Robert McWade Movies

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

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Warner Baxter

Five men have to prove their innocence when a blackmailer is murdered.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Ricardo Cortez

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Greta Garbo

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...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Harold Lloyd

When love came the way of this gentleman crook he turned to the right---only to be caught in the swirling eddy of his criminal past! (original ad)

Genre: Drama

Cast: Edmund Lowe

In this romance, a slightly crooked and highly ambitious mayoral candidate convinces a woman to help him blackmail the incumbent by using a little...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mary Astor

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Janet Gaynor

Tom Holmes is someone guided by honesty and moral rectitude, a heroic veteran of the World War I marked by the unbearable suffering caused by his...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Richard Barthelmess

Wonderful idea to give a party with people who dislike each other. Late at night, everyone decides to go into the pool, except Stamm, who is drunk....

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Warren William

After a mix-up with his application photograph, an aspiring actor is invited to a screen test and goes off to Hollywood.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Harold Lloyd

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

Genre: Crime

Cast: William Powell

A dynamic duo in silk and ermine entertain hick businessmen looking for a good time while in Manhattan.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kay Francis

The son of a ruthless meatpacking king goes through a number of changes in ideals and motivations as he reluctantly inherits the mantle and falls in...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Edward G. Robinson

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Walter Huston

Unscrupulous Chicago janitor Paul Kroll uses deceit to fund a return trip to his homeland of Sweden. There, via ongoing continuing deceit and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Warren William

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...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: James Cagney

A hustling public relations man promotes a series of fads.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: James Cagney

The scheme of a pair of married con artists goes awry when their victim dies, and they are both caught and imprisoned. When she gets out of prison,...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Sylvia Sidney

A young doctor running a health farm for polio victims is dazzled by a pretty and wealthy society girl, to the detriment of his patients and the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ralph Bellamy

Sam Preston is a small-town newspaper publisher who suffers from wanderlust. Leaving his family, he thinks well-provided for, he packs a suitcase and...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Aline MacMahon

Boston blueblood Aloysius Merriweather loves to play jokes on people and he's come up with a joy-buzzer of a doozy. He'll send barber Joe Jenkins in...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jack Haley

An elderly woman provides an alibi to a man she scarcely knows who is on trial for murder of his girlfriend's racketeer father.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Richard Barthelmess

A young man falls in love with a beautiful blonde. When he sees her being forced onto a luxury liner, he decides to follow and rescue her. However,...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Bing Crosby

A shy office worker becomes a hero when a fortune teller calls him another Napoleon.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Owen Davis Jr.

A truck driver races a train to the West Coast in an attempt to determine which method of transportation is faster.

Genre: Action

Cast: John Wayne

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...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Mary Boland

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

Genre: Romance

Cast: Bert Wheeler

A juror at a murder trial is convinced the defendant is innocent.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Victor Moore

Willie, as an assistant window-dresser, is the lowest man on the totem pole at a department store. To add insult-to-injury Willie is also the store's...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Eddie Quillan

Stalwart Appalachian woman finds romance as she struggles to better herself and her people amid prejudice and familial abuse.

Genre: Drama

Cast: George Brent

Society matron Mrs. Livingston Baldwin Crane is selected as a juror in the trial of former chorus girl Yvette Gordon, who's accused of murdering her...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Edna May Oliver

Wallingford is a con-man whose specialty is taking money from suckers. His partners are Schnozzle, a pickpocket and car thief; and Blackie, who has...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: William Haines

Colonel Ferris, a wealthy farmer in northern California, is strongly opposed to hydraulic mining, a new method developed during the gold rush of the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: George Brent

When a meek purchasing agent is told by a quack doctor that he only has three months to live, he gets involved with a bank robbery and kidnapped by...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Edward Everett Horton

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

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Chester Morris

A young woman is involved with a married man, although she does not know that he is married. He kills his jealous wife and implicates her in the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lew Ayres

A thug robs a young engaged couple of their last few dollars. When the thug's gang boss hears of the robbery, he gives them back their money and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lowell Sherman

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...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Herbert Marshall

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Marion Davies

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

Genre:

Cast: Wallace Beery

Two surgeons (Chester Morris, Robert Taylor) in love with a nurse (Virginia Bruce) end their rivalry in the operating room.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chester Morris

A barber turns down a promising business venture in order to take his sick son to a drier climate out west.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Louis Mann

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

Genre: Romance

Cast: Myrna Loy

When the government opens up the Oklahoma territory for settlement, restless Yancey Cravat claims a plot of the free land for himself and moves his...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Richard Dix

The President Vanishes, released in the United Kingdom as Strange Conspiracy, is a 1934 American political drama film directed by William A. Wellman...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Edward Arnold

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Irene Dunne

In this musical, a songwriter goes to court to claim the rights to his song that was stolen by an unscrupulous music publisher. He brings his...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Ted Lewis

A European princess arrives in New York City to secure a much-needed loan for her country. She contracts the mumps, and an actress who looks exactly...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Sylvia Sidney

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

Genre: Crime

Cast: Barbara Stanwyck

When her husband is accused of murder, an actress tries to prove his innocence.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Grant Richards

Brawling cable layer Steve Reardon doesn't want to marry girlfriend Edith but he also doesn't want her to date other men.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Brian Donlevy

A former All-American football star, now working as a steel mill supervisor in New Jersey, falls in love with the mill owner's wealthy, very spoiled...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Dorothy Mackaill

Insurance investigator Trevor pretends to be a thief to enter a gang of jewel thieves.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Claire Trevor

"Cappy" Ricks comes out of retirement to fight against a bill, sponsored by his old political rivals, that, if passed, would forbid the selling of...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Robert McWade

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Paul Muni

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...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Leila Hyams

President McKinley asks Lt. Richard L. Perry to go underground to identify some obviously very well briefed Mid-Western bank robbers based in Saint...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Robert Taylor

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

Genre: Romance

Cast: Lew Ayres

"That girl" is newspaper sob-sister Tony Bellamy (Claire Trevor), whose nose for news gets her into one jam after another, especially when she poses...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: James Dunn

A loose biopic based on the life of Gilded Age tycoon "Diamond" Jim Brady.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Edward Arnold

International con artist Martha Hicks a.k.a. Countess von Claudwig is released from another stay in prison and decides to treat her rheumatism with a...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Alison Skipworth

Man from small town comes to New York to be best man at an old friend's wedding. He mistakenly supposes that the girl and her family are after his...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Richard Bennett

A distraught movie extra flees a movie set with a fancy costume and car. Circumstances lead her to begin impersonating a Countess, while a fellow...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Fay Wray

Two friends working a jungle oil field clash when one marries a lady of the evening.

Genre: Action

Cast: William Boyd

In this comedy, a conservative family becomes alarmed when they begin believing their daughter is pregnant.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Marion Davies

The story deals with the college rivalry of a piccolo player and an All-American halfback on the football team who both love the same co-ed. After...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Joe Penner

A young married couple's relationship becomes strained when he is assigned overseas as a foreign correspondent and she becomes a major stage star.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Margaret Sullavan

The murders are committed in swift succession on board a liner crossing the Atlantic in a dense fog, and many of the passengers come under suspicion...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mary Brian

A small town drunk beats a teetotal banker guilty of a shady transaction.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Wallace Beery

Thomas Bates Sr. (Robert McWade) takes his broom manufacturing business very seriously, and his idle son, Tom Jr. (Neil Hamilton), calls him a...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Neil Hamilton

On the back of the Wall Street Crash of 1929, a young business man is about to commit suicide. With the note to his wife scribbled down and a gun in...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Margaret Sullavan

Skyline is a 1931 drama film directed by Sam Taylor and starring silent film veteran Thomas Meighan. It is based on a novel, East Side, West Side by...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Thomas Meighan

A circus on the verge of bankruptcy decides to save itself by staging a animal act with lions and tigers for the first time.

Genre: Action

Cast: Clyde Beatty

1924 silent comedy starring Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Alfred Lunt