Main Cast: William Holden, William Bendix, MacDonald Carey, Mona Freeman, Stanley Ridges
Release Year: 1949
Country: US
Run Time: 92 minutes
Plot
Streets of Laredo is a streamlined and Technicolorful remake of Paramount's 1936 box-office champ The Texas Rangers. William Holden, William Bendix and MacDonald Carey star as roguish outlaws Jim Dawkins, Wahoo Jones and Lorn Remming. After rescuing a little girl named Rannie Carter from a wicked tax collector, Dawkins and Jones decide to switch to the right side of the law; Remming, however, has other ideas. Years later, Rennie has grown up quite prettily into Mona Freeman, while Jim and Wahoo have become scrupulous members of the newly-formed Texas Rangers. Jim is in love with Rennie, but she has eyes for the still-crooked Lorn -- at least until Lorn proves to be the louse that the audience knew he was from the first reel. Streets of Laredo meticulously recreates the most famous scene from Texas Rangers, wherein one of the film's more sympathetic characters is abruptly shot to death from under a table; the scene still works, though it packed a bigger wallop in the original. Alfonso Bedoya, the "I don't have to show you any stinking badges" bandit from Treasure of the Sierra Madre, is appropriately menacing as the tax collector. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Henry Bumstead - Art Director, Hans Dreier - Art Director, Mary Kay Dodson - Costume Designer, Francisco Day - First Assistant Director, Leslie Fenton - Director, Archie Marshek - Editor, Victor Young - Composer (Music Score), Victor Young - Musical Direction/Supervision, Ray Evans - Songwriter, Jay Livingston - Songwriter, Roland Ray - Makeup, Wally Westmore - Makeup, Carl Silvera - Makeup, Ray Rennahan - Cinematographer, Robert M. Fellows - Producer, Sam Comer - Set Designer, Bertram Granger - Set Designer, Harry Lindgren - Sound/Sound Designer, Walter Oberst - Sound/Sound Designer, Elizabeth Hill - Screen Story, Charles Marquis Warren - Screenwriter, Louis Stevens - Short Story Author
