A Town Has Turned to Dust

This article is about the 1998 remake. For the original production, see A Town Has Turned to Dust (Playhouse 90).

A Town Has Turned to Dust is a 1998 remake of A Town Has Turned to Dust (1958), written by Rod Serling. It was originally shown on the Syfy Channel.^[1]

Plot

Jerry Paul is a successful, racist dweller-merchant whose wife is overly attentive to their driver-servant Tommy. Jerry has Tommy arrested on false charges of rape and theft. The town's Sheriff Denton is unable to stop a lynch mob led by Jerry from lynching Tommy but the incident is recorded by a TV reporter named Hannify, who is visiting Earth from New Angeles. The rest of the story revolves around how the report is used, revelations of a past crime, and a showdown in the style of High Noon.

Cast

• Stephen Lang (Sheriff Harvey Denton)
• Ron Perlman (Jerry Paul)
• Gabriel Olds (Hannify)
• Barbara Jane Reams (Maya Paul)
• Frankie Avina (Tooth)
• Zahn McClarnon (Tommy Tall Bear)
• Judy Collins (Ree)
• M. Scott Wilkinson (Wavy Flagg)