Stuart Heisler directed a few hits, especially Storm Warning, The Glass Key, Blue skies, Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman, Tulsa, The Star, and Along Came Jones. Dallas, a little below them, begins rather well, plunging us directly into the heart of the matter with a well moved cattle rustling action sequence. A gun duel ensues between the famous Wild Bill Hicock and Reb Hollister, a former Southern officer wanted for rebellion, played by Gary Cooper. It all turns out to be a charade intended to fake the death of the latter so that he can be quiet to settle a personal revenge against the Marlow brothers, responsible for the massacre of his family during the Civil War, now established. In Dallas to try to appropriate all the land there and reign supreme over the region.
