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Western in which love is as mighty as muscle. It isn't art and it isn't history precisely, but the producers have Mr. Gable tussling with assorted villains and the prettiest gal north of the Rio Grande, so it probably doesn't matter, after all….Suffice it to say that Mr. Gable is a man who is ready to throw a punch and fire a six-gun as well as pitch woo. And before the besieged Congres in Austin has voted to make Texas part of the union, he has settled his differences with Broderick Crawford…and Ava Gardner, as unlikely a newspaper publisher as any we've seen…Mr. Crawford, who loses that battle, his dreams of empire and his girl, is a standard, snarling bad man but one who ultimately has the grace to join his conqueror against the common Mexican enemy. Miss Gardner, on the other hand, is decorative but not much more as the lady who is torn by love and political affiliations… Luckily for "Lone Star" the principals don't take much time out for either romance or tears.”
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