William Russ Movies

George Burns stars as a former vaudevillian who befriends a young runaway, played by 14-year old Brooke Shields, who is being chased by drug dealers.

Linda and George live in a small town. He is the school principal. They are about to celebrate their 16th anniversary. She catches him with her...

A veteran minor league pitcher in 1957 tutors a young phenomenon.

A woman fears for her son's health when her ex-husband kidnaps him.

A reticent young photographer strives to find a normal life working a dead-end job in a mall portrait studio and volunteering as a clean water...

Lachlan MacAldonich is a self-described “lazy Scotsman” and former guitar player for a once-popular 1990s rock band. No longer famous, he...

Part two of the making of William Friedkin's 1980 thriller "Cruising" and the controversies it created.

Hester Murdoch is found naked and nearly beaten to death by four young Hawaiian men on the beach and taken to the hospital. Some of the men didn't...

An escaped convict and a woman ponder what to do with a not-quite-dead body.

During a hot summer in 1990, a young man, Ray, moves into his aunt's Venice Beach home to find his direction in life. While there, he is befriended...

A year after his fiancée's death, a playwright schedules a rehearsal for his new play, which proves to be a trap for her killer.

Part one of the making of William Friedkin’s 1980 thriller "Cruising" and the controversies it created.

Cassie's husband was just involved in a plane crash and is in a coma. The airline says his wife was killed in the accident. The two have a young...

Two single mothers, polar opposites in personality, join forces to track down their children that have been kidnapped by their ex-husbands.

When a best-selling author has a midlife crisis, he returns to his coastal hometown and embarks on a wild adventure in a desperate attempt to reclaim...

Dottie West fought a difficult childhood to rise as one of country music's icons winning the first ever Grammy for Best Female Country Vocal...

A fateful chain of events begin to unravel after two brash insurance salesmen go knocking on the wrong door and find themselves trapped in a...

A single mom and psychiatric intern encounters a troubled but brilliant young man who turns up dead in her house after she befriended him. When she...

The historic federal-state controversy over the integration of Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, as seen through the eyes of Elizabeth...