San Antonio

Overview

In this western, dashing Errol Flynn plays a cowboy who battles a crooked saloonkeeper who is trying to take over the town and take away the dance hall girl who has fallen in love with him.

Product Details

Release Date:	11/15/2016
UPC:	0888574446260
Original Release:	1945
Rating:	NR
Source:	Warner Archives
Sound:	[Dolby Digital Mono, Dolby Digital Stereo]
Language:	English
Time:	1:48:00
Sales rank:	21,711

Special Features

Warner Night at the Movies 1945 Short Subjects Gallery: Vintage Newsreel; Oscar Nominated Vitaphone Varieties Short Story of a Dog; Vintage Shorts Frontier Days and Peeks at Hollywood ; Classic Cartoons A Tale of Two Mice and Wagon Heels; Trailers of San Antonio and 1945's The Corn Is Green

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Errol Flynn	Clay Hardin
Alexis Smith	Jeanne Starr,Henchman
S.Z. Sakall	Actor
Paul Kelly	Roy Stuart
John Litel	Charley Bell
John Alvin	Actor
Victor Francen	Legare
Florence Bates	Actor
Monte Blue	Cleve Andrews
Robert Shayne	Capt. Morgan
Robert Barrat	Col. Johnson,Col. Johnson
Pedro de Cordoba	Ricardo Torreon
Tom Tyler	Lafe McWilliams
Chris-Pin Martin	Hymie Rosas
Charles Stevens	Sojer Harris
Poodles Hanneford	San Antonio Stage Driver
Doodles Weaver	Square Dance Caller
Dan White	Joey Sims
Ray Spiker	Rebel White
Al Hill	Hap Winters,Clay's Henchman
Wallis Clark	Tip Brice
Harry Cording	Hawker
Chalky Williams	Poker Player
William Steele	Roper
Arnold Kent	Dancer,Specialty Dancer
Don McGuire	Cowboy
John Compton	Cowboy
Eddie Acuff	Gawking Cowboy
Si Jenks	Station Boss
Art Mix	Barfly
Snub Pollard	Dance Extra,Dance Extra
Cliff Lyons	Errol Flynn's Double
Denver Dixon	Barfly
Harry Semels	Mexican
Francis Ford	Old Cowboy Greeting Coach
William Gould	Wild Cowman
Jack Mower	Wild Cowman
Brandon Hurst	Gambler
Dan Seymour	Laredo Border Guard,Bartender
Brad King	Cowboy
John Miles	Cowboy
Lane Chandler	Cowboy
Hal Taliaferro	Cowboy
Norman Willis	Jay Witherspoon
Eddy Waller	Cattleman
Henry Hall	Cattleman
James Flavin	Cattleman
Wally Wales	Actor

Technical Credits

W.R. Burnett

David Butler	Director
Robert Buckner	Producer
Willard Van Enger	Special Effects
W.R. Burnett	Screenwriter

Editorial Reviews

Much better than its reputation, San Antonio, in glorious Technicolor, is a slam-bang, no-nonsense Western filled with stand-out action sequences and performances. Although often negatively compared to Errol Flynn's earlier Warner epics, San Antonio, with sweeping tracking shots contrasted by more intimate but equally dramatic character delineation, stands on his own merits and to some extent bridges the gap between the romanticized empire-building spectacles of the late '30s and the postwar Western noirs. The great Warner stock company, including French import Victor Francen and a quietly menacing Paul Kelly, adds immeasurably to the overall tenor of the film, as does Max Steiner's grand score. Although Steiner has been accused of borrowing from himself -- an odd complaint considering that all the studios endlessly recycled their in-house scores -- San Antonio remains one of the most musical of A-Westerns and the Academy Award nomination for Ray Heindorf, M.K. Jerome, and Ted Koehler's lilting leitmotif "Some Sunday Morning" was more than deserved. Garbed by Milo Anderson with an eye on Technicolor, heroine Alexis Smith is a sight for sore eyes and imbues her stock assignment with more gusto than you would ordinarily expect. Among the other highlights of San Antonio are veteran B-Western star Tom Tyler's dramatic death walk and a climactic gunfight that seamlessly progresses from Francen's posh saloon into the streets of historical San Antonio to culminate, inevitably, in the ruined Alamo. All, of course, staged to maximum effect at the Warner Bros. back lot by a director, David Butler, rather unfairly known solely for his many lightweight musicals and comedies.