Russell Johnson

Horror at 37,000 Feet (1972)

Cast: Russell Johnson Buddy Ebsen David Lowell Rich Chuck Connors William Shatner   

Tags: Supernatural Horror Thriller 

Length: 73min

Featuring a smorgasbord of has-beens and never-weres only a Love Boat casting director could love, this silly '70s movie-of-the-week involves a demonically-possessed Druid artifact from an English monastery coming to supernatural life aboard a...

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Rescue From Gilligan's Island (1978)

Cast: Russell Johnson Natalie Schafer Alan Hale, Jr. Vincent Schiavelli Bob Denver   

Tags: Comedy of Errors Comedy 

Length: 100min

Eleven years after the network cancellation of Gilligan's Island, the crew and passengers of the ill-fated S. S. Minnow returned to the small screen in Rescue from Gilligan's Island. The cast remains the same, with one significant change. Bob Denver...

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Attack of the Crab Monsters (1957)

Cast: Roger Corman Russell Johnson Mel Welles Charles B. Griffith Floyd D.Crosby   

Tags: Creature Film Natural Horror Science Fiction Horror Thriller 

Length: 62min

A group of scientists arrive on a remote Pacific island to investigate what became of the previous team, which was sent out there as observers of American hydrogen bomb tests and disappeared without a trace. They island is uninhabited and devoid even...

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The Saga of Hemp Brown (1958)

Cast: Russell Johnson Rory Calhoun Beverly Garland Fortunio Bonanova Bud Westmore   

Tags: Western 

Length: 80min

Saga of Hemp Brown gets under way when the title character (Rory Calhoun) is court-martialed and booted from the Cavalry. Brown is accused of permitting his men to walk into a deadly ambush; he knows he's innocent, and he spends the rest of the...

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It Came from Outer Space (1953)

Cast: Russell Johnson Henry Mancini Ray Bradbury Richard Carlson Barbara Rush   

Tags: Alien Film Science Fiction Sci-Fi Horror 

Length: 81min

It Came From Outer Space is one of a handful of science fiction films from the 1950s that plays as well today as it did on its original release, this despite the fact that its original 3-D elements seem to be lost. It was also the first science...

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Ride Clear of Diablo (1954)

Cast: Dan Duryea Audie Murphy Russell Johnson Jack Elam Susan Cabot   

Tags: Action Drama Western 

Length: 80min

Audie Murphy may have had top billing in Ride Clear of Diablo, but the film is bushwhacked and stolen by co-star Dan Duryea. As notorious gunslinger Whitey Kincaid, Duryea is hired by sinister forces to kill Murphy, who is out to avenge the murders of...

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Ma and Pa Kettle at Waikiki (1955)

Cast: Marjorie Main Percy Kilbride Russell Johnson Bernard Herzbrun Joseph E. Gershenson   

Tags: Comedy Crime Domestic Comedy 

Length: 79min

The title tells all in this seventh entry in Universal's "Ma and Pa Kettle" series. This time around, Ma (Marjorie Main) and Pa (Percy Kilbride) take their brood to Hawaii, where Pa is to take over management of his cousin's fruit processing...

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This Island Earth (1955)

Cast: Russell Johnson Henry Mancini Jack Arnold Faith Domergue Bud Westmore   

Tags: Sci-Fi Action Science Fiction 

Length: 86min

For reasons that defy logic, the excellent This Island Earth was held up for ridicule as an allegedly bad movie in the film version of TV's Mystery Science Theater. If not the best science-fiction film of the 1950s, Earth is certainly one of the most...

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Tumbleweed (1953)

Cast: Audie Murphy Russell Johnson Henry Mancini Roy Roberts Bud Westmore   

Tags: Western 

Length: 79min

Audie Murphy plays wagon train scout Jim Harvey in Universal-International's Tumbleweed. Through a series of unfortunate circumstances, Harvey is wrongly accused of saving himself while allowing the people under his protection to be slaughtered by...

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