ABSTRACT
“Swedes in this country, they keep popping up like jack-rabbits,” says the villain played by Sebastian Cabot in the 1958 western Terror in a Texas Town (Joseph Lewis). In reality, “there’s only Sterling Hayden and his father” playing a seafarer turned farmer and a homesteader, respectively. Nonetheless, per the entry on “Swedes” in the BFI Comzpanion to the Western, the western is one of the few genres where characters designated as Swedes by name and/or accent can be found, typically played by non-Swedish actors cast in minor roles. 1
