Writing

William W. Norton

Known for

Writing

Credits

22 titles

Known for

Behind the camera

White Lightning poster
6.2

An ex-con teams up with federal agents to help them with breaking up a moonshine ring.

White Lightning

1973

Big Bad Mama poster
5.7

Circumstances force a mother and her two daughters to get into bootlegging and bank robbing, and travel across the country pursued by the law.

Big Bad Mama

1974

The Hunting Party poster
6.1

A ruthless rancher, and his gang, use extremely long range rifles to kill the men who kidnapped his wife.

The Hunting Party

1971

Night of the Juggler poster
6.8

When a twisted psychotic kidnaps a young girl, mistaking her for the daughter of a wealthy developer, her father, a hardened ex-cop, doggedly hunts them through New York's seamy streets.

Night of the Juggler

1980

Brannigan poster
6.0

A hard-nosed Chicago cop is sent to London to bring back an American mobster being held for extradition. Brannigan in his Irish-American way brings American law to the people of Scotland Yard but has to contend with a stuffy old London first.

Brannigan

1975

The Scalphunters poster
6.4

Forced to trade his valuable furs for a well-educated escaped slave, a rugged trapper vows to recover the pelts from the Indians and later the renegades that killed them.

The Scalphunters

1968

A Small Town in Texas poster
4.7

A crooked sheriff in a small Southern town frames an ex-convict in a drug bust and takes his girlfriend.

A Small Town in Texas

1976

Gator poster
5.2

After his release from prison, notorious ex-con and moonshine distiller Gator McKlusky moves in with his father in a cabin in the Okefenokee Swamp. His bootlegging plans are cut short, however, when a federal agent tells McKlusky that he will lose custody of his 9-year-old daughter unless he helps bring down local crime lord Bama McCall. McKlusky enlists the help of reporter Aggie Maybank and a few local eccentrics to bring down McCall's empire.

Gator

1976

Day of the Animals poster
5.2

The depletion of the earth's ozone layer causes animals above the altitude of 5000 feet to run amok, which is very unfortunate for a group of hikers who get dropped off up there by helicopter just before the quarantine is announced.

Day of the Animals

1977

Sam Whiskey poster
5.7

A widow hires an ex-gambler to retrieve gold bars from a sunken river boat in Colorado and discreetly return them to the Federal Mint, from where they had been stolen by her dead husband.

Sam Whiskey

1969

The McKenzie Break poster
5.9

A German U-Boat commander plans a daring escape from a PoW camp in Scotland.

The McKenzie Break

1970

Trader Horn poster
5.0

During the First World War a Hunter and trader in Africa joins forces with a couple looking for a source of platinum try to survive while fleeing British soldiers, dealing with German slavers and troops, natives and cannibals.

Trader Horn

1973

Moving Violation poster
5.2

A young drifter and small-town waitress witness a corrupt sheriff murder his own deputy. Framed for the murder and pursued by the sheriff, they run for their life to try and stay alive.

Moving Violation

1976

The Farmer's Other Daughter poster
4.5

Farmer Brown wants to sell his daughter to Cyrus P. Barksnapper in order to save his farm.

The Farmer's Other Daughter

1965

Poor Albert and Little Annie poster
4.1

Albert tried to kill his rich snobby mother once. Then he was institutionalized. Now he's escaped. Albert is after his mother again. And he will torture and kill anything that lays in the way...

Poor Albert and Little Annie

1972

Dirty Tricks poster
5.5

A Harvard University student finds a strange letter that seems to be signed by George Washington. When trying to contact an expert (Prof. Chandler) to authenticate it, he is murdered but the letter disappears. Then Chandler, who does not know anything about the case, gets chased by the mafia and haunted by a TV reporter (Polly Bishop).

Dirty Tricks

1981

Exiled in America poster
5.5

A Central American revolutionary is captured and tortured by government forces. He escapes and flees to the US, hiding out in a rural area where he is sheltered by a Christian sanctuary movement. His wife gets a job at a local diner run by one of the town's shadier women, and soon a CIA assassination team shows up, looking for him.

Exiled in America

1992

No artwork available
6.5

Meek salesman learns the aggressive way to treat women from a brash wastrel poet in order to help him get back with his wife.

How to Succeed with Girls

1964

No artwork available
6.5

Meek salesman learns the aggressive way to treat women from a brash wastrel poet in order to help him get back with his wife.

How to Succeed with Girls

1964

Five Minutes to Love poster
4.3

Ben, Edna and their baby daughter are headed to California when their car breaks down. Ben ventures off to the junkyard in search of a spare part to fix his car. Coincidentally, Harry (the seedy junkyard owner) has just been accused by the police of selling stolen auto parts, and claims that he gets his cars from someone else. Ben wanders into the junkyard just in time for Harry to frame him and use him as a scapegoat. When Ben doesn't return after quite a while, Edna goes looking for him. She is then chased around the junkyard by Harry's odd, dim-witted friend Blowhard.

Five Minutes to Love

1963

No artwork available
9.0

Harry and his roommate, George, live in a shabby Hollywood apartment, existing languidly off the final payments of their unemployment insurance. Despite a 6-month lag in their rent payments and Harry's bad relations with his neighbor, their landlady does not evict them because she loves Harry, who spends his hours daydreaming about planting a 100-yard-wide row of marigolds from Los Angeles to New York for the betterment of mankind.

Marigold Man

1970

No artwork available
9.0

A man of questionable moral fiber pursues another man's wife, simply to convince a young lady that the the sanctity of marriage is fallacious.

The Grass Eater

1961