clanciai Review of Three Young Texans

Three Young Texans (1954)

Excellent western on a small size, but the better for its unpretentiousness

[9/10 · 15 October 2022]

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.