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6.3/10
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Tough dance hall girl working for the local villain falls for a cowboy trying to clean up the town.Tough dance hall girl working for the local villain falls for a cowboy trying to clean up the town.Tough dance hall girl working for the local villain falls for a cowboy trying to clean up the town.
- Nominated for 2 Oscars
- 2 nominations total
S.Z. Sakall
- Sacha Bozic
- (as S.Z. 'Cuddles' Sakall)
Pedro de Cordoba
- Ricardo Torreon
- (as Pedro De Cordoba)
Eddie Acuff
- Gawking Townsman
- (uncredited)
Victor Adamson
- Barfly
- (uncredited)
Fred Aldrich
- Townsman
- (uncredited)
Walter Bacon
- Townsman
- (uncredited)
Ray Beltram
- Townsman
- (uncredited)
- Directors
- David Butler
- Robert Florey(uncredited)
- Raoul Walsh(uncredited)
- Writers
- All cast & crew
- Production, box office & more at IMDbPro
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- TriviaBozic in the film twice refers to riderless horses as "empty horses". This is likely to be a reference to director Michael Curtiz, with whom Errol Flynn had worked on The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936) (and whom Flynn detested). When wanting to see stray horses wandering through the battle, Curtiz directed the wranglers to "bring on the empty horses." After David Niven and Flynn cracked up laughing, Curtiz responded with, 'You people, you think I know fuck nothing; I tell you: I know fuck all". Niven later made this "Curtizism" immortal by titling his autobiography "Bring On the Empty Horses".
- GoofsWhen Clay Hardin tells the driver to turn the coach around at the end, the long shot shows his horse tied to it. However, just before this shot, Bozic sees Hardin's 'empty' horse running free.
- Quotes
Clay Hardin: [about the dance] Took me years to pick up.
Jeanne Starr: It must have been the only thing that took you that long.
Clay Hardin: Well, we don't get pretty girls like you down here often. Guess that's why we have to pay for it.
- ConnectionsEdited into Cheyenne: Star in the Dust (1956)
- SoundtracksSome Sunday Morning
Music by M.K. Jerome and Ray Heindorf
Lyrics by Ted Koehler
Sung by Alexis Smith (dubbed by Bobbie Canvin) (uncredited)
Featured review
Alexis Smith was GORGEOUS
I noticed that "San Antonio" was nominated for two Oscars and won none.The first it deserved i.e. Best Art Direction-Interior Decoration, Color. Yes indeed, that saloon bawdy house was done impeccably,rich and lavishly. The second nomination was unwarranted--Best Music, Original Song "Some Sunday Morning" Ray Heindorf (music), M.K. Jerome (music) & Ted Koehler (lyrics. You can go crazy from that song. Every time a stagecoach moved, it moved with it in the background. EVERY TIME. THE WHOLE PICTURE. Then what do you think Alexis Smith, the saloon chanteuse sings? Right--same thing. And after she's done, what does a male quartet sing? Right again. It's not a bad tune but OVER and OVER and OVER....Good Grief!
The film's about the wild wild west of the mid 1800s. So my question is this: Errol Flynn has an English accent; S.Z. Sakall has a Hungarian accent and villain Victor Francen has a French accent. Now don't get me wrong; I'm neither xenophobic nor bigoted because my own father was a European immigrant but he didn't wear a ten gallon hat and carry a Colt .45 either. What do Europeans have to do with a story of the rootin' tootin' shootin' wild west? Sorry but Mr. Flynn who speaks like someone out of Oxford doesn't belong with the tumbleweed crowd.
The plot is all about revenge as are so many films. There is a quasi-romantic angle of course because of the gorgeous Alexis Smith who was one of Hollywood's great natural beauties and quite surprisingly, a very good job is done by John Litel who is Flynn's best friend.
I rated the film a 6 because it's neither great nor rotten; has excellent color and holds your interest. One thing--they showed too many cattle and not enough Alexis Smith.
The film's about the wild wild west of the mid 1800s. So my question is this: Errol Flynn has an English accent; S.Z. Sakall has a Hungarian accent and villain Victor Francen has a French accent. Now don't get me wrong; I'm neither xenophobic nor bigoted because my own father was a European immigrant but he didn't wear a ten gallon hat and carry a Colt .45 either. What do Europeans have to do with a story of the rootin' tootin' shootin' wild west? Sorry but Mr. Flynn who speaks like someone out of Oxford doesn't belong with the tumbleweed crowd.
The plot is all about revenge as are so many films. There is a quasi-romantic angle of course because of the gorgeous Alexis Smith who was one of Hollywood's great natural beauties and quite surprisingly, a very good job is done by John Litel who is Flynn's best friend.
I rated the film a 6 because it's neither great nor rotten; has excellent color and holds your interest. One thing--they showed too many cattle and not enough Alexis Smith.
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- Budget
- $2,000,000 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 49 minutes
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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