It Came From Hollywood rides into town with this pressbook for Terror at Black Falls, which was shot in 1959 but hit theaters in 1962. You would be surprised how many westerns use the word ‘terror’ in their title. Gary Gray had this to say about the picture (from Growing Up on the Set: Interviews with 39 Former Child Actors of Classic Film and Television, by Tom and Jim Goldrup):
The last movie Gary worked in was Terror at Black Falls, which was filmed on location in Scotland, Arkansas. “Kind of an arty western, released back in Arkansas then disappeared. Richard Sarafian had written, produced and directed this show. It was in black and white; the budget was nothing. The film was a lot of fun, and there were some good actors in it like House Peters Jr. and Peter Mamakos. I remember an old guy who lived there, about 98 years old and blind at the time. He’d never been over ten miles away from Scotland. They had just gotten some indoor plumbing in some of the places. The people of Scotland, Arkansas, couldn’t have been nicer.”
While the movie was low on the dollars, the poster art is still wonderful. How many times has a movie survived solely on the lead-in provided by the poster art? Of course today you have word of mouth (aka the big-mouth of social media) to either sink or swim a movie.
