Terror in a Texas Town

This was the final feature film for cult director Joseph H. Lewis. He would spend much of the next decade directing television episodes before retiring from the industry. His other work includes: My Name Is Julia Ross (1945), a terse little thriller about a case of mistaken identity, Gun Crazy (1950), a variation on the Bonnie and Clyde story told with gripping narrative skill, and the astonishing film noir thriller, The Big Combo (1955), which is as raw and edgy as any gangster thriller made that decade - all ingenious efforts that prove Lewis was one of the great low-budget stylists of his era.

Johnny stands at his hotel room window looking down on Hansen who appears to be walking directly to the front of the hotel yet there's six shots of him striding down the street while Johnny takes his time going down to the bar and having a drink before going outside to find Hansen just approaching.

Referenced in Judd for the Defense: Tempest in a Texas Town (1967)