Russell Hopton Movies

A carnival showman tries to keep Japanese spies from sabotaging the Panama Canal.

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

An ex-gang member tries to resist his old cohorts' criminal influence after he suddenly becomes a Hollywood movie star.

A couple struggle to find happiness after a whirlwind courtship.

A safecracker goes straight after doing a stretch for a bum rap. He agrees to do one last job for his "pals".

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...

A former New York reporter (Peggy Shannon) is hired as editor of a failing, small town newspaper in California.

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

The bold Tira works as dancing beauty and lion tamer at a fair. Out of an urgent need of money, she agrees to a risky new number: she'll put her head...

In his dedicated pursuit of technology that will aid pilots to safely "fly blind" during adverse conditions, aerial innovator Ken Gordon is literally...

A medical researcher is sent to a plague outbreak, where he has to decide priorities for the use of a vaccine.

Adventures of a cocky con man and his beautiful accomplice.

When misfortune hits hard on the Jordan family of Chicago's upper class, Bonnie Jordan, a dazzling and witty girl, finds a job as an aspiring...

Prohibition is ending so bootlegger Bugs Ahearn decides to crack California society. He leases a house from down-on-her-luck Ruth and hires her as...

Poor Ella Cinders is much abused by her evil step-mother and step-sisters. When she wins a local beauty contest she jumps at the chance to get out of...

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,...

A group of air mail pilots risk their lives to deliver important mail through bad weather conditions.

Suave private detective Simon "The Saint" Templar arrives in San Francisco and meets Val, a woman whose police inspector father killed himself after...

According to a legend, the mansion's "blue room" is cursed -- everyone who has ever spent the night in that room has met with an untimely end. The...

The setting is a city block during a sweltering summer, where the residents serve as representatives of the not-very-idealized American melting pot....