Three Young Texans
1954 film by Henry Levin
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::summary 1954 film by Henry Levin ::
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name | Three Young Texans |
| image | File:Three Young Texans.jpg |
| director | Henry Levin |
| producer | Leonard Goldstein |
| screenplay | Gerald Drayson Adams |
| story | William MacLeod Raine |
| starring | Mitzi Gaynor |
| Keefe Brasselle | |
| Jeffrey Hunter | |
| cinematography | Harold Lipstein |
| editing | William B. Murphy |
| color_process | Technicolor |
| studio | Panoramic Productions |
| distributor | 20th Century-Fox |
| released | |
| runtime | 78 minutes |
| country | United States |
| language | English |
| budget | $505,000 |
| :: |
| name = Three Young Texans | image = File:Three Young Texans.jpg | caption = | director = Henry Levin | producer = Leonard Goldstein | screenplay = Gerald Drayson Adams | story = William MacLeod Raine | starring = Mitzi Gaynor Keefe Brasselle Jeffrey Hunter | cinematography = Harold Lipstein | editing = William B. Murphy | color_process = Technicolor | studio = Panoramic Productions | distributor = 20th Century-Fox | released = | runtime = 78 minutes | country = United States | language = English | budget = $505,000 | gross = Three Young Texans is a 1954 American 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
References
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
- Vagg, Stephen. (12 May 2025). "Not Quite Movie Stars: Jeffrey Hunter".
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