4 for Texas (1963) on Netflix
Approved19632h 4mComedyWestern
Sharpshooters Zack Thomas and Joe Jarrett ride a stagecoach toward Galveston and drive off Matson's gang to protect a shipment of $100,000. In town they become rivals over a riverfront casino.
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In the 1870s, a stagecoach bound for Galveston carries $100,000 in cash, and a railroad official rides with it. The outlaw Matson wants the money, and two passengers, the sharpshooters Zack Thomas and Joe Jarrett, fight off his gang. Afterward the two men quarrel over the cash themselves. Both reach Galveston with the same ambition: a waterfront casino, run from a riverboat, Thomas with Elya Carlson at his side and Jarrett with Maxine Richter. Matson arrives too and gathers accomplices for his own schemes. Harvey Burden, the banker who runs the Galveston Savings & Trust, has plans that touch both rivals as well.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about 4 for Texas (1963)
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- Robert Aldrich calculated that Frank Sinatra worked only 80 hours across 37 days of filming, and their relationship grew strained during production; Aldrich blamed his own script and Sinatra's lack of enthusiasm for the film's failure.
- The role of Elya was intended for Sophia Loren, who had already worked with Frank Sinatra in The Pride and the Passion, but she turned down $1,000,000 for four weeks of work; Gina Lollobrigida had also declined a leading role.
- A role had been written for Peter Lawford, but after Frank Sinatra expelled Lawford from the Rat Pack the part was excised; Bette Davis was at one stage scheduled to make a cameo appearance.
