List of the best Russell Hopton movies: Song of the Trail(1936), Death From a Distance(1936), Black Gold(1936), Below the Deadline(1936), False Pretenses(1935), Northern Frontier(1935), A Successful Failure(1934), Air Mail(1932), The Miracle Woman(1931), The Little Giant(1933), Renegade Trail(1939), Born to Be Bad(1934) ... ...
Western
USA
1936
68 Minutes
Director
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 crooks.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1936
73 Minutes
Det. Lt. Ted Mallory
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 detective and a brassy female reporter lock horns as they both try to break the case.
Drama
1936
82 Minutes
Director
Frankie Darro Gloria Shea Roy Mason Berton Churchill Stanley Fields Frank Shannon George Cleveland
oil driller father geologist money lender schoolteacher melodramatic intense fascinating oil field family home countryside office classroom small town oil father/son relationship sabotage abduction family business greed
Clifford "Fishtail" Riley (Frankie Darro) is stunned when his hardworking father, Daniel (Frank Shannon), plummets to his doom at the bottom of their nascent oil well, and decides to sell the business.
Crime, Drama
USA
1936
61 Minutes
Terry Mulvaney
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 expose the real killers.
Comedy
USA
1935
67 Minutes
Pat Brennan
Problems develop when a girl borrows money from a friend so that she can impress a wealthy man who wants to marry her.
Western
USA
1935
57 Minutes
Duke Milford
Kermit Maynard Eleanor Hunt Russell Hopton J. Farrell MacDonald Roy Mason Gertrude Astor Ben Hendricks Jr. Walter Brennan Lloyd Ingram Nelson McDowell
A Mountie sets out to infiltrate and break up a gang of counterfeiters.
Comedy
USA
1934
62 Minutes
Phil Stardon
journalist wife son daughter friend boss outlandish cheeky endearing lighthearted newsroom radio station family home rally new job radio greed family unexpected success secret identity
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 boss at the newspaper sees is that ... See full summary »
Adventure
USA
1932
83 Minutes
"Dizzy" Wilkins
Ralph Bellamy Pat O'Brien Gloria Stuart Russell Hopton Slim Summerville Frank Albertson
A group of air mail pilots risk their lives to deliver important mail through bad weather conditions.
Drama
USA
1931
89 Minutes
Bill Welford
Barbara Stanwyck David Manners Sam Hardy Beryl Mercer Russell Hopton Charles Middleton Eddie Boland Thelma Hill Aileen Carlyle Harry Todd
woman preacher con artist blind person pilot touching uplifting street church apartment radio station faith con game disillusionment redemption religion fall transformation love 1930s
After an unappreciated minister dies, his daughter loses her faith in God, prompting her to open a phony temple with a con man. Can the love of a blind aviator restore her faith and happiness?
Comedy, Drama
USA
1933
75 Minutes
Al Daniels
Edward G. Robinson Mary Astor Helen Vinson Kenneth Thomson Russell Hopton Shirley Grey Don Dillaway Berton Churchill Helen Mann Selmer Jackson Louise Mackintosh
When Prohibition ends, a beer baron sees the writing on the wall, quits the rackets, and tries to break into California society.
Western
USA
1939
61 Minutes
Bob Smoky Joslin
William Boyd George "Gabby" Hayes Russell Hayden Charlotte Wynters Russell Hopton Sonny Bupp Jack Rockwell Roy Barcroft John Merton Bob Kortman
Hoppy goes to town to help Marshal Windy with some rustlers and winds up helping the widow Joyce when confidence men try to take her herd.
Drama
USA
1934
70 Minutes
Steve Karns
Loretta Young Cary Grant Jackie Kelk Henry Travers Russell Hopton Andrew Tombes Howard H. Lang Harry Green Marion Burns Paul Harvey Charles Coleman
An immoral mother blackmails a wealthy businessman after he accidentally hits her delinquent son with his truck.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1933
66 Minutes
Terry Mooney
Dorothy Mackaill C. Aubrey Smith Sam Hardy Marion Shilling Russell Hopton Natalie Moorhead Hale Hamilton Ruthelma Stevens Jack Mulhall
An elderly detective sets out to find who murdered a stage actor.
Musical, Comedy
USA
1937
67 Minutes
Flash Henderson
Pinky Tomlin Toby Wing Kane Richmond Arthur Housman Russell Hopton Fuzzy Knight G. Pat Collins Olaf Hytten
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 real value of his composition, he sold it for ... See full summary »
Drama
1935
56 Minutes
Kelly Dillon
Grant Withers Paul Fix Frankie Darro Walter Miller Russell Hopton Drue Leyton Frank Rice William Gould Jack Rockwell
Comedy, Western
USA
1936
72 Minutes
Sheriff Arthur Billings
Harry Carey Hoot Gibson Henry B. Walthall Margaret Callahan Frank M. Thomas Russell Hopton Tom Tyler Harry Jans Frank Jenks Maxine Jennings Joe Sawyer
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 befriends Cal Yates, the now semi-retired ... See full summary »
Drama
USA
1934
68 Minutes
Chet
Jean Muir George Brent Verree Teasdale John Halliday Charles Starrett Russell Hopton Virginia Hammond Joan Wheeler Catherine Sheldon Harry Tyler Gladys Gale
actress friend daughter fiancé mother young woman spirited endearing moving new york city apartment party estate secret life mother/daughter relationship love triangle fame engagement class distinctions temptation
A man meets the daughter of his lover and they begin to fall in love.
Comedy
USA
1933
74 Minutes
Whitey
Joe E. Brown Patricia Ellis Claire Dodd Frank McHugh Preston Foster Russell Hopton Sterling Holloway Emma Dunn Charles Wilson Jessie Ralph Douglas Dumbrille
baseball player girlfriend manager gambler teammate amusing heartwarming chicago baseball field baseball love success rivalry underdog adventure 1930s
Country bumpkin Elmer Kane joins the Chicago Cubs as the greatest hitter in baseball. His skill with a bat takes the team to the World Series, but on the way to the championship he has to deal with gamblers and crooked pitchers.
Western
1932
60 Minutes
Montana
William Farnum Noah Beery Phyllis Barrington Charles Sellon Bruce Warren Russell Hopton Ann Brody Ynez Seabury
loner ex-convict lumberjack daughter competitor intricate melodramatic canada small town lumberyard funeral cabin forest long-lost relatives search secret identity impersonation accidental death father/daughter relationship revenge
A woodsman finds himself involved in the love affair between his brother and the daughter of the lumber boss.
Comedy, Drama
USA
1930
66 Minutes
Alec Johnson
Marie Dressler Wallace Beery Dorothy Jordan Marjorie Rambeau Don Dillaway DeWitt Jennings Russell Hopton Frank McGlynn Greta Gould Jack Pennick Hank Bell
hotel manager sweetheart daughter mother principal boyfriend bleak melodramatic intense hotel waterfront house boarding school ship adoption poverty mother/child relationship business murder jealousy
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.
Drama
USA
1932
82 Minutes
Tom Brown H.B. Warner Slim Summerville Richard Cromwell Ben Alexander Sidney Toler Russell Hopton Willard Robertson Norman Phillips Jr. Tyrone Power Kit Guard
Boy who thought his father a war hero finds he was really a deserter.
Musical
USA
1930
100 Minutes
Enrique Vargas
Ramon Novarro Dorothy Jordan Ernest Torrence Nance O'Neil Renée Adorée Mathilde Comont Russell Hopton
From a poor working class background, Juan de Dios is a cantina performer in Seville, singing and dancing with his partner Lola. They have a contentious professional and personal ... See full summary »
Comedy
USA
1945
70 Minutes
Benny
Wally Brown Bela Lugosi Alan Carney Anne Jeffreys Sheldon Leonard Frank Jenks Russell Hopton Joseph Vitale Ian Wolfe Louis Jean Heydt Darby Jones
Two bumbling press agents must search for a zombie to fulfill a commitment to their ex-gangster boss's new nightclub or face the consequences.
Drama
USA
1931
80 Minutes
Steve Sankey
Sylvia Sidney William Collier Beulah Bondi Estelle Taylor Max Montor David Landau Matt McHugh Russell Hopton Greta Grandstedt Tom H. Manning Adele Watson
mother father daughter neighbor student bleak gritty new york city brownstone stoop poverty adultery aspirations gossip fall revenge transformation 1930s
Twenty-four hours elapse on the stoop of a Hell's Kitchen tenement as a microcosm of the American melting pot interacts with each other during a summer heatwave.
Drama
USA
1937
62 Minutes
Kelly
John Wayne Sheila Bromley Charles Brokaw Billy Burrud Jane Johns Huntley Gordon Frank Otto Russell Hopton Hal Neiman Virginia Brissac George Lloyd
Johnny Hanson wants to make enough money to enlarge his chicken farm. He does this through hockey. Gangsters get involved in trying to get him to throw a championship game, even lining up a woman to help steer him their way.
Comedy
1934
75 Minutes
Bert
Jean Harlow Lionel Barrymore Franchot Tone Lewis Stone Patsy Kelly Alan Mowbray Clara Blandick Russell Hopton Hale Hamilton Henry Kolker Nat Pendleton
chorus girl wealthy man millionaire son best friend married man playful spirited amusing missouri beer hall new york city stage mansion yacht gold digging father/son relationship suicide frame-up seduction
An innkeeper's daughter (Jean Harlow) runs away from home and meets a Palm Beach millionaire (Lionel Barrymore) and his son (Franchot Tone).
Mystery & Thriller
1939
67 Minutes
Harry Donnell
George Sanders Wendy Barrie Jonathan Hale Jerome Cowan Neil Hamilton Barry Fitzgerald Robert Elliott Russell Hopton Ed Gargan Robert Strange Gilbert Emery
detective police officer daughter gangster crime boss the saint suspenseful cool san francisco nightclub police station vindication corruption crime ring gangsters money romance quest pursuit mystery
British sleuth Simon Templar (George Sanders) helps a wayward San Franciscan (Wendy Barrie) clear her framed father's name.
Crime, Drama
1935
85 Minutes
Gerard
James Cagney Margaret Lindsay Ann Dvorak Robert Armstrong Barton MacLane Lloyd Nolan William Harrigan Russell Hopton Edward Pawley Noel Madison Monte Blue
lawyer gangster showgirl fbi agent sister brutal dark gritty washington, d.c. new york city nightclub cabin crime law and order friendship revenge sacrifice pursuit 1930s
A lawyer (James Cagney) joins the FBI and goes after henchmen of the gangster who put him through law school.
Drama
USA
1931
108 Minutes
Terry Wickett
Ronald Colman Helen Hayes Richard Bennett A.E. Anson Clarence Brooks Alec B. Francis Claude King Bert Roach Myrna Loy Russell Hopton
doctor nurse husband wife professor inspiring intricate melodramatic minnesota new york city west indies medicine scientific experiments prestige city vs. country work vs. family love sacrifice transformation 1920s
A medical researcher is sent to a plague outbreak, where he has to decide priorities for the use of a vaccine.
Crime, Drama
1931
68 Minutes
Deputy Thorpe
Walter Huston Charles "Chic" Sale Frances Starr Grant Mitchell Sally Blane Edward Nugent Ralph Ince Dickie Moore George Ernest Russell Hopton Tom Dugan
murderer police officer veteran hostage mother prosecutor engaging tense thrilling family home courtroom family duty law and order hostage situation sacrifice underdog 1930s
An old man's (Charles "Chic" Sale) family is afraid to testify for the district attorney (Walter Huston) about mobsters.
Crime, Drama
USA
1931
81 Minutes
Joan Crawford Cliff Edwards Clark Gable Lester Vail William Bakewell William Holden Earle Foxe Purnell Pratt Hale Hamilton Natalie Moorhead Joan Marsh
After the death of her father and loss of the family fortune, Bonnie gets a job as a cub reporter while her brother becomes involved in bootlegging.
Comedy, Drama
USA
1935
69 Minutes
Robert Taylor Virginia Bruce Helen Twelvetrees Isabel Jewell Nat Pendleton Pinky Tomlin Henry Kolker Raymond Hatton Jack LaRue Robert Elliott Fred Kohler
daughter attorney love interest gangster host nightclub employee emotional suspenseful intricate new york city hockey rink dog track nightclub street inheritance con game deception greed organized crime corruption
Toni Bradley comes to New York City, from a small town in Iowa, to take over her late father's estate and sporting business, which is primarily gambling on sports events, with a lot of the ... See full summary »
Comedy
USA
1930
62 Minutes
Nick Grinde William Haines Charles King Mary Doran John Miljan Polly Moran J.C. Nugent Edward Nugent Wilbur Mack James Donlan Edward Brophy
A radio announcer suspects a cohort sends coded messages over the air to his bank-robber friends.
Western
1944
62 Minutes
Robert Mitchum Anne Jeffreys Nancy Gates Craig Reynolds Guinn "Big Boy" Williams Richard Martin Harry Woods Edmund Glover Alan Ward Harry McKim Wheaton Chambers