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1956
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- A leisurely paced, almost hypnotic western, TERROR IN A TEXAS TOWN relies more on characterization and form than on plot. Although the film's title and the final confrontation sound campy, this flick is lean, mean, and grippingly serious.
100% Tomatometer 6 Reviews 67% Audience Score 250+ Ratings When Swedish-American whaler George Hanson (Sterling Hayden) returns to his Texas hometown after 20 years at sea, he's shocked to...
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While the eye-catching poster promises "Iron Hooked Fury!" and pitting a harpoon against a six-gun, the curiously forgotten B-movie western Terror in a Texas Town, directed by Joseph H. Lewis, is a positively downbeat little movie.
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- Picture 8/10
- Audio 6/10
- Extras 4/10
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For his 41st and final feature film, Joseph H. Lewis was able to combine the two genres in which he had excelled. The man in the director's chair for My Name is Julia Ross, Gun Crazy and The Big Combo, Lewis was one of the all-time greats in film noir. But he was also a fine director of Westerns, having made A Lawless Street, 7th Cavalry and The Ha...
Joseph H. Lewis’ Terror in a Texas Townreceives a new 2K restoration courtesy of Arrow, who now present it on Blu-ray through their Arrow Academy line. The film’s 1080p/24hz high-definition encode comes from that new restoration, scanned from a fine grain positive, and is presented in the aspect ratio of 1.85:1. Outside of a few hiccups this presen...
The disc presents the film’s original monaural soundtrack here in lossless PCM. It sounds about as good as I would expect. Dialogue sounds fine, as does the music, though there is a flatness to the whole affair. Unfortunately the track doesn’t help Sterling Hayden’s Swedish accent.
Arrow puts together a rather fascinating special edition here despite there only being two significant features to accompany the film’s rather pulpy theatrical trailer: an introduction and a visual analysis, running about 13-minutes and 14-minutes respectively, and both hosted by film scholar Peter Stanfield. What’s interesting about both of these ...
Arrow has put together a rather solid edition here, featuring a couple of fun and informative features and a rather striking presentation. BUY AT:
Terror in a Texas Town Reviews. All Critics. Top Critics. All Audience. Verified Audience. Richard Propes TheIndependentCritic.com. A Trumbo screenplay all the way. Full Review |...
Jul 31, 2017 · Terror in a Texas Town (1958) is a peculiar Western, so peculiar, in fact, that even its admirers often can't adequately explain what makes it so effective. Some are drawn to the unusualness of its hero, a Swedish whaler (Sterling Hayden), who in the film's climax uses a harpoon as a weapon.
Terror in a Texas Town: Directed by Joseph H. Lewis. With Sterling Hayden, Sebastian Cabot, Carol Kelly, Eugene Mazzola. A Swedish whaler is out for revenge when he finds out that a greedy oil man murdered his father for their land.
Handicapped by a slow-moving story, Terror in a Texas Town shapes up as a routine filler for the duals.
