Movies: Russell Gleason

When a group of idealistic young men join the German Army during the Great War, they are assigned to the Western Front, where their patriotism is destroyed by the harsh realities of combat....

It is a comic book propaganda film which has Beery as a retired USMC NCO who, when the Japanese invade the Philippines, leads a heroic defense, first by strangling a Nazi agent, and then dying in his dress blues uniform while blowing up a bridge....

Comedy about a bandleader with hypnotic powers....

After a series of murders, a man finds out that his mother was bitten by a vampire bat during her pregnancy, and he believes that he may be the vampire committing the murders....

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

An inept inventor and his stoic wife believe an oil well investment has paid off and that they've become wealthy overnight....

The Jones family's uncle George enters his trotting horse in the fair grounds race. The family helps raise the entrance fee and care for the horse....

Street-smart Maisie from Brooklyn lands a job at an airplane assembly plant during WWII and falls in love with handsome pilot "Breezy" McLaughlin. Breezy, however, falling in love with and getting engaged to Maisie's conniving roommate Iris, doesn't ...

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

The police use a gangster's son to get to him....

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 sound and silent versions, the latter for theaters that had not yet been wired for sound.)...

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 loves Bill, is concerned when her brother, Johnny, who witnessed the murder, proposes to testify aga...

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

In Chicago, an unemployed actor aims to solve the mystery concerning a string of ax murders, apparently committed by a lunatic....

The Jones family drugstore is robbed and it looks like the culprit is a boy the family has taken a liking to....

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

A young dress designer marries an insurance agent. They soon have a daughter, but what the wife doesn't know is that her husband is actually a criminal......

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

A railway postal clerk goes after a sweepstakes counterfeiting ring....

Newspaper editor (Foster) will do almost anything to increase circulation. He campaigns to free a condemned man while accusing a wealthy ex-criminal of a string of murders....