I wanted to like it more than I actually did... But much of the humor totally escaped me and I walked out only mildly impressed.

The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

Texas Lady marked Claudette Colbert's one and only western and I think this RKO film was probably something that they might have had Barbara Stanwyck in mind for. Colbert though she gave a decent performer really is not a western type. I suspect she wanted at least one on her film resume and took Texas Lady which was an inflated B film.After learning the game of poker for years, Colbert takes Barry Sullivan on and beats him handily. Sullivan, a gentleman riverboat gambler had cleaned out her father who had embezzled money and then lost his ill gotten gains at the poker table and promptly killed himself. After restoring the family honor, Claudette goes to Texas where she's inherited a newspaper.The paper is the paid for rag of the owners of the local Ponderosa, Ray Collins and Walter Sande. Claudette starts agitating for a railroad spur to come to town. But that will mean less dependency on the cattle barons and new people settling. The plot here has certain similarities to The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance. Claudette also gets some attention from fast draw deputy Gregory Walcott who kills a couple of small ranchers in the service Collins and Sande.In the meantime Sullivan comes to town as his reputation is shot to all heck on the riverboat scene. Being both southerners to the manor born they find a lot in common.Texas Lady was a decent enough western, but it looks like it was edited considerably down and a lot of the story doesn't really make sense. And Colbert is just not well cast in westerns. But her fans might like it. It sure is a far cry from the comedies she did in the Thirties and Forties.

One of the contributors to IMDb has mentioned that it'd be OK to watch this film when the weather was awful and there was nothing better to do. Well, I've just watched it on a stunning October afternoon as the Friday afternoon movie on Channel 4. How could I not have done in view of the fact that, apparently, Ms. Colbert was a favourite of my grandfather's?I can see what S. H. Scheuer was getting at in his 'Movies On TV' when he said that C.C. was miscast in the lead role. Maybe Bette Davis or Barbara Stanwyck would have been better and given the character the edge that it needed.As one called Chris myself I felt - with all the mentions of the name 'Chris', as if I were watching a film version of one of those 'stories all about your child' books one sees advertised in mail-order leaflets. Was the script-writer being paid per 'Chris', or something?The Chris Mooney character was asked of his future plans. I thought, humorously, that a re-naming to Jake, or something one would ordinarily hear more often in the context of a Western, might not have come amiss. Alternatively, 'Texas Lady' could have the alternate title 'A Man Named Chris'!If your name's Chris you'll love this movie for all the unintentional humour. Otherwise it has little to commend it.One of the stars I have given it is for the 'Chrisses', BTW.

"Hank" Ralston's Deputy was played by Henry Wills, not "Buzz" Henry. "Hank" Ralston's Deputy was played by Henry Wills, not "Buzz" Henry. "Hank" Ralston's Deputy was played by Henry Wills, not "Buzz" Henry. "Hank" Ralston's Deputy was played by Henry Wills, not "Buzz" Henry. "Hank" Ralston's Deputy was played by Henry Wills, not "Buzz" Henry. "Hank" Ralston's Deputy was played by Henry Wills, not "Buzz" Henry. "Hank" Ralston's Deputy was played by Henry Wills, not "Buzz" Henry. "Hank" Ralston's Deputy was played by Henry Wills, not "Buzz" Henry. "Hank" Ralston's Deputy was played by Henry Wills, not "Buzz" Henry. "Hank" Ralston's Deputy was played by Henry Wills, not "Buzz" Henry. "Hank" Ralston's Deputy was played by Henry Wills, not "Buzz" Henry.

Claudette Colbert is wonderful as Prudence, a woman who has to go to a little country town that's seemingly in the middle of nowhere, where she has inherited the local paper. The men about town are naturally surprised to find that she's a woman, and don't exactly welcome her spritely ways and 'interference' with 'their' paper. Luckily for Prudence, the card shark that she slayed in New Orleans comes to her rescue, which is nice of him after the beating she gave him in their game of poker - one of the film's most enjoyable scenes. Not a wonderful movie, but not bad, and pretty good for a Western.