James Gleason Movies

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

Three young girls live together in a one room apartment just scraping by while dreaming of Hollywood stardom. When one refuses a small role because...

A group of amateur detectives sets out to expose The Crooked Circle, a secretive group of hooded occultists.

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...

Arthur T. Ryan, a hitchhiker, gets a ride from haughty, society girl Glenda Wynant and her fiance, wealthy J. F. Van Avery after he helps them to...

Actor Lee Tracy presides as ringmaster over a show that combines the best elements of cinema with the circus, what he calls a Cinema Circus. Tracy...

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

Joe Higgins' wife gets the job meant for him, so he stays home to do the housework. A Higgins Family comedy

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...

Four battle-weary American soldiers under fire reflect on the women they left behind.

Chubby William Tracy starred as Dodo Doubleday, a feckless Army draftee blessed (or cursed) with a photographic memory. Inexplicably promoted to...

Pa Higgins' attempts at success in the advertising business are constantly frustrated by his eccentric family.

A quarterback stands against gangsters out to control the college sports scene.

Biplane action scenes highlight this story of the lives and loves of two Hollywood stuntmen.

A young couple's marriage is threatened by the husband's love of horses and the racetrack circuit.

James Gleason picks up abused kid and tries to clean him up.

The Higgins family prepares for a long-awaited cruise to Rio, but while father Joe bids farewell to his co-workers at the bank, mother Lil...

In this episode of the Higgins Family series, pandemonium ensues when Ma enters a dog biscuit contest. The prize is a whopping $50,000.

When Russel Gleason is thought to have made a kick by Jim Thorpe, he is reinstated on the college team in time for the big game.

Before taking his wife to a play called Florida, Jimmie gets drunk and winds up on a beach in the state of Florida, instead. When he returns, his...