Edward McWade Movies

The rebellious daughter of an army general gets involved with a Communist agitator, mainly to annoy her father. He arranges to have her kidnapped and...

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.

In this musical short, a shipwrecked sailor is washed up on the shores of a tropical island and falls in love with a beautiful princess.

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

A rising stage star's ambition causes trouble.

A stranded actress turned manicurist affects the lives of people in a small American town.

This John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short looks at how a few specific inventions made a major contribution to the U.S. war effort.

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...

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...

Dare Devil Tom Wallace, so called because of his seeming lack of fear, is held up while riding in the stage and robbed by a masked desperado named...

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.

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