''Three Young Texans'' is a 1954 American

Western film The Western is a genre set in the American frontier and commonly associated with folk tales of the Western United States, particularly the Southwestern United States, as well as Northern Mexico and Western Canada. It is commonly referred ...

directed by Henry Levin and starring

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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

as Rusty Blair *

as Tony Ballew * Jeffrey Hunter as Johnny Colt *

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as Jim Colt *

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as Sheriff Carter *

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as Apache Joe * Aaron Spelling as Catur *

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as Jeff Blair *

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as Bill McAdoo * Helen Wallace as Martha Colt

References

External links

* 1950s American films 1950s English-language films 1954 films 1954 Western (genre) films 20th Century Fox films American Western (genre) films Fictional trios Films directed by Henry Levin {{1950s-Western-film-stub