Three Young Texans

Three Young Texans
Directed by	Henry Levin
Produced by	Leonard Goldstein
Screenplay by	Gerald Drayson Adams
Story by	William MacLeod Raine
Starring	Mitzi Gaynor; Keefe Brasselle; Jeffrey Hunter
Cinematography	Harold Lipstein
Edited by	William B. Murphy
Production; company	Panoramic Productions
Distributed by	20th Century-Fox
Release date	January 16, 1954;
Running time	78 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$505,000[1]

Three Young Texans is a 1954 Technicolor Western film directed by Henry Levin and starring Mitzi Gaynor, Keefe Brasselle and Jeffrey Hunter.

Plot

A couple of cowboys, Johnny Colt and Tony Ballew, both have a romantic interest in tomboy Rusty Blair while working for her father. Tony loses his wages gambling, then borrows money from Johnny and wins $700, which they intend to put toward a ranch of their own.

Johnny's nervous because his father Jim is also a gambler. Jim goes to Mexico, gets drunk, catches a man named McAdoo cheating at cards, then shoots him in self-defense. McAdoo's two associates, Catur and Joe, decide to blackmail Jim into helping them rob a train of its $50,000 in payroll loot. If he refuses, they'll tell the law Jim shot their friend in cold blood.

To help his father, Johnny robs the train first. He hides the money with the $700. A posse is formed, which Johnny joins to go search for a thief who is actually himself.

McAdoo turns out to have been wounded, not killed. He turns up and Tony is shot in the back. McAdoo and Catur are done away with in a gunfight, and when Joe flees on horseback from Johnny, he falls to his death over a cliff. Johnny returns the robbery money, then ends up with a $10,000 reward and Rusty to boot.

Cast

Mitzi Gaynor as Rusty Blair
Keefe Brasselle as Tony Ballew
Jeffrey Hunter as Johnny Colt
Harvey Stephens as Jim Colt
Dan Riss as Sheriff Carter
Michael Ansara as Apache Joe
Aaron Spelling as Catur
Morris Ankrum as Jeff Blair
Frank Wilcox as Bill McAdoo
Helen Wallace as Martha Colt

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References

Solomon, Aubrey. Twentieth Century Fox: A Corporate and Financial History (The Scarecrow Filmmakers Series). Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press, 1989. ISBN 978-0-8108-4244-1. p249

External links

Three Young Texans on IMDb

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[1] Solomon, Aubrey. Twentieth Century Fox: A Corporate and Financial History (The Scarecrow Filmmakers Series). Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press, 1989. ISBN 978-0-8108-4244-1. p249