James Gleason Movies

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

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 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...

Jaded movie star Vanessa Windsor, saved from a studio accident by handsome extra Chris Farley, pursues him, and soon he's the 'caretaker' of her...

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

Celebrated detective traces and finds beneficiaries to the will of a gold prospector murdered by bushwhackers.

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...

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

When the body of Violet Feverel is discovered on the Central Park bridle path, Inspector Oscar Piper presumes her death was accidental, until his...

Joe Palooka encounters gangsters and tries to alert the law.

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.

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

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...

Biography of humorist and movie star Will Rogers

When the story begins, James is confronted by his wife for his roving eyes! Soon after this, he goes to a speakeasy and begins chatting up women. One...

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...

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...

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

A young fighter, Bill Hickey, achieves success through the help and support of his friends and, once he does, he gets a big case of 'swellhead.' And...

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