Terror in a Texas Town
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Director Joseph H. Lewis Music director Gerald Fried Duration Language English | 6.8/10 IMDb Genre Western Screenplay Dalton Trumbo, Ben Perry Country United States | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date 1958 (1958) Writer Dalton Trumbo, Ben Perry (front for Dalton Trumbo) Cast Sterling Hayden (George Hansen), Sebastian Cabot (Ed McNeil), Carol Kelly (Molly), Eugene Mazzola (Pepe Mirada), Nedrick Young (Johnny Crale), Victor Millan (Jose Mirada)Similar movies The Final Alliance , Rhino , Surviving Evil , Baby Brown , Impact , Snake Island Tagline When the Texas Plains Ran With Blood and Black Gold! | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Terror in a Texas Town is a 1958 American Western film directed by Joseph Lewis starring Sterling Hayden.
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The script of Terror in a Texas Town was written by Dalton Trumbo. Due to Trumbo's status on the Hollywood Blacklist, Ben Perry initially received screenwriting credit.
Director Lewis was set to retire when his friend, the actor Nedrick Young, handed him the script. Young had been blacklisted and this picture was his chance to get back into the business. Excited by the script, Lewis agreed to do it because he had nothing to fear from working with blacklisted artists as this was going to be his last film anyway.
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Plot
The wealthy McNeil wants to control Prairie City and the land around it. He tries to burn out small ranchers and then hires gunfighter Johnny Crale to run them off.
Sven Hansen learns from neighbour Jose Mirada that there is oil on his land. Sven stands up to Crale, his only weapon a harpoon from his past as a whaling fisherman, and Crale callously shoots him dead.
The dead man's son, George Hansen, arrives in town and finds out that his father has died, but isn't sure how or why. The sheriff is in McNeil's pocket and unwilling to help. George tries talking to Molly, Crale's wife, but ends up beaten unconscious and dumped on a train leaving town.
Mirada is the next one gunned down by Crale, but his courage impresses the killer, who in a fit of rage shoots McNeil, the man who hired him. George Hansen returns to town for a showdown, eventually supported by the townsfolk, and is wounded before getting the better of Crale with his father's harpoon.
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