Three Men from Texas

The three men of the title in this superior B-Western are Hopalong Cassidy (William Boyd), Lucky Jenkins (Russell Hayden), and, making his series debut, grizzled old California Carlson (Andy Clyde). Carlson is the braggart cook of the Gardner outfit, a gang preying on defenseless ranchers, but when ...more

Andy Clyde makes a great addition to an already superior series. An actor as much as a comic relief, Clyde interacted so well with William Boyd in Three Men From Texas that he would become an integral part of the series for the duration. His debut entry is almost a road movie, with Hoppy and Lucky (Russell Hayden) this time taking their show to California instead of the usual Texas. But if the locale is new, the main opposition remains the same -- Morris Ankrum -- and that is just as it should ...more