The best Gail Russell’s 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.
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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.

Angel and the Badman

Angel and the Badman
6.8/10
Notorious shootist and womanizer Quirt Evans' horse collapses as he passes a Quaker family's home. Quirt has been wounded, and the kindly family takes him in to nurse him back to health against the advice of others. The handsome Evans quickly attracts the affections of their beautiful daughter, Penelope. He develops an affection for the family, but his troubled past follows him.

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.

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?

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.

Variety Girl

Variety Girl
6.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 29/08/1947
  • Character: Herself
Dozens of star and character-actor cameos and a message about the Variety Club (a show-business charity) are woven into a framework about two hopeful young ladies who come to Hollywood, exchange identities, and cause comic confusion (with slapstick interludes) throughout the Paramount studio.

Captain China

Captain China
6.1/10
The title character, played by John Payne, is a ship's captain whose embittered behavior after losing his lady love seemingly leads to tragedy. Accused of deliberately scuttling his ship during a typhoon, Captain China hopes to clear himself by signing on as a common seaman on a vessel captain by his former first mate Brendensen. There's no love lost between the two men, and their mutual animosity is intensified when both fall in love with beautiful passenger.

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..

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.

Our Hearts Were Growing Up

Our Hearts Were Growing Up
6.8/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 14/06/1946
  • Character: Cornelia Otis Skinner
Russell and Lynn are a pair of college students in the 1920s. They get mixed up with kind-hearted bootlegger Donlevy who helps them get their boy friends back.

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.

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 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...

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.

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.

El Paso

El Paso
5.8/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 22/03/1949
  • Character: Susan Jeffers
Ex-confederate officer Clay Fletcher jumps at the chance to reunite with his once lady-friend, Susan Jeffers, when his father, Judge Fletcher, sends him on an errand to El Paso, Texas to get the signature of Susan's father, Judge Jeffers, on a legal document. Once there he finds the judge has become a drunk and a laughing stock, doing the bidding of local magnate Bert Donner and his running dog, Sheriff La Farge. Just as Clay starts straightening out the town's problems, events occur which force him to abandon the legal system and instead adopt the murderous tactics of a vigilante.

Henry Aldrich Gets Glamour

Henry Aldrich Gets Glamour
6.5/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 30/04/1943
  • Character: Virginia Lowry
Teenager Henry Aldrich (Jimmy Lydon) becomes a hometown celebrity when he wins a date with a sexy movie star. The sixth entry in the "Henry Aldrich" series of eleven films.

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 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 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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