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Suggest pagesUnder a Texas Moon (film)
| Under a Texas Moon | |
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 Film poster |
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| Directed by | Michael Curtiz |
| Written by | Gordon Rigby Stewart Edward White (Novel) |
| Starring | Frank Fay Raquel Torres Myrna Loy Noah Beery |
| Music by | Ray Perkins |
| Cinematography | William Rees (Technicolor) |
| Editing by | Ralph Dawson |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros. |
| Release date(s) | April 1, 1930 |
| Running time | 82 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Under A Texas Moon is a 1930 musical western film photographed entirely in Technicolor. It was based on the novel Two-Gun Man (from 1929) which was written by Stewart Edward White. It was the second all-color all-talking feature to be filmed entirely outdoors as well as being the second western in color. The film features one theme song by the title of "Under A Texas Moon."
The film survives as a single nitrate Technicolor print, copied by the UCLA Film and Television Archive.
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[edit] Cast
{in credits order)
- Frank Fay as Don Carlos
- Raquel Torres as Raquella
- Myrna Loy as Lolita Romero
- Armida Vendrell as Dolores
- Noah Beery as Jed Parker
- Georgie Stone as Pedro
- George Cooper as Philipe
- Charles Sellon as José Romero
- Jack Curtis as Buck Johnson
- Sam Appel as Pancho Gonzalez
- Tully Marshall as Gus Aldrich
- Mona Maris as Lolita Roberto
- Francisco Marán as Antonio
[edit] Response
New York Latinos led by Gonzalo González protested the film, characterizing it as "anti-Mexican." Police brutalized the picketers, killing González. The murder sparked a Pan-Latino protest, in which the Latino civil rights activist Luisa Moreno participated. She later told Bert Corona that the experience "motivated her to work on behalf of unifying the Spanish-speaking communities."[1]
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- Notes
- ^ García, Mario T. (1994). Memories of Chicano History: The Life and Narrative of Bert Corona. Berkeley, California: University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-20152-3. http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft3p30052t/.
