James Gleason Movies

A sideshow bally girl sets out to seduce the naive son of the show's manager to get even with him for a friend that he jilted.

Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1941.

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

A former reporter comes back home after serving in the army during World War I and finds that it's much more difficult to find work than he expected....

"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...

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

Bill Lawrence wins a bevy of prizes from a radio program, but ends up having to sell them in order to pay the taxes incurred.

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...

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

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...

It all begins when Joe Higgins, business manager of a prosperous candy-manufacturing firm, is ordered by his pompous boss Ellis to break up the...

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...

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...

Joe Palooka encounters gangsters and tries to alert the law.

Catherine and Mack and their close friends Chris and Madge graduate from a West Coast college and fly to New York City to find work.

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

In this musical comedy, a crooked record producer uses his mob connections to force performers to do their stuff. The trouble really begins when the...

A brash American movie producer arrives at an army base in England wanting to shoot a movie and use the soldiers as extras. The base commander...

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...

Stag Bailey, a slow-witted prizefighter, and his girlfriend, speakeasy hostess Puff Rogers, take over the upbringing of Ted Streaver after his...