Cattle baron Devereaux Burke is enlisted by an aging Andrew Jackson to dissuade Sam Houston from establishing Texas as a republic. Burke must fight state senator Thomas Craden, in the process winning the heart of Craden's newspaper-editor girlfriend Martha Ronda.

• Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
• Clark Gable
• Ava Gardner
• Broderick Crawford
• Lionel Barrymore
• Beulah Bondi
• Ed Begley
• James Burke
• William Farnum