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Terror in a Texas Town is a american film of genre Drama directed by Joseph H. Lewis released in USA on 1 september 1958 with Sterling Hayden
Terror in a Texas Town (1958)
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Add to a movie listTerror in a Texas Town is a 1958 American Western film, directed by Joseph Lewis and starring Sterling Hayden.
The script of Terror in a Texas Town was written by Dalton Trumbo one of the infamous "Hollywood Ten" who was blacklisted during the McCarthy-era witch hunts of the late forties and early fifties. 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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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.Actors
Sterling Hayden
(George Hansen)
Sebastian Cabot
(Ed McNeil)
Nedrick Young
(Johnny Crale)
Victor Millan
(Jose Mirada)
Hank Patterson
(Brady)
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