Lonnie Wilson, the son of a toothless sharecropper, Zuba Wilson, returns to small southern Read More »
Tag Archives: William F. Claxton
Law of the Lawless (1964) William F. Claxton, Dale Robertson, Yvonne De Carlo, William Bendix
Clem Rogers, known as “the Hanging Judge” has come to Stone Junction Read More »
I’ll Give My Life (1960) William F. Claxton, Ray Collins, John Bryant, Angie Dickinson
This is the story of a father whose son chooses faith over the family fortune and business. Read More »
Young Jesse James (1960) William F. Claxton, Ray Stricklyn, Willard Parker, Merry Anders
In this one, the father of Jesse and Frank James is unjustly hanged by Union troops Read More »
Stage to Thunder Rock (1964) William F. Claxton, Barry Sullivan, Marilyn Maxwell, Scott Brady
Retiring Sheriff Horne goes after the Sawyer brothers who have robbed a bank in town. Read More »
The Quiet Gun (1957) William F. Claxton, Forrest Tucker, Mara Corday, Jim Davis, Western
Hired gun Doug Sadler rides into a small Western town and immediately provokes the local sheriff, Carl Brandon, by tormenting a simpleminded local named Sampson. Brandon is further provoked by a visit from city attorney Hardy, who announces that the town council is charging local rancher Ralph Carpenter with violations of morality for living with an Indian girl. Brandon, who is in love with Carpenter’s estranged wife Teresa, realizes that there is something sinister behind both these events, but he is unsuccessful in preventing calamity from erupting. Eventually he must stand against his entire town in order to protect it and the law he represents.
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Night of the Lepus (1972) William F. Claxton, Stuart Whitman, Janet Leigh, Rory Calhoun, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Cole Hillman’s Arizona ranch is plagued with ‘mongrel’ rabbits, and he wants to employ an ecologically sound control method. As a favor to college benefactor Hillman, college president Elgin Clark calls in zoologist Roy Bennett to help. Bennett immediately begins injecting rabbits with hormones and genetically mutated blood in an effort to develop a method of disrupting rabbit reproduction. One of the test subjects escapes, resulting in a race of bloodthirsty, wolf-sized, man-, horse-, and cow-eating bunnies. Eventually the National Guard is called in for a final showdown with the terrorizing rabbits.
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