San Antonio (1945) on Netflix
Clay Hardin comes back from Mexico to San Antonio with a tally book tying Roy Stuart to cattle rustling. Stuart wants him stopped. Jeanne Starr arrives to sing in Stuart's saloon.
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Cattle rustlers have driven Clay Hardin, a rancher in San Antonio, off his land. He has spent time in Mexico, and he comes back to town carrying one of Roy Stuart's tally books, which records cattle sold that never belonged to Stuart. Stuart and his partner Legare want to keep that evidence out of a court. Jeanne Starr, a performer from the East, arrives by stagecoach under contract to appear in Stuart's saloon, a booking her manager Sacha believes is legitimate. Hardin and Jeanne are drawn to each other. San Antonio has no civil law, and a troop of cavalry is posted there to keep order.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about San Antonio (1945)
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- Warner Bros had the idea of getting novelist Max Brand to write an Errol Flynn Western and, writer W. R. Burnett said, gave him carte blanche because of his enormous reputation; Brand came in every day with a briefcase, and they found out later he was bringing in two quarts of gin and taking out the empties.
- W. R. Burnett wrote the script in three weeks and then rewrote it, and he pitched Marlene Dietrich as Flynn's co-star; Jack Warner was enthusiastic but did not want to pay Dietrich's fee, especially when he had so many other actors under contract.
- Director David Butler said Warners "built probably the longest street that was ever built for a Western at Warners" for the film, adding that "they built it the wrong way."
