Biography: William F. Claxton |

American director William F. Claxton started out as a film editor with Edward Small Productions in 1940. Claxton's first directorial effort was 1951's All That I Can Have. He spent much of the 1950s with 20th Century-Fox's Regal Pictures subsidiary,... more
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Bonanza: The Next Generation (1988)
Tags: Action Adventure Western Prime-Time Drama [TV] 
Length: 96min
Bonanza: The Movie originally went out as Bonanza: The Next Generation. That title accurately reflected the film's content: death and previous commitments prevented the cast of the original Bonanza TV series of 1959-1973, thus the talent roster of The...

Cast: Janet Leigh DeForest Kelley   
Tags: Natural Horror Horror 
Length: 90min
Giant Flesh-Eating Rabbits Ravage American Southwest After Scientist Slips Up! Such is the plot of this unintentionally campy horror outing. The trouble begins when a researcher's experiment to use hormone injections to control Arizona's burgeoning...

Cast: Dale Robertson William Bendix Bruce Cabot   
Length: 90min
This is the first of numerous westerns produced by A.C. Lyles which became famous not for their stories but for who played in them--all the stars being veterans not often seen on the screen anymore. As far as plot line, essentially we have a badguy...

Cast: Raymond Burr   
Tags: Crime Drama Drama 
Length: 102min
Raymond Burr was already three years into Perry Mason when he decided to return to his movie-villain roots with Desire in the Dust. Burr, playing the patriarch of a Southern family, befriends the ex-convict (Ken Scott) who'd supposedly killed Burr's...

Cast: Lon Chaney, Jr. Keenan Wynn Wally Westmore Scott Brady Marilyn Maxwell   
Length: 82min
In this western adventure, a sheriff prepares to retire and finds himself forced to deal with his past when he is assigned to round up a gang of outlaws comprised of the sons of the man who raised him after his own parents were killed. The sheriff has...

Cast: Jesse White Marion Ross Walter Brennan John Hoyt Nancy Kulp   
Tags: Drama 
Length: 80min
Prominent surgeon Walter Brennan comes to the conclusion that his talents are on loan from God. He retires from his lucrative practice and moves to a small town, there to donate his money to charitable religious causes. Brennan's avaricious family...

Length: 73min
Few outlaws can equal Jesse James for name recognition, or for the number of Hollywood films on their exploits. This standard western biopic by director William F. Claxton stars Ray Stricklyn as Jesse during his formative years, the only years handled...

Cast: William F. Claxton   
Tags: Drama 
Length: 79min
In this tearjerker, a morally disparate father and son attempt to reconcile their differences. The father is a major construction magnate who has dreamed of his son taking over the lucrative family business. The father's heart is devastated when the...

Cast: Irene Ryan   
Length: 81min
In this musical, an ex-fan dancer leaves the burlesque to start a new in a small town with her two teenage children. There she soon becomes one of the most respected women in town; she also falls in love with the school principal. Unfortunately, her...

Cast: Forrest Tucker   
Length: 79min
In this western, the town sheriff must look into a scandal involving his friend who is reportedly having an affair with a Native American girl while his wife is on a trip. The friend is enraged at the accusations and kills the town attorney. He is...
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