Russell Hopton Movies

Story of the gold strike on an immigrant's property that started the 1849 California Gold Rush.

After a good-natured Irish cop is framed for a diamond robbery and murder and presumed dead in a train wreck, he gets plastic surgery and returns to...

A man is convicted of killing his boss, whom he suspected of having an affair with his wife. On board the train taking him to prison for his...

A naïve farmer writing songs tries his chances in New York. Unlucky, he is helped by a crooner who lusts after one of his songs. Ignoring the...

"Happy" MacDonald and his unfaithful wife own a Prohibition era night club. On this eventful night, he is threatened by bootleggers, and the club's...

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

Lively June, teen-aged daughter of mystery writer Waldo Everett, who calls her "Angel," becomes involved in intrigue centering on movie star Pauline...

A crooked jockey tries to reform.

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 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...

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

A policeman in need of money is persuaded to take a $1000 bribe to stay away the night a packing house is to be robbed.

A power-company troubleshooter has his brother get him out of prison by running high voltage to the bars of his cell.

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...

Fate brings a job at Boulder Dam and romance with a saloon singer into the life of a young man on the run.

After serving 25 years in prison for robbery, Dean Payton returns to his home town to see his daughter, Sally, who is unaware he is her father. He...

A mad scientist uses captured criminals as experiments for his study on "the criminal mind" aboard his private ship.

A story of the Michigan State Police and the strong sense of loyalty and duty it instills in its men. It follows the career of a newly-inducted...

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

Joyce and Fred MacNeil's honeymoon comes to an abrupt and unsatisfying halt when Fred is accused of murder. Railroaded into prison through the...