRC grade-Z western roots, since Lash Larue wasn't going to do it. It has a fine cast of supporting players, including Una Merkel, Wallace Ford and Harry Davenport, but producer Bryan Foy had spent too many years running Warner's B division to waste any money, so most of the movie is shot in the cheapest way possible, including a lot of newspaper headlines to advance the story. The result is certainly watchable, but the humor is too heavy-handed to sparkle.