Streets of Laredo (film)

Streets of Laredo
Theatrical release poster
Directed byLeslie Fenton
Screenplay byCharles Marquis Warren
Story byLouis Stevens
Elizabeth Hill
Produced byRobert Fellows
StarringWilliam Holden
Macdonald Carey
Mona Freeman
William Bendix
CinematographyRay Rennahan
Edited byArchie Marshek
Music byVictor Young
Color processTechnicolor
Production
company
Paramount Pictures
Distributed byParamount Pictures
Release date
  • May 27, 1949 (1949-05-27)
Running time
93 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$1,472,000[1]
Box office$2,150,000[2]

Streets of Laredo is a 1949 American Western film directed by Leslie Fenton and starring William Holden, Macdonald Carey and William Bendix[3] as three outlaws who rescue a young girl, played by Mona Freeman. When they become separated, two reluctantly become Texas Rangers, while the third continues on a life of crime.

The film is a Technicolor remake of King Vidor's black-and-white film The Texas Rangers (1936), which starred Fred MacMurray in Holden's role, Jack Oakie in William Bendix's, Lloyd Nolan in MacDonald Carey's role, and Jean Parker as the girl they rescue.

  1. ^ Schallert, Edwin (February 13, 1949). "Hollywood Must Keep Zest to Hold Public: Henry Ginsberg of Paramount Says Defeat Talk Hurts Box Office". Los Angeles Times. p. D1.
  2. ^ "Top Grossers of 1949". Variety. January 4, 1950. p. 59.
  3. ^ José David Saldívar, The Dialectics of Our America: Genealogy, Cultural Critique, and Literary History (Duke University Press, 1991), 52.