38 Jackie Gleason Movies, Ranked Best to Worst

A simple minded mute janitor - Gigot - lives alone in his dingy home and earns meagre income. For his neighbours and everyone else around, he is the laughingstock. However, one rainy day he comes across a woman and her daughter and brings them back to his home. Soon, he forms an adorable bond with the little girl and does everything to make her happy.

Small-time pool hustler, Fast Eddie Felson, enters the crooked and perverted world of major league professional pool-hustling and high-stakes winnings. He eventually ends up losing against the legendary player, Minnesota Fats, and getting involved with corrupt manager Bert Gordon. He does return to beat Fats but after paying a horrible personal price. 

Georgia’s Big Enos challenges Bandit to drive a truckload of Coors Beer from Texas and deliver within 28 hours in Atlanta where Coors was not available without permit. But when Bandit picks up hitchhiker Carrie, the runaway bride of Sheriff’s son, sheriff Buford T. Justice gives Bandit a high-speed chase across the states, with police from four states pursuing the careering cars.

Vicky leaves her dance partner Dan due to the latter’s womanizing ways. When Dan sees her with her old flame Victor, he decides to work hard to win her back. 

Jack Brown, an unemployed journalist finds himself literally purchased as a toy for Eric, a rich, spoiled brat of the department store where Jack is the night janitor. In order to spend a week with the troubled kid, Jack is paid handsomely. However, Jack soon learns the root of Eric's bad behaviour and gradually teaches the boy what it is to have a friend.  

Steel Against the Sky is a romantic action adventure film which revolves around Rocky Evans, whose only passions in life are his profession and his boss’s daughter Helen, who is the love of his life. However, his life gets quite complicated when his brother Chuck joins his company and also wins Helen’s affections. The two brothers soon find themselves clashing with each other.

Hollander family’s European tour is wrecked when their plane is hijacked to communist Vulgaria. Still in holiday mood, they leave the plane to take a few pictures, prompting the secret police to come and arrest them. After a crazy rush they eventually take refuge in the American embassy, which in the absence of the Ambassador is run by his inept son. But how will they now return home?   

David Basner is a successful advertising executive who seems to have everything in life. However, things get complicated when his parents decide to divorce after 36 years of marriage, leading to troublesome consequences.   

Billionaire businessman Anthony Falcon dies leaving all the property to his nephew, Guido Falcone, an Italian auto-mechanic, who has to reach San Francisco and sign the papers within given time to claim the inheritance. Anthony’s mercenary lawyer-executor John Cutler, who wants to have that wealth under his control, creates every possible hazard in Guido’s way to prevent him from receiving the bequest. 

Omar is an Iranian blacksmith who champions the cause of the poor and the oppressed against a tyrannical prince who oppresses his people.  

A young couple ends up having a baby out of wedlock. They decide to give the baby up for adoption. The girl’s parents decide to adopt their daughter’s child, and in order to do that, they fake a happy marriage. 

A bandit is tasked with transporting an elephant from Florida to Texas, to the Republican National Convention within twenty four hours. Meanwhile, Sheriff Buford is on his tail.

How Do I Love Thee? is a comedy drama film which tells the story of Tom Waltz, a college teacher who finds out that his ailing father Stanley, a furniture mover, is in Lourdes, Frances. He catches a flight there, despite the objections of his wife. Meanwhile, Stanley, who had been tempted by a woman named Lena, despite being married, receives a poem as a parting gift from her. He enters the poem into a contest, which gives him a monetary award of $ 10,000. However problems occur when it seems that the poem is not in fact original.  

A sheriff who is about to retire is challenged by Big Enos and Little Enos, to take a huge stuffed fish to Texas from Florida.