On this day in movie history - The Man from Texas (1948 movie & play):

The Man from Texas

directed by Leigh Jason,

written by Joseph Fields and Jerome Chodorov,

based on the play and novel Missouri Legend by Elizabeth Beall Ginty,

inspired by the true Jesse James story,

was released in the United States on March 6, 1948.
Music by Earl Robinson.

Cast:

James Craig, Tobias Simms, Lynn Bari, Johnny Johnston, Una Merkel, Wallace Ford, Harry Davenport, Sara Allgood, Victor Cutler, Reed Hadley, Erville Alderson, Stanley Andrews, James Arness, Glen Arthur, Ray Bennett, Lane Bradford, Paul E. Burns, Bert Conway, Clancy Cooper, King Donovan, Eddie Dunn, Jim Farley, Dick Foote, Hope Landin, Lyle Latell, James Logan, Robert Malcolm, Suzanne O'Connor, Lee Roberts, Brick Sullivan, Charles Wagenheim, Guy Wilkerson, Hank Worden.

Recommended reading:

Missouri Legend

A Comedy in Three Acts

Play by E.B. Ginty (1938)

ASIN: B00085V4NE
Published by Random House.
Published 1938.
First Edition.

Description:

Inspired by the true Jesse James story.
Filmed as The Man from Texas (1948), directed by Leigh Jason.

Born on this day – James Craig:

James Craig

Actor

February 4, 1912 - June 27, 1985

Credits:

100 Years of Horror (1996); A Lady Without Passport (1950); A Woman Is the Judge (1939); Appointment in Tokyo (1945); Arizona Bushwhackers (1968); Behind Prison Gates (1939); Bigfoot (1970); Black Friday (1940); Blind Alley (1939); Body of the Prey (1967); Born to the West (1937); Boys' Ranch (1946); Broken Arrow (1957); Cafe Hostess (1940); Chevron Theatre (1953); Cinemassacre's Monster Madness (2010); Code Two (1953); Colgate Theatre (1958); College Swing (1938); Custer (1967); Dangerous Partners (1945); Daniel Boone (1967); Dark Delusion (1947); Death Valley Days (1960); Doomsday Machine (1976); Drums in the Deep South (1951); Enemy Agent (1940); Flying G-Men (1939); Fort Utah (1967); Fort Vengeance (1953); Four Fast Guns (1960); Freedom Comes High (1943); Friendly Enemies (1942); Gentle Annie (1944); Ghost Diver (1957); Good Girls Go to Paris (1939); Have Gun - Will Travel (1958); Here's Hollywood (1962); Hostile Guns (1967); Hurricane Smith (1952); If He Hollers, Let Him Go! (1968); I'm Nobody's Sweetheart Now (1940); Kismet (1944); Kitty Foyle (1940); Konga, the Wild Stallion (1939); Last of the Desperados (1955); Law and Order (1940); Little Mister Jim (1946); Lost Angel (1943); Man or Gun (1958); Marriage Is a Private Affair (1944); Massacre (1956); Missing Daughters (1939); Naked in the Sun (1957); North of Shanghai (1939); Northwest Rangers (1942); Northwest Stampede (1948); Oily to Bed, Oily to Rise (1939); Our Vines Have Tender Grapes (1945); Outside These Walls (1939); Overland with Kit Carson (1939); Pest from the West (1939); Picture People No. 1: Stars in Defense (1941); Picture People No. 2: Hollywood Sports (1941); Pride of the West (1938); Romance of the Redwoods (1939); Scandal Sheet (1939); Science Fiction Theatre (1955); Scorching Fury (1952); Seven Miles from Alcatraz (1942); Seven Sinners (1940); She Went to the Races (1945); Shoot-Out at Medicine Bend (1957); Side Street (1949); Skinny the Moocher (1939); Some of the Best: Twenty-Five Years of Motion Picture Leadership (1949); Sophie Lang Goes West (1937); South to Karanga (1940); Static in the Attic (1939); Studio 57 (1954–1955); Swing Shift Maisie (1943); Tales of Wells Fargo (1962); Taming of the West (1939); The ABC Afternoon Playbreak (1972); The Big Broadcast of 1938 (1938); The Buccaneer (1938); The Cyclops (1957); The Devil and Daniel Webster (1941); The Devil's Brigade (1968); The Dick Cavett Show (1971); The Ford Television Theatre (1954); The Heavenly Body (1944); The House Across the Bay (1940); The Human Comedy (1943); The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt (1939); The Man from Texas (1948); The Man They Could Not Hang (1939); The Millionaire (1956); The Omaha Trail (1942); The Persuader (1957); The Strip (1951); The Tormentors (1971); The Virginian (1968); The Women of Pitcairn Island (1956); This Way Please (1937); Thunder Trail (1937); Trouble Finds Andy Clyde (1939); Twenty Years After (1944); Two-Fisted Rangers (1939); Unexpected Uncle (1941); Valley of the Sun (1942); While the City Sleeps (1956); Winners of the West (1940); Zanzibar (1940).