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Bat Haines (Little Billy Rhodes) is stealing cattle from both the
Lawson and the Preston ranches and is always putting the blame on the
respectively other rancher, which means that Pops Lawson (John T.Bambury)
and Tex Preston (Billy Platt) are at war with each other soon enough.
Thing is, Pops' son Buck (Billy Curtis) and Tex' niece Nancy (Yvonne
Moray) are in love, and eventually, Buck even manages to persuade Tex to
listen to reason - which is when Bat cold bloodedly shoots Tex and puts
the blame on Buck, who's put under lock and key soon enough by the
village's corrupt sheriff (Joseph Herbst). With both Tex and Buck out of
the way, Bat tries to talk Nancy into marrying him, much to the dismay of
his girlfriend, showgirl Nita (Nita Krebs) ... but when Bat fails to
succeed, he decides to form a lynchmob to kill Buck. But rather
unexpectedly, the tide turns against Bat when the sheriff, no longer
willing to cover for Bat, starts telling the truth ... and all of a
sudden, Bat finds himself on the run from Buck, and he is ultimately
killed because showgirl Nita has picked exactly this time to blow up Bat's
hideout. The attraction of this film is not so much the story
as such but the fact that the cast is entirely made up of little people, Jed
Buell's Midgets, as they are announced in the credits. Now tha might
sound politically terribly uncorrect, but actually, director Sam Newfield
does treat his tiny cast with the same respect as he would treat a
full-grown cast, apart from a few sightgags maybe. In one way, that's nice
of course, but on the other hand, what's the point to have an all-midget
cast in a film that turns out to be nothing else than your typical
Western? - and Sam Newfield was a Western-veteran even in 1938. As your
routine B-Western, The Terror of Tiny Town is alright though,
featuring a few too many musical numbers perhaps, but moving along at a
steady enough pace not to become a bore before its time. Just don't expect
anything great, much less outrageous.
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