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Terror in a Texas Town (1958)
Director: Joseph H Lewis
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
Take a hired gun with a steel fist and an almost tragic awareness of his failing nerve (Young). Pit against him a stolid Scandinavian armed only with a whaling harpoon (Hayden), and the film does at least achieve the kind of bizarre climax appropriate to its low-budget format. The rest is a triumph of expression over economy: Lewis makes a virtue of the frame's emptiness (the budget, it seems, didn't run to extras), and disguises the excessive talk with unobtrusive camera movements that show a craftsmanship and pureness lacking in many more expensive films. Something of an exemplar of its type.Author: CPe
Cast & crew
Director: Joseph H Lewis
Producer: Frank N Seltzer
Cast: Sterling Hayden, Sebastian Cabot, Carol Kelly, Ned Young, Eugene Martin, Victor Millan full cast
Genre(s): Westerns
Duration: 80 mins
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