History Film / TheTerrorOfTinyTown

''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 [[OverlyNarrowSuperlative 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, climbing into cupboards to retrieve items, and midget cowboys galloping around on Shetland ponies while roping calves.

* HavingAGayOldTime: During her song, Diamond Dolly sings to a midget cowpoke that he is "going to make love to her".

* EverythingsBetterWithPenguins: There is a live penguin in the barber shop of a tiny settlement in the dusty West. Its presence is never explained, [[UnusuallyUninterestingSight or even commented on]].

* AntagonistTitle: The 'Terror of Tiny Town' is the {{outlaw}} and {{rustler}} Bat Haines.

''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, climbing into cupboards to retrieve items, and midget cowboys galloping around on Shetland ponies while roping calves.

''The Terror of Tiny Town'' is a 1938 American film produced by Jed Buell, directed by Sam Newfield, and starring Billy Curtis. It is [[OverlyNarrowSuperlative 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, climbing into cupboards to retrieve items, and midget cowboys galloping around on Shetland ponies while roping calves.

* EverythingsBetterWithPenguins: There is a live penguin in the barber shop of a tiny settlement in the dusty West. Its presence is never explained, or even commented on.

* TheSheriff: The sheriff of Tiny Town is an ex-criminal who is being blackmailed by Bat Haines into turning a blind eye to all of Bat's crimes. Only when the crimes escalate to murder does he find the backbone to stand up to Bat. [[RedemptionEqualsDeath He then gets shot.]]

''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, climbing into cupboards to retrieve items, and midget cowboys galloping around on Shetland ponies while roping calves.

* CigarChomper: The BigBad Bat Haines smokes cigars, and often emphasises a point by biting the tip off a cigar and spitting it at the feet of whoever he is talking to.

* WomanScorned: Angry because Haines hit her and neglected her in favour of Nancy, Nita plants explosives in his cabin.

* INeverSaidItWasPoison: Haines tells nancy that Tex has been murdered before anyone except the murderer could have known that he was dead.

* TheSheriff: The sheriff of Tiny Town who is being blackmailed by Bat Haines into turning a blind eye to all of Bat's crimes. Only when the crimes escalate to murder does he find the backbone to stand up to Bat. [[RedemptionEqualsDeath He then gets shot.]]

* MagicCoundown: Nita lights the fuse on a bundle of dynamite and plants it under the floor of Haines' cabin. She flees and then Haines enters the cabin, followed by Buck. The two men get into a fight, but every time the camera cuts back to the dynamite, the fuse is still burning at the same point it was when Nita planted it. It eventually explodes just after Buck leaves the cabin in response to Nancy's yell.

* CigarChomper: The BigBad Bat Haines smokes cigars, and often emphasises a point by biting the p of a cigar and spitting it at the feet of whoever he is talking to.

* DoorSlamsYou: When Nancy goes charging out of Buck's jail cell, the door hits Otto in the face, knocking him over.
* FalseFlagOperation: Haines rustles Lawson's cattle, and leaves behind a branding iron to make it look like it was the work of Tex Lawson.
* FrameUp: haines frames Buck for the murder of Tex Lawson.

* INeverSaidItWasPoison: haines tells that Tex has been murdered before anyone except the murderer could know that he was dead.
* InTheBack: Haines shoots Tex Lawson in the back, and then frames Buck for the crime.

* AWomanScorned: Angry because Haines hit her and neglected her in favour of Nancy, Nita plants explosives in his cabin.