Two Guys from Texas

Song-and-dance men Steve Carroll and Danny Foster walk to a Texas dude ranch after their car runs out of gas. The team's friend, singer Maggie Reed, gets the boys a job. With their auto stolen, the two settle into ranch life. While Danny consults with Dr. Straeger to conquer his fear of animals, Steve courts ranch owner Joan Winston. When their stolen car is used in a robbery, the duo must then find the real culprits.

This proves difficult, because the town sheriff, Tex Bennett is Carroll's rival in love; and he is delighted to find an excuse to jail them both. Luckily, the true bandits press their luck by attempting to hold up the box office at the town rodeo. Carroll captures them single-handed clearing the team. Foster is trapped atop a bucking bronco and manages to stay on, thus conquering his fear of animals.

An overweight American Indian woman has been tugging at Foster's arm throughout the film. Foster assumes she is in love with him, but she only wants to introduce him to her beautiful daughter. Foster happily accepts.

• Dennis Morgan as Steve Carroll
• Jack Carson as Danny Foster
• Dorothy Malone as Joan Winston
• Penny Edwards as Maggie Reed
• Forrest Tucker as 'Tex' Bennett
• Joan Rudolph as Mrs. Karen Walkers
• Fred Clark as Dr. Jack Straeger
• Gerald Mohr as Link Jessup
• John Alvin as Jim Crocker
• Andrew Tombes as The Texan
• Monte Blue as Pete Nash
• The Philharmonica Trio as Specialty Act

• Petra Silva as large American Indian woman.

The film is perhaps best remembered today for featuring an animated cameo appearance of cartoon character Bugs Bunny, voiced by Mel Blanc. Friz Freleng, Warner's leading animation director, was assigned to direct the special animated dream sequence, in which Bugs gives some advice to a caricatured Jack Carson.[2]

Bugs would later have a similar cameo in 1949's My Dream Is Yours, which also starred Jack Carson. Bugs Bunny would later appear at the ending of the 1972 Barbra Streisand film What's Up, Doc?.

The film cost an estimated $2 million.[3]

Animation historians have noted the similarities between the animated dream sequence in this film and the Looney Tunes cartoon Swooner Crooner (1944). The latter, directed by Friz Freleng's colleague Frank Tashlin, concerned Porky Pig trying to reacquire the female chickens of his farm from a Frank Sinatra-esque rooster, who is driving the chicks away from the farm.

The same year Two Guys from Texas was released, animation director Art Davis parodied the film's title with a Merrie Melodies cartoon called Two Gophers from Texas, starring Mac & Tosh, better known as The Goofy Gophers. The title was spoofed yet again for Freleng's 1956 cartoon Two Crows from Tacos.

The film earned $2,350,000 in rentals in the US according to Variety.[4]

According to Warner Bros records, the film earned $2,566,000 domestically and $397,000 foreign.[1]

• List of American films of 1948

• Two Guys from Texas at IMDb
• Two Guys from Texas at the TCM Movie Database
• Two Guys from Texas at AllMovie
• Two Guys from Texas at the American Film Institute Catalog