Three Young Texans

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Three Young Texans

The title doesn't sound very promising for a Wild West film, it rather suggests some youngsters going for some picnic adventure, but you are in for a pleasant surprise. This is a great drama of family loyalty and bonds brought to the test by getting mixed up in a train robbery, in which nothing works out as planned. Jeffrey Hunter didn't make many films before he died far too early, which makes those films he did make the mora valuable and watchable. The story is horribly complicated and constantly gets worse in the development, but like some monster equation it actually works out in the end, and with some obligatory casualties, not to disappoint the ordinary wild west audience. The acting is very good all around, so is the music and the settings, so the risk is that this western is highly underrated. As one reviewer observed, it is 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.