James Gleason Movies

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

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...

A playboy is in love with a woman and enters the army thinking it will improve his chances with her.

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

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

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...

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...

Johnny Quinlan is so desperate for a job that he takes a gig as a "bag man" for the mob. Meanwhile, his beleaguered wife has to deal with her...

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

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

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

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

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.

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