Movielogr
A Town Has Turned to Dust (1958)
Directed by John Frankenheimer
Overview
An innocent Mexican boy is sacrificed to a lynching mob by an ineffectual sheriff. The slaughter leads to a brooding darkness involving the remorseful relatives of the Mexican youngster and the sullen townspeople. Almost by a chain reaction there is established a second set of circumstances inviting a lynching of the Mexican’s brother. Only this time the sheriff recaptures a shred of human dignity and saves the brother, if not the town.
Length 90 minutes
Actors
Rod Steiger | Miriam Colón | William Shatner | Paul Lambert | James Gregory | Eddie Ryder | Mario Alcalde | Helen Kleeb | Martín Garralaga | Malcolm Atterbury | Fay Spain | Eugene Iglesias | Sandy Kenyon | Clegg Hoyt