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...Lone Star Lots of stars in this better-than-average Western. Gable and Gardner provide the love, Broderick Crawford the leers, Gabby Hayes and Lionel Barrymore the laughs. At the Loew's State and Orpheum...
Although M.G.M. employs all the conventional Western gimmicks--Indians, saloons, chases, coincidence, two men and one girl, and some historical background--Lone Star survives the ordeal very well. Because its set in Austin, Texas, in the stormy months prior to Tyler's 1844 annexation of Texas, the stock Western plot receives some borrowed luster...
Excellent acting by the minor characters--even the Gabby Hayes variety--helps pull Lone Star out of mediocrity. Lionel Barrymore wheezes through the role of General Jackson; it's too bad he is shelved after the first five minutes...
Despite this trite ending, Gable and Miss Gardner combine to make Lone Star entertaining even for those suffering from a surfeit of Westerns. Also at Loew's Louis Haywood staggers through a conventional horror-thriller, The Son of Dr. Jekyll...
Dunster crushed Winthrop in the lone 'A' squash match...