Edward McWade Movies

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

In 19th-century England, German journalist Paul Julius Reuter and his partner, Max Wagner, utilize messenger pigeons to connect telegraph stations...

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...

A woman murders her husband's mistress and someone else gets accused of the crime.

A newsman with a no-good wife exposes a religious racket with a newswoman who loves him.

A Bishop from Australia comes to Perry to ask him to take a case of a woman wrongly accused of manslaughter 22 years before. The case would involve...

When his fiancée Valentine dumps him, prominent lawyer Geoffrey Sherwood goes on a bender and winds up married to a stranger, Miriam Brady....

A general store clerk and aspiring detective investigates a mysterious disappearance that took place quite close to an empty insane asylum.

When retired racket boss John Sarto tries to reclaim his place and former friends try to kill him, he finds solace in a monastery and reinvents...

An Indiana boy comes into an inheritance and moves to New York City, living it up with his girlfriend until he gets in over his head and someone gets...

The victim of a political assassination is resurrected by a scientific experiment. However, the effects only last for six hours, and he must find his...

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

A small-town newspaper publisher finds himself in opposition to the local banker on the return to town of a lad jailed possibly wrongly for a theft...

After an extended stay in England, Sophie Lang returns to America. She is beautiful, sophisticated--and a notorious jewel thief. A New York police...

This short follows the political career of Theodore Roosevelt, beginning in 1895, when he was appointed police commissioner of New York City. In 1897...

City girl marries country doctor, meets prejudice and exclusion when she tries to befriend the townspeople.

A condemned murderer, in the process of being executed, relives the events that led to his being sentenced to die in the electric chair. Told in...

Lawyer Perry Mason is summoned to the Laxter mansion in the dead of night to write granddaughter Wilma out of invalid Peter Laxter's will, to keep...

A champion auto racer who unhappily learns his kid brother wants to enter the same profession rather than finish school.

A homeless woman named Hannah drifts into the lives of the kindly Ward family, in a small Indiana town in 1919. Hannah makes herself useful as a cook...