Jack Wise

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

As a parting shot, fired reporter Ann Mitchell prints a fake letter from unemployed "John Doe," who threatens suicide in protest of social ills. The...

A fashion model witnesses the brutal assassination of an investigative journalist by the Ku Klux Klan while traveling to a small town to visit her...

Alice wins a free trip to Hollywood and dreams about her arrival.

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

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...

A hustling public relations man promotes a series of fads.

After "Dirty Neck" Jack Purvin sees a newspaper photograph of Eastern socialite Helen Van Smythe, soon to arrive at the nearby dude ranch, he...

A sculptor opens a wax museum to showcase the likenesses of famous historical figures, but quickly runs into trouble when his business partner...

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

Civilian Mary Dane and falsely imprisoned Bud Leonard love each other. Lou Rinaldo, who framed Bud to get Mary, and escape-minded King Callahan want...

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...

Madge Winton, a beautiful secretary, makes herself look homely in order to avoid advances by lecherous bosses. When her new employer, writer Freddy...

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

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

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

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

A singing cowboy turns out to be a tenderfoot.

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 newscaster gets demoted for exposing the town's criminal activities over the airwaves.

Tod Weaver finds his career on the skids and feels frustrated playing small-time venues. Tod is romantically tied to Gale Starr, an assistant...

A radio commentator avenges an old wrong by blowing the whistle on Hollywood scandals

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

Brass Bancroft and his sidekick Gabby Watters are recruited onto the secret service and go undercover to crack a ruthless gang that smuggles illegal...

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

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

A singing cowboy (Dick Foran) thwarts a thieving judge and courts a woman (Anne Nagel) in Texas.

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

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,...

A boxer flees, believing he has committed a murder while he was drunk.

While participating in a contest at a local newspaper in which school children are asked to submit a news story, local attorney Carson Drew's...

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

A famous aviator helps an amateur enter a cross-country air race for women.

When a close friend of the Drew family is accused of murder in a rural community, Nancy, aided by boyfriend Ted, helps her lawyer father expose the...

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

A corrupt D.A. with governatorial ambitions is annoyed by an investigative reporter's criticism of his criminal activities and decides to frame the...

Gamblers try to pressure a star hockey player into throwing a game.

Nancy helps two aging spinsters fulfill the byzantine provisions of their father's will, but the murder of their chauffeur complicates matters.

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

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

A detective and his bumbling sidekick join the crackdown on racketeering in '30s New York City.

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...

Longfellow Deeds lives in a small town, leading a small town kind of life. When a relative dies and leaves Deeds a fortune, Longfellow moves to the...

In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications.

Ambitious reporter Torchy Blane guides her policeman boyfriend to correctly pinpoint who shot the man she was interviewing.

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...

Torchy conducts a one woman campaign against a corrupt mayor and crime boss, and when the reform candidate is murdered, she takes up the banner.

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

A World War I veteran’s dreams of becoming a master architect evaporate in the cold light of economic realities. Things get even worse when he’s...

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

A reporter and a police detective sort through the clues in a night-club owner's murder.

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

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

A reporter gets himself sent to prison so he can solve a murder behind bars.

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 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.

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

As bare-knuckled boxing enters the modern era, brash extrovert Jim Corbett uses new rules and dazzlingly innovative footwork to rise to the top of...

An inventor and his bride get testy in the city as they try to make ends meet.

An aspiring playwright finds himself an overnight Broadway success.

Joe and Paul Fabrini are Wildcat, or independent, truck drivers who have their own small one-truck business. The Fabrini boys constantly battle...

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....

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

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...

In this children's adventure, the children of a small town are enthralled by the tales of the town drunk.

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...

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...

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

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

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.

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...

A PR man talks a swanky hotel into hiring his girlfriend's brother as chef.

A narrator provides very brief info on the beginnings and history of Vaudeville while Vaudeville acts are staged by impersonators and contemporary...

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

A behind-the-scenes look at all the responsibilities (and headaches) a director assumes when making a motion picture.

In this Warner Bros. short film, Alex visits his sister Belinda and her husband Fred. It looks like Alex is going to be around for a while, much to...

Merchant Marine sailors Joe Rossi (Humphrey Bogart) and Steve Jarvis (Raymond Massey) are charged with getting a supply vessel to Russian allies as...

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...

When a young boy disappears, a man desperate for the offered reward money turns up with an identical child.

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

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.

A notorious counterfeiter passes himself off as a Secret Service agent to Steve and gets him to unwittingly help him bilk the racetrack out of tens...

Two writers, friends since childhood, fight over their books and lives.

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...

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

Michael Landers, a police lieutenant, sets out to investigate an intricate murder case. But, the case is closed after the only witness is found dead....

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...

Two soldiers on leave spend three nights at a club offering free of charge food, dancing, and entertainment for servicemen on their way overseas....

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

A female private eye joins forces with a police detective to investigate the suspicious murder of a millionaire.

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...

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

An Indiana boy comes into an inheritance and moves to New York City, living it up with his girlfriend until he gets in over his head and someone gets...

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

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

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

A rising stage star's ambition causes trouble.

Owen, a small time bookie, decides to open an insurance business as it involves lesser risk. His first client is Colonel Youngblood who insures his...

Vicki Wallace takes great pleasure in teasing her husband Tony who takes no pleasure at all in being teased and it isn't long before he ups and clips...

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...

Quiet, organised Dr. Talbot meets nightclub singer Nora Prentiss when she is slightly hurt in a street accident. Despite her misgivings, they become...

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...

Former bootlegger Remy Marco has a slight problem with foreclosing bankers, a prospective son-in-law, and four hard-to-explain corpses.

When several women are found mutilated and murdered, the Paris police are baffled as to who the killer may be. All evidence points to Dupin, but soon...

When all Broadway shows are shut down during the Depression, a trio of desperate showgirls scheme to bilk a repugnant high society man of his money...

A guerilla leader falls in love with a mysterious woman in World War II Lisbon.