Robert McWade Movies

American Civil War, 1862. After the disaster of the Second Battle of Bull Run, Major Allen, chief of the Secret Service of the Union, asks actress...

A World War I veteran’s dreams of becoming a master architect evaporate in the cold light of economic realities. Things get even worse when...

Philo Vance, accompanied by his prize-losing Scottish terrier, investigates the locked-room murder of a prominent and much-hated collector whose...

A hustling public relations man promotes a series of fads.

An almost-retired jewel thief plans to marry Helen, his partner in crime. Their plans are shattered when Bascom, a gang member, arrives with a stolen...

Guests at a posh Berlin hotel struggle through worry, scandal, and heartache.

Life changes in surprising ways when a lazy, unemployed husband and father finds a box containing thousands of dollars in cash.

This is a story about family relationships, set in the time before and during the American Civil War. Ethan Wilkins is a poor and honest man who...

An escaped lunatic, a mysterious swami, and various lovers all have designs on a famous opera singer.

An ex-sailor turned boxer finds romance and gets a shot at the heavyweight title.

After a roustabout sailor avoids being shanghaied in 1850s San Francisco, his audacity helps him rise to a position of power in the vice industry of...

Complications ensue when a young married couple pretend to be something they're not.

In this family comedy, the wealthy executive of a steel company must endure life with a strict, teetotaling wife, a wild daughter, and a deadbeat...

Grace Livingston is leading a happy life in her small town, with her mother and father, being courted by two men, the steady but predictable Tommy...

Chester Beatty and Tessie Weeks have been engaged for 5 years and going together for 15 years before that. Chester is reluctant to burden Tessie with...

A young couple, soon to wed, begin building their dreamhouse, but their interfering relatives cause no end of trouble. Comedy.

An ambitious shoe salesman, Harold, unknowingly meets the boss' daughter and tells her he is a leather tycoon. The rest of the film he spends hiding...

A woman's love for and devotion to a married man results in her being relegated to the "back streets" of his life.

A producer puts on what may be his last Broadway show, and at the last moment a chorus girl has to replace the star.

A moll, imprisoned after participating in a bank robbery, helps with a breakout plot.