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Terror in a Texas Town
RELEASE INFORMATION
Release Date:
10th July 2017
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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 Halliday Brand, all of which – especially the last –
remain underrated. Terror In A Texas Town would bring his noir sensibilities to the
American West, resulting in one of his finest works.
McNeil (Sebastian Cabot, The Time Machine) is a greedy hotel owner who wants to
take control of Prairie City, the Texas town of the title. Keen to drive the local
farmers off their land, McNeil hires a gunman, Johnny Crale (Nedrick Young, who
would pen the Oscar-winning screenplay for The Defiant Ones the same year),
resulting in the death of a former whaler. The dead man’s son, George Hansen
(Sterling Hayden, The Killing), arrives in town to inherit the farm and set the stage
for revenge – armed with only his father’s old harpoon…
Terror In A Texas Town was written by Dalton Trumbo, one of the Hollywood Ten
blacklisted by the film industry and forced to write under pseudonyms or to use
‘fronts’. Two years before he helped break the blacklist with on-screen credits for
Otto Preminger’s Exodus and Stanley Kubrick’s Spartacus, his work was credited to
Ben Perry, but it demonstrates a psychological depth and political dimension that is
undoubtedly that of Trumbo.
SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS:
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Brand-new 2K restoration from original film elements produced by Arrow Films exclusively for this release
High-definition Blu-ray (1080p) presentation
Uncompressed Mono 1.0 PCM Audio
Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
Introduction by Peter Stanfield, author of Hollywood, Westerns and the 1930s: The Lost Trail and Horse Opera: The Strange History of
the Singing Cowboy
Scene-select commentaries by Stanfield
Theatrical trailer
Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Vladimir Zimakov
*FIRST PRESSING ONLY:
Illustrated collector’s booklet featuring new writing by Glenn Kenny
DETAILS
RRP: £24.99
Region: A/B 1/2
Rating: TBC
Duration: 80 mins
Language: English
Subtitles: English Hard of Hearing
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audio: Mono 1.0
Colour
Discs: 1
Directed by: Joseph H. Lewis
Starring: Sterling Hayden, Sebastian Cabot, Carol Kelly
Dual Format
UK Cat No: FCD1451
UK Barcode: 5027035016207