William C. Thomas

Production

William C. Thomas

Born — Died

1903-08-11 — 1984-04-03

Place of birth

Los Angeles, California, USA

Known for

Production

Credits

40 titles

Known for

Behind the camera

Run for Cover poster
6.8

An ex-convict drifter and his flawed young partner are made sheriff and deputy of a Western town.

Run for Cover

1955

The Last Outpost poster
6.1

The cavalry defend a small town from indians.

The Last Outpost

1951

Those Redheads from Seattle poster
5.6

A woman takes her four beautiful daughters to Alaska during the Gold Rush to find their fortune.

Those Redheads from Seattle

1953

The Far Horizons poster
6.3

Virginia, 1803. After the United States of America acquires the inmense Louisiana territory from France, a great expedition, led by William Lewis and Meriwether Clark, is sent to survey the new lands and go where no white man has gone before.

The Far Horizons

1955

The Lawless poster
5.9

A newspaper editor takes on the cause of oppressed migrant Mexican fruit pickers.

The Lawless

1950

Nightmare poster
6.0

Clarinetist Stan has a nightmare about killing a man in a mirrored room. But when he wakes up and finds blood marks on himself and a key from the dream, he suspects that it may have truly happened.

Nightmare

1956

One Body Too Many poster
5.3

An insurance salesman, Albert Tuttle, is hired as a body guard for a millionaire.

One Body Too Many

1944

Fear in the Night poster
5.5

The dream is unusually vivid: Bank employee Vince Grayson finds himself murdering a man in a sinister octagonal-shaped room lined with mirrors while a mysterious woman breaks into a safe. It is so vivid that Vince suspects it may have really happened. To get the dream off his mind, he goes on a picnic with some relatives. When a thunderstorm forces his party into a nearby mansion, Vince discovers that the bizarre room does exist, and it means nothing but trouble.

Fear in the Night

1947

Hell's Island poster
5.5

Down-on-his-luck Mike Cormack is hired to fly to a Caribbean island to retrieve a missing ruby. On the island, possibly involved with the ruby's disappearance, is his ex-girlfriend.

Hell's Island

1955

Crosswinds poster
5.9

A sailor gets his boat stolen from him after he's set up for a crime.

Crosswinds

1951

Special Agent poster
9.0

A California railroad agent hunts two brothers for murder and robbing a payroll express.

Special Agent

1949

Special Agent poster
9.0

A California railroad agent hunts two brothers for murder and robbing a payroll express.

Special Agent

1949

High Seas Hijack poster
10.0

Terrorists hijack an oil tanker and threaten to blow it up unless Japan meets their demands.

High Seas Hijack

1977

The Eagle and the Hawk poster
5.9

Texas Ranger Todd Crayden is assigned a suicide mission South of the Border, to smuggle a government agent into Mexico...

The Eagle and the Hawk

1950

They Made Me a Killer poster
5.4

A fugitive receives help from a victim's sister as he tries to clear his name of robbery and murder charges.

They Made Me a Killer

1946

They Made Me a Killer poster
5.4

A fugitive receives help from a victim's sister as he tries to clear his name of robbery and murder charges.

They Made Me a Killer

1946

Big Town poster
5.5

A newspaper editor goes on an anti-crime crusade, but gets carried away.

Big Town

1946

Big Town poster
5.5

A newspaper editor goes on an anti-crime crusade, but gets carried away.

Big Town

1946

Big Town After Dark poster
5.5

A crusading newspaper reporter battles big-city gambling interests.

Big Town After Dark

1947

No Hands on the Clock poster
5.6

A wise-cracking private detective's honeymoon is interrupted by a kidnapping case.

No Hands on the Clock

1941

El Paso poster
6.0

Ex-confederate officer Clay Fletcher jumps at the chance to reunite with his once lady-friend, Susan Jeffers, when his father, Judge Fletcher, sends him on an errand to El Paso, Texas to get the signature of Susan's father, Judge Jeffers, on a legal document. Once there he finds the judge has become a drunk and a laughing stock, doing the bidding of local magnate Bert Donner and his running dog, Sheriff La Farge. Just as Clay starts straightening out the town's problems, events occur which force him to abandon the legal system and instead adopt the murderous tactics of a vigilante.

El Paso

1949

The Vanquished poster
4.9

A man returns to his home -- a post Civil-War village -- and finds the law is in the hands of a few scrupulous people.

The Vanquished

1953

The Big Caper poster
6.3

A con artist moves into a small town to spearhead a payroll robbery.

The Big Caper

1957

Big Town Scandal poster
5.3

A crusading editor and his star reporter aid underprivileged youths and crack down on racketeers out to fix basketball.

Big Town Scandal

1948

Big Town Scandal poster
5.3

A crusading editor and his star reporter aid underprivileged youths and crack down on racketeers out to fix basketball.

Big Town Scandal

1948

Manhandled poster
5.2

Merle Kramer works as a stenographer for a psychiatrist. She is casually dating Karl Benson, a private eye and former cop. Merle mentions in passing that one of her boss's patients is an author with recurring dreams of murdering his wife, and she includes the fact that the wife owns valuable jewels. When the wife is found murdered in a manner identical to that of her husband's dream, the husband is naturally the prime suspect. But as the investigation of the police and insurance investigator Joe Cooper proceeds, it turns out that several people in the case, including Merle, are not what they seem.

Manhandled

1949

Lucy Gallant poster
7.0

A spirited dressmaker's small store flourishes into a business empire in the midst of the Texas oil boom of the 1940s.

Lucy Gallant

1955

Hong Kong poster
5.1

American adventurer Jeff Williams is fleeing the communist advance in China when he becomes entangled with a young Chinese orphan, Wei Lin, and a beautiful Red Cross volunteer, who arranges for their harrowing escape to Hong Kong.

Hong Kong

1952

Shaggy poster
10.0

The film follows the story of a rancher's son, Robbie, his dog Shaggy and adventures they have with ranching neighbors and wild animals in the U.S. west.

Shaggy

1948

Jivaro poster
5.2

At Rio Galdez's remote Brazilian trading post live assorted outcast Americans and Europeans, including Jerry Russell, ex-engineer who became obsessed with the Jivaro headhunters' treasure, quit his job, and took up with the bottle and local girl Maroa. But he still gets letters from his nominal fiancée in California, and unexpectedly the shapely, glamorous Alice Parker arrives, expecting to marry a rich planter. Disillusioned, Alice is almost ready to fall into Rio's arms when news comes that Jerry is missing in Jivaro country.

Jivaro

1954

Gambler's Choice poster
6.2

Childhood pals, a gambler and a policeman, fall for the same woman in 1910 New York City.

Gambler's Choice

1944

Albuquerque poster
6.5

Cole Armin comes to Albuquerque to work for his uncle, John Armin, a despotic and hard-hearted czar who operates an ore-hauling freight line, and whose goal is to eliminate a competing line run by Ted Wallace and his sister Celia. Cole tires of his uncle's heavy-handed tactics and switches over to the Wallace side. Lety Tyler, an agent hired by the uncle, also switches over by warning Cole and Ted of a trap set for them by the uncle and his henchman.

Albuquerque

1948

Midnight Manhunt poster
4.6

Two reporters search for a missing body in a wax museum.

Midnight Manhunt

1945

Midnight Manhunt poster
4.6

Two reporters search for a missing body in a wax museum.

Midnight Manhunt

1945

Jungle Flight poster
5.9

Kelly Jordan and Andy Melton are former AAF fliers operating a cargo service over the South American mountain ranges in order to get enough money to return to Texas and buy a commercial line.

Jungle Flight

1947

We Refuse to Die poster
8.0

1942 Oscar nominated documentary

We Refuse to Die

1942

Million Dollar Legs poster
6.0

At Middleton College, controlled by rich donor Melton, only paying sports are allowed. But Freddie Frye, conniving student body president, has to get a letter in some sport to win back his girl Susie; he schemes to revive crew boat racing. Sinking boats, no money, and his own waistline stand in his way. Can they win the big race with State University?

Million Dollar Legs

1939

Sangaree poster
6.8

Lamas plays an indentured servant who rises to power in Georgia shortly after the Revolutionary War.

Sangaree

1953

Cat Murkil and the Silks poster
5.3

A street-gang member kills the gang's leader and blames it on a rival gang.

Cat Murkil and the Silks

1976

Bailout at 43,000 poster
5.3

An Air Force major feels a volatile mixture of relief and anger when he is excused from performing a dangerous test in a new aircraft.

Bailout at 43,000

1957