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Joe Palooka in Triple Cross (1951)
Joe Palooka in Triple Cross is a 1951 American film. It was part of the Joe Palooka series and was directed by Reginald Le Borg.
Starring: Joe Kirkwood•Ben Lyon•ZaSu Pitts
Joe Palooka in the Squared Circle (1950)
Joe Palooka in the Squared Circle is a 1950 American film in the Joe Palooka series.
Starring: Joe Kirkwood•Ben Lyon•Zasu Pitts
Tanks a Million (1941)
Tanks a Million is a 1941 American film directed by Fred Guiol. It was the first of Hal Roach's Streamliners, short films under an hour designed for the lower half of a double feature. The two leading characters, whiz-kid sergeant Doubleday and his rival Sergeant Ames, would go on to feature in seven more films, though the series has no overall tit...
Starring: Joe Kirkwood•William Boyd•Marian Nixon
Earl of Puddlestone (1940)
Earl of Puddlestone is a 1940 American comedy film directed by Gus Meins and written by Ewart Adamson and Val Burton. The film stars James Gleason, Lucile Gleason, Russell Gleason, Harry Davenport, Lois Ranson and Tommy Ryan. The film was released on August 31, 1940, by Republic Pictures.
Starring: Joe Kirkwood•Preston Foster•Lucile Gleason
Grandpa Goes to Town (1940)
Grandpa Goes to Town is a 1940 American comedy film directed by Gus Meins and written by Jack Townley. The film stars James Gleason, Lucile Gleason, Russell Gleason, Harry Davenport, Lois Ranson and Maxie Rosenbloom. The film was released on April 14, 1940, by Republic Pictures.
Starring: Joe Kirkwood•Preston Foster•Lucile Gleason
Army Girl (1938)
Army Girl is a 1938 American comedy film directed by George Nicholls Jr. and starring Madge Evans and Preston Foster. It was a high budget film by Republic Pictures.
Starring: Ginger Rogers•Joe Kirkwood•Bill Boyd
The Higgins Family (1938)
The Higgins Family is a 1938 American comedy film directed by Gus Meins and written by Paul Gerard Smith and Jack Townley. The film stars James Gleason, Lucile Gleason, Russell Gleason, Lynne Roberts, Harry Davenport and William Bakewell. The film was released on August 29, 1938, by Republic Pictures.
Starring: Joe Kirkwood•Preston Foster•Bruce Cabot
Forty Naughty Girls (1937)
Forty Naughty Girls is a 1937 American comedy film directed by Edward F. Cline and written by John Grey. The film stars James Gleason, ZaSu Pitts, Marjorie Lord, George Shelley and Joan Woodbury. It is the sixth and final entry in RKO Pictures' series of Hildegarde Withers films. This film was the sixth film in the Hildegarde Withers-Oscar Piper se...
Starring: Betty Grable•Joe Kirkwood
The Big Game (1936)
The Big Game is a 1936 American sports drama film directed by George Nicholls, Jr. and produced by RKO Radio Pictures, which released the film on October 9, 1936. The screenplay was written by Irwin Shaw, adapted from the 1936 novel of the same name by Francis Wallace. The film stars Philip Huston, James Gleason, June Travis, Bruce Cabot and Andy D...
Starring: Joe Kirkwood•Lois Ranson•June Travis
Don't Turn 'Em Loose (1936)
Don't Turn 'Em Loose is a 1936 American crime drama film directed by Ben Stoloff and produced by RKO Radio Pictures, who released the film on September 18, 1936. Written by Harry Segall and Ferdinand Reyher, the production's screenplay is at least partially based on "Homecoming" by Thomas Walsh, a short story published in Collier's magazine in Marc...
Starring: Louise Latimer•Joe Kirkwood•Lois Ranson•William Tracy•Lois Hall
Murder on a Bridle Path (1936)
Murder on a Bridle Path is a 1936 mystery film directed by William Hamilton and Edward Killy, starring James Gleason and Helen Broderick. This film was the fourth production in the Hildegarde Withers series, and the only one in which Broderick played Hildegarde Withers.
Starring: Joe Kirkwood•Cathy Downs•Lois Hall
The Plot Thickens (1936)
The Plot Thickens is a 1936 mystery film directed by William Sistrom, starring James Gleason and ZaSu Pitts, who plays the schoolteacher and amateur sleuth Hildegarde Withers from Stuart Palmer's stories. Gleason reprised his role as Hildegarde's friendly nemesis, Inspector Oscar Piper, from RKO Radio Pictures' previous Hildegarde Withers films.
Starring: Betty Grable•Joe Kirkwood•Lois Hall
Hot Tip (1935)
Hot Tip is a 1935 American comedy film directed by Ray McCarey and James Gleason from a screenplay by Hugh Cummings, Olive Cooper, and Louis Stevens, based on William Slavens McNutt's short story, "Leander Clicks", which had been published in the August 1928 edition of Red Book Magazine. Gleason also starred in the film, along with ZaSu Pitts, Marg...
Starring: Betty Grable•Joe Kirkwood•Marion Davies•Ben Lyon
Murder on the Blackboard (1934)
Murder on the Blackboard is a 1934 American pre-Code mystery/comedy film starring Edna May Oliver as schoolteacher Hildegarde Withers and James Gleason as Police Inspector Oscar Piper. Together, they investigate a murder at Withers' school. It was based on the novel of the same name by Stuart Palmer. It features popular actor Bruce Cabot in one of ...
Starring: Zasu Pitts•Joe Kirkwood
The Crooked Circle (1932)
The Crooked Circle is a 1932 American pre-Code film, a comedy-mystery directed by H. Bruce Humberstone.
Starring: Betty Grable•Mary Philbin•Joe Kirkwood
Beyond Victory (1931)
Beyond Victory is a 1931 American pre-Code war film starring Bill Boyd, James Gleason, Lew Cody, and ZaSu Pitts. While John Robertson received directing credit, Edward H. Griffith supposedly took extensive re-takes after production ended and the film was deemed not audience ready. Two actresses with major roles in the original version were complete...
Starring: Joe Kirkwood•Margaret Callahan•Marian Nixon
The Big Gamble (1931)
The Big Gamble is a 1931 American pre-Code drama film directed by Fred Niblo and written by Walter DeLeon and F. McGrew Willis. The film stars William Boyd, Dorothy Sebastian, Warner Oland and James Gleason. The film was released on September 4, 1931 by RKO Pictures.
Starring: Ginger Rogers•Joe Kirkwood•Robert Armstrong
It's a Wise Child (1931)
It's a Wise Child is a 1931 American pre-Code comedy film directed by Robert Z. Leonard and written by Laurence E. Johnson. The film stars Marion Davies, Sidney Blackmer, James Gleason, Polly Moran and Lester Vail. The film was released on April 11, 1931, by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
Starring: Sidney Blackmer•Eddie Quillan•Joe Kirkwood
Suicide Fleet (1931)
Suicide Fleet is a 1931 American pre-Code drama film directed by Albert S. Rogell, written by Lew Lipton and F. McGrew Willis, and starring William Boyd, Robert Armstrong, James Gleason, and Ginger Rogers. It was released on November 20, 1931, by RKO Pictures.
Starring: Ginger Rogers•Joe Kirkwood•Marion Shilling
Sweepstakes (1931)
Sweepstakes is a 1931 American pre-Code comedy film directed by Albert S. Rogell from a screenplay written by Lew Lipton and Ralph Murphy. The film stars Eddie Quillan, James Gleason, Marian Nixon, Lew Cody, and Paul Hurst, which centers around the travails and romances of jockey Buddy Doyle, known as the "Whoop-te-doo Kid" for his trademark yell d...
Starring: Bill Boyd•Joe Kirkwood
Big Money (1930)
Big Money is a 1930 American comedy-drama film directed by Russell Mack and starring Eddie Quillan, Robert Armstrong, and James Gleason. It was produced and distributed by Pathé Exchange, shortly before the company was completely absorbed by RKO.
Starring: June MacCloy•Russell Gleason•Joe Kirkwood
The Swellhead (1930)
The Swellhead is a 1930 American pre-Code sports film directed by James Flood and starring James Gleason, Johnnie Walker, and Marion Shilling. It is also known by the alternative title of Counted Out.
Starring: Joe Kirkwood•Margaret Callahan
Oh, Yeah! (1929)
Oh, Yeah! is a 1929 American pre-Code action film directed by Tay Garnett and starring Robert Armstrong, James Gleason and Zasu Pitts. The film's sets were designed by the art director Edward C. Jewell. An early sound film, it was made during the transition from the silent era. It is also known by the alternative title No Brakes after the original ...
Starring: Zasu Pitts•June MacCloy•Joe Kirkwood
The Shannons of Broadway (1929)
The Shannons of Broadway is a 1929 American comedy film directed by Emmett J. Flynn and starring James Gleason, Lucile Gleason and Mary Philbin. It was based on James Gleason's 1927 play of the same title, which was later remade as Goodbye Broadway.
Starring: Mary Philbin•Joe Kirkwood•Preston Foster