Movies by Russell Simpson

The Branding Iron

The Branding Iron

Pierre Landis is insanely jealous of his beautiful young wife Joan, and his jealousy makes him take a branding iron to her to mark her as his property.

The Brand

The Brand

A dancehall girl struggles to make a life for herself in the mining camps of Alaska, despite the obstacle of a villainous gambler.

The Border Legion

The Border Legion

Cowhand Jim Cleve is wrongly accused of murder and rescued by Jack Kells, leader of a band of Idaho outlaws known as the Border Legion. But when the Legion takes Joan Randall prisoner and leaves Cleve to guard her, he realizes that he cannot remain part of an outlaw band and decides to rescue Joan.

Citadel of Crime

Citadel of Crime

A gang of mobsters try to take over the various moonshine operations in the hills of West Virginia.

Innocents of Paris

Innocents of Paris

A Parisian junk dealer has to choose between love and fame after he rescues a boy.

Roaring Guns

Roaring Guns

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

Yodelin' Kid from Pine Ridge

Yodelin' Kid from Pine Ridge

The old west range war story transported to Georgia, with Autry as the hero.

The Challenge Accepted

The Challenge Accepted

In the Blue Ridge Mountains Postmaster's daughter Sally Haston loves Steve Carey, but wants him to enlist and fight the Germans during the Great War. Steve is unhappy at the training camp Steve argues with his roughneck tentmate Billy Murphy. When Steve deserts to visit Sally she takes him back to the camp, where Captain Roderick Brooke sympathetically explains the purpose of the war. Later, moonshiner James Grogan holes up with a gun to escape the draft and holds Sally prisoner. Her father organizes a posse, but Steve, home on leave, rescue...

Bill Apperson's Boy

Bill Apperson's Boy

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 story takes place in the Blue Ridge mountains, where the Appersons and the Yartons have an ongoing feud.

The Splendid Road

The Splendid Road

Young Sandra De Hault arrives by ship in Sacramento, California, during the 1849 Gold Rush. While on board she adopted three children whose mother had died during the voyage. While in Sacramento she is saved from the attentions of a violent drunk by Stanton Holliday, an agent for eastern banker John Grey. They fall for each other, but Sandra believes that the daughter of Halliday's boss is in love with him, and not wanting to hurt his career she leaves town.

Desperate Trails

Desperate Trails

A young man helps a marshal in his battle against outlaws.

Three on a Honeymoon

Three on a Honeymoon

This romantic comedy takes place on an ocean liner. One of the few unattached passengers is heiress Joan Foster. Joan finds herself in the arms of the ship's second officer. Little does she know that he has been hired by her father to keep other men away from her.