Cast: John Russell

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring John Russell. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


Rio Bravo

1959 · Movie · 141 min. · United States

Direction Howard Hawks

Cast John Wayne · Dean Martin · Ricky Nelson · Angie Dickinson

Plot John Wayne stars as the sheriff of a small western town who arrests a murderer and then must contend with the aggressive efforts of the killer's brother to free him...

8.0

22K votes

8.0

22K votes

Yellow Sky

1948 · Movie · 98 min. · United States

Direction William A. Wellman

Cast Gregory Peck · Anne Baxter · Richard Widmark · Robert Arthur

Plot In 1867, a gang led by James “Stretch” Dawson robs a bank and flees into the desert. Out of water, the outlaws come upon a ghost town called Yellow Sky...

7.5

2K votes

7.5

2K votes

Pale Rider

1985 · Movie · 113 min. · United States

Direction Clint Eastwood

Cast Clint Eastwood · Sydney Penny · Michael Moriarty · Chris Penn

Plot A cadre of men employed by powerful strip-miner Coy LaHood (Richard Dysart) rides into a small mining encampment and begins shooting up the place. One of the terrorists kills the...

7.4

19K votes

7.4

19K votes

The Sun Shines Bright

1953 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction John Ford

Cast Charles Winninger · Arleen Whelan · John Russell · Stepin Fetchit

Plot John Ford's remake of his 1934 Will Rogers vehicle, JUDGE PRIEST, combines three Irvin S. Cobb stories about the kindly Kentucky magistrate William Priest, played by Charles Winninger. Set in...

7.3

954 votes

7.3

954 votes

Jesse James

1939 · Movie · 105 min. · United States

Direction Henry King

Cast Tyrone Power · Henry Fonda · Nancy Kelly · Randolph Scott

Plot The railroads are squeezing farmers off their land. When a railroad agent kills their mother, Frank and Jesse James take up robbing banks and trains. The public regard them as...

7.2

1K votes

7.2

1K votes

Sitting Pretty

1948 · Movie · 83 min. · United States

Direction Walter Lang

Cast Robert Young · Maureen O'Hara · Clifton Webb · Richard Haydn

Plot Tacey and Harry King are a suburban couple with three sons and a serious need of a babysitter. Tacey puts an ad in the paper for a live-in babysitter, and...

7.0

499 votes

7.0

499 votes

Undertow

1949 · Movie · 71 min. · United States

Direction William Castle

Cast Scott Brady · John Russell · Dorothy Hart · Peggy Dow

Plot After being released from prison, an ex-convict is framed for a murder. The man sets out to find the real killers before the police blame the crime on him.

6.8

31 votes

6.8

31 votes

6.6

70 votes

Forever Amber

1947 · Movie · 138 min. · United States

Direction Otto Preminger

Cast Linda Darnell · Cornel Wilde · Richard Greene · George Sanders

Plot Amber St Clair means to get on in life and despite a poor background knows she has the assets to do it. Husbands, lovers, prison and a liaison with King...

6.6

374 votes

6.6

374 votes

Always Goodbye

1938 · Movie · 75 min. · United States

Direction Sidney Lanfield

Cast Barbara Stanwyck · Herbert Marshall · Ian Hunter · Cesar Romero

Plot Former doctor Jim Howard (Herbert Marshall) helps desperate Margot Weston (Barbara Stanwyck), pregnant and unmarried; when her son is born.

6.1

34 votes

6.1

34 votes

Saddle Tramp

1950 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Hugo Fregonese

Cast Joel McCrea · Wanda Hendrix · John Russell · John McIntire

Plot Carefree Chuck Connor is on his way west and stops off to see an old friend and his four lads. When his host is killed in a riding accident Chuck...

6.0

140 votes

6.0

140 votes

Fort Massacre

1958 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

Direction Joseph M. Newman

Cast Joel McCrea · John Russell · Susan Cabot · Forrest Tucker

Plot A cavalry troop finds itself under constant attack by Indians.

6.0

223 votes

6.0

223 votes

Slattery's Hurricane

1949 · Movie · 87 min. · United States

6.0

63 votes

6.0

63 votes

The Man I Married

1940 · Movie · 77 min. · United States

Direction Irving Pichel

Cast Joan Bennett · Francis Lederer · Lloyd Nolan · Anna Sten

Plot Anti-Nazi tract laced with 1938 newsreel footage finds American girl (Bennett) married to a German (Lederer) gradually learning he is a Nazi, trying to get their son to America.

5.9

24 votes

5.9

24 votes

The Blue Bird

1940 · Movie · 88 min. · United States

Direction Walter Lang

Cast Shirley Temple · Spring Byington · Nigel Bruce · Eddie Collins

Plot A poignant story of a selfish young German girl's search for happiness, Blue Bird is a classic Shirley Temple film with a storybook Hansel and Gretel feel. This restored and...

5.8

102 votes

5.8

102 votes

Frenchie

1950 · Movie · 81 min. · United States

Direction Louis King

Cast Joel McCrea · Shelley Winters · Paul Kelly · Elsa Lanchester

Plot Frenchie Fontaine sells her successful business in New Orleans to come West. Her reason? Find the men who killed her father, Frank Dawson. But she only knows one of the...

5.7

70 votes

5.7

70 votes

Man in the Saddle

1951 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction André De Toth

Cast Randolph Scott · Joan Leslie · Ellen Drew · Alexander Knox

Plot An angry rancher resorts to violence when he learns that his wife has fallen in love with another man.

5.7

236 votes

5.7

236 votes

Yellowstone Kelly

1959 · Movie · 91 min. · United States

Direction Gordon Douglas

Cast Clint Walker · Edd Byrnes · John Russell · Ray Danton

Plot A fur-trapper named Kelly, who once saved the life of a Sioux chief, is allowed to set his traps in Sioux territory during the late 1870s. Reluctantly he takes on...

5.7

188 votes

5.7

188 votes

Jubilee Trail

1954 · Movie · 103 min. · United States

Direction Joseph Kane

Cast Vera Ralston · Joan Leslie · Forrest Tucker · John Russell

Plot A wild-west trader and his New York wife head out for the California by wagon train. The trader is killed enroute, and his wife finds herself with child. She continues...

5.4

22 votes

5.4

22 votes

Fair Wind to Java

1953 · Movie · 92 min. · United States

Direction Joseph Kane

Cast Fred MacMurray · Vera Ralston · Robert Douglas · Paul Fix

Plot The Dutch East Indies, at the end of the nineteenth century. An adventurous captain of an American merchant vessel is looking for a sunken Dutch vessel containing 10,000 precious diamonds....

5.4

29 votes

5.4

29 votes