William Russell Movies

Langdon, a revenue officer in search of smugglers operating along the coast of Santa Cruz Island, Cal., meets Verna. the daughter of the lighthouse...

A romantic young girl, visiting St. Augustine, finds that she must make the choice which means happiness or misery for life. She has two suitors, one...

A nervous, fault-finding invalid decides that his health requires that he shall live in the South, and manages to exchange his place "Up North," for...

The girl was young, pretty, and also a good businesswoman; When her father died she took up the reins of management and ran an orange grove with...

The story's hero, a reformer in politics, has been accused and convicted of "padding the registration lists," but on procured evidence and on a...

Jack Goodwin is a student of chemistry who is far in advance of the times. He discovers a compound that has the power to put a man to sleep for any...

A Canadian Mountie pursues an outlaw across the border into the America...

During the French and Indian War, Col. Munro’s daughters journeying to Fort William Henry are betrayed by guide Magua. Hawkeye and Mohicans...

The Midnight Taxi is a 1928 early part-talkie thriller picture from Warner Bros. directed by John G. Adolfi and starring Antonio Moreno, Helen...

An indictment of the evils of child labor, the film was controversial in its time for its use of actual footage of children employed in a working...

In his last film, silent star William Russell plays the motorcycle policeman father of one of the restless and reckless new generation of late 1920s...

A crook and his gang plan to con a young woman out of a cache of stolen loot they, and the police, believe she's hiding. The situation changes,...

The son of a poor widow fell in love with a heartless showgirl who spurned the simple gifts he gave her. In a moment of desperation he tried to rob...

Ellida was the daughter of a lighthouse keeper, and spent many hours near the water's edge. While she was still scarcely more than a child, one of...

Texas Ranger William Sykes, nicknamed "Captain Bonfire," leads a posse in pursuit of Mexican bandits who have hijacked a gold shipment. The lawmen...

A cowboy matches the description of the man who robbed the local hotel--both are 6'4". When a young woman is robbed, suspicion falls on the cowboy...

Unassuming clerk Tom Blake is framed for the murder of a policeman in the midst of a violent bank robbery. Considered a lost film.

Millionaire John Huntley-Knox, the owner of the Boston Star, fights political corruption with the aid of William Wendell, the reform district...

When law and order fade into distant memory in Angel City, the townspeople yearn for the era of the Iron Riders, a band of men who took justice into...

When Sally McTurk's husband is murdered, her brother Ken Thornton goes into hiding and winds up in a small mountain community, using a phony name....