Edward McWade Movies

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...

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

A scientist carrying the secret to a new high-powered explosive must be safely escorted to Washington and ace pilot Bob "Three Star" Halsey is the...

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.

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

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

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...

When Jack Dougan and Snatcher Nell, partners in crime as well as love, decide to purloin the gifts at the wedding of Madge Carr to James Cluney, Nell...

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

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

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.

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

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...

An admiral's son with no interest in carrying on the family tradition is a successful crooner. He finally joins the Navy to prove he can, but with no...

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

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

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...