Texas Tex

TEXAS TEX

1907, Denmark

Aka…Texas Tex (Dan), Ex…Texas Tex (US)

T: 218mt

Pc: Nordisk Film Kompagni (Cop)

Dist: Nordisk Film Kompagni [Ole Olsen] (11/15/07, Den), Great Northern Film Company [Ole Olsen] (06/07/08, US)

D: Viggo Larsen; P: Ole Olsen & Viggo Larsen; Sc: Arnold Richard Nielsen; Ph: Axel Sørensen [1.33:1]

C: Viggo Larsen (Texas Tex [?]), (Woman), (William), (Sioux Indian)

Syn: America. Texas Tex has a sweetheart, a western beauty, with whom William, one of the cowboys, is madly in love with. She will have nothing to do with him. Full of hatred, William enlists the services of a Sioux Indian and together they rob the stables of Tex, and capture and carry her off.  The Indian, filled with jealousy, slays William and has her for himself. Tex, having discovered them, rushes in and knocks down the Indian and rescues his beloved.

     Comm: Filmed in US [?] / Denmark [?]. Western elements. TEXAS TEX shows the old Indian days, and typical life in the wild west prairies. With Cowboy lassoing and taming of wild broncos. Filmed in Copenhagen, Denmark, with a cast of "genuine" American Indians recruited from a touring wild west show.

     The Nordisk studio was established in 1906 in Valby, Copenhagen, by filmmaker Ole Olsen. It was the fourth-oldest film studio in the world behind Gaumont (Fr), Pathé (Fr) and Titanus (It), and the oldest studio to be continuously active.

     The Dane Viggo Larsen made over 270 films!  In 1921 he also directed and acted in RED TRACKS aka Rote Spuren, which most likely had western elements.

Ref: dfi.dk

By Michael Ferguson