This movie is the proof that the world is becoming a sick and dumb place

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Sadly Over-hyped

Boring, long, and too preachy.

What is exceptional in this western, is even not being that good, it leaves a strong mark because David Brian as Blair Lunsford gives a great performance and in spite of a weak screenplay his character comes out charismatic and real. It is surely naive to make the bad guys and the moviegoer accept they will headline the newspaper with the information the train is carrying a huge amount of gold to Dallas. There is a memorable action scene where Scott and Brian fight together against Clevenger's (Ray Teal) gang doing a trick with their guns. Any film that had Technicolor in the fifties was special and here, despite the stock footage from Dodge City, the cinematography is tops. Ray Teal overacts as the bad guy he is a kind of Ernest Borgnine, and overdoing in this case is positive, it blends with the film.

When the Lone Star Sate was split wide open , the Civil War veteran and former newspaper man called Ned Britt (Randolph Scott) linked it together with lead . As Ned returns back to Fort Worth after the war is over and finds himself fighting an old friend , Blair Lunsford (David Brian) , who's grown ambitious . The conflict between the two men roars across the Western plains and railway . With the numerous presence of homesteaders this town called Fort Worth prospered , stabilized and grew , its lawabiding citizens decide to hire a new sheriff , Ned Britt who is also a newspaper editor . Meanwhile , Britt is distracted by girl-next-door Flora Talbott (Phyllis Thaxter) and attractive Amy Brooks (Helena Carter).This exciting picture gets Western action , shootouts , thrills , a love story , and results to be quite entertaining . And the pace of action , tightly edited , never drops . The film is totally set in Fort Worth , Texas , which was one of the main railhead cattle towns till railway arrival . The movie has great scenarios , adequate production design and appropriate settings . However , three train scenes are taken directly from Dodge City (1939) , as the race with the horse-driven stagecoach along the tracks; the burning carriage and subsequent escape on horseback ; the triumphal arrival of the train in town, right at the end . Veteran Western star , Randolph Scott , once again proves that his roles are tough to double-cross or murder in this acceptable Western . Scott is supported by David Brian , he is ideally suited to the character of the suspicious friend who may or may not be on the side of Law and Order . Secondary cast is pretty good such as seductive Helena Carter , baddie Ray Teal , Michael Tolan , Walter Sande , Bob Steele and special mention for goodie as well as fatty Chubby Johnson as likable but coward sheriff . Thrilling and atmospheric musical score by David Buttolph . Glamorous and glimmer cinematography in Technicolor by Sidney Hickox . This bullet-a-minute Western about bandits attempting to hold up the progress of a railroad was directed in sure visual eye by Edwin L. Marin , at his final film . As he died two months before its release . He realized a variety films of all kind of genres , though especially Western , the best are starred by Scott , all well screen-written (as Abilene town , Canadian Pacific , Cariboo trail , Fighting man of the plains) . In fact his last films were Westerns until his early death at 52 . Rating : 6.5/10 , a nice feature horse-opera in every respect .

With Warner Brothers having done a western entitled Dallas a year earlier with Gary Cooper it only seemed right that it produce another western with the title of that other Texas twin city, Fort Worth. Starring in this one is Randolph Scott and directing it is Edwin L. Marin who collaborated with Scott on a few other previous films. This was Marin's last film as a director. Not a noteworthy stylist, Marin nevertheless was able to do a competent and entertaining product.Scott's in a strange occupation for him in a western, he's a newspaper editor, a partner with Emerson Treacy with Dick Jones working for them. They're picking up stakes and going to Texas and decide to settle in the city of Fort Worth which is having problems with a lawless element led by cattle trail boss Ray Teal. An old friend of Scott's, David Brian is the big mover and shaker in Fort Worth and he'd like to see a railroad come through and a meat packing plant right in the town like Chicago. That would eliminate folks like Teal and he's not about to see that happen.Scott has an interesting character, he's become pacifistic after war service and thinks that the power of the pen will do more than the six gun. But when law and order breaks down Randy straps on the six guns like Jimmy Stewart in Destry Rides Again to restore it as surely as Stewart did in Bottleneck.Brian though has a strange character, even after the end of the film you don't know quite what to make of him. He says he wants law and order, but tolerates an ineffectual sheriff in Chubby Johnson and allows Teal to run roughshod. Many in the cast want to know just what is his game and in the end we never really find out. Makes for an interesting piece of cinema.Fort Worth is an interesting western with far more plot than most of these six gun shoot 'em ups have. It is one of Randolph Scott's best westerns from the Fifties, you'll become a fan of Randolph Scott after seeing Fort Worth.

"Abilene Town" director Edwin L. Marin teamed up with Randolph Scott in the fourth of their seven westerns for the 80-minute, Technicolor, town-taming tale "Fort Worth," with David Brian as Scott's chief adversary Blair Lunsford. The bluff Brian cultivated a reputation in the 1950s playing splendidly-apparelled villains, and he goes face-to-face and bullet-to-bullet with our stalwart hero. Ray Teal, who achieved fame as Sheriff Roy Coffee on TV's "Bonanza," makes a memorable impression as unsavory second-string villain Gabe Clevenger. Actually, Clevenger is more interesting than Lunsford because the former proves to be such a scoundrel. "Colorado Territory" scenarist John Twist wrote some incisive and catchy dialogue for this oater; earlier, Twist penned two other Randolph Scott westerns, "Man Behind the Gun" and "Best of the Badmen." Scott's sturdy performance, succulent dialogue, and enough smoking gunplay qualify this as an adequate western that holds its own without breaking new ground. The use of interior sets for exterior sets detracts from its' overall production value."Fort Worth" opens with stock footage of a wagon train bound for San Antonio trundling past a scenic lake. Ned Britt (Randolph Scott) and his associates, veteran newspaperman Ben Garvin (Emerson Treacy of "Adam's Rib") and typesetter/reporter Luther Wicks (Dick Jones of "Rocky Mountain") are heading for San Antonio to set up shop. Britt and Garvin own a chain of newspapers in Kansas and have acquired a sterling reputation for themselves, even in the eyes of Clevenger and his hoodlums. Meanwhile, during the trip, Ned has befriended an orphaned urchin, Toby Nickerson (Pat Mitchell of "Northwest Territory"), that he treats as if he were his son. They go for rides on the prairie.A woman on horseback meets the wagon train in the middle of nowhere and receives permission to join it. Flora Talbot (Phyllis Thaxter of "The Breaking Point") is traveling back to Fort Worth. Once Flora falls in with the wagon train, she strikes up a conversation with another woman who is driving one of the wagons, and they provide important exposition about the larger-than-life hero—Ned Britt. According to Flora, Britt rode alone into Texas about 20 years ago. She points out that his only friend was his six-gun and it kept him alive and fed. Initially, Flora's description of Britt clashes with what the woman driving the wagon knows about him. She claims that Britt has nothing but contempt for firearms and believes that guns are only for heathens that cannot read. On the other hand, Flora remembers Britt as "a one-man arsenal" who rode off to join the Southern cavalry.Meanwhile, Ned and Toby ride double beyond the wagon train and spot a cattle herd bound for Dodge City; Gabe Clevenger (nefarious Ray Teal) owns this herd. Clevenger hates Britt, but he respects Britt as a man of integrity and he knows better than to make a martyr out of the newspaperman. Clevenger has no desire to play into Ned's hands by provoking him or any other 'quill pusher.' One of Clevenger's trigger-happy drovers, Happy Jack Harvey (Zon Murray of "The Great Plane Robbery") invades the wagon train and pulls his six-gun on Britt. Our hero warns the drover that a shot will stampede the herd. He fires a shot anyway and the herd overruns the camp and tramples helpless little Tobey. This recalls a similar urchin in the Errol Flynn oater "Dodge City" who had to die before law and order could be established. Toby's death pits Ned squarely against Gabe Clevenger, but it doesn't keep our hero from denouncing violence to settle violence. Says he,". . . the presses are a thousand times more potent than gunpowder." Predictably, Ned will change his mind and resort to the six-gun.Initially, Britt refuses to settle in Fort Worth, but Lunsford convinces him that the town has a future. Britt and he start out as friends, but their relationship changes as Lunsford reveals his true colors. First, unbeknownst to Britt, Lunsford stole his girlfriend, Amy Brooks (Helena Carter of "Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye") away from him during the Civil War when Lunsford took risks selling his beef to the South but turns a profit. Second,he has been secretly obtaining options for real estate from owners who cannot make their payments. Eventually, Britt and he wind up at odds with each other, though occasionally they team up to thwart Clevenger's gang. Inevitably, ranch lady Flora Talbot comes between them, but if you've seen enough of these sagebrushers, you'll know that Scott's Britt need not break a sweat about it. "Fort Worth" concerns Britt's use of a six-shooter to solve his problems. He doesn't like the idea of gunplay, but he resorts to it.The gunfight at the stockyard when the sheriff, his deputy, and Lunsford try to arrest Clevenger is the best thing about "Fort Worth." Shorty (Bob Steele) gets the drop on everybody with a rifle as Britt approaches the stockyard. Britt believes that the sheriff has Clevenger at gunpoint. Instead, things are the other way around. This is when Lunsford and Britt perform a feat that enables them to disarm themselves on orders from the badmen and sling their pistols to each other and then open fire on the villains. Clevenger and his cohorts scatter.Later, Ben Garvin is found murdered in his newspaper office with a knife stuck in his back. Ned straps on his six-guns, marches down the street and guns down three of Clevenger's henchmen without blinking an eye. Moreover, he violates the western hero's code of waiting until the villains clear leather before he draws on them! "Fort Worth" isn't anything sensational, but it is solidly virile.