James Gleason Movies

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

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...

A playboy is in love with a woman and enters the army thinking it will improve his chances with her.

A lawman tries to find the source of a juvenile delinquent's bad behavior.

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

Two zany cowboys steal a herd of cattle only to discover it costs more to feed them than they are worth.

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...

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

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...

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....

A young woman's elderly husband dies and leaves her $5 million. She travels to Paris and becomes part of the "Continental" set and is pursued by a...

Biography of humorist and movie star Will Rogers

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...

In the second film of the series (and not a second part of anything), Gay Lawrence, aka The Falcon, is about to depart the city to marry his...

An ex-convict working for a wealthy oil baron uncovers trouble while his brother becomes involved with the boss's daughter.

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

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...

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

Three US sailors aboard a decoy ship fight German U-boats in World War I and try to win Sally who works on the Coney Island midway.

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