James Gleason Movies

A promising young prizefighter sees his career start to go down the drain after he gets married and allows his wife's father and no-good brother to...

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...

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...

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...

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

A reporter is constantly in trouble for jumping to conclusions.

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...

Biography of humorist and movie star Will Rogers

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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

Joe Palooka encounters gangsters and tries to alert the law.

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

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...

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