Author: Mark Franklin

John Monastero is Dr. William York, practicing in Independence, Kansas in the 1870s, a peculiar man with no interest in remarrying after losing his wife in childbirth. When one …

Anthony Hopkins is Zorro, going on one last ride just as a revolution ousts Don Rafael Montero as governor of California. Montero has decided to execute three peasants. It’s …

The year is 1842 and the Mexican government has sent a force of 300 troops north under Gen. Micheltorena to enforce its rule and quell notions of California becoming …

Lloyd Bridges is Ben Trask, a man accused of killing his own brothers and bound for a jail in El Paso. Then the wagon full of travelers he’s being …

Billy Campbell is Abner Beech, a farmer in upper New York State with staunchly anti-war views in the early days of the Civil War. He believes in the Constitution. …

Faye Dunaway is Lena Doyle, a fiercely independent woman trying to drill her own oil well with the help of just an Indian helper named Jimmy. She’s resisted selling …

Brad Johnson is “Wild” Bill Longley, who rides into a New Mexico town looking forward to a reunion with an old friend named Murphy. He discovers that Murphy’s dead …

Two hunters stumble upon an Indian burial site and one can’t resist stealing an amulet off a female skeleton. His partner Hugo didn’t think that was a wise idea …

Brandon Ray Olive is Joseph Smith, leader of the Mormon Church, arrested, charged with treason and thrown in jail in Liberty, Missouri, with five of his followers. Jasen Wade …

The Leininger family leaves Germany for the American colonies in search of freedom and land they can call their own. They find both in Penn’s Creek, Pa., and have …