Edward McWade Movies

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...

This Passing Parade entry looks at several historical "truths" that just aren't so: Steve Brodie never jumped off the Brooklyn Bridge; Mrs. O'Leary's...

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

Re-edited feature film version of the 1936 serial Darkest Africa.

A young man runs into trouble when he buys an auto court, only to find out that its located next to a swamp that drives away all potential customers.

A radio commentator named Perry Travis fancies himself a brilliant amateur detective. The cops wish he’d stick to his microphone and let them...

A bible-guided Victorian orphan befriends a bootblack in a strange town.

Old Morgan, an eccentric millionaire in a western city, has a dissipated young son. He has also a very sweet adopted daughter, Edwina. One day the...

A 15-episode serial in which Beatty goes to darkest Africa to rescue the Goddess of Joba, who is being held by the high priest.

The first screen adaptation of Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel to star a black man in the title role.

A small town drugstore owner considers selling one of his children for money.

In this crime drama, the owner and chief editor of a newspaper gets together with two college pals and begins looking into the strange death of an...

A Traveler's Aid worker who delights in solving people's problems gets mixed up with gangsters.

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

A man convicted of murder escapes from jail and hides out in the home of a small town newspaper publisher who has befriended him. She knows who the...

John Brant, his only daughter, Gene, and Jan Karl, a farmhand, live on a farm in Central Africa, near the border of the jungle. The monotony of their...

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

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

Anna Moore, a poor orphaned country girl, and her little brother, Tommy, live with hypocritical Squire Simpson, who conspires with his son to acquire...

Country boy joins a circus in the 1840s and falls in love with the bare-back rider. Later he falls in love with another circus runaway.