Russell Gleason Movies

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...

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

Western comedy about a cowhand falling in love with the pretty guest at a local dude ranch.

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

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

It all begins when Joe Higgins, business manager of a prosperous candy-manufacturing firm, is ordered by his pompous boss Ellis to break up the romanc...

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

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 middl...

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

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

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...

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

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 b...

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 dest...

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...

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 sou...

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

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

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

Excitement runs high when a family's farm is chosen as the site for a big cornhusking contest.