The Town That Dreaded Sundown

December. 24,1976      R
Rating:
6
Trailer Synopsis Cast

When two young lovers are savagely beaten and tortured on a back country road in Texarkana, local police are baffled and must find "the Phantom Killer" before he can kill again.

Ben Johnson as  Captain J.D. Morales
Andrew Prine as  Deputy Norman Ramsey
Dawn Wells as  Helen Reed
Jimmy Clem as  Sgt. Mal Griffin
Charles B. Pierce as  Patrolman A.C. Benson

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