User:KindleyII/The Texan (film)

--173.8.75.130 (talk) 02:12, 1 April 2011 (UTC)Enrique, aka "Quico," The Llano Kid is closer to the real title than "The Texan". Other similarly named films (e.g., The Kid, ...Texan....) and pronunciation difficulties may have relegated this Gary Cooper gem to the status of a lost treasure. Once found, it will foster the demand for a remake. The film has the dramatic elements of a chase, a secret identity, and the dramatic element of a lullaby used as a catalyst, transitional element.

The story may be based on an actual event in the life of the writer, O.Henry where he fled to Honduras. (remember TV's "The Cisco Kid"?) The character and plot compare with anything by Sommerset Maughm or Guy de Maupassant. O.Henry has been referred to as "the American Guy de Maupassant."

Cooper's character goes through an Odyssey of moral choices, each compounding the difficulty of the next. Murder, flight to evade arrest and procecution, identity theft, and, last but not least, lying to ones mother. The secret identity element renders taboo a romantic spark between Cooper's character and a Fay Ray "relative".

With the above and the film's unavailability to be seen again, one begins to suspect a suppression by legions of decency or the sinners of McCarthyism. Whatever the reason, one remains an incomplete Gary Cooper fan until ....