The Town That Dreaded Sundown
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.
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The story of a hooded serial killer who terrorized the town of Texarkana in 1946 and was never caught. Based on one of America's most baffling murder cases.
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- Director
- Charles B. Pierce
- Starring
- Ben Johnson, Andrew Prine, Dawn Wells, Jimmy Clem, Jim Citty, Charles B. Pierce, Robert Aquino, Cindy Butler
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