Terror in a Texas town 1958

[Tommy Tainant]

This is a bit of an oddity. A western with a swedish hero.
It was directed by a blacklisted director. The blacklist was something US fascists inventeed last time they had power.
In truth its not great. Sterling Hayden mangles the swedish accent and the showdown sees him armed with a harpoon. Like in most westerne.
And its oil whch is the reason for all the shenenigans. Remember when oil was considered good ?
I give it 5 out of 10.

Terror in a Texas Town - Wikipedia

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[Frankeneinstein]

This is a bit of an oddity. A western with a swedish hero.
It was directed by a blacklisted director. The blacklist was something US fascists inventeed last time they had power.
In truth its not great. Sterling Hayden mangles the swedish accent and the showdown sees him armed with a harpoon. Like in most westerne.
And its oil whch is the reason for all the shenenigans. Remember when oil was considered good ?

Morning tommy, see you're punched in already, lets get down to it

I give it 5 out of 10.

hmm a 5 on that scale is very generous for any Trumbo film tommy, that fact is why most folk didn't/wouldn't waste their time and/or money on it the way you did.

 

[Frankeneinstein]

And its oil whch is the reason for all the shenenigans.
Remember when oil was considered good ?

In europe oil is the euivalent of todays windmill and europeans the Don Quixote' of the day, a sympathetic dullard who "tilted" against it/them.

 

[Frankeneinstein]

This is a bit of an oddity. A western with a swedish hero.

today it is considered noble and a work of 'art' [the international term for ugly] due to its diversity

 

[Tommy Tainant]

today it is considered noble and a work of 'art' [the international term for ugly] due to its diversity

I can only give an honest rating. At keast the hero is white.I know that is a big thing for you.

 

[Frankeneinstein]

I can only give an honest rating.

'HONEST"? "I do not think that word means what you think it means" [that is a quote from a real movie]

At keast the hero is white.

he was portraying a european, what other color did they have?

I know that is a big thing for you.

and how do you know such a thing? because in europe that is the only color diversity comes in?

 

[Zincwarrior]

I thought this was about the TexArkana serial killer.

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[Soupnazi630]

This is a bit of an oddity. A western with a swedish hero.
It was directed by a blacklisted director. The blacklist was something US fascists inventeed last time they had power.
In truth its not great. Sterling Hayden mangles the swedish accent and the showdown sees him armed with a harpoon. Like in most westerne.
And its oil whch is the reason for all the shenenigans. Remember when oil was considered good ?
I give it 5 out of 10.

Terror in a Texas Town - Wikipedia

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The USA has never had fascists in power

 

[Tommy Tainant]

The USA has never had fascists in power

Fascists run the country now.

 

[BothWings]

"The last time American fascists had power?" You mean up until January of this year!

 

[Sherlock Holmes]

Morning tommy, see you're punched in already, lets get down to it

hmm a 5 on that scale is very generous for any Trumbo film tommy, that fact is why most folk didn't/wouldn't waste their time and/or money on it the way you did.

So what filmmakers meet with you approval? Leni Riefenstahl?

 

[Sherlock Holmes]

This is a bit of an oddity. A western with a swedish hero.
It was directed by a blacklisted director. The blacklist was something US fascists inventeed last time they had power.
In truth its not great. Sterling Hayden mangles the swedish accent and the showdown sees him armed with a harpoon. Like in most westerne.
And its oil whch is the reason for all the shenenigans. Remember when oil was considered good ?
I give it 5 out of 10.

Terror in a Texas Town - Wikipedia

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I'm a big fan of Sterling Hayden, not seen this western so I will add it to some list.

My fave Hayden movies are:

The Killing (film) - Wikipedia

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The Asphalt Jungle - Wikipedia

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I also a film from the same era where he played a rather hard nosed cop, even hints of Dirty Harry but I can't recall the title.

 

[Frankeneinstein]

So what filmmakers meet with you approval? Leni Riefenstahl?

Why do any have to meet with approval? and since this is tommy's thread why did you not ask him as well?
In any case they don't really rate worth even having a rating, but I'll go with the tommy system and give the lot of them a 5 because I am in a generous mood...don't recognize your compatriot Leni Riefenstahl, had to look "him" up to find out "he" was a "she" and figured he/she/they had to be a european if you were trying to belittle me in some way, I don't take offense to too much but inferring/implying I am some sort of europhile comes close to crossing that line.

 

[Frankeneinstein]

I also a film from the same era where he played a rather hard nosed cop, even hints of Dirty Harry but I can't recall the title.

lol...Coming from a european that could very well be "The Pink Panther"

So what filmmakers meet with you approval?

Seymore Butz, great director of all the action you can handle.

 

[Soupnazi630]

Fascists run the country now.

No they do not dumbass

 

[Tommy Tainant]

Why do any have to meet with approval? and since this is tommy's thread why did you not ask him as well?
In any case they don't really rate worth even having a rating, but I'll go with the tommy system and give the lot of them a 5 because I am in a generous mood...don't recognize your compatriot Leni Riefenstahl, had to look "him" up to find out "he" was a "she" and figured he/she/they had to be a european if you were trying to belittle me in some way, I don't take offense to too much but inferring/implying I am some sort of europhile comes close to crossing that line.

By all accounts Hayden was a decent chap.

 

[Frankeneinstein]

By all accounts Hayden was a decent chap.

for a 5...good enough tommy...Honestly do not like trumbo's work but it isn't some type of deal breaker for me either.

 

[Tommy Tainant]

for a 5...good enough tommy...Honestly do not like trumbo's work but it isn't some type of deal breaker for me either.

Take a deep breath old fella. Its just art.

 

[Frankeneinstein]

Take a deep breath old fella.

I find it more to my liking to just breathe normally tommy

Its just art.

The universal term for "ugly"

 

[Tommy Tainant]

I find it more to my liking to just breathe normally tommy

The universal term for "ugly"

Art is sobjective. Trump has turned the white house into a NOLA whore house theme park, But maga morons think its lovely.