Sin Town (1942 film)

Sin Town is a 1942 American Western film directed by Ray Enright and starring Constance Bennett, Broderick Crawford and Patric Knowles.[1] It is set during the Texas Oil Boom of the early 20th century.

Sin Town
Directed byRay Enright
Written byRichard Brooks
Gerald Geraghty
Scott Darling
Produced byGeorge Waggner
StarringConstance Bennett
Broderick Crawford
Patric Knowles
Anne Gwynne
CinematographyGeorge Robinson
Edited byEdward Curtiss
Music byHans J. Salter
Production
company
Distributed byUniversal Pictures
Release date
  • September 25, 1942 (1942-09-25)
Running time
73 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Plot Summary

In this drama set around 1910, Anne Gwynne plays the editor of a local newspaper in a frontier town. She finds herself at odds with the devious Broderick Crawford and his accomplice, Constance Bennett. The duo quickly embeds themselves in the town's sole gambling hub after forcibly ousting its owner, Ward Bond. Nonetheless, Bond, backed by his crew, makes a comeback, prompting Crawford and Bennett to seek opportunities elsewhere. The trio of Director Enright, Crawford, and Gwynne collaborated on another film the same year, "Men of Texas," which also revolves, to some extent, around the newspaper industry.[2]

Production

According to the New York Times on July 31, 1942, Universal has signed Constance Bennett to play the feminine lead in Sin Town, a story of an oil-boom community, and the movie originally was planned for Marlene Dietrich. The cast included Broderick Crawford, Andy Devine and Leo Carrillo.

Main cast

References
  1. Kellow p.250
  2. Langman, Larry (2009). The Media in the Movies. p. 832.

Bibliography
  • Kellow, Brian. The Bennetts: An Acting Family. University Press of Kentucky, 2004.


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