Overview
Cattle baron Devereaux Burke 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.
Cast
- Clark Gable as Devereaux Burke
- Ava Gardner as Martha Ronda
- Broderick Crawford as Thomas Craden
- Lionel Barrymore as Andrew Jackson
- Beulah Bondi as Minniver Bryan
- Ed Begley as Anthony Demmet
- James Burke as Luther Kilgore
- William Farnum as Tom Crockett
- Lowell Gilmore as Captain Elliott
- Moroni Olsen as Sam Houston