Jack Wise Movies

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,...

After Police Captain Dan McLaren becomes police commissioner, former detective Johnny Blake publicly punches him, convincing rackets boss Al Kruger...

A vicious crime lord decides that he has had enough and much to the shock of his colleagues decides to give the business to his second in command and...

A hustling public relations man promotes a series of fads.

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

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

Don Vincente is determined to make a success of himself and his band. He gets his break by performing at the Garden of the Moon, which is broadcast...

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

A Hollywood heartthrob helps a small-town girl achieve stardom.

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

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

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...

An impoverished widow fights scandal for the sake of her four children.

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

Prison drama from 1930. Mary Dane and falsely imprisoned Bud Leonard love each other, but Lou Rinaldo, who framed Bud to get Mary, and escape-minded...

A documentary short film depicting the work of the motion picture director. An anonymous director is shown preparing the various aspects of a film...

The Big Noise is retired textile manufacturer Julius Trent (Guy Kibbee). Seeking a new outlet for his entrepreneurial energies, Trent buys a half...

Managing Editor Brad Bradshaw refuses to run a story linking the disappearance of Frank Canfield with embezzlement of the bank. He considers Frank a...

A singing cowboy turns out to be a tenderfoot.

An aspiring playwright finds himself an overnight Broadway success.