Gladden James Movies

Produced in 1941, this film was sponsored by Alco Locomotives & General Electric, so naturally their railroad equipment is featured front and center.

A former reporter comes back home after serving in the army during World War I and finds that it's much more difficult to find work than he expected....

Compassionate small-town lawyer Richard Clarke moves to New York City to seek his fortune, but is unsuccessful until he takes a friend's advice and...

Among the travelers of varied backgrounds that meet and interact on one night at Union Depot, a metropolitan train station, are Chick and his friend...

Wall Street broker Robert Cain, Sr., is jailed for embezzling. His college graduate son Bob then turns to crime to raise money for his father's...

Small-town soda-jerk Peggy Evans quits her dead-end job and moves to New York where she invents a new identity.

Fay Wray plays Jean Hastings, the wealthy and spoiled scion of a factory-owning family led by her irrepressible grandmother. Sparks fly when Jean...

A behind the times Chicago bootlegger goes to England with his lawyer to claim his estate as the Earl of Gorley.

A society girl tries to make a go of her marriage to an archaeologist.

When a crafty reporter uses false pretenses to get a story out of heiress Tony Gateson, she turns the tables on him, telling the press that they are...

Swanee River is a 1940 American biopic about Stephen Foster, a songwriter from Pittsburgh who falls in love with the South, marries a Southern girl,...

An aging star finally recognizes the truth when she is replaced in her new movie by a girl from the chorus.

A hermit's idyllic life on an island is disturbed by the arrival of a bunch of cutthroats.

Kitty Lorraine has one purpose in life: turning her daughter Shirley into a star. Kitty controls every aspect of the girl's nascent career -- even...

Rex Radcliffe, vice president of the Northern Atlantic Railroad, is opposed by company president William Harding in his desire to put over a deal...

Joe Smith is an ordinary American family man who works in an aircraft factory. Shortly after being a promoted to a much higher position, Joe is...

Falsely convicted of murder, young Robert Draper escapes custody during a practice blackout drill. Under cover of darkness, Draper hopes to find the...

Corrupt politicians resort to murder and blackmail when a young boy accidentally witnesses them taking payoffs.

Two Hollywood stuntmen compete for the same pretty extra.

The south sea island Tonga is full of plantations and scoundrels. Ellen Bradford arrives expecting marriage to respectable and successful plantation...