''The Kid from Texas'' is a 1939 Western sports comedy film.

Plot

Margo Thomas, a lady of New York high society, travels to Texas with her brother to buy a new polo pony. When they choose cocky cowboy William Quincy's favorite horse, he asks to accompany them on the trip back East, and when easy-going ranch hand Snifty is chosen instead, William goes along anyway. William's happy that Margo's rich aunt Minetta takes a shine to him and he develops a romantic attraction to Margo, who resents his arrogance and presence on the Long Island estate so much at first that she asks polo players to pick a fight with him. Trying to learn her favorite sport, William leaves the estate in shame after being thrown from a horse during a polo match. He still loves the game, so he and Snifty begin a series of Wild West polo matches in the city, "cowboys against Indians," that become popular. William makes the acquaintance of Okay Kinney, a young rider who falls for him. Margo's brother's team ends up playing his, and after impressing her with his skill, William deliberately loses the match, just to please her.

Cast

* Dennis O'Keefe as William "Wild Bill" Malone * Florence Rice as Margo Thomas * Buddy Ebsen as Snifty * Jack Carson as Stanley Brown * Virginia Dale as "Okay" Kinney * Jessie Ralph as Aunt Minutia Thomas

Production

Australian sports star

Snowy Baker Reginald Leslie "Snowy" Baker (8 February 18842 December 1953) was an Australian athlete, sports promoter, and actor. Born in Surry Hills, an inner-city suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Baker excelled at a number of sports, winning New Sout ...

trained actor Dennis O'Keefe to play polo for the film.

References

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''The Kid from Texas''
at TCMDB 1939 films 1930s Western (genre) comedy films American sports comedy films American Western (genre) comedy films American black-and-white films 1930s English-language films Films directed by S. Sylvan Simon Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer films Polo films 1930s sports comedy films 1939 comedy films Films with screenplays by Florence Ryerson Films with screenplays by Edgar Allan Woolf Films set in Texas Films set in New York (state) 1930s American films {{sport-film-stub