Three Godfathers is a 1936 American Western film directed by Richard Boleslawski and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer starring: Chester Morris, Lewis Stone, Walter Brennan and Irene Hervey.

Three bank robbers find a newborn baby and his dying mother in the desert.

Directors Edward LeSaint and John Ford had previously filmed silent versions of the film titled The Three Godfathers (LeSaint in 1916) and Marked Men[1] (Ford in 1919), both of which starred actor Harry Carey.

The first sound version was Hell's Heroes, which was also William Wyler's first all-talking film; it starred Charles Bickford, Raymond Hatton, and Fred Kohler.

John Ford would later film yet another version of the film as 3 Godfathers (1948) dedicated to Carey, and starring John Wayne, Pedro Armendáriz, and Carey's son, Harry Carey Jr. A week before Christmas, four bandits ride through the desert and pause on a rise over the town of New Jerusalem: Bob Sangster, returning to his hometown; Doc Underwood, a cultured man with a Ph.D.; Gus Barton; and Pedro, who always plays his guitar and sings as he rides.

She gives the watch back, telling him to return it to the woman he stole it from, and walks away.

Bob goes to the bodega and finds solace in the arms of Blackie, a girl who works there.

Benson offers no resistance, but Bob shoots him in cold blood, saying: "There ain't no Santa Claus."

On the way to the next watering spot, they find the body of George Marshall, a tenderfoot who shot himself.

They are 5 1/2 miles (8.9 km) from New Jerusalem; he remembers Doc saying that it would take an hour for a man to die from the poisoned water.