Man Of Conquest

Republic Studios was never known as a substantial movie-making organization. Its rag-tag sound stages and skimpy back lot offered little to viewers other than a seemingly endless stream of B westerns. But on occasion Republic put forth a film of some importance, and this is one of them, made significant by Dix's powerful performance as frontier fighter Sam Houston who, more than anyone, brought Texas into existence as a sovereign entity and later as a state of the union. The film faithfully follows this man of destiny through his greatest days, beginning in Tennessee (where Ellis, playing Andrew Jackson, teaches him the ways of clever politics), and shows how he tw...