{"id":30297,"date":"2022-08-02T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-02T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=30297"},"modified":"2022-07-28T20:07:48","modified_gmt":"2022-07-29T00:07:48","slug":"texas-carnival-1949-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=30297","title":{"rendered":"Texas Carnival\u00a0(1949) \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2022\/z080122zview_texascarnival.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"750\"><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Texas Carnival<\/strong><\/em><em><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/em>(1949)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Director:&nbsp; <strong>Charles Walters<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay by:&nbsp; <strong>Dorothy Kingsley, George Wells <\/strong>(story)<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Starring:&nbsp; <strong>Esther Williams, Red Skelton, Howard Keel, Ann Miller, <\/strong><strong>Keenan Wynn, Paula Raymond,<br \/>\nTom Tully <\/strong>and&nbsp;<strong>Glenn Strange<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline:&nbsp;<em> FOR THE MILLIONS WHO LOVED &#8220;THE GREAT CARUSO&#8221; AND &#8220;SHOW BOAT&#8221; ANOTHER BIG MGM MUSICAL!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Overview:&nbsp; Beware of spoilers&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Cornie Quinell (Skelton) and his partner, Debbie Telford (Williams) run the dunk tank at the Texas carnival.&nbsp; When Cornie sees a drunk man (Wynn) being taken advantage of by two of the carnies, Cornie comes to his rescue.&nbsp; It turns out the drunk is Dan Sabinas, a rich cattleman.&nbsp; Dan tries to give Cornie several thousand dollars for his help.&nbsp; Cornie refuses the cash.&nbsp; The Dan tries to give him his car.&nbsp; Again Cornie refuses and instead gets drunken Dan into a cab to take him home.&nbsp; As the cab leaves, Dan invites Cornie to visit the hotel he&#8217;s staying in.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Cornie and Debbie drive Dan&#8217;s car to the hotel where Cornie is mistaken for the rich cattleman.&nbsp; Because of Dan&#8217;s invite they stay in his hotel suite waiting for Dan to arrive. Cornie meets Sunshine Jackson and a mutual attraction develops, meanwhile Debbie and Dan&#8217;s foreman, Slim Shelby (Keel) begin to hit it off.&nbsp; Cornie ends up loosing $17,000 in a high stakes poker game meant for Dan.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">When Dan arrives, he&#8217;s sobered up and doesn&#8217;t remember meeting Cornie! Cornie has a plan though&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em>Texas Carnival<\/em>&nbsp;rates 3 of 5 stars.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_c.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2022\/z080122zview_texascarnival2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"350\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Texas Carnival&nbsp;(1949) Director:&nbsp; Charles Walters Screenplay by:&nbsp; Dorothy Kingsley, George Wells (story) Starring:&nbsp; Esther Williams, Red Skelton, Howard Keel, Ann<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,63,54,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-humor","category-movies","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30297"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30299,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30297\/revisions\/30299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}