Películas dramáticas de Russell Simpson
Películas de Russell Simpson filtradas por género
🎭 Brother Griffith - Elder (uncredited)
6.6
1956
The story of a family of Quakers in Indiana in 1862. Their religious sect is strongly opposed to violence and war. It's not easy for them to meet the rules of their religion in everyday life but ...
🎭 Fred Bixby
7.2
1954
In 1850 Oregon, when a backwoodsman brings a wife home to his farm, his six brothers decide that they want to get married too. ...
🎭 Lewt Lake
6.4
1953
With the election approaching, a judge in a Southern town at the turn of the 20th century is involved variously in revealing the real identity of a young woman, reliving his Civil War memories, a ...
🎭 Capt. Fergus MacLennan
6.5
1949
Hoping to become a lawyer, Alec (Roddy McDowall) becomes a tuna fisherman in order to pay a debt. This turn of events puts Alec on the outs with his taciturn family. Eventually, the lad proves hi ...
🎭 Old Man with Pipe (uncredited)
6.2
1948
In the 15th Century, France is a defeated and ruined nation after the One Hundred Years War against England. The fourteen-year-old farm girl Joan of Arc claims to hear voices from Heaven asking h ...
🎭 Big Sam Dabney
6.6
1948
Set at the beginning of the Civil War, Tap Roots is all about a county in Mississippi which chooses to secede from the state rather than enter the conflict. The county is protected from the Confe ...
🎭 Dan Yeary
6.6
1947
A mysterious Civil War veteran courts a Missouri farmer's daughter amid postwar unrest. ...
🎭 Mr. Thornycroft
5.3
1946
11 year old Davy discovers that a chained gentle dog, Buck, is badly wounded around the neck because of the thick, tight collar he is made to constantly wear by his unfeeling owner. When Buck com ...
🎭 Mathew Hodgkins
6
1946
An orphan boy on his way to live with his uncle picks up a stray dog, and the two become fast friends. However, the uncle doesn't want the dog, and when chickens are found dead, the uncle accuses ...
🎭 John Simpson
7.5
1946
Wyatt Earp and his brothers Morgan and Virgil ride into Tombstone and leave brother James in charge of their cattle herd. On their return they find their cattle stolen and James dead. Wyatt takes ...
🎭 'Dad' Knowland
6.5
1945
Shortly after Pearl Harbor, a squadron of PT-boat crews in the Philippines must battle the Navy brass between skirmishes with the Japanese. The title says it all about the Navy's attitude towards ...
🎭 The Colonel - Drill Instructor (uncredited)
6.8
1945
In the 1920s, enterprising Louise Randall is determined to succeed in a man's world. Despite numerous setbacks, she always picks herself back up and moves forward again. ...
🎭 Adam Parker
5.5
1944
Having been falsely court marshaled for cowardice and sentenced to prison by the Army, Jed Kilton escapes and heads to Nevada Springs to see his kid brother. There he meets his old school friend ...
🎭 Uncle Rufus
6
1943
A poor country girl from Vermont travels to New York City to attend a theatrical school. ...
🎭 Kirby
6.2
1942
The tumultuous presidency of 19th-president Andrew Johnson is chronicled in this biopic. The story begins with Johnson's boyhood and covers his early life. During the Civil War, Johnson stays a s ...
🎭 Flapjack
6.3
1942
En Alaska, durante la Fiebre del Oro, un buscador es asediado por un empresario que tiene la ley de su lado. Pronto hace su aparición una cantante de cabaret que se convierte en objetivo amoroso ...
🎭 2nd Captain (uncredited)
6.6
1942
Humble stamp dealer Otto Becker has little to do with international politics, so when he receives a surprise visit from his estranged twin brother and Nazi spy, Baron Hugo von Detner, his world i ...
🎭 Marty McCord
6.3
1941
A hunter happens upon a fugitive and his daughter living in a Georgia swamp. He falls in love with the girl and persuades the fugitive to return to town. ...
🎭 Marshal Len Baker
5.8
1941
In the 1890s lumberjack John leaves Seattle for Alaska to look for gold. After he marries dancehall girl Sally, he finds she used to be in love with his best friend Blackie. ...
🎭 Jess Meekins
0
1941
A gang of mobsters try to take over the various moonshine operations in the hills of West Virginia. ...
🎭 Chief of Police
6.6
1941
Shiftless Jeeter Lester and his family of sharecroppers live in rural Georgia where their ancestors were once wealthy planters. Their slapstick existence is threatened by a bank's plans to take o ...
🎭 Minister
5.5
1940
Viennese surgeon Dr. Braun and his daughter Leni come to a small town in North Dakota as refugees from Hitler. When the winds of the Dust Bowl threaten the town, John Phillips leads the townsfolk ...
🎭 Pa Joad
7.8
1940
Tom Joad returns to his home after a jail sentence to find his family kicked out of their farm due to foreclosure. He catches up with them on his Uncle’s farm, and joins them the next day as th ...
🎭 Dr. Petry
6.5
1939
Albany, New York, 1776. After marrying, Gil and Lana travel north to settle on a small farm in the Mohawk River Valley, but soon their growing prosperity and happiness are threatened by the sinis ...
🎭 Kenneth Allen (uncredited)
7.9
1939
Naive and idealistic Jefferson Smith, leader of the Boy Rangers, is appointed to the United States Senate by the puppet governor of his state. He soon discovers, upon going to Washington, many sh ...
🎭 Frontiersman
6
1939
This short subject is a lavish costumed color production which dramatizes the birth of the American Bill of Rights. It depicts leading political figures of the American Revolution and the despoti ...
🎭 Woolridge (uncredited)
7.2
1939
In this dramatized account of his early law career in Illinois, Abraham Lincoln is born into a modest log cabin, where he is encouraged by his first love, Ann Rutledge, to pursue law. Following h ...
🎭 MacKenzie
6.9
1938
Colonel Ferris, a wealthy farmer in northern California, is strongly opposed to hydraulic mining, a new method developed during the gold rush of the 1870's, which is flooding the area's prosperou ...
🎭 Baxter
5
1937
Stranded on an island, a blind artist (Warren Hull) falls in love with a native (Movita). ...
🎭 Matthew Turnbull
5.5
1937
Stalwart Appalachian woman finds romance as she struggles to better herself and her people amid prejudice and familial abuse. ...
🎭 Sheep Man
6.3
1937
A brilliant young surgeon takes the blame for a colleague when a botched surgery causes a patient's death and buries himself at a wilderness research facility. ...
🎭 Village Marshal (Uncredited)
5.9
1937
When a young woman named Barbara Clarke has an affair with adventurer Roger Coverman, it causes a scandal in the Puritanical town of Salem, Massachusetts. After a meddling girl arouses their susp ...
🎭 'Red' Kelly
6.6
1936
La cantante de ópera Mary Blake huye de la miseria y busca cobijo en Blackie Norton, un empresario de San Francisco que le proporciona trabajo. Inevitablemente, surge una estrecha relación entr ...
6
1936
A sweet little country girl has issues with school. Her mother is ill. The school threatens to send her to an orphanage. ...
🎭 Jeff Parkington
🎭 Benton
7
1936
Una inmigrante consigue triunfar en el mundo del espectáculo, tras haber llegado huérfana a Estados Unidos. ...
🎭 Squire Amasa Bartlett
3
1935
A family living on a farm in Maine takes in a young woman to stay with them, not knowing that the woman is not quite what she seems and has a secret in her past that she hasn't told them about. ...
🎭 McAllister
5
1935
Bank teller Barry Webster is driven to stealing bank funds by his mother-in-law who continually nags him about forcing her daughter Muriel to live in poverty... ...
🎭 Doc Small
4.2
1935
Right after the Civil War, an ex-Union soldier sets out to become a schoolmaster in his small town, even though many locals still harbor a resentment against "Yankees". He goes up against the tow ...
🎭 Notary (1825)
5.7
1934
Two families, cotton merchants in England and America, with branches in France and Prussia swear to stand by each other in a belief that a great business firmly established in four countries will ...
🎭 Jim Wood
0
1934
Neil Rogers, a young man who owns a substantial share of a Western gold mine, comes East and falls in love with the rather wild Elizabeth Vandegrift. ...
🎭 Professor (uncredited)
5.8
1933
A man's life is retold just after his funeral. Beginning as a track walker, Tom Garner rose through all sorts of railroad jobs to head the company. In the meantime he lost touch with his family. ...
🎭 Pa Nathan Brown
4.5
1933
Joe and Lucky travel around New England painting barns in exchange for an advertisement on one side. The meet Madge, who is cruelly treated by a her father who plans to marry her off to someone s ...
🎭 Hamlin
5.7
1932
A farmer strikes it rich out West, then leaves his wife for a young beauty. ...
🎭 Old Man in Wagon Train
5.6
1932
A high-spirited, short-tempered, young woman hates her father and loves to rebel against him. She marries a man whom her father hates but her marriage fails and she learns the errors of her ways. ...
🎭 Uncle Joe
6.4
1932
Sharecropper's son Marvin tries to help his community overcome poverty and ignorance. ...
🎭 Dan Perkins
0
1932
Cub reporter Daniel Greely gets a job on a big city newspaper. A string of robberies occur and the owner of the paper blames the police for not rounding up the crooks. Daniel discovers that a cod ...
🎭 Banker Craig
6
1932
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 after prominant financier George Ferguson is kil ...
🎭 Grandfather Nichols
5.5
1932
Young Lena Rivers, who was born out of wedlock, goes to live with a rich uncle. Unfortunately, her uncle's wife and daughter make no secret of their dislike of Lena and that they don't want her i ...
🎭 Doctor
6.4
1931
A young woman runs away from an abusive home and pre-arranged marriage only to be frustrated in her attempts to find happiness with a handsome engineer. ...
🎭 Harvey Taylor - First Ex-Soldier
4.5
1931
The founding father has an extramarital affair and meets with the likes of Thomas Jefferson. ...
🎭 Thomas Hall
5
1931
Pioneers and a family man leave Virginia for Kentucky during the Revolutionary War. ...
🎭 Uncle Cal
5.7
1930
A young man attempts to overcome the memory of his father, who was sent to jail for committing a murder. ...
🎭 Lincoln's Employer
5.4
1930
A biopic dramatizing Abraham Lincoln's life through a series of vignettes depicting its defining chapters: his romance with Ann Rutledge; his early years as a country lawyer; his marriage to Mary ...
🎭 Bill Apperson
0
1928
Patsy Ruth Miller stars as the romantic bone of contention between pearl divers Malcolm McGregor and Wallace MacDonald. When McGregor's brother is murdered, Miller is arrested for the crime. The ...
🎭 Caleb Gare
0
1927
Silent romantic melodrama about a wife and mother who is desperate to keep a secret from the past IN the past, despite her husband's intentions to reveal it. ...
🎭 Sandy
7
1927
The story of the famous battle between the Scots clans of Macdonald and Campbell, and the young woman who comes between them, Annie Laurie. ...
🎭 Ezra Tilden
0
1926
The story is set in the hills of Tennessee, where practically everybody gets smashed on rotgut moonshine. A drink-benumbed hillbilly tries to rape heroine Sally Tilden (Priscilla Bonner), setting ...
🎭 Capt. Lightfoot
0
1925
Young Sandra De Hault arrives by ship in Sacramento, California, during the 1849 Gold Rush. While on board she adopted three children whose mother had died during the voyage. While in Sacramento ...
🎭 Silas Martin
🎭 Si Pace
0
1925
Sam Martin grows up in the Kentucky hills with a preacher as his closest friend and father figure. The young man goes away and gets an education, and when he returns home, he wants to build a sch ...
🎭 Riley
0
1925
Elaine Hammerstein stars in this independently produced drama. She plays Mary Dolan, a dancer at a Bowery café, who is in love with co-worker Jimmy Evarts (Theodore Von Eltz). Jimmy gets in a fi ...
🎭 Grandpa Crumb
0
1925
After a stormy six year marriage, Barnaby Powers divorces his wife Richmiel. She returns home, taking their young son Oliver with her. Barnaby follows her, to ask for custody of the boy, but meet ...
🎭 Big Jack Skinner
🎭 Eben Holt
6.5
1923
10-year-old Toby runs away from his abusive uncle to join the Big Top. ...
🎭 Jim O'Connell
7
1922
PEG O MY HEART (Metro Studios, 1922), directed by King Vidor, under the supervision of J. Hartley Manners, introduces the legendary theatrical actress Laurette Taylor (1884-1946) to the screen re ...
🎭 The Sheriff
10
1922
A rich young boy has to prove his worth to the gang he has just joined by during all sorts of hardships, including a kidnap attempt, before they'll accept him. -from IMDB.com ...
🎭 Paul Logan
0
1922
Innocent country boy Tom Logan is taken in by the scheming Barbara Kay, a city woman who knows Tom is set to inherit his fathers farm which sits on a rich coal field. Toms father sees through her ...
🎭 Simeon Krillet
0
1921
The wife of a tyrannical Boer husband discovers what life could be like when a handsome Englishmen visits their home. ...
🎭 'Black' Pawl
1
1920
On board his trading schooner in the South Pacific, tough sea captain Black Pawl confronts his own son, who has grown up in his father's shadow and reflects only his dark side. ...
🎭 John Carver
0
1920
Pierre Landis is insanely jealous of his beautiful young wife Joan, and his jealousy makes him take a branding iron to her to mark her as his property. ...
🎭 Jim Willis
5
1920
The Deadlier Sex features Blanche Sweet playing the daughter of a railroad magnate (Winter Hall) who has to take charge when her father unexpectedly dies. She uses her outdoor survival skills to ...
🎭 Singapore Joe
0
1919
Jack Pickford got his own production company when his sister Mary signed a huge contract with First National, and this was its first product. the story takes place in the Blue Ridge mountains, wh ...
🎭 Sally's Grandfather
7
1918
Another of a successful string of Metro features directed by the vastly underrated John H. Collins, Riders of the Night was set in Kentucky hill country. Collins' wifeViola Dana stars as Sally Ca ...
🎭 Jacob Tutwiler
5.5
1917
June, a young orphan, is befriended by Perry Bascom when he shares his lunch with her on the road to Rising Sun. They soon fall in love and marry, only to find out that a woman in Perry's past ha ...