James Gleason — Actor (23)
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The Dude Goes West (1948) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Dude Goes West
director: Kurt Neumann actor: Eddie Albert / Gale Storm …
other title: El galán audaz / Abenteuer im Wilden Westen …
Daniel Bone is aiming for success. A Brooklyn gunsmith by trade, he figures the place to be is where the guns are. So off he goes into the West and becomes the foe of the notorious Pecos Kid, the captive of Paiutes, the target in a saloon showdown, and the lone source of the whereabouts of a fabulous gold strike.
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Murder on the Blackboard (1934) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Murder on the Blackboard
director: George Archainbaud actor: Edna May Oliver / James Gleason …
other title: El crimen de la pizarra / El crimen en la pizarra
There are plenty of guilty secrets at the school where Hildegarde Withers teaches. When she finds the body of the pretty music teacher, she calls in her old friend Inspector Piper, who promptly arrests the obvious suspect. Clues multiply and everyone looks suspicious as Piper and Miss Withers continue their battle of the sexes.
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Tycoon (1947) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Tycoon
director: Richard Wallace actor: John Wayne / Laraine Day …
other title: La grande conquista / Taïkoun …
Engineer Johnny Munroe is enlisted to build a railroad tunnel through a mountain to reach mines. His task is complicated, and his ethics are compromised, when he falls in love with his boss's daughter
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The Devil Is Driving (1932) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
The Devil Is Driving
director: Benjamin Stoloff actor: Edmund Lowe / Wynne Gibson …
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 mechanic. Not realizing the garage he works for is actually a front for a stolen car ring, Gabby soon finds himself mixed up in both murder and a liaison with the boss's girl.
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A Date with the Falcon (1942) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
A Date with the Falcon
director: Irving Reis actor: George Sanders / Wendy Barrie …
other title: Los diamantes del Halcón / Los diamantes del halcón
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 fiancée, Helen Reed, when a mystery girl, Rita Mara, asks for his aid in disposing of a secret formula for making synthetic diamonds. He deliberately allows himself to be kidnapped by the gang for which Rita works. His aide, "Goldy" Locke, trails the kidnappers and brings the police. But the head of the gang escapes, and the Falcon continues the pursuit.
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Miss Grant Takes Richmond (1949) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Miss Grant Takes Richmond
director: Lloyd Bacon actor: Lucille Ball / William Holden …
other title: Segretaria tutto fare / Miss Grain de sel
A bookie uses a phony real estate business as a front for his betting parlor. To further keep up the sham, he hires dim-witted Ellen Grant as his secretary figuring she won't suspect any criminal goings-on. When Ellen learns of some friends who are about to lose their homes, she unwittingly drafts her boss into developing a new low-cost housing development.
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Star in the Dust (1956) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Star in the Dust
director: Charles F. Haas actor: John Agar / Mamie Van Doren …
other title: Esecuzione al tramonto / Noch heute sollst du hängen …
The sheriff of Gunlock is planning to hang Sam Hall, who shot three farmers found on cattle land, at sundown. At the casino, betting is 8 to 3 he won't make it. The cattlemen are set to rescue Sam; the farmers hope to lynch him before he can be rescued; and Hall schemes for escape with his girl Nellie. But Sheriff Jorden is most concerned with finding out who hired Hall: a leading suspect is the sheriff's future brother-in-law.
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The Yellow Cab Man (1950) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
The Yellow Cab Man
director: Jack Donohue actor: Red Skelton / Gloria DeHaven …
other title: L'autista pazzo / Der Unglücksrabe
Pirdy is accident prone. He has been denied insurance from every company in town because he is always getting hit or hurt in some way. On the day that he meets the lovely Ellen of the Yellow Cab Co., he also meets the crooked lawyer named Creavy. Pirdy is an inventor and when Creavy learns about elastic-glass, his new invention, he makes plans to steal the process. With the help of another con man named Doksteader, and the boys, he will steal this million dollar invention no matter who gets hurt.
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The Girl Rush (1955) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Girl Rush
director: Robert Pirosh actor: Rosalind Russell / Fernando Lamas …
other title: L'Héritière de Las Vegas / La ragazza di Las Vegas
When her compulsive-gambler father dies, leaving her with an inheritance that amounts to zip, single gal Kim Halliday jumps at a caller's claim that she's part-owner of a Las Vegas "hotel." But hilarity ensues when she flies to Sin City to see it. While a wealthy casino owner eyes her dilapidated property, she takes a chance and tries to sell it to an hotelier's wealthy son.
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Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Here Comes Mr. Jordan
director: Alexander Hall actor: Robert Montgomery / Evelyn Keyes …
other title: L'inafferrabile signor Jordan / Urlaub vom Himmel …
Boxer Joe Pendleton, flying to his next fight, crashes...because a Heavenly Messenger, new on the job, snatched Joe's spirit prematurely from his body. Before the matter can be rectified, Joe's body is cremated; so the celestial Mr. Jordan grants him the use of the body of wealthy Bruce Farnsworth, who's just been murdered by his wife. Joe tries to remake Farnsworth's unworthy life in his own clean-cut image, but then falls in love; and what about that murderous wife?
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The Falcon Takes Over (1942) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Falcon Takes Over
director: Irving Reis actor: George Sanders / Lynn Bari …
other title: El Halcón inicia el vuelo
While an escaped convict, Moose Malloy, goes in search of his ex-girlfriend Velma, police inspector Michael O'Hara attempts to track him assuming him to be a prime suspect for a number of mishaps.
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Crash Dive (1943) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Crash Dive
director: Archie Mayo actor: Tyrone Power / Anne Baxter …
other title: Agguato sul fondo / Requins d'acier …
A US Navy submarine, the USS Corsair, is operating in the North Atlantic, hunting German merchant raiders that are preying on Allied shipping. Its new executive officer, Lt. Ward Stewart, has been transferred back into submarines after commanding his own PT boat. At the submarine base in New London, Connecticut, he asks his new captain, Lt. Cmdr. Dewey Connors, for a weekend leave to settle his affairs before taking up his new assignment. On a train bound for Washington D.C., Stewart accidentally encounters New London school teacher Jean Hewlett and her students. Despite her initial resistance to his efforts, he charms her and they fall in love.
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My Gal Sal (1942) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
My Gal Sal
director: Irving Cummings actor: Rita Hayworth / Victor Mature …
other title: Follie di New York / Die Königin vom Broadway …
Biopic chronicling the early life of gay nineties-era songwriter Paul Dresser as he outgrows his job as carnival entertainer and moves up into New York society, writing one hit song after another. Despite his egotistical behavior, he manages to woo and win Sally Elliott, one of the more popular songstresses of the day