Product Details

• Actors: Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Anita Ekberg, Ursula Andress, Charles Bronson
• Directors: Robert Aldrich
• Writers: Robert Aldrich, Teddi Sherman, W.R. Burnett
• Producers: Robert Aldrich, Howard W. Koch, Walter Blake
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Warner Home Video
• VHS Release Date: April 27, 1994
• Run Time: 124 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (25 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6301923766
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #272,157 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

Rat Pack buddies Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin were prized for their ability to appear relaxed on camera, but in 4 for Texas they're nearly asleep. It must have looked good on paper: reuniting the crooners and teaming them with two international sex symbols in a jokey Western under the guidance of topnotch director Robert Aldrich (Kiss Me Deadly). Ursula Andress, as a riverboat owner who hooks up with Dino, unleashes her bedroom purr to great effect, but formidable Anita Ekberg had a bad year in 1963 (she also got stuck in Bob Hope's immortal Call Me Bwana). A tasty roster of character actors is wasted, although Charles Bronson and Victor Buono are amusing as unsavory citizens of 1870s Galveston. Even the Three Stooges, in their Curly Joe configuration, wander through. After a terrific opening sequence in the desert, establishing Frank and Dean's rivalry, this one quickly goes south. --Robert Horton

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

22 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars easy going entertainment, March 31, 2000

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Barbara E. Brewer (Texas, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Four for Texas [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Who cares if this movie is going nowhere like some complain. Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra give a lot of laughs and Ursalla Andress and Anita Ekberg are perfect partners for them. The rest of the cast make the movie something different that usual western spoofs. You get two semi-good guys, two bad baddies, and an assortment of others plus a cameo by the Three Stooges. What more can you want. The good guys win in the end, the gals get the guys, and everyone lives happily ever after. It's great. No social message or deep plot, just pure enjoyment for some of us lighter hearted movie buffs.

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars What's not to like?, June 30, 2003

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Peter Ingemi (Worcester County, Massachusetts United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: 4 for Texas [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Well Sinatra and Martin are classy and funny, the ladies are sexy, the supporting cast generates laughs and we even get the three stooges for good measure doing their classic <clap clap clap> TEXAS skit.

this is no movie classic but it is a fun picture that doesn't take itself too seriously. In that vein you will enjoy it.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars 4 For Texas 1963, April 11, 2006

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John W . Ford (Los Angeles , California . U.S.A) - See all my reviews

This review is from: 4 for Texas (DVD)

Frank Sinatra (1915-1998) and Dean Martin (1917-1995) play wily Business rivals in this wild West lark og gambling and romance . It?s 4 for Texas as the two sars joined by Busty Swedish Anita Ekberg (1931- ) (measurements: 40-22-36 in 1950) and Ursula Andress (1936- ) , vie for oneupmanship at the card tables of 1870s Galverston .The cards hold a lot more fun when the film?s many talented co-stars join in . The three stonges turn up in a trademark slapstick sketch . Preening Victor Buono (1938-1982) is the most deviius , double-crossing villain this side Snidely Whiplash . And Charles Bronson (1921-2003) is rattlesnake-mean gunslinger with a nasty habit of absorbing more lead than he dishes out . At center stagecoach shootout to final riverboat melee , pals Sinatra and Martin clearly have a blast , So will you . High Quality digital transfer .