Desire in the Dust (1960)

Lonnie Wilson, the son of a toothless sharecropper, Zuba Wilson, returns to small southern hometown after spending six years on the chain-gang for killing Colonel Ben Marquand's son in an ... See full summary »

Director: William F. Claxton

Writers: Harry Whittington (novel), Charles Lang (screenplay)

Stars: Raymond Burr, Martha Hyer, Joan Bennett 

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