Movies with Russell Hicks
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The Sea of Grass
Genres: Drama, Western
Starring: Katharine Hepburn, Spencer Tracy, Robert Barrat, Russell Hicks, Robert Armstrong, Melvyn Douglas, Trevor Bardette
Directors: Elia Kazan
Country: USA
Year: 1947
The highly melodramatic western begins with St. Louis resident Katharine Hepburn marrying New Mexico cattleman Spencer Tracy after a short courtship. When she arrives in "Salt Pork, NM" she finds that her new husband is considered by the locals to be a tyrant who uses force to keep homesteaders off the government owned land he uses for grazing his cattle--the so-called Sea of Grass. Hepburn's character, Lutie, has difficulty reconciling her husband's beliefs and passions with her own, and eventually leaves him just long enough to conceive a child with her husband's moral enemy. Two years later, in the midst of a crisis, her husband discovers ...
The Blue Bird (1940)
Genres: Family, Fantasy
Starring: Russell Hicks, Nigel Bruce, Gale Sondergaard, Jessie Ralph, Eddie Collins, Spring Byington, Shirley Temple
Directors: Walter Lang
Country: USA
Year: 1940
Mytyl and her brother Tyltyl, a woodchopper's children, are led by the Fairy Berylune on a magical trip through the past, present, and future to locate the Blue Bird of Happiness.
Flame of Barbary Coast aka Flame of the Barbary Coast
Genres: Romance, Western
Starring: John Wayne, Marc Lawrence, Hank Bell, Paul Fix, Russell Hicks, Virginia Grey, William Frawley
Directors: Joseph Kane
Country: USA
Year: 1945
Duke falls for Flaxen in the Barbary Coast in turn-of-the-century San Francisco. He loses money to crooked gambler Tito, goes home and PL: learns to gamble, and returns. After he makes a fortune he opens his own place with Flaxen as the entertainer. The 1906 quake destroys his place.
A Man Betrayed
Genres: Romance, Drama, Mystery
Starring: John Wayne, Ward Bond, Pierre Watkin, Russell Hicks, Frances Dee, Edward Ellis, Wallace Ford
Directors: John H. Auer
Country: USA
Year: 1941
Attorney Lynn Hollister investigates the murder of his friend in the big city. Along the way, he manages to fall in love with the daughter of his chief suspect.
The Plunderers
Genres: Western
Starring: Taylor Holmes, Paul Fix, George Cleveland, Russell Hicks, James Flavin, Forrest Tucker, Francis Ford
Directors: Joseph Kane
Country: USA
Year: 1948
Cavalry officer John Drum attempts to track down outlaw Whit Lacey, but finds he must join forces with Lacey to fight a Sioux war party.
Western Union (1941)
Genres: History, Western
Starring: Victor Kilian, Dean Jagger, George Chandler, John Carradine, Russell Hicks, Minor Watson, Randolph Scott
Directors: Fritz Lang
Country: USA
Year: 1941
Vance Shaw gives up outlawing and goes to work for the telegraph company; his brother Jack Slade leads outlaws trying to prevent the company connecting the line between Omaha and Salt Lake City. Lots of Indian fighting and gunplay.
The Bank Dick
Genres: Comedy
Starring: Pierre Watkin, Shemp Howard, Russell Hicks, Una Merkel, Franklin Pangborn, Jessie Ralph, Grady Sutton
Directors: Edward F. Cline
Country: USA
Year: 1940
Egbert Souse, "accent grave over the e", henpecked by his whole family, is recruited to replace a drunken film director, then seems to have captured a bank robber and is hired as guard in the Lompoc Bank, where Og Oggilby, his daughter's fianc
The Big Broadcast of 1938
Genres: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Starring: Lynne Overman, Russell Hicks, Dorothy Lamour, Bob Hope, Leif Erickson, Leonid Kinskey, Ben Blue
Directors: Mitchell Leisen
Country: USA
Year: 1938
New ocean liner S.S. Gigantic is about to race its rival, the Colossal. Gigantic owner T.F. Bellows sends his brother S.B. on the Colossal, hoping he will cause trouble; delayed by a golf game, S.B. lands on Gigantic instead, and so does his unlucky daughter Martha. Meanwhile, radio emcee Buzz Fielding announces a series of musical acts and tries to juggle fiancée Dorothy and three ex-wives who've come for the ride. Can the Gigantic win against all handicaps? Will true love triumph?
The Flying Saucer
Genres: Thriller, Sci-Fi
Starring: Robert Boon, Denver Pyle, Russell Hicks, Mikel Conrad, Garry Owen, Lester Sharpe, Roy Engel
Directors: Mikel Conrad
Country: USA
Year: 1950
The CIA sends playboy Mike Trent to Alaska with agent Vee Langley, posing as his "nurse," to investigate flying saucer sightings. At first, installed in a hunting lodge, the two play in the wilderness. But then they sight a saucer. Investigating, our heroes clash with an inept gang of Soviet spies, also after the saucer secret.
Tarzan's New York Adventure (1942)
Genres: Action, Adventure
Starring: Charles Bickford, Russell Hicks, Maureen O'Sullivan, Howard C. Hickman, Virginia Grey, Miles Mander, Charles Lane
Directors: Richard Thorpe
Country: USA
Year: 1942
Circus owner Buck Rand kidnaps Boy to perform in his show. He forces a pilot to fly him, Boy and his animal trainer out of the jungle. Tarzan and Jane follow them to New York. At a trial over custody of Boy, Tarzan becomes violent and is jailed. With the help of the pilot's girlfriend Tarzan (who has since escaped, diving off the Brooklyn Bridge) finds the circus. He and the circus elephants complete the classic rescue.
Man Made Monster
Genres: Thriller, Horror, Drama
Starring: Byron Foulger, Frank Albertson, Samuel S. Hinds, Lon Chaney Jr., Russell Hicks, William B. Davidson, Lionel Atwill
Directors: George Waggner
Country: USA
Year: 1941
"Big Dan" McCormick is the sole survivor of an electric-train crash in which all the other passengers were electrocuted. Intrigued by Dan's apparent immunity to electricity, Dr. John Lawrence, distinguished elector-biologist, asks Dan to visit him at his laboratory, where Lawrence's assistant, Dr. Paul Rigas, is secretly conducting experiments to prove his theory that human life can be motivated and controlled by electricity. Rigas persuades Dan to submit to tests, where Dan absorbs increasingly powerful charges until he develops an amazing degree of immunity, and becomes a walking hulk of electricity. Rigas does a final test of pouring a tre...
Scarlet Street
Genres: Drama, Mystery, Film-Noir
Starring: Vladimir Sokoloff, Samuel S. Hinds, Russell Hicks, Jess Barker, Rosalind Ivan, Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett
Directors: Fritz Lang
Country: USA
Year: 1945
Chris Cross, 25 years a cashier, has a gold watch and little else. That rainy night, he rescues delectable Kitty from her abusive boyfriend Johnny. Smitten, amateur painter Chris lets Kitty think he's a wealthy artist. At Johnny's urging, she lets Chris establish her in an apartment (with his shrewish wife's money). There, Chris paints masterpieces; but Johnny sells them under Kitty's name, with disastrous and ironic results.
Apology for Murder
Genres: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Starring: Budd Buster, Pierre Watkin, Russell Hicks, Henry Hall, Hugh Beaumont, Charles D. Brown, Wheaton Chambers
Directors: Sam Newfield
Country: USA
Year: 1945
Reporter Kenny Blake falls in love with scheming Toni Kirkland not knowing that she is married to a man years older than she. By the time he finds out, he is so under her spell that he murders her husband which is what Toni had planned all along. City editor McKee, Kenny's boss and best friend, begins to pursue the tangled threads of the crime relentlessly and gradually closes the net on Kenny. The latter is mortally wounded by Toni, who has deserted him for another man.
Swing Parade of 1946
Genres: Comedy, Musical
Starring: Mary Treen, Edward Brophy, Russell Hicks, John Eldredge, Leon Belasco, Gale Storm, Phil Regan
Directors: Phil Karlson
Country: USA
Year: 1946
Carol Lawrence, an aspiring singer, goes to a new night club owned by Danny Warren, whose father Daniel Warren doesn't approve of the club and wants Danny to join him in the family business. Carol is suspected of being a process server and is thrown out of the club. An extremely long arm of coincidence leads her to the elder Warren's office and he hires her as a process server. She returns but gets a singing job this time so foregoes serving the cease-and-desist notice. The Three Stooges are on hand as waiters and Connee Boswell, Louis Jordan, Will Osborne and Mary Treen provide the music and songs in addition to Gale Storn on "Oh, Buddy" and...
The Mortal Storm
Genres: Drama
Starring: James Stewart, Robert Stack, Russell Hicks, Esther Dale, William Edmunds, Maria Ouspenskaya, Granville Bates
Directors: Frank Borzage
Country: USA
Year: 1940
The Roth family lead a quiet life in a small village in the German Alps during the early 1930's. When the Nazi's come to power, the family is divided and Martin Brietner, a family friend is caught up in the turmoil.
Charlie Chan in Shanghai
Genres: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Starring: Russell Hicks, Halliwell Hobbes, Keye Luke, Jon Hall, Warner Oland, Frederick Vogeding, Max Wagner
Directors: James Tinling
Country: USA
Year: 1935
The Chinese government calls Charlie Chan to Shanghai to investigate a murder involving an opium ring. Ring leaders kidnap Charlie and attempt to have him killed.
The Little Foxes
Genres: Romance, Drama
Starring: Bette Davis, Richard Carlson, Russell Hicks, Herbert Marshall, John Marriott, Teresa Wright, Dan Duryea
Directors: William Wyler
Country: USA
Year: 1941
This film adaptation of the Lillian Hellman play depicts a post-Civil War southern community where nothing is more important than money and power to Regina Giddens (Bette Davis). In order to join her equally ruthless brothers in a scheme that is sure to gain her wealth and power, she uses her young, na
Hold That Ghost
Genres: Comedy, Horror, Mystery
Starring: Mischa Auer, Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Marc Lawrence, Richard Carlson, Joan Davis, Evelyn Ankers
Directors: Arthur Lubin
Country: USA
Year: 1941
Two bumbling service station attendants are left as the sole beneficiaries in a gangster's will. Their trip to claim their fortune is sidetracked when they are stranded in a haunted house along with several other strangers.