Town Tamer (Paramount Pictures) (1965)

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PARAMOUNT MERCHANDISING MANUAL AND PRESS BOOK SYNOPSIS The desperate world of gun law in which Tom Rosser (DANA ANDREWS) fights to live, takes tragic toll when a bullet meant for him from the gun of renegade, Lee Ring (LYLE BETTGER), kills Rosser’s wife (COLEEN GRAY). This is only the first skirmish in further attempts by the ruthless Kansas desperado, Riley Condor (BRUCE CABOT), to eliminate his mortal enemy, Rosser. Rosser goes to White Plains, ostensibly to look over property, but more specifically to kill Condor and eliminate lawlessness. He meets Susan Tavenner (TERRY MOORE) and learns she is traveling to meet her husband Guy Tavenner (DE FORREST KELLEY), supposed partner of Condor in a White Plains saloon. Word gets around that Rosser is in town. Condor realizes immediately that his henchmen including gunslingers Honsinger (RICHARD JAECKEL), Ring, Tavenner, Sim Akins (PHILIP CAREY), Flon (ROGER TORRES) and aide (DON BARRY) are no match for Rosser, so he adopts a master plan to eliminate him. Condor appoints Ring and Honsinger as Deputies and arranges a fight with Rosser. Then he rigs a case with Judge Murcott (PAT O'BRIEN) to arrest Rosser legally. On another front, Condor plans to destroy the new railroad, engineered by James Fennimore Fell (BARTON MACLANE). Condor’s blueprint is to make the town completely untenable for progress, railroad or otherwise. In the lawlessness which ensues under the guise of legal authority, the few stalwarts of the town launch another plan. The leaders, who include Leach (LON CHANEY), James Fennimore Fell, Dr. Kent (RICHARD ARLENT). Davis (JAMES BROWN) and aides (BOB STEELE and RICHARD WEBB), decide to form a vigilante committee to combat Condor’s tactics. Meanwhile, Rosser has had a showdown with Condor and his cohorts, has been beaten once in a free-for-all with Flon, and has proemied Susan from her drink-crazed husband and offered her protec tion. In the roaring climax, the vigilantes move into the center of town and find themselves completely covered by Condor’s men. Rosser walks down the street in the midst of the high tension and urges them to abandon the vigilante plan. As they withdraw, Rosser moves into the saloon for the final showdown. Single-handedly he mops up the Condor headquarters. Condor is killed with many of his gunslingers, including Ring, the murderer of Rosser’s wife. A wounded Rosser comes out of the saloon and secures the surrender of the hold-out renegades. With Guy Tavenner also killed in the wild melee, Rosser and Susan Tavenner are free to pursue a romantic course. CAST WOMROSSOl 2 ee DANA ANDREWS SUSAN TaVvenner 33 eS ee TERRY MOORE ON eS ee PAT O'BRIEN Ra RT SG I SNe TY LON CHANEY PO UR a ee ee ae eas BRUCE CABOT UGG" RING. ee ae ea ee eee .. LYLE BETTGER RAMON ge eo Bao ae es COLEEN GRAY James Fennimore Fell..................... BARTON MACLANE Oe Oe, See a ee ee RICHARD ARLEN en eas eri ahem RICHARD JAECKEL ithe NIG Pee ek a ae Ree ae PHILIP CAREY MUU a ek, ee SONNY TUFTS CREDITS Producer—A. C. Lyles; Director—Leslie Selander; Cinematographer —wW. Wallace Kelley; Assistant Director—Howard Roessel; Based on novel by—Frank Gruber; Screenplay—Frank Gruber; Art Directors— Hal Pereira and Al Roelofs; Film Editor—George Gittens; Set Decorator—Claude Carpenter. RUNNING TIME: 89 MINUTES ADVERTISING BILLING Paramount Pictures PIOSeNiS. 6 Sa ae he ae 20% DPINPIINLIN OWN 69s ee oe ee ee 100% in THON UAE ec. eee et a ORE er a ae ies Se See 100% ee ORES 3 ..25% (height & width of title-Lyles’ name only) Co-starring TERRY MOORE 0 BAT O'GRIEN i i ee ree ere 75% LON CHANEY BRUCE CABOT LYLE BETTGER RICHARD ARLEN Same PIN LING Ree 50% (optional credit RICHARD JAECKEL in large space PHILIP CAREY ads) SONNY TUFTS and COLEEN GRAY J DE SSR USB RENE EPIL A ee a ka id AI OEire Cue Seep aes ae 25% oLcS US ASTON | 21 Sc i 8 Ree ae a octece er ner are vaya ESL 25% Directed. by Lesley Selander..= ec Ne PA 25% SCrabnDiaveoy Eran Gluber a. eh ee ee 25% From his novel, Town Tamer..............15% (not required) Pe MarenmGune Mictile <3 6. s: 2 Os Se Se ee, 20% THIS WAS THE TOWN WHERE HE MUST KILL...OR BE KILLED! | The story of the gunslinger who could turn his back on no man...or woman... $3 as death waited with a thousand eyes! an ACALY| LES production TECHNICOLOR® TECHNISCOPE ° £ TERRY MOORE PAOBREN LON BRUCE. ©=—s LYLE _~—» RICHARD »=BARTON =©sRICHARD «= PHILIP, «SONNY. )«=SsCOLEEN CHANEY: CABOT-BETTGER: ARLEN MacLANE: JAECKEL-CAREY: TUFTS mo GRAY DIRECTED BY LESLEY SELANDER SCREENPLAY BY FRANK GRUBER rows wove:Tow ree | Pazatco : 135..LINES........... .405 LINES 3 COIS. ee inches ...... 29% inches tas Copyright © 1965 by Paramount Pictures Corporation and A. C. Lyles Productions, Inc. Permission granted for newspaper and magazine reproduction. (Made in U.S.A.)