James Gleason — Actor (27)
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Man or Gun (1958) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Man or Gun
director: Albert C. Gannaway actor: Macdonald Carey / Audrey Totter …
other title: Jede Kugel trifft / Hombre o revólver
Gun-slinging drifter "Maybe" Smith's Colt .44 pistol and shooting skills are put to the test shortly after his arrival in the New Mexico frontier town of Dusty Flats. After outdrawing wanted outlaw Buckstorm Corley in the saloon, Smith finds himself up against the entire corrupt Corley clan -- who've been running roughshod over the fearful townsfolk for years.
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Home Sweet Homicide (1946) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Home Sweet Homicide
director: Lloyd Bacon actor: Peggy Ann Garner / Randolph Scott …
other title: En busca del asesino / Maman déteste la police …
Mystery writer Marian Carstairs is hard at work trying to finish her latest novel. Her three children meanwhile are entertaining themselves by trying to solve a murder in their own neighborhood. In between gathering clues, the kids play matchmaker by trying to fix up their widowed mom with the handsome detective investigating the case.
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The Dude Goes West (1948) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Dude Goes West
director: Kurt Neumann actor: Eddie Albert / Gale Storm …
other title: 儍俠征蠻 / 奇槍怪俠 …
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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Manhattan Merry-Go-Round (1937) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Manhattan Merry-Go-Round
director: Charles Reisner actor: Phil Regan / Leo Carrillo …
other title: 曼哈顿旋转木马 / 曼哈頓旋轉木馬
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, baseball hero Joe DiMaggio, and big band stars Cab Calloway, Ted Lewis, and the Kay Thompson Singers. Songs include "Mamma I Wanna Make Rhythm," "Manhattan Merry-Go-Round," "Heaven?," "I Owe You," and "It's Round-up Time in Reno."
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Miss Grant Takes Richmond (1949) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Miss Grant Takes Richmond
director: Lloyd Bacon actor: Lucille Ball / William Holden …
other title: Miss Grain de sel / 痴鳳登龍
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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The Big Gamble (1931) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Big Gamble
director: Fred Niblo actor: William Boyd / Dorothy Sebastian …
other title: 命を売る男 / 西非探奇 …
A gambler, hopelessly in debt, agrees to pay off his debt by allowing his creditor to take out a life insurance policy on him and collecting once the one-year suicide clause has elapsed.
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Murder on a Honeymoon (1935) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Murder on a Honeymoon
director: Lloyd Corrigan actor: Edna May Oliver / James Gleason …
other title: Asesinato en la luna de miel
An amateur sleuth suspects foul play when a fellow passenger on a seaplane suddenly dies. The third and final film with Edna May Oliver and James Gleason as the astute schoolteacher Hildegarde Withers and the New York Police Inspector Oscar Piper busy solving crimes.
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A Date with the Falcon (1942) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
A Date with the Falcon
director: 欧文·赖斯 actor: 乔治·桑德斯 / 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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Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) [Movie] Min reol
Arsenic and Old Lace
director: Frank Capra actor: Cary Grant / Priscilla Lane …
other title: Arsenic et vieilles dentelles / Arsen und Spitzenhäubchen …
Mortimer Brewster, a newspaper drama critic, playwright, and author known for his diatribes against marriage, suddenly falls in love and gets married; but when he makes a quick trip home to tell his two maiden aunts, he finds out his aunts' hobby - killing lonely old men and burying them in the cellar!