Earl E. Smith
Writing
Biography
Earl E. Smith is known for Sudden Impact (1983), The Town That Dreaded Sundown (1976) and The Shadow of Chikara (1977).
Known For

When a young rape victim takes justice into her own hands and becomes a serial killer, it's up to Dirty Harry Callahan, on suspension from the SFPD, to bring her to justice.
Sudden Impact

A masked maniac terrorizes the same small community where a murderer known as the Phantom Killer struck decades earlier.
The Town that Dreaded Sundown

When two young lovers are savagely beaten and tortured on a back country road in Texarkana, local police are baffled and must find "the Phantom Killer" before he can kill again.
The Town That Dreaded Sundown

A documentary-style drama based on true accounts of the Fouke Monster in Arkansas.
The Legend of Boggy Creek

Smallpox plagues Chief Winterhawk's tribe. He seeks cure from the white men, who in turn, in fear of getting the smallpox, kill two of his companions. Winterhawk comes back to kidnap a girl and her brother from the white men's settlement, and thus begins the chase...
Winterhawk

Two former Confederate captains try to remove diamonds hidden in the Arkansas mountains, but a native spirit guards the sacred site against intruders.
The Shadow of Chikara

A bunch of bootleggers run booze in the South.
Bootleggers

In 1884, an eleven-year-old Quaker boy sets out on his own to seek revenge against a gang of outlaws who senselessly murdered his family.
The Winds of Autumn

Eastman narrates, describing the challenges they face living in the arctic and the bonds they form with the wild animals. A wildlife cameraman raises three wolves in the Yukon. Trappers who hear of the wolves try to kill them for the hides. This film served as a follow-up to Eastman's grizzly bear film, High, Wild and Free.