Jack Wise Movies

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.

Auctioneer Spot Cash Cutler is planning the scam of a lifetime, but will he get burned?

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

A singing bandleader signs on with an all-girls band.

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

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

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

An aspiring playwright finds himself an overnight Broadway success.

A singing cowboy turns out to be a tenderfoot.

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...

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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