bkoganbing I suppose just for the marquee value of the names of Mitchum, McCrea, and Ladd Young Guns Of Texas cast them in the leads. But it's not the people with those names you're familiar with. Young Guns Of Texas stars James Mitchum, Alana Ladd, and Jody McCrea and is set in post Civil War Texas where some former Confederates have robbed a payroll. What would have been an act of war now makes them outlaws. Mitchum and McCrea team up with Gary Conway who is another young gun looking for the payroll. But Mitchum mixes some pleasure in it when he also runs off with Alana Ladd daughter of the local rancher Robert Lowery who really doesn't like Mitchum. He sics his foreman on Mitchum, but Mitchum kills him. Now Lowery gets a posse going after the young guns. McCrea is the son of the local preacher Chill Wills who married the couple and Wills joins them.Did I forget to mention that the payroll robbers, the young guns, and the posse are all riding into Apache territory? Some honeymoon Mitchum and Ladd are going to have. No credit was reflected on those great movie names by their kids appearing in this western. Yes it's as dumb as I've described it.

SanteeFats Okay this a typical Western for the time. You have a bad rancher, played by Robert Lowery, (Jessie), who does the usual try to ride rough shod over any and all opposition. It doesn't work with James Mitchum as Morgan Coe. Coe was rescued after five years with the Comanche's. Taken in by Jessie, Coe falls for his daughter. So Jessie sends her back East for school and fires Coe, (can't trust an Injun). She returns and things heat up. At a church social Jessie sics his hired gun on Coe and Coe kills him. Tyler shows up in town, is following his brother, a Union captain and six Rebs, they also have the Captain's wife and $30K in stolen gold. The upshot of all this is the patrol goes into Apache country and so Tyler goes after them. Due to circumstances written into the plot Coe, the daughter, an un-ordained preacher and his son also come with. The father now grabs his crew and they follow the daughter. The captain and his wife are found murdered by the Reb's. Then two of them are found a little further on. Meanwhile Tyler and gang are close and so is daddy. The Apache's finally show up, kill two more of the patrol, then run into Tyler's group. Now is where I have a real problem with the film. The Indians just come riding up shooting willy-nilly and stay mounted right in front of the blazing guns of the whites. Finally daddy and his men appear and they are just as stupid. They stay on their horses too and every one is shooting at everyone else. Daddy sees Coe and kills him, then as the Apache's ride off one of them kills Jessie. So the show ends with daddy and the husband dead. The preacher has recovered the gold, gives it to Tyler. The last scene at the graves of Jessie and Coe shows you the future, Tyler is staying west and returning the gold to the Army and the daughter and he are obviously going to hook up down the line.

Prismark10 Young Guns of Texas is a western with a gimmick starring the children of well known actors. The film sees these young ones team up for a perilous journey through dangerous Apache territory, accompanied by a veteran preacher. Gary Conway is hunting for a patrol who have stolen money from the army and this could lead to a personal conflict. There is a wild man raised by Indians who is eloping with a wealthy landowner's daughter, the irony is that it was the landowner who rescued him from the Indians and raised him as his own son and is now hunting him down with his posse.Conway is the main star of the film who has screen presence. James Mitchum has top billing but although he has his father's looks, he does not have his acting chops. Alana Ladd looks nice but again the acting is just so-so.Itmis left to the veterans to add some meat and bite to their roles, the film is simplistic, low budget but is watchable enough if you are looking for something undemanding. There is a nice shootout at the end as the different hunting parties converge in Indian territory.

Spikeopath Young Guns of Texas is directed by Maury Dexter and written by Henry Cross. It stars James Mitchum, Alana Ladd, Jody McCrea, Chill Wills and Gary Conway. A CinemaScope/DeLuxe Color production with cinematography by John M. Nickolaus and music by Paul Sawtell and Burt Shefter. The title song is sung by Kenny Miller. There's not a lot of good will around for this Western but it's far from being a stinker. Very much using a gimmick by starring the offspring of Western heroes Robert Mitchum, Alan Ladd and Joel McCrea, it's an OK Oater to pass the time of day with.Plot sees the young guns team up for a perilous journey through dangerous Mescalero territory. Accompanied by wise old Preacher Sam Shelby (Wills), they each have different reasons for being out on the lam. Be it eloping, friendship or hunting for a patrol who have stolen an army payroll in their possession, they all have a common bond to move forward. Naturally they in turn are being pursued by a posse led by the angry father of Lily Glendenning (Ladd). This essentially means there are three separate groups out in the wilds, and as the bodies begin to pile up and the various character dynamics are unearthed, all three groups catch up to each other and have a date with the Mescaleros!The acting is standard fare, with Wills holding the young cast together, and it's hardly genius in plotting or direction. However, it's lovely to look at as it's filmed out of Big Bend National Park in Texas, there's enough requisite action (including an extended fist-fight) for the undemanding Western fan; in fact for the finale the kill quotient is very high, while there's a slight veer away from the expected during said finale. So some value to be found, then, even if it's not a comfortable recommendation to Western fans. 6/10