Russell Hopton Movies

James “Brick” Davis, a struggling attorney, owes his education to a mobster, but always has refused to get involved with the underworld. When a friend...

John Thompson is kidnapped by mobsters after quitting his job. Then he is arrested, tried, and sentenced to death for murders they committed. A suspic...

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...

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

A man meets the daughter of his lover and they begin to fall in love.

A showgirl with a dubious reputation flees the cops and transforms herself into a phony evangelist offering "cures" to the sick and disabled.

A woman's love for and devotion to a married man results in her being relegated to the "back streets" of his life.

Min, the owner of a dockside hotel, is forced to make difficult decisions about the future of Nancy, the young woman she took in as an infant.

A foreword warns against the peril of yellow journalism, and the story illustrates it by following events in the upstate New York town of Cornwall aft...

A Mountie sets out to infiltrate and break up a gang of counterfeiters.

To draw attention to a popular show, a publicity expert hires a former carnival character, not knowing that the man is on the run from the law.

A couple struggle to find happiness after a whirlwind courtship.

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

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

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?...

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

When a dancer disappears from a theater, Clay Dalzell is asked to investigate, leading him on a trail of murder and deception.

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 rookie...

Nicky Nelson is a fast-talking sideshow barker with a wax-and-alive concession on Atlantic City's boardwalk. Even with the band of his friend, struggl...