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....

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....

Comedy about a bandleader with hypnotic powers....

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 ...

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....

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

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

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

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....

A series of vignettes with a loose plot. Featured are Frank Morgan, Groucho Marx, Frank McHugh, Robert Benchley and The Brian Sisters. Not bad, more interesting for the historical significance than for entertainment....

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

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 reporter insists that his nephew, Minor, can really play ball and will help the team win....

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

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

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....

An elderly gentleman comes to a young woman's aid by pretending to be her uncle. Comedy....

Joe Collins arrives at Hanford College to begin his second year with $200 to pay his tuition, is enticed into a craps game, and loses all in this nostalgic slice of college, replete with songs, romance, prom dances and the inevitable big football gam...

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

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