James Gleason Movies

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

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....

New York City tenement dwelling neighbors Blondie and Lottie are longtime best friends. When Lottie makes the cast of the Follies and moves up in the...

A woman marries a gambler with the hopes of reforming him, but things don't quite work out the way she planned.

While an escaped convict, Moose Malloy, goes in search of his ex-girlfriend Velma, police inspector Michael O'Hara attempts to track him assuming him...

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

When the body of Violet Feverel is discovered on the Central Park bridle path, Inspector Oscar Piper is about to declare her death accidental from a...

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 crusading DA falls for a defense attorney with a criminal past.

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

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

A busload of passengers gets stranded in a snowstorm and take refuge in an abandoned church, where they run into a mysterious man who may be on the...

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

During WWII, a group of brave Americans spy on the Japanese after their invasion of the Philippines and became the first U.S. Guerrilla fighters.

A go-getting bank messenger falls in with unsuccessful gambler.

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

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

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...

Five years after Adolphe's death in a train wreck, he is discovered very much alive and with amnesia. Unfortunately he and his first wife are...