Starring Neville Brand, James Drury, Doug McClure, Peter Brown, William

Smith, Philip Carey, Ida Lupino, Rhonda Fleming, Fernando Lamas

Directed by Earl Bellamy



Print: color

Runtime: 95 min.

Genre: western

Print quality: A



Trampas, a cowhand from Medicine Bow, Wyoming, is sent to Mexico to

buy a bull for his employer. The ranch foreman warns him to watch out for

himself in Laredo, a tough town on the Texas/Mexican border. Despite the

warning, in a western version of the Dumas classic, "The Three

Musketeers", Trampas manages to get himself engaged to fight three

separate Texas Rangers within an hour of his arrival. Unlike D'Artagnan,

he has no notion of actually fighting the Rangers: all he wants is out of

Laredo. He's on his way out of town when he runs into the three

Rangers--who turn out to be partners--on their way to track down a

missing train carrying a payroll. The Rangers, learning Trampas is headed

in the same direction they are, suggest they all ride together--that way,

they can fight him after they have fulfilled their mission. Without much

choice, Trampas wryly agrees. When they find the train, however, they

quickly forget their quarrels--the train was robbed and everyone aboard

killed, except for one infant covered by his mother's body. Concerned the

baby won't survive long without care, they proceed across the Rio

Grande to the nearest town, where they know of a cantina owner with

innumerable children. They get the baby to Mama Dolores, but not without

run-ins with Mexican Urales and marauding Yaquis. Somewhere along the

way, the Rangers begin to suspect it was the Yaquis who robbed the

train--but Yaquis don't rob trains and they have no use for money...and

where did they get those fancy new rifles?