The best Gail Russell’s drama movies

Gail Russell

Gail Russell

21/09/1924- 27/08/1961
Today we present the best Gail Russell’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Gail Russell’s movies.

7 Men from Now

7 Men from Now
7.4/10
Aging lawman Ben Stride burns a trail of murderous revenge across a hardscrabble landscape searching for his wife's murderers.

The Uninvited

The Uninvited
7.2/10
A brother and sister move into an old seaside house they find abandoned for many years on the English coast. Their original enchantment with the house diminishes as they hear stories of the previous owners and meet their daughter (now a young woman) who now lives as a neighbor with her grandfather. Also heard are unexplained sounds during the night. It becomes obvious that the house is haunted.

Moonrise

Moonrise
7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 01/10/1948
  • Character: Gilly Johnson
Stigmatized from infancy by the fate of his criminal father, a man is bruised and bullied until one night, in a fit of rage, he kills his most persistent tormentor. As the police close in around him, he makes a desperate bid for the love of the dead man’s fiancée, a schoolteacher who sees the wounded soul behind his aggression.

The Lawless

The Lawless
6.7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 01/06/1950
  • Character: Sunny Garcia
A newspaper editor takes on the cause of oppressed migrant Mexican fruit pickers..

Night Has a Thousand Eyes

Night Has a Thousand Eyes
7.1/10
  • Genre: DramaThriller
  • Release: 13/10/1948
  • Character: Jean Courtland
When heiress Jean Courtland attempts suicide, her fiancée Elliott Carson probes her relationship to John Triton. In flashback, we see how stage mentalist Triton starts having terrifying flashes of true precognition. His partner, Whitney Courtland, uses Triton's talent to make money; but Triton's inability to prevent what he foresees, causes him to break up the act and become a hermit. Years later, Triton has new visions and desperately tries to prevent tragedies in the Courtland family. Can his warnings succeed against suspicion, unbelief, and inexorable fate?

Wake of the Red Witch

Wake of the Red Witch
6.5/10
  • Genre: ActionDrama
  • Release: 30/12/1948
  • Character: Angelique Desaix
Captain Ralls fights Dutch shipping magnate Mayrant Sidneye for the woman he loves, Angelique Desaix, and for a fortune in gold aboard the Red Witch.

Calcutta

Calcutta
6.4/10
Neale and Pedro fly cargo between Chungking and Calcutta. When their buddy Bill is murdered they investigate. Neale meets Bill's fiancée Virginia and becomes suspicious of a deeper plot while also falling for her charms.

The Tattered Dress

The Tattered Dress
6.5/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 14/03/1957
  • Character: Carol Morrow
After a wild night, wealthy Michael Reston's adulterous wife Charleen comes home with her ripe young body barely concealed by a dress in rags; murder results. Top defense lawyer J.G. Blane, whose own marriage exists in name only, arrives in Desert View, Nevada to find the townsfolk and politically powerful Sheriff Hoak distinctly hostile to the Restons. In due course, Blane discovers he's been "taken for a ride," and that quiet desert communities can be deadly...

Air Cadet

Air Cadet
5.6/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 14/03/1951
  • Character: Janet Page
A group of cadets have assorted problems at the U.S. Air Force Pilot Training Academy.

Salty O'Rourke

Salty O'Rourke
6.3/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 22/03/1945
  • Character: Barbara Brooks
A gambler (Alan Ladd) and his buddy (William Demarest) find a wise-guy jockey for their long-shot horse.

Lady in the Dark

Lady in the Dark
5.9/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 10/02/1944
  • Character: Barbara
A neurotic editor sees a psychoanalyst about the advertising man, movie star and other man in her life.

The Unseen

The Unseen
5.9/10
David Fielding, who has recently lost his wife, moves into a new neighborhood under a cloud of suspicion. Many feel that his wife's death in a car crash was no accident. Elizabeth Howard, the governess he hires to look after his children, makes it her mission to find out the truth. When other murders seem to be following David to his new town, Elizabeth investigates with the help of David's son Barnaby.

The Great Dan Patch

The Great Dan Patch
5.8/10
David Palmer, a young chemist, returns to his father's Indiana farm, to marry a local school teacher, Ruth Treadwell. David meets again his father's horse-trainer, Ben Lathrop, whose daughter, Cissy, has left high school to help her father. Palmer marries and becomes wealthy through an invention, and is able to indulge his socially-ambitious wife. His father dies and Palmer returns to Indiana, where his interest in harness-racing is rekindled, as is his interest in Cissy Lathrop.

The Silent Call

The Silent Call
5.8/10
Young Guy Brancato and parents have to move from Elko, Nevada to Los Angeles, California, they are unable to take Guy's dog Pete. Guy is angry at his parents and even more distressed when he learns that Pete has run away from the neighbor who was tending him. But Pete has plans to travel to Los Angeles on his own.

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