Under a Texas Moon (film)

Infobox Film
name = Under A Texas Moon (1930)


caption = Film poster
producer =
director = Michael Curtiz
writer = Gordon Rigby
based on the Novel by Stewart Edward White
starring = Frank Fay
Raquel Torres
Myrna Loy
Noah Beery
music = Ray Perkins
cinematography = William Rees "(Technicolor)"
editing = Ralph Dawson
distributor = Warner Bros.
released = April 1, 1930
runtime = 82 min.
language = English
country = USA
imdb_id = 0021405|

"Under A Texas Moon" is a 1930 musical western film photographed entirely in Technicolor. It was based on the novel "Two-Gun Man" (from 1929) which was written by Stewart Edward White. It was the second all-color all-talking feature to be filmed entirely outdoors as well as being the second western in color. The film features one theme song by the title of "Under A Texas Moon."

Cast (in credits order)

*Frank Fay as Don Carlos
*Raquel Torres as Raquella
*Myrna Loy as Lolita Romero
*Armida as Dolores
*Noah Beery as Jed Parker
*Georgie Stone as Pedro
*George Cooper as Philipe
*Charles Sellon as José Romero
*Jack Curtis as Buck Johnson
*Sam Appel as Pancho Gonzalez
*Tully Marshall as Gus Aldrich
*Mona Maris as Lolita Roberto
*Francisco Marán as Antonio

Preservation

The film survives as a single nitrate Technicolor print, faithfully copied by UCLA. The Technicolor gives the film a rich and glowing look. The whites are pearly, the reds rich and earthy, lending gorgeous close-ups of sun tanned female cast members.

Protest

New York Latinos led by Gonzalo González protested the film, characterizing it as "anti-Mexican." Police brutalized the picketers, killing González. The murder sparked a Pan-Latino protest, in which the Latino civil rights activist Luisa Moreno participated. She later told Bert Corona that the experience "motivated her to work on behalf of unifying the Spanish-speaking communities." [cite book
last = García
first = Mario T.
authorlink =
coauthors =
title = Memories of Chicano History: The Life and Narrative of Bert Corona
publisher = University of California Press
date = 1994
location = Berkeley, California
pages =
url = http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft3p30052t/
doi =
id = ISBN 0-520-20152-3 ]

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