Russell Hopton Movies

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

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

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...

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

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.

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

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

Baseball star Elmer Kane leaves the little town of Gentryville, Indiana, to join the Chicago Cubs, where his naivete and arrogance soon put his...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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.

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...