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Un sheriff corrupto en una pequeña ciudad incrimina a un ex convicto en una redada de drogas y se lleva a su novia.Un sheriff corrupto en una pequeña ciudad incrimina a un ex convicto en una redada de drogas y se lleva a su novia.Un sheriff corrupto en una pequeña ciudad incrimina a un ex convicto en una redada de drogas y se lleva a su novia.
Jack Starrett
- Buford Tyler
- (as Claude Ennis Starrett Jr.)
John Starrett Berry
- Cooter
- (as Starrett Berry)
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- CuriosidadesCast members Susan George and Bo Hopkins replaced original cast members Susan Blakely and John Beck in the roles of Mary Lee Carter and Sheriff Duke respectively. The casting of the originals had been announced in the 8th December 1975 edition of show-business trade-paper 'The Hollywood Reporter'. Reportedly, they did not stay with the project and bowed out of the production for reasons which are publicly undetermined.
- PifiasDuring most of the chase scenes, the police cars change alternately from Plymouth Satellites to Plymouth Furys and one changes to an AMC Matador in the final chase scene.
- Citas
Buford Tyler: [Buford looks at Poke] You just get outta the state pen?
Poke Jackson: How'd ya know that?
Buford Tyler: I recognize your tailor.
- ConexionesFeatured in Trailer Trauma V: 70s Action Attack! (2020)
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Good Ole Boys
In the 1970s there were a lot of these grade-B, drive-in type movies set in rural Southern locations. Typically, there was a sheriff, a youngish protagonist, lots of car chase action, and some kind of conflict involving the sheriff and protagonist. "A Small Town In Texas" clicks all these boxes. And so the underlying idea here isn't original.
Yet, the down-home rural atmosphere seems fairly realistic, as the movie was filmed in and around small towns near Austin. Male characters are generally good ole boys with minimal education; and the women are fairly inconspicuous. The main character is Poke (Timothy Bottoms), a local hick just out of prison who has a score to settle with Sheriff Duke (Bo Hopkins). The corn pone dialogue is about what you would expect for local yokels. There's some fairly good suspense in the second half. And part of the plot involves corruption surrounding a political event.
The script has several major problems, apart from being unoriginal. First, the inciting incident is postponed too long, so that the plot's first thirty minutes meanders. Second, the scriptwriter overuses the car chase cliché; here there are three, complete with inept cops and screeching tires. Third, the script leaves dangling the subplot involving character C.J. Crane.
Casting is less than ideal. Bo Hopkins seems to have become typecast. Timothy Bottoms looks too young to play a hardened criminal, though his performance here is acceptable. Secondary characters seem more like two-dimensional stick figures. I really like that mournful score, played at the beginning and at the end. Cinematography and production design are okay, but the film's color seems highly muted.
Life in a small, rural town in the American South, combined with some contrived drama sums up the premise of this film. "Macon County Line" is much better. But "A Small Town In Texas" is acceptable if other similar movies are unavailable.
Yet, the down-home rural atmosphere seems fairly realistic, as the movie was filmed in and around small towns near Austin. Male characters are generally good ole boys with minimal education; and the women are fairly inconspicuous. The main character is Poke (Timothy Bottoms), a local hick just out of prison who has a score to settle with Sheriff Duke (Bo Hopkins). The corn pone dialogue is about what you would expect for local yokels. There's some fairly good suspense in the second half. And part of the plot involves corruption surrounding a political event.
The script has several major problems, apart from being unoriginal. First, the inciting incident is postponed too long, so that the plot's first thirty minutes meanders. Second, the scriptwriter overuses the car chase cliché; here there are three, complete with inept cops and screeching tires. Third, the script leaves dangling the subplot involving character C.J. Crane.
Casting is less than ideal. Bo Hopkins seems to have become typecast. Timothy Bottoms looks too young to play a hardened criminal, though his performance here is acceptable. Secondary characters seem more like two-dimensional stick figures. I really like that mournful score, played at the beginning and at the end. Cinematography and production design are okay, but the film's color seems highly muted.
Life in a small, rural town in the American South, combined with some contrived drama sums up the premise of this film. "Macon County Line" is much better. But "A Small Town In Texas" is acceptable if other similar movies are unavailable.
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- 24 may 2016
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