since add the encore western channel to my cable tv lineup i have be overdose on that particular genre and so i thought i would take a break to check out a four disc and twenty movie dvd package i pick up from mill creek entertainment . it call cult classic and and the title that immediately call out to me be terror of tiny town . wouldn not you know it and the darn thing turn out to be a midget western . no and not a short feature and but a movie with an all midget cast . it come out the same year a another novelty western feature an all black cast call two gun man from harlem . the principle be pretty much the same here . take your standard b oater and pit your white hat hero against a dastardly villain and and populate it with nothing but midget actor . what sort of cool in the story be the early misdirection which seem to implicate tex preston ( billy platt ) a a cattle rustler before it reveal there a third party villain work the preston against the lawson . bat haines ( little billy rhodes ) be a nasty a villain a you will find in any john wayne and roy rogers or durango kid picture and even to the tune of keep the local sheriff in his pocket . the hero of the piece and buck lawson be play by billy curtis in his very first film role . obviously he catch someone eye to recommend cast him a the mayor of munchkin land in 1939 wizard of oz and from there go on to a rather prodigious movie career . western fan will note the resemblance between the young curtis in tiny town and the sixty four year old actor who be make mayor of lago by the stranger in high plain drifter . to his credit and curtis do his best to stay away from role that denigrate little people and and do a creditable job here . still and it hard watch the picture not to crack up every now and then over inadvertently funny scene like the midget cowboys rid on their shetland pony and or walk into a saloon under the swinging door . the movie opt to drift back and forth between a normal adult size world and a miniature one to achieve different effect while the scene i think be exceptional be the one that play out with the runaway stagecoach build to little people scale . some of the goofier scene involve pint size singer whose voice be obviously dub . the terror of tiny town would not make anyone best film list and but you know and it really shouldn not be on anyone bad list either . take it with a grain of salt and you will probably be entertain . a couple question need answer though . why be that penguin in the middle of the movie . and if a regular cowboy fire a six shooter and do a midget use a three shooter .