Movies: Jack Wise

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

A mother sends her young son to military school so he won't find out she's been sentenced to a prison term on a framed fraud charge....

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

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

Butch Saunders has been transferred to Missing Persons because he was too brutal in other police work......

Story of a rising stage star and the trouble she causes by her ambition....

A documentary short film depicting the work of the motion picture director. An anonymous director is shown preparing the various aspects of a film for production, meeting with the writer and producer, approving wardrobe and set design, rehearsing sce...

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....

After losing his bid for district attorney, an aspiring young lawyer agrees to defend a ring of car thieves....

Torchy, Steve, and Gahagan are on the trail of a bank robber aboard an ocean liner traveling from New York to L.A. via the Panama Canal....

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

A reporter risks lynching to prove that share croppers are being cheated....

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....

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....

A star rower is forced to join a good school under a pseudonym because his wealthy dad doesn't like schools that have high academic standards....

Madge Winton, a beautiful secretary, makes herself look homely in order to avoid advances by lecherous bosses. When her new employer, writer Freddy Matthews, accidentally sees her without her disguise, she has to pretend to be her roommate Sadie....

A singing bandleader signs on with an all-girls band....

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....

Broadway star Jimmy Canfield stars in a patriotic show on the great white way during WWI. He plays the heroic soldier, but he is doesn't want to join the Army. To evade some troubles with fellow actress Berenice, he acts like joining the forces going...

A lowly office clerk angers his fiancee and future mother-in-law by spending money intended for marriage furniture on a statue of a pretty girl, which he refuses to part with at any cost....