)īurnett says he wrote the script in three weeks then rewrote it. (According to a later article on Brand, the author contributed to the scripts of the Flynn films Uncertain Glory, The Adventures of Don Juan and Montana before becoming a war correspondent and being killed in May 1944. A Western in which there's no action.' Geller told Burnett to come up with a story with producer Robert Buckner. We found out later he brought in two quarts of gin every day and drank them up-took the empties out.' īurnett says a few months later he got a call from Jim Geller, head of Warners story department, saying they had a shooting date, Flynn and a color commitment, but Brand had come up with 'a very original idea for us. He used to come in every day with a briefcase and go out every night with a briefcase. Burnett says 'They gave him carte blanche, which they never did, because of his enormous reputation. Burnett, one of the writers, said Warner Bros had the idea of getting Max Brand to write an Errol Flynn Western.

Jeanne decides to leave San Antonio for good, but Clay persuades her to stay. Clay sets out in hot pursuit of Stuart, determined to arrest him, but ultimately Stuart is killed when he hits his head on a rock during the climactic fist-fight with Clay. Legare is chased into the Alamo's ruins by Stuart and is killed. There is no law in San Antonio, only a troop of soldiers about to pull out, so Clay temporarily takes the job of marshal. The shooting is witnessed by the singer's manager, Sacha, but he is too fearful to speak out. But a partner of Stuart's, a man named Legare, wants the book for his own reasons, so he steals it and shoots Charlie. Lured backstage by Jeanne, suspicious that she could be in cahoots with her boss, Clay leaves the book in Charlie's care.

Clay arrives in town by stagecoach, as does Jeanne Starr, who is taking a job as a singer in Stuart's saloon. Rustlers are running rampant in Texas, but at least one rancher, Charlie Bell, isn't pulling up stakes yet, particularly with the news that old friend Clay Hardin is en route from Mexico back home to San Antonio.Ĭlay claims to have proof, documented in a book, that Roy Stuart is responsible for the rustling.

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