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1958’s Terror in a Texas Town

by | May 24, 2011 | Western Movies

The year 1958 saw two Westerns with similar stories: William Wyler’s big-budget, color The Big Country and the low-budget, black-and-white Terror in a Texas Town. In both, a sailor travels to the Old West and confronts his manhood. Beyond that, the two films couldn’t be more different. In Terror in a Texas Town, Sterling Hayden plays a Swedish whale harpooner who comes to live on his father’s farm in Texas. A greedy land-grabber, well-played by Sebastian Cabot, is buying up all the


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