Jack Wise Movies

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.

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.

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

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....

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

An aspiring playwright finds himself an overnight Broadway success.

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 turns out to be a tenderfoot.

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

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