James Gleason Movies

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

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

An amateur sleuth suspects foul play when a fellow passenger on a seaplane suddenly dies. The third and final film with Edna May Oliver and James...

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

Young Mary Rainey takes the reins of her deceased father's failing circus. With the help of the Inimitable Smiley Johnson, she hopes to bring fortune...

"In the Gay Nineties New York had grown up into bustles and balloon Sleeves ... but The Bowery had grown younger, louder and more rowdy until it was...

A reporter is constantly in trouble for jumping to conclusions.

Joe Palooka encounters gangsters and tries to alert the law.

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...

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...

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

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...

Three young girls live together in a one room apartment just scraping by while dreaming of Hollywood stardom. When one refuses a small role because...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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