Texas, Brooklyn & Heaven is a 1948 American black-and-white romantic comedy film directed by William Castle and starring Guy Madison, Diana Lynn, James Dunn, and Florence Bates. A reporter in Dallas, Texas, goes to New York with the dream of becoming a playwright. En route, he picks up a hitchhiker who wants to visit Brooklyn and live with horses. The two encounter a variety of zany characters living in Brooklyn before returning to Texas together to live on a horse ranch. The script was based on the best-selling 1943 novel Eddie and The Archangel Mike by Barry Benefield.

Plot
Mike, a bartender at the Texas Golden Horse bar in Brooklyn, narrates the story of Eddie Tayloe to a new customer. Eddie was working as a reporter assigned to the Ft. Worth desk of a Dallas newspaper. As the two neighboring cities were feuding, he has nothing to do. He dreams of becoming a playwright in New York City, and a small inheritance from his grandfather gives him his chance. Quitting his job, he begins the long drive to New York. When his car breaks down, he meets Perry Dunklin, who is hitchhiking with her suitcases. She helps him fix the car, having picked up the skill working with her brother in a gas station, and she joins him for the trip to New York. At first Eddie is wary of her, but the more time they spend together, the more interested he becomes in her. Perry warns him, though, not to fall in love with her.

Perry says goodbye in Brooklyn and goes off to realize her dream of living with horses, but Eddie can’t forget her. He finishes writing his play and goes around showing it to agents, but no one wants it. Perry, meanwhile, is traveling on a train when Mandy, an older woman with a criminal record for larceny, tries to pinch her wallet. Perry traps her in the act and Mandy faints. When the police arrive, Perry feels sorry for Mandy and claims she is her mother. The two move in together to an empty stable behind the Cheever house in Flatbush, owned by three morose spinsters. Perry tells the Cheever sisters that Mandy is Eddie’s mother, too.

When Perry finds a job working for a girlie show in Coney Island, Mandy takes Eddie to see what she’s doing and he is upset at how men are ogling her. He confides his woes to Mike over a few shots of Mike’s original alcoholic concoction. Afterwards, Mike treats his hangover with some fresh air in Prospect Park and a trip to a Turkish bath, and then introduces Eddie to Mr. Gaboolian, owner of a “riding academy” of mechanical animals, including two horses, a camel, and an elephant, which has only two regular customers. Knowing Perry’s love of horses, Eddie pays Mr. Gaboolian to hire Perry, but although she tries to apply her business skills to improve the place, business remains bad. Eddie buys the business with his last $800 so Perry will still have a job running it. On Christmas Eve, a group of Santa Clauses converge on the academy at midnight to avoid going home, and Eddie sees an opportunity for publicity. He calls all the newspapers, who send photographers. Mandy and the Cheever sisters come too, and soon all are drinking liquor and riding the horses. Suddenly the electricity goes haywire and all the mechanical animals speed up and break apart. Nevertheless, the Cheever sisters have a wonderful time, and offer to buy the place. Eddie and Perry return to Texas and buy a horse ranch, where they live happily ever after.

Cast
Guy Madison as Eddie Tayloe
Diana Lynn as Perry Dunklin
James Dunn as Mike
Michael Chekhov as Mr. Gaboolian
Florence Bates as Mandy
Lionel Stander as Bellhop
William Frawley as Agent
Roscoe Karns as Carmody
Margaret Hamilton as Ruby Cheever
Irene Ryan as Opal Cheever
Colin Campbell as MacWirther
Clem Bevans as Capt. Bjorn
Moyna Macgill as Pearl Cheever
Audie Murphy as Copy Boy