Two for Texas
Two for Texas ★★½ 1997
Young buck Holland (Bairstow) and grizzled adventurer Allison (Kristofferson) manage to escape from a Louisiana chain gang and decide to head to Texas so they can join in the Texas Volunteer Army under Sam Houston (Skerritt). Soon, they're part of a group sent to San Jacinto in order to avenge the massacre at the Alamo. Kind of plodding western based on the novel by James Lee Burke. 96m/C VHS . Kris Kristofferson, Scott Bairstow, Tom Skerritt, Peter Coyote, Irene Bedard, Victor Rivers, Rodney A. Grant, Marco Rodriguez, Richard Jones; D: Rod Hardy; W: Larry Brothers; C: David Connell; M: Lee Holdridge. CABLE
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