The best Pat Gleason’s movies

Pat Gleason

Pat Gleason

14/03/1904- 10/02/1993
Today we present the best Pat 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 Pat Gleason’s movies.
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Detour

Detour
7.3/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 30/11/1945
  • Character: Joe, Trucker at Diner
Al Roberts, a New York nightclub pianist, hitchhikes to Hollywood to meet his girlfriend Sue. The gambler he's riding with, Charles, unexpectedly dies. Afraid the police wouldn't believe the truth, Al takes the man's identity. In a gas station, he gives a lift to Vera, a woman that knew Charles and blackmails Al with tragic consequences.

Gun Crazy

Gun Crazy
7.6/10
Bart Tare is an ex-Army man who has a lifelong fixation with guns, he meets a kindred spirit in sharpshooter Annie Starr and goes to work at a carnival. After upsetting the carnival owner who lusts after Starr, they both get fired. Soon, on Starr's behest, they embark on a crime spree for cash.

Topper

Topper
7.2/10
Madcap couple George and Marion Kerby are killed in an automobile accident. They return as ghosts to try and liven up the regimented lifestyle of their friend and bank president, Cosmo Topper. When Topper starts to live it up, it strains relations with his stuffy wife.

Air Force

Air Force
7/10
The crew of an Air Force bomber arrives in Pearl Harbor in the aftermath of the Japanese attack and is sent on to Manila to help with the defense of the Philippines.

Flamingo Road

Flamingo Road
7.1/10
A stranded carnival dancer takes on a corrupt political boss when she marries into small-town society.

Midnight Manhunt

Midnight Manhunt
5.3/10
Two reporters search for a missing body in a wax museum.

In the Navy

In the Navy
6.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 30/05/1941
  • Character: Sentry (uncredited)
Popular crooner Russ Raymond abandons his career at its peak and joins the Navy using an alias, Tommy Halstead. However, Dorothy Roberts, a reporter, discovers his identity and follows him in the hopes of photographing him and revealing his identity to the world. Aboard the Alabama, Tommy meets up with Smoky and Pomeroy, who help hide him from Dorothy, who hatches numerous schemes in an attempt to photograph Tommy/Russ being a sailor.

Brother Orchid

Brother Orchid
7/10
When retired racket boss John Sarto tries to reclaim his place and former friends try to kill him, he finds solace in a monastery and reinvents himself as a pious monk.

Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe

Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe
6.6/10
A mysterious plague, the Purple Death, ravages the earth. Dr. Zarkov, investigating in his spaceship, finds a ship from planet Mongo seeding the atmosphere with dust. Sure enough, Ming the Merciless is up to his old tricks. So it's back to Mongo for Flash, Dale, and Zarkov, this time with ready-made allies waiting: Prince Barin of Arboria and Queen Fria of the frozen northern land of Frigia; where, it so happens, is found polarite, antidote to the plague. But Ming will use all his forces to keep our heroes from thwarting his plans of conquest.

Criminal Court

Criminal Court
5.9/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 15/11/1946
  • Character: Joe West
A lawyer who is planning to run for District Attorney accidentally kills a gangster who owns the nightclub where the attorney's girlfriend is a singer. Although he manages to cover up his involvement in the crime, his girlfriend discovers the body and is subsequently charged with the murder.

Detective Kitty O'Day

Detective Kitty O'Day
5.4/10
Convinced that she has what it takes to be a detective, inquisitive secretary Kitty O'Day gets her chance to put her sleuthing skills to the test when her investment broker boss is mysteriously murdered. But Kitty's investigation hits a snag when Inspector Miles Clancy begins to suspect that she's the culprit.

I Killed That Man

I Killed That Man
5.7/10
  • Genre: Mystery
  • Release: 28/11/1941
  • Character: Bates
A condemned inmate's premature death places officials under suspicion.

Maisie Gets Her Man

Maisie Gets Her Man
6.2/10
  • Genre: Mystery
  • Release: 01/06/1942
  • Character: Man in Office (Uncredited)
Struggling performers, Sothern and Skelton's lives are thrown off gear when they are caught with a bagful of hard cash robbed by a goon. With Skelton in prison, how will Sothern prove their innocence?

Radio Patrol

Radio Patrol
6.9/10
  • Genre: ActionDrama
  • Release: 03/10/1937
  • Character: Blake
About a young radio cop and a beautiful girl try to stop an international criminal gang from getting their hands on the formula for a new bulletproof steel.

Mystery Plane

Mystery Plane
5.3/10
An American pilot with a top-secret invention is kidnapped by foreign agents.

Rubber Racketeers

Rubber Racketeers
5.5/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 26/06/1942
  • Character: Curley
Racketeer Gillin is paroled from prison and immediately goes to work trying to make an illegal buck from America's war effort. With rationing in effect the black market tire business is booming. Gillen's mob sets up car lots around town where they peddle stolen tires and "new" tires milled in the gangster's factories from cheap faulty materials. People begin to die in crashes as the defective tires fail. Bill Barry leads his fellow defense plant workers on a crusade to uncover the source of the black market rubber and bring the guilty to justice. Although clearly intended to warn the public about black market tire smuggling, Rubber Racketeers holds it own as a saga of mobsters versus an irate public.

The Golden Fleecing

The Golden Fleecing
6.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 16/08/1940
  • Character: Cab Driver
A mild-mannered insurance salesman gets mixed up with gangsters.

23 1/2 Hours Leave

23 1/2 Hours Leave
5.1/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 21/03/1937
  • Character: Sgt. Squibb
Army training Sgt. Gray makes a bet that he can get himself invited to breakfast with his commanding officer, General Markley. But he gets into an unhappy tangle with a couple of enemy spies (and a happy tangle with the general's daughter) before the bet is finally decided.

The Spy Ring

The Spy Ring
5.4/10
Two American-army officers are working on a new type of machine-gun for anti-aircraft warfare, when one of them is murdered. The other vows to get the spies that are after the invention and avenge his friend's death.

On Stage Everybody

On Stage Everybody
6.5/10
  • Genre: Music
  • Release: 13/07/1945
  • Character: Performer (uncredited)
Radio's miracle show is on the screen.

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