The Town That Dreaded Sundown
In 1946 this man killed five people... Today he still lurks the streets of Texarkana, Arkansas.
Overview
When two young lovers are savagely beaten and tortured on a back country road in Texarkana, local police are baffled and must find "the Phantom Killer" before he can kill again.
- Budget
- $400,000
- Production
- American International Pictures, Charles B. Pierce Film Productions
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Cast
Crew
- Director
- Charles B. Pierce
- Writers
- Earl E. Smith
- Producers
- Charles B. Pierce,Samuel Z. Arkoff
- Cinematography
- James W. Roberson
- Composer
- Jaime Mendoza-Nava
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Wuchak
March 18, 2021
_**A killer is on the loose in Texarkana in 1946**_ The Texarkana Moonlight Murders and the ensuing investigation that took place from late February to early May, 1946, are chronicled with the names changed and details altered for dramatic purposes. Ben Johnson plays a renowned Texas Ranger on the case and Andrew Prine a formidable deputy sheriff. Dawn Wells shows up in the last act. “The Town that Dreaded Sundown” (1976) is a crime docudrama that could be designated as an early slasher ev…