# Spook Town

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{{short description|1944 film by Elmer Clifton}}
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{{Infobox film
| name           = Spook Town
| image          = Spook Town FilmPoster.jpeg
| caption        =
| director       = [Elmer Clifton](/source/Elmer_Clifton)
| producer       = [Arthur Alexander](/source/Arthur_Alexander_(producer)) (producer)
| writer         = [Elmer Clifton](/source/Elmer_Clifton) (writer)
| narrator       =
| starring       = See below
| music          = [Lee Zahler](/source/Lee_Zahler)
| cinematography = [Robert E. Cline](/source/Robert_E._Cline)
| editing        = [Charles Henkel Jr.](/source/Charles_Henkel_Jr.)
| distributor    = [Producers Releasing Corporation](/source/Producers_Releasing_Corporation)
| released       = {{Film date|df=yes|1944|06|03}}
| runtime        = 59 minutes
| country        = United States
| language       = English
| budget         =
| gross          =
}}

'''''Spook Town''''' is a 1944 American [Western film](/source/Western_film) written and directed by [Elmer Clifton](/source/Elmer_Clifton). The film stars [Dave O'Brien](/source/Dave_O'Brien_(actor)), [James Newill](/source/James_Newill) and [Guy Wilkerson](/source/Guy_Wilkerson), with [Mady Lawrence](/source/Mady_Lawrence), [Dick Curtis](/source/Dick_Curtis) and [Harry Harvey](/source/Harry_Harvey_(actor)). The film was released on 3 June 1944, by [Producers Releasing Corporation](/source/Producers_Releasing_Corporation).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/91124/spook-town |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130606094809/http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/91124/Spook-Town/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=June 6, 2013 |title=Spook Town (1944) - Overview |publisher=Turner Classic Movies |access-date=2019-12-30}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|author=Hans J. Wollstein |url=https://www.allmovie.com/movie/spook-town-v111400 |title=Spook Town (1944) - Elmer Clifton |publisher=AllMovie |accessdate=2019-12-30}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://catalog.afi.com/Film/24179-SPOOK-TOWN |title=Spook Town |publisher=Catalog.afi.com |accessdate=2019-12-30}}</ref>

==Plot==
The Texas Rangers investigate a town that's being terrorized by ghosts.

== Cast ==
*[Dave O'Brien](/source/Dave_O'Brien_(actor)) as Texas Ranger Tex
*[James Newill](/source/James_Newill) as Texas Ranger Jim
*[Guy Wilkerson](/source/Guy_Wilkerson) as Texas Ranger Panhandle
*Mady Lawrence as Lucy Warren
*[Dick Curtis](/source/Dick_Curtis) as Sam Benson
*[Harry Harvey](/source/Harry_Harvey_(actor)) as Drywash Thompson
*Ed Cassidy as Ranger Capt. Wyatt
*[Charles King](/source/Charles_King_(character_actor)) as Trigger
*Robert Barron as Kurt Fabian
*[Richard Alexander](/source/Richard_Alexander_(actor)) as Henchman

== Soundtrack ==
*James Newill - "Sleepy Hollow" (Written by Dave O'Brien and James Newill)
*James Newill - "El Lobo" (Written by Dave O'Brien and James Newill)

==See also==
The Texas Rangers series:
# [The Rangers Take Over](/source/The_Rangers_Take_Over) (1942)
# [Bad Men of Thunder Gap](/source/Bad_Men_of_Thunder_Gap) (1943)
# [West of Texas](/source/West_of_Texas) (1943)
# [Border Buckaroos](/source/Border_Buckaroos) (1943)
# [Fighting Valley](/source/Fighting_Valley) (1943)
# [Trail of Terror](/source/Trail_of_Terror) (1943)
# [The Return of the Rangers](/source/The_Return_of_the_Rangers) (1943)
# [Boss of Rawhide](/source/Boss_of_Rawhide) (1943)
# [Outlaw Roundup](/source/Outlaw_Roundup) (1944)
# [Guns of the Law](/source/Guns_of_the_Law) (1944)
# [The Pinto Bandit](/source/The_Pinto_Bandit) (1944)
# Spook Town (1944)
# [Brand of the Devil](/source/Brand_of_the_Devil) (1944)
# [Gunsmoke Mesa](/source/Gunsmoke_Mesa) (1944)
# [Gangsters of the Frontier](/source/Gangsters_of_the_Frontier) (1944)
# [Dead or Alive](/source/Dead_or_Alive_(1944_film)) (1944)
# [The Whispering Skull](/source/The_Whispering_Skull_(film)) (1944)
# [Marked for Murder](/source/Marked_for_Murder) (1945)
# [Enemy of the Law](/source/Enemy_of_the_Law) (1945)
# [Three in the Saddle](/source/Three_in_the_Saddle) (1945)
# [Frontier Fugitives](/source/Frontier_Fugitives) (1945)
# [Flaming Bullets](/source/Flaming_Bullets) (1945)

==References==
{{Reflist}}

== External links ==
*{{IMDb title|id=0037304|title=Spook Town}}
*{{Internet Archive film|id=SpookTown|name=Spook Town}}

{{Elmer Clifton}}

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Category:1944 films
Category:1944 Western (genre) films
Category:1944 English-language films
Category:American black-and-white films
Category:Films directed by Elmer Clifton
Category:Producers Releasing Corporation films
Category:American Western (genre) films
Category:1944 American films
Category:English-language Western (genre) films

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