Russell Simpson Movies

A mysterious Civil War veteran courts a Missouri farmer's daughter amid postwar unrest.

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 busin...

A lost film.

After shooting a man in self-defense, Buck Duane finds himself accused of many crimes, none of which he committed. In order to prove his innocence, he...

After a demonstration of new PT boats, navy brass are still unconvinced of their viability in combat, leaving Lt. "Rusty" Ryan frustrated. After the a...

This short subject is a lavish costumed color production which dramatizes the birth of the American Bill of Rights. It depicts leading political figur...

Ma and Pa are trying to raise enough money at the county fair to send their daughter Rosie to college. Ma competes in baking and Pa enters a trotter i...

The Jones family goes to a convention traveling in a trailer. The oldest daughter gets involved with a convict, the oldest son has a love affair, and...

Farmers take up arms against miners whose high water pressure mining operations are destroying their farms with mud and water runoff.

When a young woman named Barbara Clarke has an affair with adventurer Roger Coverman, it causes a scandal in the Puritanical town of Salem, Massachuse...

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 stor...

Patsy Ruth Miller stars as the romantic bone of contention between pearl divers Malcolm McGregor and Wallace MacDonald. When McGregor's brother is mur...

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 count...

A widowed woman marries her husband's brother, who soon proves to be a tyrant stepfather to his adopted son.

Mamie Reynolds has been engaged to Sam Young for ten years. But when Sam's novel is published after many years of waiting, Sam falls for a gold digger...

10-year-old Toby runs away from his abusive uncle to join the Big Top.

Simon Haldane works in the office of the Faulkner Iron Works, but he has been raised by his two maiden aunts in an extremely sheltered manner and is b...

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 re...

No relation to the 1950 Frank Capra film of the same name, the 1943 Technicolor musical Riding High is a by-the-numbers vehicle for Dorothy Lamour and...