Russell Gleason Movies

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

A railway postal clerk goes after a sweepstakes counterfeiting ring.

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...

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

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

The Higgins family prepares for a long-awaited cruise to Rio, but while father Joe bids farewell to his co-workers at the bank, mother Lil...

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...

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

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.

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

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...

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

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

It begins with the Mustangs in trouble in their championship series... all the players are banged up and they're being clobbered. But a sports...

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

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

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...

When Russel Gleason is thought to have made a kick by Jim Thorpe, he is reinstated on the college team in time for the big game.