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.

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...

Nancy helps two aging spinsters fulfill the byzantine provisions of their father's will, but the murder of their chauffeur complicates matters.

Former bootlegger Remy Marco has a slight problem with foreclosing bankers, a prospective son-in-law, and four hard-to-explain corpses.

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....

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

A very nervous man named Cartwright comes into Perry's office to have the neighbor arrested for his howling dog. He states that the howling is a sign...

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

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

T-Man Brass Bancroft goes undercover in a prison which has a secret counterfeit operation set up in the print shop.

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

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...

An embezzler's wife begs his boss for forgiveness, only to fall in love with him.

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

After Police Captain Dan McLaren becomes police commissioner, former detective Johnny Blake publicly punches him, convincing rackets boss Al Kruger...

Quiet, organised Dr. Talbot meets nightclub singer Nora Prentiss when she is slightly hurt in a street accident. Despite her misgivings, they become...

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...

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.

An aspiring playwright finds himself an overnight Broadway success.

Leslie is being chased by the gangsters, the police and the insurance investigators. He is on the run. Falsely accused of a murder, he embarks upon a...