Lone Star

IMDb link: 0043751
IMDb rating: 6.2 (1,430 votes)
Genres: Action, Adventure, Drama, Western, Romance, History
Director: Lionel Barrymore, Vincent Sherman
Cast: Broderick Crawford, Clark Gable, Ava Gardner and others

Release date: 8 Feb 1952
Release year: 1952
Runtime: 94 minutes
Country: United States
Keywords: year 1845, 1840s, texas, undercover, singing, map, grazed by a bullet, andrew jackson character, indian attack, retribution

Plot:

Rip-roaring big star, big budget semi-historical story about cattle baron Devereaux Burke, who is enlisted by an aging Andrew Jackson to dissuade Sam Houston from establishing Texas as a republic. Burke must fight state senator Thomas Craden, in the process winning the heart of Craden's newspaper-editor girlfriend Martha Ronda.

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