I'm trying to remember the name of a movie.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

From the seventies, maybe early eighties.

It's a western.

Only notably cast member (that I recognized at the time) was some silver haired old fart who also did TV. Maybe Harry Morgan or George Peppard, although I've looked at their IMDB bios and can't find the film.

Widow lives out in the West with her three (maybe two) grown impressionable sons. A seedy old desperado shacks up for a few days healing from a gunshot wound or some damn thing. Three boys are inspired and leave home to become desperados themselves, and meet bad fates, all to the disappointment of the mother.

[chknltl]

1. Cat Balou????

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059017/fullcredits
It sorta follows what you described but ends diferently.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

2. Nope.

This was a drama. Bordering melodrama.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

3. did you look here?

http://www.imdb.com/company/co0180120/