Evangelist Billy Graham, who leads revival meetings on radio and television, has found a new medium: the movies. At a prayer-meeting premiere (pronounced "premeer") in Hollywood Bowl this week, he presented a movie entitled Mr. Texas. Evangelist Graham calls it "the first Christian Western."
Mr. Texas gets its 65-minute message across without gunplay. The hero, a rancher named Jim Tyler, is a pleasure-loving lad, overfond of broncho-riding, cattle, land and oil. His sister Kay has been converted at a Billy Graham prayer meeting, and she tries to get Jim to see the light. It's no use, until he gets a bad spill...
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