Movies: Jack Wise

A publicity man promotes his newspaper, but finds his boss always steals the credit....

A murder happens when greedy relatives gather to await the demise of their wealthy and very ill family patriarch....

A salesman tries to sell a tractor to a customer who hates tractors while falling for the girl....

Dying Joan Ames meets criminal Dan Hardesty on a luxury liner as he is being transported back to America by policeman Steve Burke to face execution. Joan and Dan fall in love, their fates unbeknownst to one another....

Auctioneer Spot Cash Cutler is planning the scam of a lifetime, but will he get burned?...

A crusading young reporter planning a series of articles about a corrupt politician is framed for a crime and sentenced to serve five years at a prison farm....

A trucker with a pregnant wife fights a New York mobster's protection racket....

Aspiring actor Joe McDoakes blows his first part at Warner Bros. and has to settle for being a stand-in....

Torchy Blane joins her police-detective fiance to solve a series of murders involving a set of Chinese grave tablets taken and sold to a collector and death-threats written in Chinese characters....

Leslie is being chased by the gangsters, the police and the insurance investigators. He is on the run. Falsely accused of a murder, he embarks upon a life-and-death journey to save his family....

Secret Service agents try to solve the theft of treasury banknote plates....

T-Man Brass Bancroft goes undercover in a prison which has a secret counterfeit operation set up in the print shop....

In a U.S. town that could be anywhere, 18-year-old Alice Purdee wins a free trip to Hollywood. With the assistance of a cheerful porter, she takes the night train and dreams about her arrival. Instead of instant success, she meets disappointment afte...

An old millionaire, who believes he's dying, bequeaths his fortune to a young woman with a fanatical obsession with movie stars. But then the elderly tycoon recovers from his illness and decides he wants his money back. Comedy most notable for its nu...

The third of nine Torchy Blane movies. Angry that police detective Steve McBride (Barton MacLane) is giving preferential treatment to his reporter-fiancée, Torchy Blane (Glenda Farrell), reporters from a rival newspaper plan a fake murder with the ...

A Russian dance company agrees to stage the new ballet written by a vaudeville hoofer....

The Younger brothers return to Missouri after the Civil War with intent to avenge the misdeeds of William Merrick, a crooked banker who has been buying up warrants on back-taxes and dispossessing the farmers....

A paroled convict's efforts to improve conditions at a boys' reform school alarm the school's corrupt warden, who has been embezzling funds from the institution. He hatches a plan to derail the reformed convict's efforts and have him sent back to pri...

Madge Winton (Marion Davies), a beautiful secretary, makes herself look homely in order to avoid advances by lecherous bosses. When her new employer, writer Freddy Matthews (Robert Montgomery), accidentally sees her without her disguise, she has to p...

A champion auto racer who unhappily learns his kid brother wants to enter the same profession rather than finish school....