A Town Has Turned to Dust (1958)
1h 30m
Running Time
June 19, 1958Release Date
A Town Has Turned to Dust (1958)
1h 30m
Running Time
June 19, 1958Release Date
Plot.
The weakling sheriff of a small southwestern town allows a Mexican teenager to be lynched by a local mob for a crime he may not have committed.
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Cast & Crew.

Rod Steiger
Harvey Denton

William Shatner
Jerry Paul

Fay Spain
Annamay Paul

James Gregory
Hennify

Mario Alcalde
Ramon Rivera

Martín Garralaga
The Priest

Eugene Iglesias
Pancho Rivera

Malcolm Atterbury
Jenkins
Details.
Release DateJune 19, 1958
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 30m
Content RatingNR
Genres
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"A Town Has Turned to Dust" is the 38th episode of the second season of the American television play broadcast live on June 19, 1958, as part of the second season of the CBS television series Playhouse 90. Rod Serling wrote the teleplay, and John Frankenheimer directed. Rod Steiger and William Shatner starred.
Serling originally wrote the story about the lynching of a young African-American in the Southern United States. Due to objections from the program's commercial sponsors, who were concerned with offending white Southern viewers, it was not produced and aired until Serling moved the story's setting out of the South and changed the victim from black to Mexican.