 He also directed some Technicolor short films, including "Manchu Love" with an all-Asian cast.In the sound era, Clifton wrote and directed many poverty row Westerns and "exploitation" classics, among them the anti-marijuana polemic "Assassin of Youth" (1937).He also directed the vice films "Gambling with Souls" (1936), "Slaves in Bondage" (1937) and "City of Missing Girls" (1941), all of which portrayed addiction and white slavery to some degree.