Jack Wise Movies

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

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

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...

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

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 hustling public relations man promotes a series of fads.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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