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Jun 4, 2013 · The story goes that low-budget producer Jedd Buell was inspired to make his magnum opus by an offhand comment from a subordinate: “If this economy drive keeps on, we’ll be using midgets for...
Jed Buell (May 21, 1897 - September 29, 1961) was an American film producer, director, and screenwriter who specialized in low-budget B pictures in a variety of subjects including singing cowboy films featuring midgets and black actors.
The Terror of Tiny Town: Directed by Sam Newfield. With Billy Curtis, Yvonne Moray, 'Little Billy' Rhodes, Billy Platt. An evil gunslinging midget comes to terrorize the good little people of Tiny Town. The townspeople organize to defeat him, and zany antics ensue.
The Terror of Tiny Town is a 1938 American musical Western film produced by Jed Buell, directed by Sam Newfield and starring Billy Curtis. The film was shot at a sound studio in Hollywood and partly at Placeritos Ranch in Placerita Canyon, California. [1]
The Terror Of Tiny Town (1938) is a musical western starring "Jed Buell's Midgets". According to IMDB, the idea for the picture came about when producer Jed Buell overheard an employee of his production company, Spectrum Pictures, bemoaning the state of the film business and remarking that "if this economy doesn't turn around, we'll have to ...
Time for the Old Corral to chronicle a unique (bizarre) western --- "Jed Buell's Midgets" in THE TERROR OF TINY TOWN. The Hollywood career of Jed Buell (1897-1961) began with the Mack Sennett studio.
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Dec 31, 2010 · Long before the term “politically correct” entered the lexicon, Jed Buell and his troupe of Little People made a serious Western — not the spoof you might have expected — in Placerita Canyon. The year was 1938 and Trem Carr and Ernie Hickson had just moved their Western movie town up the road to the present location of Melody Ranch.
