Russell Gleason Movies

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

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

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

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

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

A railway postal clerk goes after a sweepstakes counterfeiting ring.

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...

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

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...

The Shady Lady is a 1928 sound part-talkie American drama film directed by Edward H. Griffith.

Street-smart Maisie from Brooklyn lands a job at an airplane assembly plant during WWII and falls in love with handsome pilot "Breezy" McLaughlin....

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...

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

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...

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

Four battle-weary American soldiers under fire reflect on the women they left behind.

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

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