Russell Hopton

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...

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...

An ex-gangster tries to resist his old cohorts' criminal activities after he accidentally becomes a movie star.

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...

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

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

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

A tough District Attorney goes after a murderous crime gang, only to find that his witnesses, an innocent family, have clammed up in fear of...

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

A man known as The Drifter returns home to his cabin in the woods and winds up getting involved with an escaped convict, a gunfighter, lumber company...

Wildcat riggers risk their lives in the pursuit of oil. Their jobs get even more dangerous when ruthless oil baron J.C. Anderson sets his sights on...

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

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

A dedicated young doctor places his patients above everyone else in his life. Unfortunately, his social register fianceé can't accept the fact...

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

Heading west for his health, Colonel Lambeth takes his daughter Rill along. Lost on the desert they are saved by Pecos and Chito. The Colonel hires...

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

In this murder mystery, sexy blonde film star Irma Gladden is found dead in her car after shooting the last scene in her film, "Falling Star" at...

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...

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...

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 girl who's just lost her job meets a drunk millionaire on a bridge who's just lost his money. They go back to his house, and eventually come up...

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

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...

In order to be able to buy a gas station, a young couple run a speakeasy. Complications arise when the husband loses their money to bookies.

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

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

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 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...

A lawyer tries to clear his wife's lover of murder charges.

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...

Loud-mouth hamburger flipper, Cooky, thinks he can box. His big chance comes when everyone else quits the gym when it is inherited by a dame.

Elmer does not want to leave Gentryville, because Nellie is the one that he loves. Even when Mr. Wade of the Chicago Cubs comes to get him, it is...

Romance on a college campus.

A radio announcer gets caught up with a fake clairvoyant and his gang of thieves.

"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...

New Moon is the name of the ship crossing the Caspian Sea. A young Lt. Petroff meets the Princess Tanya and they have a ship board romance. Upon...

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...

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

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

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

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...

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...

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,...

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

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. King's Men...

Letty, a young woman who ended up pregnant, unmarried and on the streets at fifteen is bitter and determined that her child will not grow up to be...

A female journalist travels to a new neighborhood after getting a (false) lead and is surprised by what she finds.

A student nun falls in love with a Mexican singer starring in a cafe next door to her convent.

Boy who thought his father a war hero finds he was really a deserter.

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

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

A phoney "psychic" ring tricks a pretty young circus performer into working for them.

Story of a Hollywood studio during the transition from silents to talkies.

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...

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...

As California gubernatorial candidate Burton is about to cast his vote a truck crashes into the polling booth, critically injuring him and his...

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...

Retired hockey player Johnny Hansen, in order to make money to enlarge his chicken farm, returns to the game and leads his team into the championship...

When a middle aged woman accepts a job at a day care center she comes across the child she gave up early in life.

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

Errol is mistakenly involved in the raid of a burlesque show where he had innocently gone in order to hire some talent, including a fan dancer, for...

When the family radio goes on the fritz, Edgar, naturally, decides to fix it himself in order to save a few bucks. That Edgar will destroy the house...

After young Robert Graham commits a murder while drunk and defending his girlfriend, he is prosecuted by ambitious Mark Brady and sentenced to 10...

A con man poses as a hillbilly preacher.

Hiring real zombies for a broadway show proves difficult.

Adventures of a cocky con man and his beautiful accomplice.

Leon, not willing to admit he had forgotten the birthday of his wife, tells her he left her present at the office, and she insists he go get it. On...

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...

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

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...

After being convicted of stealing some jewels, Annette Eldrige is sent to a reformatory administered by a sadistic and corrupt female warder....

A crooked jockey tries to reform.

A district attorney uses psychology to expose a criminal gang by publicizing the prosecution of an innocent man.

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...

Idealistic and naive Dr. Jason arrives at a school for delinquent girls and immediately begins to try to make a difference in the lives of some of...

The teens of a defense-plant town hop on the road to juvenile delinquency while their parents are busy with the war.