Movies: Jack Wise

A private eye and his secretary probe a murder and find an international spy....

When a singing, song-writing prizefighter is framed for murder and sent to the state pen, his girlfriend sets out to prove his innocence....

A waitress at the Warner Brothers commissary is anxious to break into pictures. She thinks her big break may have arrived when actors Jack Carson and Dennis Morgan agree to help her....

The Big Noise is retired textile manufacturer Julius Trent (Guy Kibbee). Seeking a new outlet for his entrepreneurial energies, Trent buys a half interest in a thriving dry-cleaning establishment. This gets him mixed up with a gang of protection rack...

A Brooklyn pier racketeer bullies boat-owners into paying protection money but two fed-up fishermen decide to eliminate the gangster themselves rather than complain to the police....

A very nervous man named Cartwright comes into Perry's office to have the neighbor arrested for his howling dog. He states that the howling is a sign that there is a death in the neighborhood. He also wants a will written giving his estate to the lad...

Ex-Army officer Jameson takes a job a prison guard at San Quentin. Joe, the brother of his new girlfriend May, is sentenced to the prison for robbery. When Jameson tries to separate lawbreakers from hardened criminals, badguy Hansen tries to stir up ...

When a prisoner on Death Row is "accidentally" killed just before his execution, a reporter smells something fishy......

Philo is in Vienna working for the US Government to see if Archer Coe is selling aircraft designs to foreign powers. He grabs the plans with Archer's signature, but is captured by police before he can escape. Deported he comes back to America and pla...

An aspiring playwright finds himself an overnight Broadway success....

A hustling public relations man promotes a series of fads....

A reporter gets himself sent to prison to expose a mobster....

Quiet, organised Dr Talbot meets nightclub singer Nora Prentiss when she is slightly hurt in a street accident. Despite her misgivings they become heavily involved and Talbot finds he is faced with the choice of leaving Nora or divorcing his wife. Wh...

A young woman marries a man who turns out to be a bank robber....

Melodrama about the professional and romantic problems of an aspiring singer....

A warden and his assistant clash over prison reform, triggering a violent riot....

Outdoor drama about a newly-hired lumberjack discovering that his former girlfriend is now his new boss's wife....

In the second screen version of The Maltese Falcon, a detective is caught between a lying seductress and a lady jewel thief....

Helen Chernen pushes her younger sister Katherine into show business in order to escape their small town poverty....

A singing cowboy turns out to be a tenderfoot....