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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
EAN: 9780792855668
Format: Anamorphic, Black & White, Closed-captioned, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0792855663
Label: United Artists
Manufacturer: United Artists
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: United Artists
Region Code: 1
Release Date: May 20, 2003
Running Time: 81 minutes
Sales Rank: 44515
Studio: United Artists
Theatrical Release Date: 1958-09
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Description:
Sterling Hayden (Dr. Strangelove) turns in "a brilliant performance" (The Hollywood Reporter) as a peace-loving Swedish seaman who's forced to take on an entire frontier town in this compelling and startlingly imaginative western. When George Hansen (Hayden) arrives in Prairie City, Texas, to help manage his family's fledgling farm, he finds that his father has been mysteriously murdered and no one in townnot even the sheriffplans to do anything about it! Determinedto track down the killer himself, Hansen learns that a ruthless oil prospector and his vicious group of hired guns have been forcing immigrant farmers to sell their mineral-rich landor pay for it with their lives. Despite crooked lawmen, brutal ambushes and terrorized townsfolk, Hansen tracks down his father's killer and faces off against the enemy in a remarkable showdown, reminiscent of High Noon, that's one of the most original and dramatic action sequences ever filmed.
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Rating:  -
This was a classic old school western but it had a very smart story and a differnt kind of twist to the characters. What drew me to the movie was that one of my all time favorites, Sterling Hayden, was in it. Then I read that the heavy was literally the heavy Mr. French himself Sebastian Cabot. Then I read that even though it was a western Hayden played a Swedish sea captain. It is almost a noir western. Cabots top henchman is not just one dimensional either.
Check out this odd but good ... Read More
Rating:  -
Is this the first spaghetti western? Not literally, of course. The film was made in the USA, with an American cast and director. But this rococo masterpiece, a triumph of quirkiness over a hackneyed story, looks forward in many ways to the excesses and mannerisms of Leone and Corbucci. We have the bizarre weaponry: a whaling harpoon is flourished in the final showdown. There is the cartoon like bad man, self-consciously acting out a role that the code of the west demands he plays. We have the unusual ... Read More
Rating:  -
My friend Judy gets to review this movie for me because I suggested she watch it and this is a condition of forgiveness:
Since I have to give this one star, let the star be a collapsing black dwarf.
Sterling Hayden gives the worst performance in any actor's life. He might as well be a talking roast beef. My friend said "lutefisk?" but his Swedish accent does not bear up under the comparison.
It isn't just the movie that's bad--the score (guitar, trumpet, ?, etc.?) ... Read More
Rating: -
Dressed in a squared-off bowler, a wool jacket that doesn't cover his wrists, a stubby tie and sporting a painfully off-key Swedish accent, Sterling Hayden is an unlikely western hero. That ten-foot steel tipped harpoon he carries around doesn't help to buff the image much, either. Then again TERROR IN A TEXAS TOWN is an unlikely western. Scripted by blacklisted Hollywood writer Dalton Trumbo (Ben Perry received credit), it's ostensibly about a land robber (Sebastian Cabot as Ed McNeil) using means fair ... Read More
Rating:  -
These are the kind of movies you discover in your quest to own every western ever made. Man oh man, where to begin?
Ok, hang on...I have to stop giggling first. I dont think I've ever seen the Shrimp and Lobster Platter being served up in a saloon before but I suppose that's supposed to be a metaphor for something. Sebastian Cabot makes for a decent fancyman villain but it's hard to look classy when you're scarfing down the seafood feast. And he's got a black threaded gunman that is doing a pretty ... Read More
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