James Gleason Movies

Mortimer Brewster, a newspaper drama critic, playwright, and author known for his diatribes against marriage, suddenly falls in love and gets...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Cary Grant

In Depression-era West Virginia, a serial-killing preacher hunts two young children who know the whereabouts of a stash of money.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Billy Chapin

New York City tenement dwelling neighbors Blondie and Lottie are longtime best friends. When Lottie makes the cast of the Follies and moves up in the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Marion Davies

In Brooklyn circa 1900, the Nolans manage to enjoy life on pennies despite great poverty and Papa's alcoholism. We come to know these people well...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Dorothy McGuire

Catherine Sykes disappears after a midnight drive with Professor Andrew Gentling . When she's presumed murdered, his friend Martha convinces him that...

Genre: Crime

Cast: William Powell

A Justice of the Peace performed weddings a few days before his license was valid. A few years later five couples learn they have never been legally...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ginger Rogers

As a parting shot, fired reporter Ann Mitchell prints a fake letter from unemployed "John Doe," who threatens suicide in protest of social ills. The...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Gary Cooper

Ten screenwriters collaborated on this series of tales concerning the effect a tailcoat cursed by its tailor has on those who wear it. The video...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Charles Boyer

A bookie uses a phony real estate business as a front for his betting parlor. To further keep up the sham, he hires dim-witted Ellen Grant as his...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Lucille Ball

A cocky Air Force pilot stationed in England during World War II falls for a daring female flier. After he's killed on a mission, he is sent back to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Spencer Tracy

Songwriter Gus Kahn fights to make his name, then has to fight again to survive the Depression.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Doris Day

Conceited World Champion boxer Tommy Lundy decides to test his popularity in a Broadway show. Tommy always has an eye for the ladies and he starts...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: John Payne

In the second film of the series (and not a second part of anything), Gay Lawrence, aka The Falcon, is about to depart the city to marry his...

Genre: Crime

Cast: George Sanders

A gambler, hopelessly in debt, agrees to pay off his debt by allowing his creditor to take out a life insurance policy on him and collecting once the...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: William Boyd

While an escaped convict, Moose Malloy, goes in search of his ex-girlfriend Velma, police inspector Michael O'Hara attempts to track him assuming him...

Genre: Crime

Cast: George Sanders

Boxer Joe Pendleton, flying to his next fight, crashes...because a Heavenly Messenger, new on the job, snatched Joe's spirit prematurely from his...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Robert Montgomery

When the body of Violet Feverel is discovered on the Central Park bridle path, Inspector Oscar Piper is about to declare her death accidental from a...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: James Gleason

Upset about a new Broadway musical's mockery of Greek mythology, the goddess Terpsichore comes down to earth and lands a part in the show. She works...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Rita Hayworth

A young priest, Father Chisholm is sent to China to establish a Catholic parish among the non-Christian Chinese. While his boyhood friend, also a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Gregory Peck

The tranquility of a small town is marred only by sheriff Tod Shaw's unsuccessful courtship of widow Ellen Benson, a pacifist who can't abide guns...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Frank Sinatra

Broadway producer Jerry Flynn is anxious to recapture the magic and reclaim the crowds after a set of costly flops. Outside his theater one night,...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Cary Grant

Deke Rivers is a delivery man who is discovered by publicist Glenda Markle and country-western musician Tex Warner who want to promote the talented...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Elvis Presley

An alcoholic lawyer who successfully defended a notorious gambler on a murder charge objects when his free-spirited daughter becomes romantically...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Norma Shearer

An Episcopal Bishop, Henry Brougham, has been working for months on the plans for an elaborate new cathedral which he hopes will be paid for...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Cary Grant

A couple of roving vagabonds hitch a freight to the railroad town of Linda, and between bouts with the fright-yard bulls and other drifters, find...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Robert Armstrong

Two military men, Captain Flagg and Sergeant Quirt, who are rivals to begin with, grow more at odds with each other when Quirt is made Flagg's top...

Genre: Drama

Cast: James Cagney

A former reporter comes back home after serving in the army during World War I and finds that it's much more difficult to find work than he expected....

Genre: Drama

Cast: William Powell

A doctor is driven into an investigation of sinister goings-on at a horse race track by his mystery writer ex-wife.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: William Powell

A G.I. en route to Europe falls in love during a whirlwind two-day leave in New York City.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Judy Garland

A US Navy submarine, the USS Corsair, is operating in the North Atlantic, hunting German merchant raiders that are preying on Allied shipping. Its...

Genre: War

Cast: Tyrone Power

A hula dancer at a carnival sets out to seduce the naive son of the show's manager.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Clara Bow

In a changing world where television has become the main source of information, Adam Caulfield, a young sports journalist, witnesses how his uncle,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Spencer Tracy

A married reporter's assignments carry him all over the world, which gives him ample opportunity to put the moves on the local females.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Merle Oberon

New York schoolmarm Hildegarde Withers assists a detective when a body of unscrupulous stockbroker Gerald Parker suddenly appears in the penguin tank...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Edna May Oliver

Engineer Johnny Munroe is enlisted to build a railroad tunnel through a mountain to reach mines. His task is complicated, and his ethics are...

Genre: Action

Cast: John Wayne

A schoolteacher and amateur sleuth suspects foul play when a fellow passenger on a seaplane gets sick and dies. The third and final film with Edna...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Edna May Oliver

Gun-slinging drifter "Maybe" Smith's Colt .44 pistol and shooting skills are put to the test shortly after his arrival in the New Mexico frontier...

Genre: Action

Cast: Macdonald Carey

A reporter is constantly in trouble for jumping to conclusions.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ronald Reagan

A vaudeville and nightclub performer becomes successful and forgets who his friends really are.

Genre: Music

Cast: Harry Richman

During World War II, Chief Aviation Pilot Ned Trumpet is in charge of an airship at Lakehurst, New Jersey naval base. Trumpet orders an unauthorized...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Wallace Beery

A priceless Cellini silver cup is stolen from a local museum with both Hildegarde and Oscar on the case.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: James Gleason

Colonel Barkley is very proud of his assistant, Sergeant Doubleday, who has a photographic memory. Doubleday shows off his book knowledge on firearms...

Genre: Romance

Cast: William Tracy

Pirdy is accident prone. He has been denied insurance from every company in town because he is always getting hit or hurt in some way. On the day...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Red Skelton

Biography of humorist and movie star Will Rogers

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Will Rogers Jr.

An army sergeant inspires his son to become an ace flyer.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Wallace Beery

A Russian dance company agrees to stage the new ballet written by a vaudeville hoofer.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Vera Zorina

Celebrated detective traces and finds beneficiaries to the will of a gold prospector murdered by bushwhackers.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Jock Mahoney

Biopic chronicling the early life of gay nineties-era songwriter Paul Dresser as he outgrows his job as carnival entertainer and moves up into New...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Rita Hayworth

At a mayors convention in San Francisco, ex-longshoreman Steve Fisk meets Clarissa Standish from New England. Fisk is mayor of "Puget City" and is...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Clark Gable

Alcoholic newspaperman Lew Marsh hits bottom, loses his job and is rehabilitated by Charley Dolan. After six years on the wagon he gets his job back...

Genre: Drama

Cast: James Cagney

A horse trainer who has fallen on hard times looks to his horse, Broadway Bill, to finally win the big race.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Bing Crosby

Bill Lawrence wins a bevy or prizes from a radio program, but ends up having to sell them all in order to pay the taxes he's incurred.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: James Stewart

The sheriff of Gunlock is planning to hang Sam Hall, who shot three farmers found on cattle land, at sundown. At the casino, betting is 8 to 3 he...

Genre: Western

Cast: John Agar

Mystery writer Marian Carstairs is hard at work trying to finish her latest novel. Her three children meanwhile are entertaining themselves by trying...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Peggy Ann Garner

Actor Lee Tracy presides as ringmaster over a show that combines the best elements of cinema with the circus, what he calls a Cinema Circus. Tracy...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Lee Tracy

A crusading DA falls for a defense attorney with a criminal past.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Brian Aherne

WWI flyer Eddie Rickenbaker remembers his life which brought him from a car salesman, race driver and pilot in WWI, to an important person in the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Fred MacMurray

A group of amateur detectives sets out to expose The Crooked Circle, a secretive group of hooded occultists.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Zasu Pitts

A prostitute sees a friendly sailor as a way out of Havana's grimy underworld.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Helen Twelvetrees

When her compulsive-gambler father dies, leaving her with an inheritance that amounts to zip, single gal Kim Halliday jumps at a caller's claim that...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Rosalind Russell

Buckley is an unethical reporter who manipulates the news for his own benefit as much as he reports it. When he is in Paris to get a medal for being...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Lee Tracy

Hildegarde Withers and Inspector Piper try to solve a murder while attending a popular Broadway show.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: James Gleason

Bonny Kane and 'Skid' Johnson are vaudeville performers in the 1920s. The two of them suffer marital difficulties when Skid gets an offer to appear...

Genre: Music

Cast: Betty Grable

There are plenty of guilty secrets at the school where Hildegarde Withers teaches. When she finds the body of the pretty music teacher, she calls in...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Edna May Oliver

A spinster finally finds the right man when she returns to her alma mater after 15 years for a class reunion.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Dana Andrews

A young captain hoping to replace the U.S. Army's horses with mechanized vehicles faces court-martial after his commanding officer, who's opposed to...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Madge Evans

A popular jockey is disbarred from racing after he's accused of throwing a race.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Eddie Quillan

A wholesome girl believes her new racehorse, October, is the reincarnation of her favorite uncle, Willie.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Glenn Ford

Sixth entry in the Rufftown 2-reel comedy series based on stories by Arthur 'Bugs' Baer.

Genre:

Cast: James Gleason

Three US sailors aboard a decoy ship fight German U-boats in World War I and try to win Sally who works on the Coney Island midway.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: William Boyd

A conscientious attorney who is a member of the State Parole Board, finds his own son, using an alias, up for parole and makes the decision to cast...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Lewis Stone

A cop, who plays by his own rules, brings down a notorious gangster.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Preston Foster

A quarterback stands against gangsters out to control the college sports scene.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Phillip Huston

A young couple's marriage is threatened by the husband's love of horses and the racetrack circuit.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Cornel Wilde

Jaded movie star Vanessa Windsor, saved from a studio accident by handsome extra Chris Farley, pursues him, and soon he's the 'caretaker' of her...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hedy Lamarr

Inspired by the popular '40s radio show of the same title, director Irving Brecher's 1949 comedy stars William Bendix as a hard-working...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: William Bendix

A woman marries a gambler with the hopes of reforming him, but things don't quite work out the way she planned.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Robert Young

In a small town in Virginia, Faith Corey, daughter of a socially prominent family, meets and falls in love with Jerry Malone, a prizefighter, though...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Robert Armstrong

A lawman tries to find the source of a juvenile delinquent's bad behavior.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Audie Murphy

A stranded actress turned manicurist affects the lives of people in a small American town.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Zasu Pitts

Gabby Denton, a hard-drinking, down-on-his-luck drifter, seems to get a chance at redemption when his brother-in-law helps get him a job as a...

Genre: Action

Cast: Edmund Lowe

An average television repairman must care for the newborn triplets of his former hometown sweetheart—now a famous movie star—so her...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jerry Lewis

Five years after Adolphe's death in a train wreck, he is discovered very much alive and with amnesia. Unfortunately he and his first wife are...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Frank Fay

Three con artists dupe two Olympians into serving as editors of a new health and beauty magazine which is only a front for salacious stories and...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Buster Crabbe

Daniel Bone is aiming for success. A Brooklyn gunsmith by trade, he figures the place to be is where the guns are. So off he goes into the West and...

Genre: Western

Cast: Eddie Albert

Four battle-weary American soldiers under fire reflect on the women they left behind.

Genre: Drama

Cast: William Boyd

During WWII, a group of brave Americans spy on the Japanese after their invasion of the Philippines and became the first U.S. Guerrilla fighters.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lloyd Nolan

An aging actress has a hard time admitting she is too old to play the ingenue role anymore.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ginger Rogers

A man and a woman fight over the last bottle of champagne left in San Francisco--she wants it for a wedding, and he wants to use it to christen a...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Olivia de Havilland

Casino operator Johnny Lamb hires down-on-her-luck socialite Lucille Sutton as his casino hostess, in order to help her and to improve casino income....

Genre: Romance

Cast: George Raft

Catherine and Mack and their close friends Chris and Madge graduate from a West Coast college and fly to New York City to find work.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Janet Gaynor

Joe Palooka encounters gangsters and tries to alert the law.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Joe Kirkwood Jr.

Joe Higgins' wife gets the job meant for him, so he stays home to do the housework. A Higgins Family comedy

Genre: Comedy

Cast: James Gleason

Stag Bailey, a slow-witted prizefighter, and his girlfriend, speakeasy hostess Puff Rogers, take over the upbringing of Ted Streaver after his...

Genre: Drama

Cast: George Bancroft

In this comedy, a conservative family becomes alarmed when they begin believing their daughter is pregnant.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Marion Davies

Pa Higgins' attempts at success in the advertising business are constantly frustrated by his eccentric family.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: James Gleason

It all begins when Joe Higgins, business manager of a prosperous candy-manufacturing firm, is ordered by his pompous boss Ellis to break up the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: James Gleason

In this episode of the Higgins Family series, pandemonium ensues when Ma enters a dog biscuit contest. The prize is a whopping $50,000.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: James Gleason

Joe and Lil Higgins invest their life savings in a frontier hotel. Upon arrival, the family discovers that the establishment is smack dab in the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: James Gleason

In this musical comedy, a crooked record producer uses his mob connections to force performers to do their stuff. The trouble really begins when the...

Genre: Music

Cast: Phil Regan

Chubby William Tracy starred as Dodo Doubleday, a feckless Army draftee blessed (or cursed) with a photographic memory. Inexplicably promoted to...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: William Tracy

Penny Morris and Tommy Williams are both starstruck young teens but nobody seems to give them any chance to perform. Instead, they decide to put up...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Mickey Rooney

Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1941.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Eddie Albert

An amateur handicapper must help his future son-in-law recoup the money he lost while playing the ponies.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Zasu Pitts

James Gleason picks up abused kid and tries to clean him up.

Genre:

Cast: James Gleason

The vaudeville act of Harriet and Queenie Mahoney comes to Broadway, where their friend Eddie Kerns needs them for his number in one of Francis...

Genre: Music

Cast: Charles King

A crooked jockey tries to reform.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tom Brown

The story of the rise and fall of an All-American football player.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Richard Arlen

Two couples meet on the fairway for a golfing competition.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: James Gleason

Joe Palooka and two friends are taking hostage by three criminals.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Joe Kirkwood Jr.

A brash American movie producer arrives at an army base in England wanting to shoot a movie and use the soldiers as extras. The base commander...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Charlotte Greenwood

An ex-convict working for a wealthy oil baron uncovers trouble while his brother becomes involved with the boss's daughter.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Robert Armstrong

This short documentary narrated by sportscaster Ted Husing explores the free-time activities of some of Hollywood's most popular celebrities. Big...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Ted Husing

A go-getting bank messenger falls in with unsuccessful gambler.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Eddie Quillan

Two zany cowboys steal a herd of cattle only to discover it costs more to feed them than they are worth.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Dan Rowan

A romantic comedy, focusing on the love triangle between Bob Jones, Alysia Potter and Polly Meachum. Originally engaged, Bob and Alysia elope to...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Constance Talmadge

A young fighter, Bill Hickey, achieves success through the help and support of his friends and, once he does, he gets a big case of 'swellhead.' And...

Genre: Drama

Cast: James Gleason

A visit to Buck Jones's new ranch and his horse, Silver, to James Gleason and his dog, to Charles Ruggles and his kennels; on the set of 'You Can't...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jean Arthur

When the story begins, James is confronted by his wife for his roving eyes! Soon after this, he goes to a speakeasy and begins chatting up women. One...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: James Gleason

It begins with the Mustangs in trouble in their championship series... all the players are banged up and they're being clobbered. But a sports...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: James Gleason

A singing couple gets their own television show, and the strains of putting on a TV show every week starts to jeopardize their relationship.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Robert Alda

In effect, modern cow town Spurline is run by Virgil Renchler, owner of the Golden Empire Ranch. One night, two of Virgil's henchmen go a little too...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jeff Chandler

The Higgins family prepares for a long-awaited cruise to Rio, but while father Joe bids farewell to his co-workers at the bank, mother Lil...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: James Gleason

When Betty's father sees the condescending attitude displayed toward her by a rich family, he decides to get back at them by making them believe that...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: James Gleason

Biplane action scenes highlight this story of the lives and loves of two Hollywood stuntmen.

Genre: Action

Cast: James Gleason

A small town sportswriter attending the World Series recognizes a young ballplayer as the son of former baseball hero who was banned for throwing a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: John Wayne

Arthur T. Ryan, a hitchhiker, gets a ride from haughty, society girl Glenda Wynant and her fiance, wealthy J. F. Van Avery after he helps them to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Richard Arlen

An assembled compilation of footage from rushes, outtakes, and behind-the-scenes moments featuring Charles Laughton directing The Night of the...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Charles Laughton

An airliner flying nonstop at night from Miami to New York fails to check in, then disappears from radar. We see how its disappearance affects people...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: William Lundigan

Before taking his wife to a play called Florida, Jimmie gets drunk and winds up on a beach in the state of Florida, instead. When he returns, his...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: James Gleason