TV Guide: Jackie Gleason

Listing: Orchestra Wives

Fri, 24 Oct 2008 06:00:00 -0400

Fri Oct 24 06:00 AM HBOSGe

Listing: Larceny, Inc.

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 02:15:00 -0400

Wed Oct 22 02:15 AM TCM

Listing: Great Jewel Robbery

Sun, 19 Oct 2008 21:30:00 -0400

Sun Oct 19 09:30 PM WGN Ralph buys a wedding gift for the boss's daughter---and Alice thinks it's hers. Alice: Audrey Meadows. Norton: Art Carney. Ralph: Jackie Gleason.

Listing: Kramden vs Norton

Sun, 19 Oct 2008 21:00:00 -0400

Sun Oct 19 09:00 PM WGN Norton wins a television---but Ralph thinks that he should get the set. Jackie Gleason, Art Carney. Alice: Audrey Meadows. Trixie: Joyce Randolph.

Listing: The Toy

Wed, 15 Oct 2008 06:15:00 -0400

Wed Oct 15 06:15 AM ENCR1

Listing: The Hustler

Tue, 14 Oct 2008 01:15:00 -0400

Tue Oct 14 01:15 AM AMC

Listing: Teamwork Beats the Clock

Sun, 12 Oct 2008 21:30:00 -0400

Sun Oct 12 09:30 PM WGN Chaos reigns on "Beat the Clock" when Ralph teams up with Norton. Jackie Gleason, Art Carney. Alice: Audrey Meadows. Trixie: Joyce Randolph.

Listing: Battle of the Sexes

Sun, 12 Oct 2008 21:00:00 -0400

Sun Oct 12 09:00 PM WGN Ralph and Norton get a surprise when they try to show their wives who's boss. Audrey Meadows, Joyce Randolph, Art Carney. Ralph: Jackie Gleason.

Video: Navy Blues (1941) - (Original Trailer)

TCM — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:59:18 -0400

Look for a young Jackie Gleason with lots of Warners' best comedians in the service comedy Navy Blues (1941).

Video: The Hustler - (Movie Clip)

TCM — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:44:17 -0400

Reigning pool room champion Minnesota Fats (Jackie Gleason) and rival Fast Eddie (Paul Newman) meet for the first time in this scene from the 1961 drama, directed by Robert Rossen.

Video: Requiem for a Heavyweight - (Original Trailer)

TCM — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:39:10 -0400

Anthony Quinn is an aging boxer trying to escape a crooked manager (Jackie Gleason) in Rod Serling's drama Requiem For A Heavyweight (1962).

Video: Escape From Crime - (Original Trailer)

TCM — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:15:33 -0400

Escape From Crime (1942), a remake of the Cagney movie Picture Snatcher (1933) with an appearance by a young Jackie Gleason.

Video: Smokey And The Bandit - (Original Trailer)

TCM — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:04:38 -0400

The Bandit (Burt Reynolds) clears the road of Smokey (Jackie Gleason) for a cross-country beer run in Smokey And The Bandit (1977).

Video: Skidoo -- (Movie Clip) Trip

TCM — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:04:32 -0400

Early stages of retired mobster Tony Banks' (Jackie Gleason) acid trip, with help from Professor (Austin Pendleton) in Otto Preminger's Skidoo, 1968.

Video: Skidoo -- (Movie Clip) Blue Chips

TCM — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:03:40 -0400

Mickey Rooney is super cool as inmate "Blue Chips" Packard, contacted by Tony (Jackie Gleason) and the Professor (Austin Pendleton) in Skidoo, 1968.

Video: Skidoo -- (Movie Clip) Open, Remotes

TCM — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:03:39 -0400

Tony and Flo (Jackie Gleason and Carol Channing) discover remarkable TV fare as they battle with remotes in this opening scene from Skidoo, 1968.

Video: The Toy

iTunes — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 05:32:18 -0400

For the first time in motion picture history, the outrageous talent of Richard Pryor and the ingenious comedic sense of Jackie Gleason are combined in the same film. Gleason is U.S. Bates, a megalomaniac millionaire who owns most of south central Louisiana. Pryor is Jack Brown, a former journalist who has worked his way down the vocational ladder to the position of janitor in Bates' department store. Among Bates' other vast holdings is a young son Eric (Scott Schwartz), who visits his father for one week a year. Typically, Eric is chauffeured to the department store after-hours to pick out anything he wants. This time, Eric has a more elaborate toy in mind - Jack Brown. So begins the unique relationship that teaches Eric more about life than fun and games.

Video: Nothing In Common

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 06:00:04 -0400

Garry Marshall directed this film which starts as a light comedy but moves into heavy-duty drama later on. David Basner (Tom Hanks in a good performance) works in an ad agency, where he enjoys bantering with his co-workers and meets a lot of women. He hasn't been especially close to his father (Jackie Gleason) and never thought about him much until his Dad is left devastated when his wife of 36 years walks out on him. He is soon faced with serious health problems as well. This propels the elder Basner on a downward slide that affects David and their relationship. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide.

Video: Hustler, The

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 05:03:21 -0400

As The Hustler's Fast Eddie Felson, Paul Newman created a classic antihero, charismatic but fundamentally flawed, and nobody's role model. A pool player from Oakland, CA, as good as anyone who ever picked up a cue, Eddie has an Achilles' heel: arrogance. It's not enough for him to win: he must force his opponent to acknowledge his superiority. The movie follows Eddie from his match against billiards champ Minnesota Fats (Jackie Gleason) as he falls in love with Sarah (Piper Laurie), an alcoholic would-be writer and sometime prostitute, and falls under the spell of Bert Gordon (George C. Scott), a successful gambler who offers to take Eddie under his wing and teach him how to play in the big time. However, when Sarah joins Eddie and Bert on a trip to Louisville for a high-stakes match with a dandy named Findlay (Murray Hamilton), the consequences prove tragic. Along with a classic performance by Newman, The Hustler also features turns by Scott, Laurie, and Gleason, in a rare dramatic role. Cameos from pool ch

Video: Blast From The Past

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 00:59:53 -0400

In 1962, Calvin Webber (Christopher Walken) was a brilliant but somewhat paranoid scientist living with his Donna Reed-esque wife, Helen (Sissy Spacek), in Los Angeles. In the midst of the Cuban Missile Crisis, a plane crashed into the Webber's yard. Mistaking the blast for the big one, the Webbers moved into their elaborate bomb shelter to wait out the half-life of radioactive fallout. In the shelter, now a sort of time capsule, Calvin and Helen conceived and raised their son Adam (played as an adult by Brendan Fraser). For 35 years, Adam was raised on Jackie Gleason, Perry Como, and stories about life on the surface. Calvin taught his son about science, baseball, and communists while Mom taught Adam about dancing, good manners, and charming young ladies. Just in time, too, as Adam is sent to the surface to gather supplies and find a wife, preferably a nice, non-mutant girl from Pasadena with which to repopulate the world. Once this fish out of water story is set up, the fish, Adam, is set adrift in a sea of

Video: Smokey And The Bandit 2

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 00:20:16 -0400

Former stuntman Hal Needham made his directorial debut with the first Smokey and the Bandit (1977) and repeated his success with the sequel, a virtual remake that substituted a live elephant for a truckload of beer. Burt Reynolds returns as law-defying anti-hero Bandit, now a washed-up alcoholic whose girlfriend Carrie (Sally Field) has left him. When a pair of eccentric, wealthy brothers named Big Enos (Pat McCormick) and Little Enos (Paul Williams) approach Bandit with an offer of work, he and trucker pal Cledus (Jerry Reed) jump at the chance. The gig involves transporting an elephant to the Republican National Convention in twenty-four hours. The wrinkle is that the pachyderm is about to give birth -- any minute. Enter Doc (Dom DeLuise) a bizarre medical man who joins the team to care for the expectant mother, and Sheriff Buford T. Justice (Jackie Gleason), who has not forgotten the humiliations that he suffered during Bandit's last mission. Needham's films were instantly forgettable cocktails of car chas

Video: Smokey And The Bandit

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 00:20:11 -0400

Smokey, aka Sheriff Buford T. Justice (Jackie Gleason), is the prospective father-in-law of unwilling bride Carrie (Sally Field). The Bandit (Burt Reynolds), a maverick racecar driver, makes an 80,000-dollar bet that he can transport a shipment of Coors beer from Texarkana, TX, to Atlanta within 28 hours. It's important to note that in 1977, it was illegal to sell the Coors brand east of the Mississippi River without a permit; if we don't note that, then the plot won't make sense at times. Already in danger of arrest from redneck lawmen like Buford T. Justice, Bandit furthers his chances at a stiff jail term when he offers a ride to Carrie, who hopes to escape her unwanted wedding to Justice's boy. The rest of the film is one long chase; not quite as subtle as a Road Runner/Coyote cartoon, not quite as restrained as a Three Stooges comedy. Universally panned by critics upon its first release, Smokey and the Bandit reaped close to 50 million dollars at the box office and led to two sequels. ~ Hal Erickson, All

Video: Papa's Delicate Condition

Video Detective — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 23:45:32 -0400

This charming tale is about a young girl's father and his slightly erratic behavior after sampling a refreshing alcoholic beverage. Although Papa Jack Griffith (Jackie Gleason) never appears to be drunk, his delicate condition is well known to his family. His wife is definitely unhappy over his penchant but loves him just the same. He is adored by his youngest daughter, six year old Corinne (Linda Bruhl). When he tries to buy a pony for Corinne, he not only gets the pony but the entire broken down, debt ridden circus as well. This is too much for wife Ambolyn (Glynis Johns), who packs up the kids and heads for her father's house in Texarkana. Jack follows with the entire circus in pursuit to take his loving family back home. He also hoodwinks some local investors to put money into a proposed drug store, thereby circumventing a blue law that forbids the sale of alcohol. Gleason's performance contain many fine moments that run the full spectrum of human emotions and clearly illustrates why he has deservedly bee

Video: Jackie Gleason Collection, The

Video Detective — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 23:40:27 -0400

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Video: Honeymooners, The

Video Detective — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 23:39:53 -0400

One of television's most beloved sitcoms gets an overhaul for the big screen in this comedy. Ralph Kramden (Cedric the Entertainer) is a New York City bus driver who has great ambitions and plans to make something of himself one day. However, Ralph's big ideas usually take the form of half-baked get-rich-quick schemes which invariably fail, much to the chagrin of his long-suffering wife, Alice (Gabrielle Union). But Ralph always has a loyal ally in his best friend and upstairs neighbor, Ed Norton (Mike Epps), a sewer worker who also has a wife who is weary of his antics, Trixie (Regina Hall). Alice and Trixie have a plan to come up with the down payment for a dream house: a suburban duplex that's being eyed by a shady developer (Eric Stoltz). But when Ralph and Ed decide to spend their savings on training a stray mutt for the New Jersey dog races, they threaten both couples' futures. Based on the classic Jackie Gleason and Art Carney series, The Honeymooners also stars John Leguizamo. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie

Video: Sting 2, The

Video Detective — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 00:27:09 -0400

Although penned by the same screenwriter, David S. Ward, this sequel to The Sting (1973) is tarnished by comparisons to its predecessor. Jackie Gleason fills the shoes of Paul Newman as Harry Gondorff and Mac Davis slips into the Robert Redford role of Johnny Hooker, two con men pals whose latest sting involves Hooker pretending to be a down on his luck boxer. Their goal is the fixing of a prizefight, which will rook a tacky nightclub owner (Karl Malden) out of a fortune while simultaneously getting revenge on their old nemesis, Doyle Lonnegan (Oliver Reed). On their side is Veronica (Teri Garr), a seasoned scam artist, but what Gondorff and Hooker don't know is that Lonnegan is manipulating events behind the scenes. Director Jeremy Paul Kagan followed up this terribly unfunny and inferior sequel with the much better received The Journey of Natty Gann (1985), while Ward became a director of such comedies as Major League (1989) and King Ralph (1991). ~ Karl Williams, All Movie Guide.

Video: The Toy

CinemaNow — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 14:13:15 -0400

A billionaire, his spoiled son, and a writer hired to become a human toy, learn there are things money can't buy... like love. Starring RICHARD PRYOR, JACKIE GLEASON, NED BEATTY, WILFRED HYDE-WHITE