Jack Wise Movies

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

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

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...

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

An aspiring playwright finds himself an overnight Broadway success.

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...