Russell Gleason Movies

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

The Shady Lady is a 1928 sound part-talkie American drama film directed by Edward H. Griffith.

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

The Jones family patriarch, also mayor, is swindled into thinking the town swamp is a rich mineral deposit.

After America enters World War I, young William "Bill" Jones tries to avoid military service by telling the draft board that he is the sole supporter...

Street-smart Maisie from Brooklyn lands a job at an airplane assembly plant during WWII and falls in love with handsome pilot "Breezy" McLaughlin....

A small town drugstore owner (Jed Prouty) hopes to strike it rich by investing his savings in an oil well. Comedy.

The story of a young man's discovery of his father.

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...

Joe and Lil Higgins invest their life savings in a frontier hotel. Upon arrival, the family discovers that the establishment is smack dab in the...

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

A doctor looks at his scrapbook and reflects on college days: how success at football took him from his studies, his flirtation with a widow and his...

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...

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...

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

The Jones family is in an uproar when Dad's campaign for mayor appears sabotaged by an anonymous newspaper article.

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...

The Jones family encounters new theories of childrearing when an author arrives in town to lecture on the topic.

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

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