Young Guns of Texas
Blazing a New Trail of Courage!
Synopsis
A man searching for a stolen army payroll is joined by several men after the reward money. One of the pursuers, after killing a ranch foreman, elopes with the ranchers' daughter. Enraged at the shooting of his foreman and convinced that his daughter was kidnapped, the rancher leads a posse after his daughter. When Apaches attack the thieves and their pursuers, the rancher's posse is forced to side with his daughter's new husband and his friends.
Main Cast
James Mitchum
Morgan Coe
Alana Ladd
Lily Glendenning
Jody McCrea
Jeff Shelby
Chill Wills
Preacher Sam Shelby
Gary Conway
Tyler Duane
Barbara Mansell
Martha Jane Canary
Robert Lowery
Jesse Glendenning
Will Wills
Charlie
User Reviews
CinemaSerf
OK, so this isn’t a very good film and there do appear to be a few scenes from others really obviously intercut into it, but I thought James Mitchum, Alana Ladd and Jody McCrae did fine in this entirely derivative adventure western. A payroll has been pinched, a loved-up couple have eloped, a posse has been formed to track them down and there are some marauding Apache. What’s not to like? It was “Duane” (Gary Conway) who led the raid on the loot. It’s “Coe” (Mitchum) and “Lily” (Ladd) who have done the absconding and it’s her father “Jesse” (Robert Lowery) who assumes she has been kidnapped and who is leading the pursuers. Any acting plaudits can really only be awarded to Chill Wills for his preacher “Shelby” and perhaps to the enthusiastic young McCrae, but sadly Mitchum isn’t even a patch on his brother Christopher let alone his dad and Alana, is no “Shane”. Still, we have the ingredients for a perfectly watchable Saturday afternoon drive-in feature with something for everyone’s as it’s, admittedly quite convoluted, threads knit neatly together for a conclusion that wasn’t quite what I was expecting. Not great, but not awful either.
