{{Short description|1954 film by Henry Levin}} {{Use mdy dates|date=October 2021}} {{Use American English|date=October 2021}} {{Infobox film | name = Three Young Texans | image = File:Three Young Texans.jpg | caption = | director = [[Henry Levin (film director)|Henry Levin]] | producer = [[Leonard Goldstein]] | screenplay = [[Gerald Drayson Adams]] | story = [[William MacLeod Raine]] | starring = [[Mitzi Gaynor]]<br>[[Keefe Brasselle]]<br>[[Jeffrey Hunter]] | cinematography = Harold Lipstein | editing = [[William B. Murphy]] | color_process = [[Technicolor]] | studio = Panoramic Productions | distributor = [[20th Century-Fox]] | released = {{Film date|1954|1|16|}} | runtime = 78 minutes | country = United States | language = English | budget = $505,000<ref>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</ref> | gross = }} '''''Three Young Texans''''' is a 1954 American [[Western film]] directed by [[Henry Levin (film director)|Henry Levin]] and starring [[Mitzi Gaynor]], [[Keefe Brasselle]] and [[Jeffrey Hunter]].<ref name="hunter">{{cite magazine|first=Stephen|last=Vagg|magazine=Filmink|access-date=12 May 2025|date=12 May 2025|title=Not Quite Movie Stars: Jeffrey Hunter|url=https://www.filmink.com.au/not-quite-movie-stars-jeffrey-hunter/}}</ref>
==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 ==Production== The film was made by Panoramic Pictures, a company of producer Leonard Goldstein, who signed a ten picture deal with 20th Century Fox.<ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=Variety|title=6 Panoramic Pictures to roll before 54|url=https://archive.org/details/variety192-1953-11/page/n74/mode/1up?|date=11 November 1953|page=11}}</ref><ref name="ink">{{cite magazine|date=25 March 2026|access-date=25 March 2026|magazine=Filmink|first=Stephen|last=Vagg|url=https://www.filmink.com.au/the-a-to-z-of-henry-levin/|title=The A to Z of Henry Levin}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== *{{IMDb title|0047583}}
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