James Gleason Movies

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

Biography of humorist and movie star Will Rogers

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...

Gun-slinging drifter "Maybe" Smith's Colt .44 pistol and shooting skills are put to the test shortly after his arrival in the New Mexico frontier...

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 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...

Catherine Sykes disappears after a midnight drive with Professor Andrew Gentling . When she's presumed murdered, his friend Martha convinces him that...

A small town sportswriter attending the World Series recognizes a young ballplayer as the son of former baseball hero who was banned for throwing a...

There are plenty of guilty secrets at the school where Hildegarde Withers teaches. When she finds the body of the pretty music teacher, she calls in...

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

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

A wholesome girl believes her new racehorse, October, is the reincarnation of her favorite uncle, Willie.

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...

Biopic chronicling the early life of gay nineties-era songwriter Paul Dresser as he outgrows his job as carnival entertainer and moves up into New...

Casino operator Johnny Lamb hires down-on-her-luck socialite Lucille Sutton as his casino hostess, in order to help her and to improve casino income....

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

A doctor is driven into an investigation of sinister goings-on at a horse race track by his mystery writer ex-wife.

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

A man protective of his brother checks out the girl his brother is in love with, in order to see if she's the real thing or just trying to take...

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...