Russell Gleason Movies

A theatre actor makes the crossover to movies and becomes a star, but his new-found fame puts his family relationships at risk.

Joe Collins arrives at Hanford College to begin his second year with $200 to pay his tuition, is enticed into a craps game, and loses all in this...

Father sells his drugstore and the Jones family heads for New York to enjoy sophisticated city life. They lose all their money before deciding to go...

This serious Pete Smith Specialty series entry encourages industry to hire people with disabilities to help with the war effort. As a boy, Ben Helwig...

An elderly gentleman comes to a young woman's aid by pretending to be her uncle. Comedy.

An ex-convict, unable to get a good job because of his prison record, gets mixed up in a phony stock scam.

A man protective of his brother checks out the girl his brother is in love with, in order to see if she's the real thing or just trying to take...

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

Bill O'Brien is promoted to lieutenant in the police department for his arrest of Mike Patello, gang leader and racketeer, for murder. Ruth Dale, who...

Wellington Pike, author of 'Wild and Bloody Tales of the West', has never been away from the sedate and civilized East, so he takes a vacation to see...

A 1929 American pre-Code drama film with fantasy elements that was released by Fox Film Corporation in the Fox Movietone sound-on-film system on...

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

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

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...

This late entry in the popular "The Jones Family" series of '30s comedies has the family contending with a troublesome (and possibly crooked) uncle...

On board a yacht sailing from India to Britain, the owner of the vessel is murdered by one of the passengers. (This film was produced both in full...

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

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

Jim Cole, heir to a mining operation, takes over the mine, which is suffering from unexplained low production, and is facing a strike by the miners....

A mother tries to get her daughter to marry for money, but the daughter wants to marry for love.