Too much about the plot just didn't add up, the writing was bad, some of the scenes were cringey and awkward,

Very interesting film. Was caught on the premise when seeing the trailer but unsure as to what the outcome would be for the showing. As it turns out, it was a very good film.

It's a mild crowd pleaser for people who are exhausted by blockbusters.

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

This is a movie that really is just a standard Western, only with midgets. I think the main problem is that this really is the film's only selling point. There's really nothing unique about the story at all, other than that it features midgets. I have to admit that Westerns were never my thing. Then again, this may in fact be the oldest Western I've ever seen. I guess they started off pretty bizarre.I remember Cinema Snob reviewing this and joking that since the movie was only an hour long, everything about it was short. I can't make that joke again. I don't think it's offensive to midgets, seeing as how they seem to have willingly starred in this movie. I wonder where they got all the small ponies? There's just nothing of substance at all. It's weird to watch and there's nothing rewarding about it. *1/2

*Spoiler/plot- The Terror of Tiny Town, 1938. In a frontier town, the cattle rustlers re-ignite a range war between two old rival cattle ranch foes by lies and intrigue. The sheriff and heroes of the town discover the intrigue and make things right. *Special Stars- Jed Buell's midgets: Billy('High Plains Drifter') Curtis, Yvonne Moray, Little Billy Rhodes, Billy Pratt, John T. Bambury,m, Joeseph Herbst. Charles Becker, Nita Krebs, George Minsteri, Fern Formica.*Theme- Little People have regular size problems that they can solve.*Trivia/location/goofs- B & W. Iverson ranch. A few songs. All Little People('midgets') cast. Novelty film, voted one of the worst films produced.*Emotion- I wanted to see this film because of all the fame it has received for it's unique little people cast, good and bad. I was entertained in a good way, but found that there was too much reliance on the novelty of the 'side-show' cast of actors. The plot was quite ordinary and it was shot very mundanely. I found the including of several musical numbers in the plot to be unusual, but not so due to this time period being one of the 'singing cowboy'. That film point got many fine actors their start and made some millionaires like Gene Autry. Maybe see this film once for the sake of knowing it's special presentation to viewers.

The Terror Of Tiny Town is not a classic, nor even that good. The Shetland pony riding is rough, the singing (especially by Buck- it's dubbed) is rougher, and the 'small' jokes roughest, but the film is enjoyable. It's not a 'so bad it's good' film, but it is a cute film that never takes itself seriously, and as anyone who has read my criticism before knows, pretense is the ultimate killer. The acting is not good, and the screenplay loaded with mediocre dialogue, but, on the positive side, there are a few moments when one is sucked into the film's world; the best example being when Bat and his gang try to rob the stagecoach that brings Nancy to town. After Buck and his boys chase off the bad guys, Buck goes to stop the runaway stage (again, not exactly original), and there is some genuine serial-level excitement. Not bad for a gimmick film, and certainly something that lifts the film up beyond mere exploitation. Also, while most film fare at this level- think The Beast Of Yucca Flats or Santa Claus Conquers The Martians- are loaded with many moments a viewer says, 'That makes no sense,' from a logical standpoint. There are no such moments like that in the narrative, although there are throwaway bizarrenesses, like the appearance of the penguin, or Otto's pursuit of the duck, or why a blacksmith's horse, about to be shoed, is the only normal sized horse in the film, when others are Shetland ponies, and the odd breaks into song. That all said, it is amusing, it is guileless, it is sweet, and it is utterly unpretentious (from its opening 'intro,' to its cartoonish credits, to its almost Harold Lloydian ending). There are far better movies, and there are many worse films. The Terror Of Tiny Town, though, is a film that any fan of the medium should see, at least once, if for no other reason than its utter uniqueness in film history, especially contrasted against so many other western musicals of its day. It may not have many, but it does have charms.

Okay, so I just watched this all-Midget (sorry, Little People) Western. Now, while I laughed at some of the way their sizes were exploited like when one fell carrying some boxes that blocked his face or when a townsperson drank a giant glass of beer (I think Jerry Maren played the latter by the way), overall I don't think this deserves the moniker of one of "The Fifty Worst Films of All Time" as implied in the book of that name. In fact, for the most part I was quite excited at the way the whole thing was filmed and liked many of the performances especially Billy Curtis as the Hero, Buck Lawson, and "Little Billy" Rhodes as the Villain, Bat Haines. They have a great fight scene at the climax. Yvonne Moray as the Heroine, Nancy Preston, and Nita Krabs as the Dance Hall Girl, Nita, who loves Bat are also good in their roles. And then there's Charles Becker as the Comic Relief, Otto the Cook, who has a pretty intentionally funny scene with a duck he's trying to kill as he tries to sweet talk him. The singing is wonderful, too, though hearing an obviously taller male voice coming out of Curtis' mouth was pretty strange especially in contrast to Ms. Murray's natural warbling voice after that. By the way, the only actual tall person that appears is in the beginning when an announcer steps from behind the curtain to introduce the Hero and Villain (with the requisite "boos" and "hiss"!) before the opening credits. So on that note, I'd recommend The Terror of Tiny Town to anyone who likes a good-old fashioned musical western starring talented little people.