Russell Simpson Movies

PEG O MY HEART (Metro Studios, 1922), directed by King Vidor, under the supervision of J. Hartley Manners, introduces the legendary theatrical...

Gilead is a lumber town that is dominated by two branches of the Kidder family: the puritanical, ultra-conservative side led by Enoch and his son...

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,...

With the army after him and his partner deserting, Reb decides that a change of scenery would be nice so he heads for Wyoming with Dave.

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

To support a demanding wife, bank clerk Brian Kent embezzles a large sum of money and, overcome with remorse, attempts to commit suicide by casting...

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

Brown is a confident young firefighter. He and his buddy become interested in two girls, after saving their cat. He then fights a fire in the...

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...

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...

A wealthy, eccentric collector of stuffed birds and a beautiful Russian singer provide refuge to an orphaned Irish child who has arrived illegally in...

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...

Stalwart Appalachian woman finds romance as she struggles to better herself and her people amid prejudice and familial abuse.

Humble stamp dealer Otto Becker has little to do with international politics, so when he receives a surprise visit from his estranged twin brother...

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...

A sponge diver hopes to make enough money to buy his own boat and marry his girlfriend. A rival diver, however, has other plans for him.

A shy horticulturist becomes involved with a local criminal in the old west.

A bandit disguises himself as an officer in an attempt to woo a saloon singer.

A farmer strikes it rich out West, then leaves his wife for a young beauty.

A family of down-and-out vaudevillians discover that they are the last of the Van Revels, heirs to a Southern plantation and a blood feud with the...