Zack Thomas is a tough guy who hooks up with Joe Jarrett to open a casino.
4 for Texas (1963) Online
Sharpshooters Zack Thomas and Joe Jarrett are in a Texan stage-coach and manage to fight off Matson's robber gang, so afterward they can fight over the $100,000 cash carried by a railroad official. Both make it to Galveston, where each, including vexed Matson, meets up with respective accomplices in various dirty schemes. The money keeps changing hands and the scene shifts to a river boat, which should multiply the winnings as a casino, but the crooks and bullets follow.
| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
 | Frank Sinatra | - | Zack Thomas |
 | Dean Martin | - | Joe Jarrett |
 | Anita Ekberg | - | Elya Carlson |
 | Ursula Andress | - | Maxine Richter |
 | Charles Bronson | - | Matson |
 | Victor Buono | - | Harvey Burden |
 | Edric Connor | - | Prince George |
 | Nick Dennis | - | Angel |
 | Richard Jaeckel | - | Pete Mancini |
 | Mike Mazurki | - | Chad |
 | Wesley Addy | - | Winthrop Trowbridge |
 | Marjorie Bennett | - | Miss Emmaline |
 | Virginia Christine | - | Brunhilde |
 | Ellen Corby | - | Widow |
 | Jack Elam | - | Dobie |
Director Robert Aldrich intensely disliked Frank Sinatra's non-professional attitude and tried unsuccessfully to have him dismissed from the film.
Anita Ekberg and Ursula Andress did nude screentests, Hollywood's first. However, the censors removed all nudity from the finished film.
Ursula Andress, who played Dean Martin's romantic interest in this movie, dated his son, Ricci Martin, in real-life.
Sophia Loren turned down a paycheck of $1 million for four weeks work.
About nine minutes in, after the stage wreck, Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin both have dialogue using a variation on the words in the song title "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'", which was a mega-hit for Frank Sinatra's daughter, Nancy. But the film was released in 1963, and Lee Hazlewood wrote the song two years later in 1965. Hazlewood wrote the song for himself, and Nancy Sinatra had to convince him to let her record it, for release in December1965. So it seems unlikely the dialog of the movie and the song are connected.
During one scene in the film, we see a building with a painted sign for the "SAM Company". "SAM" was the name of the production company that made this movie, and it stood for Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin.
The riverboat "Sultana" shares the same name with an overloaded Mississippi riverboat side-wheeler that exploded and sank on April 27, 1865, while transporting Union troops returning from Confederate prison camps during the closing days of the Civil War.
Bette Davis declined a role in this film to do Der schwarze Kreis (1964).
Victor Buono appeared with Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra in Sieben gegen Chicago (1964) and again with Martin in Leise Flüstern die Pistolen (1966).
The role of Maxine Richter was originally intended for Gina Lollobrigida.
Before Frank Sinatra was chosen, James Stewart and Robert Mitchum were pursued for the lead.
Final film of Jack Lambert.
Final film of Barbara Payton.
Stunt debut of Gene LeBell.
Opening credits: The characters and events depicted in this photoplay are fictitious. Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, or events is purely coincidental.
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