The Town That Dreaded Sundown (trailer, 1977)

Is it a lightful album? And it's educational too. Age 19. Roodley attacked March 3rd, 1946. Howard W. Turner, 29. Emolu Cook, 17. Bodies discovered in a wooded area on March 24th. Roy Allen, 17. Peggy Loomis, 15.

Both found dead April 14th in Spring Lake Park. Floyd Reed, age 34. murdered in his home on May 3rd. Mrs. Reed shot twice, but survived. This man's identity is unknown. He was believed to be between 30 and 40 years old.

He wore a white hood and was known only as the Phantom Killer. World War II had just ended. In Texarkana, Arkansas, boys had come home to their families. Husbands reunited with their wives. It was a happy, peaceful time.

Until the Phantom Killer struck. For four months, he held an entire city in the icy grip of terror. Now, Charles B. Pierce brings this incredible, shocking, and true story to the screen in the town that dreaded sundown, starring Academy Award winner Ben Johnson as Captain J. D. Morales of the Texas Rangers.

I got a cold-blooded killer here. A man who nobody sees, a phantom who so far hasn't made any mistakes. Andrew Prine as Deputy Norman Ramsey of the Texarkana Sheriff's Department. The only thing we really do know is that we've got a very strange person on our hands.