Jack Wise Movies

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

The story of legendary Notre Dame football player and coach Knute Rockne.

A man who wants to join the circus against the wishes of his ex-circus clown father.

Tough torch singer Petey Brown, visiting her family, finds a nest of troubles: her sister, brother, and the neighbor's wife are involved in various...

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...

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...

The third of nine Torchy Blane movies. Angry that police detective Steve McBride (Barton MacLane) is giving preferential treatment to his...

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...

Searching for headlines at any cost, an unscrupulous newspaper owner forces his editor to print a serial based on a past murder, tormenting a woman...

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....

A day in the maternity ward from the lens of accepted morals and medical attitudes of 1932. The ward includes women from all walks of life and...

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

A young woman goes to the police looking for her missing husband. When it turns out her husband is both a murder victim and a bachelor - and that she...

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

A singing cowboy turns out to be a tenderfoot.

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

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

An aspiring playwright finds himself an overnight Broadway success.

An embezzler's wife begs his boss for forgiveness, only to fall in love with him.

While participating in a contest at a local newspaper in which high school students are asked to submit a news story, Nancy Drew intercepts a real...