DVD: www.amazon.com thefilmarchived.blogspot.com The Terror of Tiny Town is a 1938 American film produced by Jed Buell, directed by Sam Newfield, and starring Billy Curtis. It is the world’s only musical Western with an all-midget cast. Using a conventional Western story with an all midget cast, the filmmakers were able to showcase gags such as cowboys entering the local saloon by walking under the swinging doors, and pint-sized cowboys galloping around on Shetland ponies while roping calves. The plot is about a cowboy helping out a beautiful ranch owner menaced by local thugs. Cast * Billy Curtis as The Hero (Buck Lawson) * Yvonne Moray as The Girl (Nancy Preston) * Little Billy Rhodes as The Villain (Bat Haines) * Billy Platt as The Rich Uncle (Jim ‘Tex’ Preston) * John T. Bambury as The Ranch Owner (Pop Lawson) * Joseph Herbst as The Sheriff * Charlie Becker as The Cook (Otto) * Nita Krebs as The Vampire (Nita, the dance hall girl) * George Ministeri as The Blacksmith (Armstrong) * Karl Karchy Kosiczky as The Barber (Sammy) * Fern Formica as Diamond Dolly * William H. O’Docharty as The Old Soak The film presents Jed Buell’s Midgets. Many of them were also in the performing troupe, Singer’s Midgets, and played Munchkins in The Wizard of Oz, released in 1939. In 1986, the movie was featured in an episode of the Canned Film Festival. Billy Curtis (June 27, 1909 – November 9, 1988) was an American film and television actor. He was a dwarf who had a 50-year career in a …