Screenplay: Clair Huffaker

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Clair Huffaker. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


Rio Conchos

1964 · Movie · 107 min. · United States

Direction Gordon Douglas

Cast Richard Boone · Stuart Whitman · Anthony Franciosa · Jim Brown

Plot Two Army officers, an alcoholic ex-Confederate soldier and a womanizing Mexican travel to Mexico on a secret mission to prevent a megalomaniacal ex-Confederate colonel from selling a cache of stolen...

6.8

896 votes

6.8

896 votes

The Comancheros

1961 · Movie · 107 min. · United States

Direction Michael Curtiz

Cast John Wayne · Stuart Whitman · Ina Balin · Nehemiah Persoff

Plot Texas Ranger Jake Cutter arrests gambler Paul Regret, but soon finds himself teamed with his prisoner in an undercover effort to defeat a band of renegade arms merchants and thieves...

6.6

2K votes

6.6

2K votes

The War Wagon

1967 · Movie · 101 min. · United States

Direction Burt Kennedy

Cast John Wayne · Kirk Douglas · Howard Keel · Robert Walker Jr.

Plot Taw Jackson returns from prison having survived being shot, to the ranch and gold that Frank Pierce stole from him. Jackson makes a deal with Lomax, the man who shot...

6.6

2K votes

6.6

2K votes

Flaming Star

1960 · Movie · 101 min. · United States

Direction Don Siegel

Cast Elvis Presley · Barbara Eden · Steve Forrest · Dolores del Rio

Plot When fighting breaks out between two cultures in West Texas, the mixed-blood Pacer tries to act as a peacemaker, but the "flaming star of death" pulls him irrevocably into the...

5.7

435 votes

5.7

435 votes

The Deserter (The Devil's Backbone)

1971 · Movie · 100 min. · Italy

Direction Niksa Fulgosi · Burt Kennedy

Cast Bekim Fehmiu · Richard Crenna · Chuck Connors · Ricardo Montalban

Plot Bitter over his wife's death due to what he believes was army negligence, Capt. Viktor Kaleb deserts the cavalry and disappears into the southwestern wasteland. But when marauding Apaches set...

5.6

107 votes

5.6

107 votes

Posse from Hell

1961 · Movie · 89 min. · United States

Direction Herbert Coleman

Cast Audie Murphy · John Saxon · Zohra Lampert · Vic Morrow

Plot Banner Cole is a tough sheriff's deputy who forms a small posse to go after 4 death cell escapees who killed the sheriff , along with 3 other men, and...

5.6

75 votes

5.6

75 votes

Daniel Boone (TV Series)

1964 · Series · 60 min. · United States

5.6

219 votes

5.6

219 votes

Seven Ways from Sundown

1960 · Movie · 96 min. · United States

5.5

84 votes

5.5

84 votes

Hellfighters

1969 · Movie · 121 min. · United States

Direction Andrew V. McLaglen

Cast John Wayne · Katharine Ross · Vera Miles · Jim Hutton

Plot The adventures of oil well fire specialist Chance Buckman (based on real-life Red Adair), who extinguishes massive fires in oil fields around the world.

5.2

359 votes

5.2

359 votes

The Second Time Around

1961 · Movie · 99 min. · United States

Direction Vincent Sherman

Cast Debbie Reynolds · Steve Forrest · Andy Griffith · Juliet Prowse

Plot In 1911, a widow with two children leaves New York City for territorial Arizona and becomes a ranch hand and later gets herself elected sheriff. A gambler and a rancher...

5.2

42 votes

5.2

42 votes

Chino - The Valdez Horses

1973 · Movie · 98 min. · Italy

Direction John Sturges · Duilio Coletti

Cast Charles Bronson · Jill Ireland · Marcel Bozzuffi · Vincent Van Patten

Plot Chino Valdez is a loner horse breeder living in the old west. Partly a loner by choice, and partly because, being a 'half-breed', he finds himself unwelcome almost everywhere he...

5.0

250 votes

5.0

250 votes

100 Rifles

1969 · Movie · 104 min. · United States

Direction Tom Gries

Cast Jim Brown · Raquel Welch · Burt Reynolds · Dan O'Herlihy

Plot Reynolds plays Yaqui Joe, an Indian who robs a bank in order to buy guns for his people who are being savagely repressed by the government. Set in turn of...

4.9

303 votes

4.9

303 votes

Tarzan and the Valley of Gold

1966 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Robert Day

Cast Mike Henry · David Opatoshu · Manuel Padilla Jr. · Nancy Kovack

Plot The international criminal Vinaro enjoys sending explosive wristwatches to his enemies. Here he kidnaps ten-year-old Ramel whom he thinks can lead him to the lost city of gold. Tarzan fights...

3.8

25 votes

3.8

25 votes

Lawman (TV Series)

1958 · Series · 30 min. · United States

Direction Robert Sparr · Stuart Heisler · Richard C. Sarafian · Robert B. Sinclair

Cast John Russell · Peter Brown · Peggie Castle · Dan Sheridan

Plot Lawman is the story of Marshal Dan Troop of Laramie, Wyoming and his deputy Johnny McKay an orphan Troop took under his wing.

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Flap

1970 · Movie · 106 min. · United States

Direction Carol Reed

Cast Anthony Quinn · Claude Akins · Tony Bill · Shelley Winters

Plot A hard-drinking, reckless-living Indian named Flapping Eagle decides that his people have been pushed around by the white man long enough. Mounting his horse H-Bomb, Flap proceeds to hijack a...

Not rated

Not rated

Destry (TV Series)

1964 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Gene Nelson · Frank Baur · John Florea · Earl Bellamy

Cast John Gavin · Ken Mayer · Bill Coontz · John Astin

Plot Young Harrison Destry, son of legendary lawman Tom Destry, had been a sheriff himself until he was framed and sent to prison. Now he roams about looking for the hombres...

Not rated

Not rated

Outlaws (TV Series)

1960 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Walter Doniger · Jesse Hibbs · Sobey Martin · Paul Stanley

Cast Barton MacLane · Don Collier · Bruce Yarnell · Slim Pickens

Plot The adventures of a marshal and his young deputies in a section of Oklahoma infested with bandit gangs, gunmen and robbers.

Not rated

Not rated