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Crew: Sound/Sound Designer
Actors: Sophia Loren, Tab Hunter, Jack Warden, Barbara Nichols, Keenan Wynn, George Sanders
Synopsis: That Kind of Woman stars Sophia Loren as an Italian girl, Kay, who enjoys a brief wartime romance with American paratrooper Red (Tab Hunter). But Kay is already the property of a suave millionaire (George Sanders) known only as "The Man." When next we see her, Kay is living Hollywood's concept of Read More
Actors: Jerry Lewis, Marilyn Maxwell, Connie Stevens, Salvatore Baccaloni, Reginald Gardiner
Synopsis: In this comedy, an awkward TV repairman finds himself falling for an actress who doesn't even know he exists and instead marries a dashing Mexican bullfighter. Unfortunately, he dies the day after their wedding; fortunately, he managed to impregnate her. Unfortunately, she is soon supposed to be Read More
Actors: William Lundigan, Jane Greer, Betsy Palmer, Keenan Wynn, Cliff Edwards
Synopsis: Every so often, the prestigious 1950s CBS anthology Playhouse 90 would digress from its "live" format and offer a sumptuously produced film presentation. One of these was the suspenseful 1958 offering No Time at All, a fascinating precursor to the Airport films of the 1970s. On a routine night Read More
Synopsis: Produced at Republic Studios during that western-film factory's twilight years, Man or Gun stars MacDonald Carey as a drifter named Maybe Smith. Before he gets a chance to say "Like sands through the hourglass...", Smith gets mixed up in the lives of several timorous townsfolk, who suffer the Read More
Actors: Jock Mahoney, Kim Hunter, Tim Hovey, Gene Evans, Tom Drake
Synopsis: In this curious blend of Western and detective melodrama, Jock Mahoney plays a frontier gumshoe named Hogan. When an old prospector is murdered, Hogan takes on the assignment of finding the four heirs to the prospector's fortune. Briefly sidetracked by a romance with Mary Kingman (played by Kim Hunter Read More
Actors: Robert Livingston, Dan Rowan, Dick Martin, Martha Hyer, Leif Erickson, Nita Talbot, Tom Keene, Kermit Maynard, Bob Steele
Synopsis: Having gained a measure of TV fame by 1958, the nightclub comedy duo of Dan Rowan and Dick Martin decided to give movies a try with Once Upon a Horse. Dan and Dick play Dan Casey and Doc Logan, a pair of nitwitted cowboys who turn to outlawry because they can't make a go at any honest profession. Read More
Actors: Spencer Tracy, Jeffrey Hunter, Dianne Foster, Pat O'Brien, Basil Rathbone, John Carradine
Synopsis: Spencer Tracy stars in John Ford's sentimental adaptation of Edwin O'Connor's novel about the final campaign of a big city mayor, loosely based upon the life of Boston politician James Curley. Tracy is Frank Skeffington, the political boss of an Eastern city dominated by Irish-Americans. Read More
Actors: Hedy Lamarr, Jane Powell, Jan Sterling, George Nader, Jerry Paris
Synopsis: Harry Keller, the man who directed the extra scenes in Orson Welles' Touch of Evil, receives solo directorial credit in The Female Animal. Hedy Lamarr stars as Vanessa Windsor, a beautiful but ageing film star whose life is saved on the set by handsome extra Chris Farley (George Nader). Falling in Read More
Actors: Elvis Presley, Lizabeth Scott, Wendell Corey, Dolores Hart, James Gleason
Synopsis: Loving You was the most autobiographical of all Elvis Presley's movies, and, not coincidentally, features the most naturalistic, easygoing performance of his early career. He plays Deke Rivers, a truck driver with a penchant for singing and a raw animal magnetism where women are concerned. He Read More
Actors: Dana Andrews, Betty Hutton, Jean Hagen, Sara Berner, Robert Simon, Laura La Plante
Synopsis: After several years' absence from the screen, the vivacious Betty Hutton made a somewhat tepid comeback in Spring Reunion. The scene is a medium-sized Midwestern town, where Maggie Brewster (Hutton) is reacquainted with her high-school flame Fred Davis (Dana Andrews) during a class reunion. The Read More
Actors: Jeff Chandler, Orson Welles, Colleen Miller, Ben Alexander, Barbara Lawrence
Synopsis: Man in the Shadow is a better-than-usual Albert Zugsmith production starring Jeff Chandler as the newly appointed lawman in a corrupt southwestern town. A Mexican laborer has been murdered, a crime which powerful land baron Orson Welles wants the sheriff to ignore. Chandler bucks Welles' wishes Read More
Actors: James Gleason, Raymond Hatton, Allen Windsor, Charles Wagenheim, Johnny Silver
Synopsis: Wally (Tony Dow) and his friends build a clubhouse and then (naturally) form a club, with one-dollar dues for their fellow eighth-graders. When Beaver asks to join the club, he is flatly informed that dues for younger kids amount to three bucks! Though it's daunting task, Beav canvasses the Read More
Synopsis: After her first two husbands die under mysterious circumstances, Mrs. Marguerite Gillespie (Gladys Cooper) prepares to marry for a third time. Suspecting that Mrs. Gillespie has knocked off her previous spouses for their insurance money, detective Joe Rogers (Steve Forrest) inaugurates an Read More
Actors: John Agar, Mamie van Doren, Richard Boone, Coleen Gray, Leif Erickson
Synopsis: In this western, a lawman tries to mediate between irate farmers and angry ranchers who are trying to decide the fate of a captured killer. The killer was hired by the ranchers who want him freed. The farmers, egged on by a schoolteacher, want to see the gunman swing. Meanwhile the real Read More
Synopsis: Siblings Fritzhugh and Katherine Oldham (Hume Cronyn, Carmen Mathews) decide to set fire to his house in order to defraud the insurance company. The key to their scheme is convincing the authorities that Fritzhugh has perished in the blaze -- and to do this, the couple chooses an old tramp named Read More
Actors: Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish, Billy Chapin, Evelyn Varden, Peter Graves
Synopsis: Adapted by James Agee from a novel by Davis Grubb, The Night of the Hunter represented legendary actor Charles Laughton's only film directing effort. Combining stark realism with Germanic expressionism, the movie is a brilliant good-and-evil parable, with "good" represented by a couple of farm Read More
Actors: Rosalind Russell, Fernando Lamas, Eddie Albert, Gloria de Haven, Marion Lorne
Synopsis: In this comedy sequel to Wonderful Town (a popular Broadway musical), Kim, a museum worker from Providence, Rhode Island, inherits half ownership of a Las Vegas hotel when her father dies. She and her Aunt Clara go there to learn more about it. Unfortunately, just before they arrive, the other Read More
Actors: Frank Sinatra, Sterling Hayden, James Gleason, Nancy Gates, Paul H. Frees, Willis B. Bouchey, Christopher Dark
Synopsis: Suddenly is the name of the small town invaded by professional assassin Frank Sinatra and his henchmen. Taking a local family hostage, Sinatra sets up a vigil at the second-story window of the family's home. From here, he intends to kill the President of the United States when the latter makes a Read More
Actors: James Gleason, Bill Henry, Theila Darin, James Macklin
Synopsis: Filmed on an extremely attenuated budget, Hollywood Thrill-Makers stars actor/stunt man Bill Henry as...well, an actor/stunt man. At the insistence of his wife, Henry retires from his dangerous profession. He emerges from his self-imposed exile to perform one last neck-risking stunt, so that the Read More
Actors: Ginger Rogers, William Holden, Paul Douglas, James Gleason, Jesse White
Synopsis: Sir James Barrie's whimsical play Rosalind was updated and urbanized as the 1953 film Forever Female. Ginger Rogers plays a veteran Broadway star who has optioned a play written by William Holden. Though on the less sunny side of 40, Rogers expects to play the leading role, that of a 19 year old Read More
Actors: Ginger Rogers, Fred Allen, Victor Moore, Marilyn Monroe, David Wayne
Synopsis: Having supped full of success with the multi-storied O. Henry's Full House, 20th Century-Fox assembled another all-star "omnibus" film, We're Not Married. The unifying factor of this enjoyable seriocomedy is provided by justice-of-the-peace Melvin Bush (Victor Moore), who learns to his horror that Read More
Actors: James Cagney, Dan Dailey, Corinne Calvet, William Demarest, Craig Hill, Robert Wagner
Synopsis: James Cagney signed on to play Captain Flagg in 20th Century Fox's 1952 remake of the 1926 classic What Price Glory after being told that the old property was being converted into a musical. By the time Cagney learned that Fox had no intention of adding songs and dances to the venerable Maxwell Anderson Read More
Actors: Will Rogers, Jr., Jane Wyman, Carl Benton Reid, Eve Miller, James Gleason
Synopsis: Will Rogers Jr. stars as his own father in this slow, sentimental biopic. The film begins with Rogers' days on his father's ranch in Indian Territory (later Oklahoma). We see Will court his future wife, Betty (Jane Wyman), just before he strikes out on his own as a rodeo performer. Attempting to Read More
Actors: Doris Day, Danny Thomas, Frank Lovejoy, Patrice Wymore, James Gleason
Synopsis: The ultra-sentimental I'll See You in My Dreams is based on the life and work of composer Gus Kahn. The story is told from the point of view of Kahn' wife Grace, who was still alive when the film was made (Kahn died some ten years earlier). Danny Thomas stars as the prolific tunesmith, whose Read More
Actors: Robert Alda, Janis Paige, James Gleason, Lionel Stander, Arnold Stang
Synopsis: Two Gals and a Guy was a low-budget attempt to cash in on the "guests" of the Indians. These three bitter enemies must join forces to escape their captors and warn General Custer (James Millican) of the upcoming ambush at the Little Big Horn. Nominal leading lady Polly Bergen was "discovered" in Warpath Read More
Actors: Joe Kirkwood, Jr., James Gleason, Cathy Downs, John Emery, Steve Brodie
Synopsis: Joe Palooka in Triple Cross, like its predecessors, was based on Ham Fisher's comic strip Joe Palooka. This time around, soft-hearted boxer Joe Palooka (Joe Kirkwood Jr.), his wife Ann (Cathy Downs) and his manager Knobby Walsh (James Gleason) are kidnapped by a trio of goofy escaped convicts. One Read More
Actors: James Cagney, Phyllis Thaxter, Raymond Massey, James Gleason, Gig Young
Synopsis: James Cagney plays a once great newspaper reporter ruined by liquor. Thanks to the help of reformed alcoholic James Gleason, Cagney pulls himself out of the gutter and restores his journalistic reputation. Because of his own redemption, Cagney is asked by his editor to straighten out the editor's Read More
Actors: Joe Kirkwood, Jr., Lois Hall, Edgar Barrier, Myrna Dell, Robert Coogan
Synopsis: Joe Kirkwood Jr. once more plays Ham Fisher's comic-strip creation Joe Palooka. This time around, Joe's faithful girl Ann Howe is essayed by Lois Hall, while James Gleason replaces Leon Errol in the role of Joe's manager Knobby Walsh. The story gets under way when soft-hearted pugilist Palooka Read More
Actors: Red Skelton, Gloria de Haven, Walter Slezak, Edward Arnold, James Gleason
Synopsis: Obviously inspired by the success of Red Skelton's The Fuller Brush Man, The Yellow Cab Man stars Skelton as a Rube Goldberg-type inventor who can't seem to stay out of trouble. He also can't hold down a job, either, much to the consternation of girl friend Gloria De Haven. Through the auspices of Read More
Actors: Clark Gable, Loretta Young, Marilyn Maxwell, Frank Morgan, Raymond Burr
Synopsis: George Sidney directs this pleasant romantic comedy concerning mayoral love. During a convention of mayors in San Francisco, Clarissa Standish (Loretta Young), the mayor of a small town in Maine, meets Steve Fisk (Clark Gable), the down-to-earth leader of a tiny northern California community. Read More
Actors: James Stewart, Barbara Hale, Natalie Wood, James Gleason, Fred Clark, Patricia Medina, Alan Mowbray
Synopsis: The Jackpot is a generally pleasing satire of quiz programs. James Stewart stars as Bill Lawrence, an average Joe who picks up the phone one day, answers a simple question, and suddenly finds himself the recipient of a radio quiz-show jackpot. Tons of prizes are shipped to Lawrence's house, to the Read More
Actors: Bing Crosby, Coleen Gray, Charles Bickford, Frances Gifford, Raymond Walburn
Synopsis: Anxious to remain active in the 1950s, director Frank Capra wanted to prove to Paramount Pictures that he could deliver an "A" picture on a modest budget. To that end, Capra bought the rights of his 1934 film Broadway Bill from Columbia, and remade it under the title Riding High. He then hired Read More
Actors: Lloyd Nolan, Jane Wyatt, Audie Murphy, James Gleason, Stanley Clements
Synopsis: In 1947, Variety Clubs International, a showbiz charitable organization, was responsible for the frothy musical Variety Girl. The organization's 1949 film effort, Monogram's Bad Boy, is a bit on the grimmer side, but not too much so. Most of the film was lensed at the VCI's Boys Club Ranch at Read More
Actors: Lucille Ball, William Holden, Janis Carter, James Gleason, Gloria Henry
Synopsis: Lucille Ball is Miss Grant, an efficient but naïve secretary hired by William Holden. Ostensibly a legit real estate salesman, Holden is actually the brains of a bookie ring. It takes forever for Ball to tumble to what's going on, but when she does she settles matters in the same fashion as her Read More
Actors: William Bendix, James Gleason, Rosemary de Camp, Bill Goodwin, Beulah Bondi
Synopsis: This comedy is based on the enduring radio series and chronicles the attempts of an airplane riveter to find a better paying, less physically taxing job. Chester A. Riley gets his chance when his employer's son falls in love with Riley's daughter. Wanting to make her father happy, the daughter Read More
Actors: William Powell, Shelley Winters, Marsha Hunt, Dorothy Hart, James Gleason
Synopsis: William Powell stars in Take One False Step as a happily married college professor who foolishly agrees to a reunion supper with old flame Shelley Winters. Winters later disappears, and the evidence points to murder. To allay suspicion--and to avoid losing an important financial grant to his Read More
Actors: Betty Grable, Dan Dailey, Jack Oakie, June Havoc, Richard Arlen
Synopsis: Betty Grable and Dan Dailey play a couple of small-time vaudevillians, at least until Dailey gets a big Broadway break. Success swells his head to cataclysmic dimensions; he becomes an alcoholic, loses his stardom and winds up in the drunk ward. Grable divorces Dailey to marry rancher Richard Arlen Read More
Actors: Glenn Ford, Terry Moore, Albert Sharpe, Dame May Whitty, Henry O'Neill
Synopsis: In this whimsical fantasy, a young girl suddenly discovers that her horse is really a reincarnation of her beloved uncle who upon his death bed was heard to say that if could ever come back, he would want to be a race horse that wins the Kentucky Derby. When the girl's relatives learn of her Read More
Actors: Iris Adrian, Brian Aherne, Constance Bennett, Willie Best, Lee Bonnell
Synopsis: In this courtroom drama, two opposing lawyers lead a double life. In the courtroom they are ruthless toward each other, but once the day is over they become passionate lovers. Unfortunately their newest case may well threaten their relationship as the defense attorney is defending a corrupt Read More
Actors: Eddie Albert, Binnie Barnes, Catherine Doucet, Dick Elliott, Tom Fadden
Synopsis: In this western comedy, a milquetoast gunsmith from the East Coast goes to Arsenic City, Arizona because he has heard that everybody their carries guns. His trip West is an exercise in misfortune. Everything that could go wrong on the journey, does. At least he meets a pretty woman, also en route Read More
Actors: Cornel Wilde, Maureen O'Hara, Glenn Langan, Helen Walker, James Gleason
Synopsis: In this drama, a Bostonian socialite marries the owner of a racehorse and begins a life of globe-trotting from international track to track until her hubby runs out of money. In desperation, he borrows money from an ex-girlfriend who decides that she will not let him leave her again. Meanwhile Read More
Actors: Cary Grant, Loretta Young, David Niven, Monty Woolley, James Gleason, Gladys Cooper
Synopsis: When Episcopalian bishop Henry Brougham (David Niven) prays for divine guidance in his efforts to raise the necessary funds for a new cathedral, his prayers are answered in the form of a handsome, personable guardian angel named Dudley (Cary Grant). Establishing himself as a Yuletide guest in the Read More
Actors: John Wayne, Laraine Day, Judith Anderson, James Gleason
Synopsis: This John Wayne adventure is set in South America's rugged Andes Mountains. The Duke has been assigned by a powerful US mining magnate to build a railroad to his newest mines. The two men lock horns over the route the railroad will take. The cost-conscious, people-insensitive industrialist wants Read More
Actors: James Burke, Rita Hayworth, Larry Parks, Roland Culver, Jean Donahue, William Frawley, James Gleason, Edward Everett Horton, Marc Platt
Synopsis: A semi-sequel to Here Comes Mr. Jordan, Columbia's Down to Earth is a camp- and kitsch-lover's delight. More beautiful than ever, Rita Hayworth stars as Terpsichore, the Goddess of Dance. From her perch Up Above, Terpsichore discovers that Broadway producer Danny Miller (Larry Parks) intends to Read More
Actors: Peggy Ann Garner, Randolph Scott, Lynn Bari, Dean Stockwell, James Gleason
Synopsis: Based on a novel by Craig Rice, Home Sweet Homicide is a delightful blend of domestic comedy and murder mystery. Peggy Ann Garner, Dean Stockwell and Connie Marshall play Dinah, Archie and April Carstairs, the precocious offspring of widowed mystery writer Marian Carstairs (Lynn Bari). When a Read More
Actors: Robert Young, Barbara Hale, Frank Morgan, James Gleason, Don Rice
Synopsis: Barbara Hale landed her first A-picture starring role in the engaging romantic comedy Lady Luck. Hale is cast as Mary Audrey, the descendant of a long line of professional gamblers. Haughtily turning up her nose at the "family business," Mary spends most of her time keeping her poker-happy Read More
Actors: William Powell, Esther Williams, Angela Lansbury, James Gleason, Lewis Stone
Synopsis: William Powell plays a cynical con man who graduates from penny-ante operations to a big-time charity racket. The scam involves collecting money on behalf of St. Dismas, bringing Powell in close contact with several men of the cloth. As the racket rolls on, Powell is touched by the sincerity of Read More
Actors: Olivia de Havilland, Ray Milland, Sonny Tufts, James Gleason, Constance Dowling
Synopsis: There's only one magnum of French champagne left in all of San Francisco, and both Navy lieutenant Briggs (Ray Milland) and bride-to-be Margie (Olivia De Havilland) want it. Briggs needs the magnum to christen a new aircraft carrier. Margie craves the bottle as the centerpiece for her upcoming Read More
Actors: Dorothy McGuire, Joan Blondell, James Dunn, Lloyd Nolan, Peggy Ann Garner
Synopsis: One-time movie song-and-dance man James Dunn won an Academy Award for his "comeback" performance in A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. Based on the best-selling novel by Betty Smith, the film relates the trials and tribulations of a turn-of-the-century Brooklyn tenement family. The father, Dunn, is a Read More
Actors: Judy Garland, Robert Walker, James Gleason, Keenan Wynn, Marshall Thompson
Synopsis: The Clock was designed by MGM as a "small" picture--though characteristically, it was a bigger production than most "A" efforts from any other studio. Paul Gallico's simple story involves a girl (Judy Garland) and a GI (Robert Walker), who meet under the huge clock at New York's Pennsylvania Read More
Actors: Fred MacMurray, Lynn Bari, Charles Bickford, Thomas Mitchell, Lloyd Nolan
Synopsis: Famed WW1 aviator Eddie Rickenbacker once more entered the public's consciousness during WW2 when, while serving as an Air Force officer, he and several other pilots crashed into the Pacific. While the world anxiously awaited news of his fate, Rickenbacker and a handful of survivors floated for 19 Read More
Actors: Wallace Beery, Tom Drake, James Gleason, Jan Clayton, Selena Royle
Synopsis: Ned Trumpet (Wallace Beery), the chief pilot of a Navy blimp, is given to weaving accounts of the fighting prowess of his non-existent son. His friendship with widow Maude Weaver (Selena Royle) and her son Jess (Tom Drake) in effect sets him up with a real family. Jess enters the service and goes Read More
Actors: Cary Grant, Janet Blair, James Gleason, Ted Donaldson, Howard Freeman, William Demarest
Synopsis: Based on Norman Corwin's satirical radio play My Client Curley, Once Upon a Time is an engaging bit of whimsy, completely dominated by the personality of star Cary Grant. It all begins when fly-by-night Broadway producer Jerry Flynn (Grant) learns of a trained caterpillar (!) that dances to the Read More
Actors: Cary Grant, Priscilla Lane, Raymond Massey, Jack Carson, Peter Lorre, Edward Everett Horton
Synopsis: Arsenic and Old Lace is director Frank Capra's spin on the classic Joseph Kesselring stage comedy, which concerns the sweet old Brewster sisters (Josephine Hull, Jean Adair), beloved in their genteel Brooklyn neighborhood for their many charitable acts. One charity which the ladies don't advertise Read More
Actors: Gregory Peck, Thomas Mitchell, Vincent Price, Rosa Stradner, Roddy McDowall, Edmund Gwenn
Synopsis: Based on the novel by A.J. Cronin, The Keys of the Kingdom was the first big-budget effort of movie-newcomer Gregory Peck. This is the 137-minute chronicle of a Scottish priest (Peck), who is assigned a mission in China. Never very focused in his life or work, the priest finds plenty to keep his Read More
Actors: Spencer Tracy, Irene Dunne, Van Johnson, Ward Bond, Lionel Barrymore, James Gleason
Synopsis: Opening in England during the middle of World War II, A Guy Named Joe tells the story of Pete Sandidge (Spencer Tracy), a tough, devil-may-care bomber pilot who's amassed an enviable record in combat, mostly by taking chances that give his C.O. (James Gleason) the shakes, much as he and the top Read More
Actors: Wally Brown, Alan Carney, Frances Langford, Vera Vague, Robert Mitchum
Synopsis: Wally Brown and Alan Carney, RKO's own Abbott and Costello ripoffs, star in the comedy western The Girl Rush. As usual, Brown is cast as fast-talking Jerry Miles and Carney plays slow-witted Mike Strager. This time, Jerry and Mike are travelling showmen, stranded in San Francisco when the 1849 Read More
Actors: Tyrone Power, Anne Baxter, Dana Andrews, James Gleason, Dame May Whitty
Synopsis: Tyrone Power made his last screen appearance before a three-year stretch in the Marines in this World War II drama. Lt. Ward Stewart (Tyrone Power) has served with distinction as the commander of a PT boat, so his uncle, Adm. Bob Stewart (Minor Watson), gives him a new and more challenging Read More
Synopsis: Instant recall allows a man to become a very valuable Good Samaritan in this comedy. ~ All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Charles Boyer, Rita Hayworth, Ginger Rogers, Henry Fonda, Charles Laughton
Synopsis: Tales of Manhattan is a sumptuous multipart film centered around a formal tailcoat. The coat is specially designed for stage actor Charles Boyer, who wears it during a rendezvous with his lady friend (Rita Hayworth). The lady's husband (Thomas Mitchell) shoots Boyer, thus the tailcoat is damaged Read More
Actors: Rita Hayworth, Victor Mature, Carole Landis, John Sutton, Phil Silvers, James Gleason
Synopsis: A pregnant Alice Faye was forced to bow out of this colorful Fox musical, which instead went to Rita Hayworth, whom the studio borrowed from Columbia. Hayworth plays the highly fictitious Sally Elliott of the title, a musical star teaming up with Indiana boy Paul Dresser (Victor Mature), a runaway Read More
Actors: Lloyd Nolan, Carole Landis, Cornel Wilde, James Gleason
Synopsis: Those obviously hastily assembled to cash in on current headlines, Manila Calling shows no signs of this haste in its execution. Lloyd Nolan stars as Lucky Mathews, the leader of an American guerilla unit, sworn to keep fighting even after the Japanese invasion of Mindano. Likewise staying on is Read More
Actors: John Payne, Betty Grable, Victor Mature, Jane Wyman, Phil Silvers, James Gleason
Synopsis: Victor Mature plays an arrogant champion boxer who opts for an acting career on Broadway. He falls in love with his costar Betty Grable, who's secretly married to actor John Payne. Unwilling to make public her marriage lest it adversely affect her career, Grable is unsuccessful in fending off Read More
Synopsis: Campy Kids From Boot Camp was cobbled together from a brace of "streamliners" (second features running between 43 and 50 minutes) produced in the 1940s by Hal Roach Studios. The films are Tanks a Million (1941) and Hayfoot (1942); both star William Tracy as Doubleday, an Army draftee with a Read More
Actors: George Sanders, Lynn Bari, James Gleason, Allen Jenkins, Helen Gilbert
Synopsis: The plot of the RKO Radio programmer The Falcon Takes Over will be instantly recognizable to anyone who has seen the 1944 Philip Marlowe mystery Murder My Sweet: indeed, both films were based on the same Raymond Chandler novel, Farewell My Lovely. It all begins when brutish prison escapee Moose Read More
Actors: Jackie Gleason, Jack Durant, Florence Rice, Bruce Bennett, Hallene Hill
Synopsis: Columbia's belated effort to cash in on the popularity of Abbott & Costello's Buck Privates was the raucous and generally amusing wartime comedy Tramp, Tramp, Tramp. Jackie Gleason (the same!) and Jack Durant are teamed for the first and only time as Hank and Jed, a pair of dimwitted barbers who Read More
Actors: George Sanders, Wendy Barrie, James Gleason, Allen Jenkins, Mona Maris
Synopsis: This second entry in RKO Radio's "Falcon" series begins with Gay Lawrence (George Sanders), aka the Falcon, promising to give up his private-eye activities for the sake of fiancee Helen Reed (Wendy Barrie). This resolves lasts for about eight minutes, whereupon Lawrence tackles the case of a Read More
Actors: Merle Oberon, Dennis Morgan, Rita Hayworth, Ralph Bellamy, George Tobias
Synopsis: Affectionately Yours offers the spectacle of glamorous Merle Oberon and gorgeous Rita Hayworth jockeying for the best camera positions, virtually pushing male leads Dennis Morgan and Ralph Bellamy right off the screen! Here's the deal: Neglected wife Sue Marberry (Oberon) obtains a quickie Nevada Read More
Actors: Ronald Reagan, Joan Perry, James Gleason, Howard Da Silva, Faye Emerson
Synopsis: Perhaps nine lives weren't enough, but 63 minutes was plenty of time to relate the plot of this Ronald Reagan vehicle. Reagan plays a newspaper reporter who has a story "that'll break this town wide open!" The story involves a mysterious, unsolved boarding house murder. The suspects include the Read More
Actors: Robert Montgomery, Evelyn Keyes, Claude Rains, Rita Johnson, Edward Everett Horton
Synopsis: Robert Montgomery plays saxophone-playing boxer Joe Pendleton, who insists upon piloting his own plane, much to the consternation of his manager Max Corkle (James Gleason). Just before a championship bout, Joe's plane crashes. When he revives, he finds he has been whisked away to Heaven by the Read More
Actors: Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland, Richard Quine, Fay Bainter, Virginia Weidler, Ray McDonald
Synopsis: Advertised as a sort of sequel to MGM's Babes in Arms (1939), Babes on Broadway reunites the two stars of the earlier film: Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland. Rooney is the guiding force of a group of young showbiz hopefuls who are trying to make it on Broadway. When things look darkest, he goes into Read More
Actors: Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward Arnold, Walter Brennan, Spring Byington
Synopsis: The first of director Frank Capra's independent productions (in partnership with Robert Riskin), Meet John Doe begins with the end of reporter Ann Mitchell's (Barbara Stanwyck) job. Fired as part of a downsizing move, she ends her last column with an imaginary letter written by "John Doe." Angered Read More
Actors: William Tracy, James Gleason, Noah Beery, Jr., Joe Sawyer, Elyse Knox
Synopsis: In 1941, producer Hal Roach abandoned production of full-length features in favor of a new concept: The "Streamliner", a four-reel film-halfway between a short subject and a feature-designed for the double-bill market. The first Roach streamliner was the timely service comedy Tanks a Million Read More
Actors: James Gleason, Lucille Gleason, Russell Gleason, Harry Davenport, Lois Ranson
Synopsis: Venerable character actor Harry Davenport (best remembered as Dr. Meade in Gone with the Wind) takes center stage in the "Higgins Family" entry Grandpa Goes to Town. The story gets under way when Joe and Lil Higgins (James and Lucille Gleason) invest their life savings in a frontier hotel. Upon Read More
Synopsis: In this episode of the Higgins Family series, pandemonium ensues when Ma enters a dog biscuit contest. The prize is a whopping $50,000. Unfortunately, the company is represented by Pa's ad agency and his wife cannot legally enter. The trouble is, to win, Ma purchased every dog biscuit in town. Read More
Synopsis: Earl of Puddlestone was released minus a director credit out of respect for megger Gus Meins, who committed suicide shortly after its completion. This latest entry in Republic's "Higgins Family" series once more stars James Gleason, his wife Lucille and his son Russell as Joe, Lil and Sidney Read More
Actors: Vera Zorina, Eddie Albert, Alan Hale, Frank McHugh, James Gleason
Synopsis: In this musical, a composer abandons vaudeville in favor of the legitimate stage. He soon finds himself entangle with a Russian ballet company that contains his old childhood lover, but when the troupe mistake him for a traitor trouble ensues. Perhaps the film is most notable for Balanchine's Read More
Actors: James Gleason, Lucille Gleason, Russell Gleason, Harry Davenport, Marie Wilson
Synopsis: This comedy chronicles the further exploits of the hilarious "Higgins Family." In this entry, the father eagerly awaits a promotion. Unfortunately, he is temporarily derailed when his wife accidentally reveals a business secret concerning an upcoming merger. This results in the wife taking over Read More
Actors: James Gleason, Lucille Gleason, Russell Gleason, Harry Davenport, Tommy Ryan
Synopsis: In this entry in the comedy series the "Higgins Family," the group must cancel a cruise to South America after the check they needed does not arrive. To save face before their neighbors, the family embarks upon a wilderness fishing trip. The family made a wise decision to forego the cruise as the Read More
Synopsis: My Wife's Relatives is an easy-to-take entry in Republic's "Higgins Family" series. It all begins when Joe Higgins (James Gleason), business manager of a prosperous candy-manufacturing firm, is ordered by his pompous boss Ellis (Purnell Pratt) to break up the romance between Ellis' son Bill (Henry Read More
Actors: James Gleason, Lucille Gleason, Russell Gleason, Lynne Roberts, Harry Davenport
Synopsis: With The Higgins Family, Republic Pictures launched its own economical variation on MGM's popular "Andy Hardy" series. The gimmick here was that three of the members of the Higgins clan-dad Joe, mom Lillian, grown son Sidney-were played by real-life husband and wife James and Lucile Gleason and Read More
Crew: Play Author
Actors: Alice Brady, Charles Winninger, Tom Brown, Dorothea Kent, Frank Jenks
Synopsis: Goddbye Broadway is wrapped up by two stage & screen veterans, Alice Brady and Charles Winninger. The stars play vaudevillians Molly and Pat Malloy, who are suckered into investing $4000 in a ramschackle New England hotel. After a variety of predictable but amusing complications, the Malloys turn Read More
Actors: Madge Evans, Preston S. Foster, James Gleason, H.B. Warner, Ruth Donnelly
Synopsis: The trials faced by the US Army when it first attempted to trade horses for tanks provides the basis of this actioner. The tale centers upon the love affair between an Army post commander's daughter and a young tank specialist who is trying to prove that the new technology is better than horses. Read More
Actors: Phil Regan, Leo Carrillo, Ann Dvorak, Tamara Geva, James Gleason
Synopsis: 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 gangster's strong-arm tactics nearly cause a singer to lose his fiancée. A wide variety of entertainers appear including cowboy crooner Gene Autry Read More
Actors: James Gleason, ZaSu Pitts, Marjorie Lord, George Shelley, Joan Woodbury
Synopsis: RKO Radio's "Hildegarde Withers" series, based on the mystery stories by Stuart Palmer, ground to a half with 40 Naughty Girls. ZaSu Pitts is once more miscast as crime-solving schoolmarm Hildegarde Withers, while James Gleason is rather better served as Inspector Oscar Piper. The title refers to Read More
Actors: James Gleason, Helen Broderick, Louise Latimer, Owen Davis, Jr., John Arledge
Synopsis: When Edna May Oliver decided to leave RKO Radio's "Hildegarde Withers" series, the studio came up with an unorthodox replacement in the form of the dry-witted Helen Broderick. Murder on a Bridle Path turned out to be Broderick's only appearance in the series, after which she was succeeded by ZaSu Pitts Read More
Actors: George Raft, Ida Lupino, Reginald Owen, James Gleason
Synopsis: In this crime comedy, a street-savvy gangster involves himself with a Miami socialite. Together, they conspire to turn her familial mansion into a secret gambling casino. The hood is convinced her beauty will draw customers and with the ensuing profits, the two will be able to pay their debts. Read More
Actors: William Powell, Jean Arthur, James Gleason, Eric Blore, Robert Armstrong
Synopsis: The "ex" of the title is daffy mystery-writer Jean Arthur, former wife of urbane doctor William Powell. When Powell becomes the prime suspect in a murder case, Arthur endeavors to solve the case herself -- and to reclaim her ex-hubby in the process. After a well-directed semiclimax at a race Read More
Actors: James Gleason, Bruce Cabot, Louise Latimer, Betty Grable
Synopsis: In this crime drama a high-school principal's principles are put to the test when he, also a member of a parole board, is given the ultimate power to decide whether his son, a brutal criminal is to be paroled. The others do not know about the inmate's relationship to their colleague and the son Read More
Actors: Preston S. Foster, Jane Wyatt, James Gleason, Arthur Hohl, John Arledge
Synopsis: In this action film, a rebellious cop doesn't hesitate to bend the rules when it comes to roughing up prisoners and bringing in deadly gangsters. His insistence on working alone and on using excessive violence causes conflict with his superiors. They change their minds when he engages in a great Read More
Actors: Philip Huston, James Gleason, June Travis, Bruce Cabot, Andy Devine
Synopsis: Future best-selling novelist Irwin Shaw made his screenwriting bow with the modest RKO Radio sports drama The Big Game. The story revolves around the efforts by a group of crooked gamblers to fix the outcomes of college football games. When star quarterback Clark (Philip Huston) refuses to be Read More
Actors: James Gleason, ZaSu Pitts, Owen Davis, Jr., Louise Latimer, Arthur Ayleswofth
Synopsis: Dithery ZaSu Pitts is miscast as novelist Stuart Palmer's crime-solving schoolmarm Hildegarde Withers in The Plot Thickens. As usual, Hildegarde tries to figure out the connection between two ostensibly unrelated murders. The unifying factor turns out to be a priceless museum artifact, targeted Read More
Crew: Director
Actors: ZaSu Pitts, James Gleason, Margaret Callahan, Russell Gleason, Ray Mayer
Synopsis: The multitalented James Gleason was both star and co-director of the RKO Radio programmer Hot Tip. Gleason is cast as restaurant owner Jimmy McGill, an inveterate horse player who's a sucker for every race-track tout within a hundred-mile radius. But his wife Jane (ZaSu Pitts) detests gambling, so Read More
Actors: Richard Arlen, Madge Evans, Ralph Bellamy, James Gleason, Henry B. Walthall
Synopsis: In this drama, an impoverished dreamer saves a group of people during a terrible storm by leading them to shelter in a ghost town containing but one ancient resident. The stranded travelers are surprised by the high-style in which the codger lives. Soon they learn that the man and the drifter's Read More
Actors: Wallace Beery, Robert Young, Maureen O'Sullivan, James Gleason
Synopsis: Big Mike (Wallace Beery) is a tough Army flyer who longs to see his son Little Mike (Robert Young) take to the air like himself. Little Mike's excessive attraction to Dare (Rosalind Russell) strains his relationship with his father, but eventually he finds the right woman -- Skip (Maureen Read More
Actors: Edna May Oliver, James Gleason, Lola Lane, Chick Chandler, George Meeker
Synopsis: Though it wasn't RKO Radio's final "Hildegarde Withers" mystery, Murder on a Honeymoon represented the final appearance of Edna May Oliver as Stuart Palmer's spinsterish schoolmarm sleuth. This entry was wittily adapted by Seton I. Miller and Robert Benchley from Palmer's Puzzle of the Pepper Read More
Actors: Lee Tracy, Roscoe Karns, Grace Bradley, Kent Taylor, Gail Patrick
Synopsis: Two Fisted is based on the James Gleason-Richard Taber stage play Is Zat So?, previously filmed under its original title in 1927. Lee Tracy stars as fast-lipped fight manager Hay Hurley, while Roscoe Karns co-stars as slow-witted pugilist Chick Moran. Flat broke, Hay and Chick take servant jobs in Read More
Actors: ZaSu Pitts, James Gleason, El Brendel, Pert Kelton
Synopsis: Dry-goods store owner Tillie Prescott (ZaSu Pitts) is considered "the meanest gal in town" because she won't marry barber Chris Peterson (El Brendel) until he can afford to support them both. Enter stranded showgirl Lulu White (Pert Kelton), who sets her cap for Peterson. Her judgment clouded by Read More
Crew: Screenwriter
Actors: Janet Gaynor, Charles Farrell, James Dunn, Ginger Rogers, Beryl Mercer
Synopsis: Four courageous college graduates become heroes when they successfully complete a 15-hour coast-to-coast plane flight. Alas, things don't go so well for the foursome when they return to earth to seek out employment. Chris Thring (Charles Farrell) has a particularly rough time of it, but his Read More
Actors: Charlotte Greenwood, James Gleason, Cyril Maude, Finlay Currie, Percy Parsons, Cedric Hardwicke
Synopsis: Hollywood movie-making is satirized in this comedy. The trouble begins when an American filmmaker decides to us a British army barracks and soldiers to add a realistic touch to his newest Foreign Legion film. The trouble is, the director is neither very good, nor well informed about military life Read More
Actors: Edna May Oliver, James Gleason, Bruce Cabot, Gertrude Michael, Regis Toomey
Synopsis: Edna May Oliver makes the second of her three appearances as Stuart Palmer's crime-solving schoolteacher Hildegarde Withers in RKO Radio's Murder on the Blackboard. The plot begins to percolate when a young female music teacher is murdered in her classroom late at night. Also on the campus is Read More
Actors: Larry "Buster" Crabbe, Ida Lupino, Toby Wing, James Gleason, Robert Armstrong
Synopsis: Back in the 1930s, the "Search for Beauty" contests were designed to scout the hinterlands of America and England for beautiful girls and handsome men who might qualify as movie contractees -- though most the winners were drawn from the ranks of Hollywood residents. These contests, coupled with a Read More
Actors: Lee Tracy, Benita Hume, Una Merkel, James Gleason, Alan Edwards
Synopsis: A splashy journalist finds herself embroiled in international intrigue when she hooks up with a sneaky Russian correspondent who curries favor by saving a Secret Police official. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: James Gleason, Vince Barnett, Raymond Hatton, Marie Prevost
Synopsis: To look at his later dramatic work, one would never guess that award-winning director George Stevens got his start working on two-reel comedies. But that's exactly where he cut his teeth, first as cinematographer, then director for Hal Roach and then as director of two-reelers for Universal and Read More
Actors: Wallace Beery, George Raft, Jackie Cooper, Fay Wray, Pert Kelton
Synopsis: In this rough-and-tumble action comedy, Chuck Connors (Wallace Beery) and Steve Brodie (George Raft) are friendly rivals on New York's Bowery in the 1890s. Connors owns a fancy tavern and looks after a streetwise kid named Swipes McGurk (Jackie Cooper), while Brodie is a daredevil willing to do Read More
Actors: Clara Bow, Preston S. Foster, Richard Cromwell, Herbert Mundin, James Gleason
Synopsis: Clara Bow, the saucy "It" girl of the silent screen, made her film farewell in the ragged musical drama Hoopla. Based on the stage play The Barker (previously filmed in 1927), the story takes place during the Chicago World's Fair of 1933. Bow plays Lou, a hootchy-kootchy dancer who is catapulted Read More
Actors: George Bancroft, Wynne Gibson, Charles Starrett, John Wayne, Morgan Wallace
Synopsis: One of four films directed by Stephen Roberts in 1932, just four years before the filmmaker passed away prematurely, Lady and Gent stars George Bancroft as aging prizefighter Stag Bailey. After Stag loses his last match to hotshot up-and-comer Buzz Kinney (a 25-year-old John Wayne in an early Read More
Actors: Marion Davies, Robert Montgomery, Billie Dove, Jimmy Durante, James Gleason
Synopsis: Marion Davies and Billie Dove, both veterans of the real-life Ziegfeld Follies, star in the entertaining comedy-drama Blondie of the Follies. Having both grown up in the New York tenement district, Blondie (Davies) and Lurleen (Dove) hope to escape their shabby surroundings in favor of the Read More
Actors: Robert Armstrong, Constance Cummings, Frank Morgan, James Gleason
Synopsis: In this comedy, a convict uses his skills as a masseur and a fight manager to get out of prison and become the private gym coach for a powerful oil magnate. When the instructor's little brother gets involved with his employer's daughter and they learn that the oil baron is trying to pull off Read More
Actors: Ben Lyon, ZaSu Pitts, James Gleason, Irene Purcell
Synopsis: The "Crooked Circle" gang consists of a dozen or so hooded villains, all of whom have sworn revenge on the Sphinx Club, a dedicated anti-criminal organization. It's difficult to differentiate the heroes and the villains without a score card: sinister swami Yoganda (C. Henry Gordon), for example Read More
Actors: Tom Brown, James Gleason, Maureen O'Sullivan, Andy Devine, Mickey Rooney
Synopsis: In this comedy, a shady jockey, Marty Black, teams up with Silk Henley to con the punters at little racetracks. Marty goes straight after he meets the feisty orphan, Midge. He then falls in love with Sally who runs a boarding house. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Edmund Lowe, Dickie Moore, James Gleason, Lois Wilson
Synopsis: Gabby Denton (Edmund Lowe) is a slightly down-on-his-luck bettor with a taste for alcohol and the ladies. To tide himself over, he takes a job in the garage owned by his brother-in-law, Beef Evans (James Gleason). Unbeknownst to Gabby -- times being what they are in the midst of the Great Read More
Actors: Edna May Oliver, James Gleason, Mae Clarke, Robert Armstrong
Synopsis: Edna May Oliver makes the first of three appearances as Hildegarde Withers, the schoolteacher/sleuth created by mystery writer Stuart Palmer. While conducting her students on a tour of the Battery Park Aquarium, Hildegarde spots a dead body in the penguin pool. Police inspector Piper (James Gleason Read More
Actors: Richard Arlen, Andy Devine, Gloria Stuart, James Gleason, John Darrow
Synopsis: A star football player in college, Garry King (Richard Arlen) finds post-college life very different; he betrays the trust of his best friend Steve (Preston S. Foster), finally losing his job. Meanwhile, his younger brother Bob (John Darrow), also a football star, is on the same track to ruin; Read More
Actors: Norma Shearer, Leslie Howard, Lionel Barrymore, Clark Gable, James Gleason
Synopsis: In this Academy Award-winning film, Stephen Ashe (Lionel Barrymore) is a hotshot Californian lawyer from a well-to-do family, whose main failing is his indulgence in alcohol. After winning a case for mobster Ace Wilfong (Clark Gable), Stephen brings his client along to a party at his parents' Read More
Actors: Dorothy Sebastian, Warner Oland, William Collier, Jr., James Gleason
Synopsis: Previously filmed in 1926 as Red Dice, The Big Gamble stars future "Hopalong Cassidy" Bill Boyd as a heavily-in-debt gambler. The suicidal Boyd makes a deal with mobster Warner Oland, whereby Oland will collect Boyd's huge insurance policy--provided he facilitates the gambler's entry into The Next Read More
Actors: Eddie Quillan, James Gleason, Marian Nixon, Lew Cody, Paul Hurst
Synopsis: The exciting world of horse-racing provides the setting for this lively comedy that centers on luckless Bud Doyle, a jockey who was falsely accused of cheating and barred from the track. Desperate for work, the fellow becomes a singing waiter in Tijuana. Eventually he is allowed back and ends up Read More
Actors: Marion Davies, Sidney Blackmer, James Gleason, Polly Moran, Lester Vail
Synopsis: In this comedy, a conservative family becomes alarmed when they begin believing their daughter is pregnant. They frantically begin searching for the father. The search is narrowed down to three possibilities: her ex-fiancee, her current one, or her legal guardian. Meanwhile, a drunken son marries Read More
Actors: ZaSu Pitts, Lew Cody, Marion Shilling, James Gleason
Synopsis: A troubled production that suffered from both severe cuts and retakes under a different director (Edward H. Griffith), this World War I melodrama fell far short of becoming another All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) as had obviously been the original intention. Told in flashbacks, the antiwar Read More
Actors: Robert Armstrong, James Gleason, Ginger Rogers, Harry Bannister
Synopsis: Coney island vendors Baltimore Clark (Bill Boyd), Dutch Herman (Robert Armstrong) and Skeets O'Reilly (James Gleason) spend their off-hours (and some of their on-hours) carrying on a friendly rivalry for the affections of pert drugstore counter girl Sally (Ginger Rogers). But when America enters Read More
Actors: Eddie Quillan, Miriam Seegar, Margaret Livingston, Dorothy Christy
Synopsis: Breezy comic actor Eddie Quillan starred in several amiable Pathe programmers in 1929, 30' and '31. Big Money finds Quillan cast as a go-getting bank messenger, who falls in with unsuccessful gambler Jimmy Gleason. Entering a high-stakes card game, Quillan bets the bank's money, and is promptly Read More
Actors: Robert Armstrong, Barbara Kent, Beryl Mercer, James Gleason
Synopsis: In this romantic comedy, a fighter goes to a southern town to train for the championship. He soon falls in love. The girl loves him too; they are very happy until the girl's grandmother, who wants her granddaughter to marry a rich man, begins interfering. She tries her best to break them up, but Read More
Actors: Gloria Swanson, Owen Moore, Lew Cody, Margaret Livingston, William Holden
Synopsis: The widow in question is wealthy Tamarind Brooks (Gloria Swanson), who flits from one man to another with the rapidity of a butterfly. Beginning in New York and ending in Paris, Tamarind collects men like some people collect stamps. Among her most ardent suitors are lawyer Gerry (Owen Moore) Read More
Actors: Al Jolson, Lois Moran, Louise Dresser, Lowell Sherman, Hobart Bosworth
Synopsis: Mammy features Al Jolson as the star of a travelling minstrel show, appearing in a small Southern town. Jolson falls in love with an actress in the troupe (Lois Moran), but she loves another. One of Jolson's fellow minstrels (Lowell Sherman) is shot backstage, and it is assumed thanks to several Read More
Synopsis: In this romance, Mamie, a humble factory worker, falls in love with a cocky, young boxer, Bill "Cyclone" Hickey. To help his flagging career, the young woman hires sportswriter Johnny Trump, to manage him. Unfortunately, Cyclone has attitude problems and Trump leaves him. The fighter's career soon Read More
Actors: Helen Twelvetrees, Marjorie Rambeau, Ricardo Cortez, Phillips Holmes, James Gleason
Synopsis: Helen Twelvetrees became a major star in this laundered version of the "naughty" Broadway play Frankie and Johnny. A singer in a Havana dive, Frankie is fought over by the proprietor, Johnny (Ricardo Cortez), and Dan O'Keefe (Phillips Holmes), an American sailor who sees some good in the girl. Read More
Crew: Play Author, Screenwriter
Actors: Joe Cook, Louise Fazenda, Joan Peers, William Collier, Jr., Tom Howard
Synopsis: Legendary Broadway comedian Joe Cook, who was capable of reducing audiences to paroxysms of helpless laughter by telling them what he wasn't going to do that evening, was invariably better than the shows in which he appeared. Fully aware of this, director Frank Capra brought Cook's 1928 Read More
Actors: Jack Mulhall, Mae Clarke, Ned Sparks, Pat O'Malley
Synopsis: The Fall Guy isn't Lee Majors in this 1930 RKO Radio programmer but instead a hapless druggist played by Jack Mulhall. Upon losing his job, Johnny Quinlan (Mulhall) falls in with underworld chieftain Nifty Herman (played by Thomas Jackson, usually cast as dedicated detectives). Hoping to use Read More
Actors: Harry Richman, Joan Bennett, James Gleason, Aileen Pringle
Synopsis: The rise and fall of a popular entertainer provides the basis of this musical drama. Harry Raymond (played by nightclub superstar Harry Richman) begins his career with nothing but his ambition, his talent and the support of friends and loved ones. Eventually he hits the big time and becomes a Read More
Actors: Frank Fay, Lilyan Tashman, James Gleason, Florence Eldridge
Synopsis: Whatever rapport comedian Frank Fay enjoyed with Broadway audiences invariably evaporated when he appeared on film. In The Matrimonial Bed, Fay is his usual overbearing self as Adolphe, a small-town husband who is rendered an amnesiac in a train crash. Five years pass, during which time Adolphe Read More
Actors: Robert Armstrong, James Gleason, Patricia Caron, ZaSu Pitts, Budd Fine
Synopsis: Two vagabonds find romance in this love story. It all begins when they get jobs as railroad brakemen by proving to the foreman that they are strong. Both of them simultaneously think about giving up their wandering ways when they meet two eligible women: the railroad's paymaster and commissary Read More
Actors: James Gleason, Lucille Gleason, Charles Grapewin, Mary Philbin, John Breeden
Synopsis: Although The Shannons of Broadway was not James Gleason's first film appearance as advertised, it might as well as been: Based on Gleason's own stage play, the film co-starred Gleason with his wife Lucille Webster. Mr. and Mrs. G. are cast as Mickey and Emma Shannon, a vaudeville duo who meet with Read More
Actors: Anita Page, Bessie Love, Charles King, Jed Prouty, Ken Thomson
Synopsis: This landmark MGM backstage musical of the early sound era about broken dreams on the Great White Way features a bevy of standards by the songwriting team of Arthur Freed and Nacio Herb Brown. Freed later became unit producer of the legendary Freed Unit at MGM, which is the reason many of the Read More
Actors: Carole Lombard
Synopsis: In one of her first talking pictures, Carole Lombard played a girl crook falling in love with a handsome lineman (William Boyd) while marooned during a snow storm. Crossing the High Sierras in a bus, a group of travelers find themselves stranded in a small village and at the mercy of Bill Read More
Crew: Dialogue Writer, Screenwriter
Actors: William "Stage" Boyd, Marie Prevost, Russell Gleason, Tom O'Brien
Synopsis: Director Tay Garnett was still billing himself as "Taylor" when he helmed the patchy actioner The Flying Fool. The title character, played by William "Hopalong Cassidy" Boyd, is a fearless aviator; his brother, Russell Gleason, is Boyd's rival in the air and on the ground. Both brothers vie for Read More
Actors: William "Hopalong" Boyd, Dorothy Sebastian, Gavin Gordon, Helen Parrish
Synopsis: The unique directorial touches of Gregory LaCava lift this standard military comedy well above the norm. William Boyd plays Terry Culver, a wise-guy officer who receives his first commission. Amazingly, Culver's commanding officer Colonel Gaylord (Alphonse Ethier) takes a liking to the brash Read More
Actors: James Gleason, Charles Ray, Jobyna Ralston, Edythe Chapman, Arthur Lake
Synopsis: Veteran stage actor/playwright James Gleason made his film debut in the Universal comedy The Count of Ten. In fact, Gleason received top billing over onetime screen favorite Charles Ray, an indication that Ray's days of prominence were numbered. Returning to the "yokel" characterization that won Read More
Synopsis: There seems to be some debate over exactly who directed this amusing Constance Talmadge picture. Since John Emerson directed so many of her films (and co-wrote the screenplays with his wife, Anita Loos), he has automatically been given credit by several sources. However, trade paper Motion Picture Read More
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