The best Russell Gleason’s comedy movies
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Russell Gleason’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about Russell Gleason.
Swing Fever
5.9/10
Comedy about a bandleader with hypnotic powers.
Private Jones
5.1/10
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 of his family and is employed by businessman Roger Winthrop, his sister Helen's boss.
The Sophomore
5.7/10
Joe Collins (Eddie Quillan) 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 game.
Swing Shift Maisie
6.2/10
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 realize she's using him and it's up to Maisie to convince him.
Hot Water
5.1/10
The Jones family is in an uproar when Dad's campaign for mayor appears sabotaged by an anonymous newspaper article.
Off to the Races
7/10
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.
Safety in Numbers
6/10
The Jones family patriarch, also mayor (Prouty), is swindled into thinking the town swamp is a rich mineral deposit.
Borrowing Trouble
6.4/10
The Jones family drugstore is robbed and it looks like the culprit is a boy the family has taken a liking to.
Hot Tip
5.6/10
An amateur handicapper must help his future son-in-law recoup the money he lost while playing the ponies.
Salute to the Marines
6.4/10
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.
News Is Made at Night
6.3/10
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.
Laugh and Get Rich
5.5/10
An inept inventor and his stoic wife believe an oil well investment has paid off and that they've become wealthy overnight.
Unexpected Uncle
6/10
An elderly gentleman comes to a young woman's aid by pretending to be her uncle. Comedy.
Everybody's Baby
6.2/10
The Jones family encounters new theories of childrearing when an author arrives in town to lecture on the topic.
Big Business
5.8/10
A small town drugstore owner (Jed Prouty) hopes to strike it rich by investing his savings in an oil well. Comedy.
A Trip to Paris
5.9/10
The Jones Family heads to Gay Paree in celebration of the 25th wedding anniversary of Pa and Ma Jones. It doesn't take long for the Joneses to be victimized by clever Parisian con artists.
Down on the Farm
5.2/10
Excitement runs high when a family's farm is chosen as the site for a big cornhusking contest.
Dudes Are Pretty People
4.5/10
Western comedy about a cowhand falling in love with the pretty guest at a local dude ranch.
Love on a Budget
5.8/10
This late entry in the popular "The Jones Family" series of '30s comedies has the family contending with a troublesome (and possibly crooked) uncle while trying to cut household expenses.
Grandpa Goes To Town
7.3/10
Joe and Lil Higgins invest their life savings in a frontier hotel. Upon arrival, the family discovers that the establishment is smack dab in the middle of a ghost town that hasn't seen a human face in years.
