James Gleason Movies

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

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...

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