The Terror of Tiny Town

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The Terror of Tiny Town is a 1938 film starring Billy Curtis. It is the world's only Western with an all-midget cast. The plot is about a cowboy helping out a beautiful ranch owner menaced by local thugs. Using a conventional Western story with an entire midget cast, the filmmakers were able to showcase gags such as cowboys entering the local saloon by walking under the swinging doors, and pint-sized cowboys galloping around on Shetland ponies. Many of these same actors were part of a performing troupe called Singer's Midgets, who also played Munchkins in The Wizard of Oz, released in 1939.

Clips from the film were used in the video for the Dead Kennedys fast paced cover of the theme from Rawhide (from the In God We Trust, Inc album). The video itself can be found here [1]

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In 1988, the punk rock band Adrenalin O.D. recorded a song entitled Theme From An Imaginary Midget Western, an apparent nod to both this film and the recording Theme From An Imaginary Western by the band Mountain.

[edit] External links

• Billy Curtis at the Internet Movie Database
• The Terror of Tiny Town at the Internet Movie Database