Three Young Texans (1954)

Two cowhands fall for their boss' daughter but due to a gambling incident one gets involved with 2 hoods in robbing a payroll train.

Director:

Henry Levin

Writers:

William MacLeod Raine (story), Gerald Drayson Adams

Stars:

Mitzi Gaynor, Keefe Brasselle, Jeffrey Hunter

Cast

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

Storyline

A western about a Texan who robs a train in an effort to prevent his father from committing the crime, a young girl who attempts to help him after learning about the theft, and a cowboy friend who demands a share of the money.

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Plot Keywords:

friendship | self defense | train robbery | outlaw | texan | 

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Taglines:

Living! Loving! Fighting!

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Genres:

Western

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Certificate:

Approved

Did You Know?

Trivia

A big cut in production at 20th Century-Fox as it moved toward an all-CinemaScope production schedule left many of its contract directors, writers, and actors idle. Fox arranged to lend these contractees to Leonard Goldstein and his newly formed Panoramic Productions in return for a release agreement. This was one of several pictures, financed by Fox but made at the RKO-Pathé studio, that resulted from the agreement.

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Quotes

Apache Joe: [to Tony Ballew] When a man's staked out over an anthill, he remembers things awful fast. There's lots of anthills around here, kid.

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Soundtracks

Just Let Me Love You
(uncredited)
Written by Eliot Daniel and Lionel Newman

User Reviews

Worth the wait!

This was a very hard film to find. It took me years to track down a copy. I'm a big Jeffrey Hunter fan. In this film, Jeff overhears that some card sharks ( Michael Ansara & Aaron Spelling) are trying to blackmail Jeff's father. The blackmailers plan to rob a train that has

a federal payroll & force Jeff's father to join them with the robbery. Jeff disrupts their plans by robbing the train himself & puts the money in a safe place. His girlfriend ( Mitzi Gaynor) and his buddy ( Keefe Brasselle) find out what Jeff did. Keefe decides that he wants to keep the payroll money for himself while Jeff wants to return the money to the feds. Keefe joins up with the villains ( bad move) and Jeff goes after them to clear his and his father's name & also to save Keefe from the bad guys.

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

16 January 1954 (USA)

Also Known As:

Drei aus Texas

Filming Locations:

Durango, Colorado, USA

Box Office

Budget:

$505,000 (estimated)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Panoramic Productions

Technical Specs

Runtime:

77 min

Sound Mix:

Mono (Western Electric Recording)

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.66 : 1