Jack Wise Movies

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...

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.

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

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

Story of a rising stage star and the trouble she causes by her ambition.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

A hustling public relations man promotes a series of fads.

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

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

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

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