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
It Takes a Thief (TV Series)
1968 · Series · 51 min. · United States
Direction Roland Kibbee · Don Weis · Jack Arnold · Michael Caffey
Cast Robert Wagner · Malachi Throne · Edward Binns · Fred Astaire
6.6
70 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
Direction André De Toth
Cast Richard Widmark · Linda Darnell · Veronica Lake · John Russell
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