James Gleason Movies

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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

"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...

King Bool returns to Bulvania to claim his throne and his girl.

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

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

A crooked jockey tries to reform.

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...

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

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...

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

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