The best James Gleason’s crime movies
Today we present the best James Gleason’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best James Gleason’s movies.
The Night of the Hunter
8/10
In the Deep South, a serial-killing preacher hunts two young children who know the whereabouts of a stash of money.
Arsenic and Old Lace
7.9/10
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!
Suddenly
6.8/10
The tranquility of a small town is marred only by sheriff Tod Shaw's unsuccessful courtship of widow Ellen Benson, a pacifist who can't abide guns and those who use them. But violence descends on Ellen's household willy-nilly when the U.S. President passes through town... and slightly psycho hired assassin John Baron finds the Benson home ideal for an ambush.
Forty Naughty Girls
6/10
Hildegarde Withers (ZaSu Pitts) and Inspector Piper (James Gleason) try to solve a murder while attending the opening-night performance of a Broadway show. Comedy-mystery.
A Free Soul
6.6/10
An alcoholic lawyer who successfully defended a notorious gambler on a murder charge objects when his free-spirited daughter becomes romantically involved with him.
The Crooked Circle
5.3/10
A group of amateur detectives sets out to expose The Crooked Circle, a secretive group of hooded occultists.
A Date with the Falcon
6.4/10
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.
The Falcon Takes Over
6.4/10
While an escaped convict, Moose Malloy, goes in search of his ex-girlfriend Velma, police inspector Michael O'Hara attempts to track him assuming him to be a prime suspect for a number of mishaps.
The Billion Dollar Scandal
6.5/10
An ex-convict working for a wealthy oil baron finds trouble when his brother messes around with the boss's daughter.
Joe Palooka in the Squared Circle
5.6/10
Joe Palooka encounters gangsters and tries to alert the law.
Man in the Shadow
6.8/10
In effect, modern cow town Spurline is run by Virgil Renchler, owner of the Golden Empire Ranch. One night, two of Virgil's henchmen go a little too far and beat a "bracero" ranch hand to death. Faced with an obvious cover-up and opposition on every hand, sheriff Ben Sadler is goaded into investigating. His unlikely ally: Renchler's lovely, self-willed and overprotected daughter. Will Ben survive Renchler's wrath?
The Big Gamble
5.8/10
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.
Search for Beauty
6.1/10
Three con artists dupe two Olympians into serving as editors of a new health and beauty magazine which is only a front for salacious stories and pictures.
We're Only Human
6/10
A cop, who plays by his own rules, brings down a notorious gangster.
Joe Palooka in Triple Cross
5.7/10
Joe Palooka and two friends are taking hostage by three criminals.
Don't Turn 'em Loose
6.3/10
A conscientious attorney who is a member of the State Parole Board, finds his own son, using an alias, up for parole and makes the decision to cast the approving vote.
