Russell Hopton Movies

A chorus girl gets stranded in a small midwestern town. Against her better judgement, she hooks up with a smooth-talking con artist who says he can...

The sixth in The Shadow series of shorts from Universal. In this one the circus trapeze artist falls to her death when someone flips the light switch...

A crooked jockey tries to reform.

A young Iowa woman inherits her late estranged father's New York business, but the dead man's crooked associates think they can outwit the naive heir...

An unhappily married newspaper reporter discovers she's being used as a pawn in a scheme to discredit the political candidate she's been assigned to...

Ellery Cushing is full of catchy sayings and old-fashioned wisdom. But all that his family cares about is how much money he makes, and all that his...

A group of people are stuck on a schooner in the middle of the Pacific with no wind.

Three men escape from prison, go back to their hometown to try to find out who framed them.

A runaway boy pretends to be the son of a Navy man, only to turn both their lives upside down.

A radio columnist is threatened by gangsters and later murdered during a broadcast. A detective sets out to find the killers.

An elderly detective sets out to find who murdered a lecherous stage actor. His estranged wife? His would-be fiancee? Her father? Her boyfriend? ...

Auctioneer Spot Cash Cutler is planning the scam of a lifetime, but will he get burned?

It is California in 1852 that only recently being surrendered by Mexico to the United States and admitted into the union. Most of the land-owners of...

A cowboy realizes too late that his girlfriend's father had been cheated out of everything in a crooked card game. He sets out to get revenge on the...

When the daughter of a newspaper publisher is falsely charged with murder, a reporter on her father's paper goes into hiding with her. At first...

A legendary lawman and his cohorts set out to restore order to the dangerous streets of Tombstone, Ariz.

A con man poses as a hillbilly preacher.

While a distinguished astronomer is giving a lecture in a planetarium, a shot rings out and one of the audience members is found dead. A tough...

A young man forges a check in order to help his mother, but is caught and sentenced to 14 years in prison...

Frankie Kelly is the soda jerk and embryo scientist in Midvales only drugstore. Two murders and an attempted killing suddenly swing Midvale into...