Terror in a Texas Town is a 1958 American Western

Western (genre)

The Western is a genre of various visual arts, such as film, television, radio, literature, painting and others. Westerns are devoted to telling stories set primarily in the latter half of the 19th century in the American Old West, hence the name. Some Westerns are set as early as the Battle of...

 film

Film

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, directed by Joseph Lewis. The script was written by Dalton Trumbo

Dalton Trumbo

James Dalton Trumbo was an American screenwriter and novelist, and one of the Hollywood Ten, a group of film professionals who refused to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1947 during the committee's investigation of Communist influences in the motion picture industry...

, but due to Trumbo's status on the Hollywood Blacklist

Hollywood blacklist

The Hollywood blacklist—as the broader entertainment industry blacklist is generally known—was the mid-twentieth-century list of screenwriters, actors, directors, musicians, and other U.S. entertainment professionals who were denied employment in the field because of their political beliefs or...

, Ben Perry initially received screenwriting credit.

It stars Sterling Hayden

Sterling Hayden

Sterling Hayden was an American actor and author. For most of his career as a leading man, he specialized in westerns and film noir, such as Johnny Guitar, The Asphalt Jungle and The Killing. Later on he became noted as a character actor for such roles as Gen. Jack D. Ripper in Dr...

, Sebastian Cabot

Sebastian Cabot

Sebastian Cabot may refer to:*Sebastian Cabot , Italian explorer*Sebastian Cabot , British actor...

, and Carol Kelly, with Eugene Mazolla, Nedrick Young

Nedrick Young

Nedrick Young was a screenwriter often blacklisted during the 1950s and 1960s. He is credited with writing the screenplay for Jailhouse Rock in 1957, which starred Elvis Presley....

, and Victor Millan

Victor Millan

Victor Millan, whose real name was Joseph Brown, was an American actor, academic and former Dean of the theatre arts department at Santa Monica College in Santa Monica, California. Victor Millan was Brown's pseudonym used during his acting career, which spanned decades.-Early life:Brown was born...

 costarring. Sheb Wooley

Sheb Wooley

Shelby F. "Sheb" Wooley was a character actor and singer, best known for his 1958 novelty song "Purple People Eater"...

plays Baxter.

Plot

A Swedish whaler is out for revenge when he finds out that a greedy oil man murdered his father for their land.