
Robert McWade
Actor · 1872 – 1938 · Buffalo, New York, USA
Movies24
Movie7.8DramaCrimeA World War I veteran’s dreams of becoming a master architect evaporate in the cold light of economic realities. Things get even worse when he’s falsely convicted of a crime and sent to work on a chain gang.
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
1932 · 234 votes
Movie7.0DramaRomanceGuests at a posh Berlin hotel struggle through worry, scandal, and heartache.
Grand Hotel
1932 · 363 votes
Movie6.9ComedyDramaBroadway director Julian Marsh needs just one more hit show so he can retire and recover his health. It looks like he just may pull it off until temperamental star Dorthy Brock breaks her ankle on the eve of the show's premiere and has to be replaced by her understudy Peggy.
42nd Street
1933 · 224 votes
Movie5.5WesternDramaWhen the government opens up the Oklahoma territory for settlement, restless Yancey Cravat claims a plot of the free land for himself and moves his family there from Wichita. A newspaperman, lawyer, and just about everything else, Cravat soon becomes a leading citizen of the boom town of Osage. Once the town is established, however, he begins to feel confined once again, and heads for the Cherokee Strip, leaving his family behind. During this and other absences, his wife Sabra must learn to take care of herself and soon becomes prominent in her own right.
Cimarron
1931 · 157 votes
Movie6.0DramaThis 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 ministers to the human soul, while his son Jason yearns to be a doctor, helping people in the earthly realm. It is a rich story about striving for excellence, the tension of father-son rebellion, and the love of a mother that can never die.
Of Human Hearts
1938 · 26 votes
Movie5.3DramaA 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 daughter.
Kept Husbands
1931 · 27 votes
Movie7.3DramaTwo surgeons in love with a nurse end their rivalry in the operating room.
Society Doctor
1935 · 4 votes
Movie6.1CrimeMysteryPhilo Vance, accompanied by his prize-losing Scottish terrier, investigates the locked-room murder of a prominent and much-hated collector whose broken Chinese vase provides an important clue.
The Kennel Murder Case
1933 · 60 votes
Movie6.4DramaRomanceA young married couple's relationship becomes strained when he is assigned overseas as a foreign correspondent and she becomes a major stage star.
Next Time We Love
1936 · 12 votes
Movie6.1CrimeDramaA moll, imprisoned after participating in a bank robbery, helps with a breakout plot.
Ladies They Talk About
1933 · 44 votes
Movie5.1CrimeDramaThe 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, she tries to put her life back together.
Pick-up
1933 · 7 votes
Movie6.8ComedyRomanceA 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 like her is hired to impersonate her.
Thirty Day Princess
1934 · 22 votes
Movie5.5RomanceComedyAn ex-sailor turned boxer finds romance and gets a shot at the heavyweight title.
The Prizefighter and the Lady
1933 · 17 votes
Movie7.0DramaRomanceColonel Ferris, a wealthy farmer in northern California, is strongly opposed to hydraulic mining, a new method developed during the gold rush of the 1870's, which is flooding the area's prosperous farmlands. Despite Ferris' political stance, Jared Whitney, a mining engineer from the East, becomes friends with the colonel's son Lance and falls in love with his daughter Serena. Family tensions deepen when the colonel's brother Ralph gives up farming to go to San Francisco to work for his wife Rosanna's father, Harrison McCooey, a leader in the mining venture. When Lance follows Ralph, the colonel, focusing his anger on Jared, forbids him to see Serena.
Gold Is Where You Find It
1938 · 10 votes
Movie7.0AdventureRomanceAfter 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 the infamous Barbary Coast.
Frisco Kid
1935 · 10 votes
Movie6.8DramaSam Preston is a small-town newspaper publisher who suffers from wanderlust. Leaving his family, he thinks well-provided for, he packs a suitcase and hits the road. Ten years later he comes back to find the newspaper shuttered and his family gone.
Mary Jane's Pa
1935 · 4 votes
Movie7.1DramaWorld War I veteran Tom Holmes is marked by the unbearable suffering caused by his battle wounds. Over the years, he comes to experience both the pain of misfortune and a love for other human beings.
Heroes for Sale
1933 · 25 votes
Movie5.9DramaRomanceAmerican 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 Gail Loveless to become one of his operators and infiltrate enemy territory.
Operator 13
1934 · 18 votes
Movie6.4DramaRomanceA woman's love for and devotion to a married man results in her being relegated to the "back streets" of his life.
Back Street
1932 · 14 votes
Movie5.9MysteryWonderful 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. Montague dives in as does Greeff and Leland, but only Greeff and Leland come out. Montague is no where to be found so Leland suspects foul play and calls the cops. Luckily, Philo is with the D.A. and comes along, but they do not find Montague. When they drain the pool the next day, they find nothing except what looks like dragon prints. Philo has his suspicions and tries to piece the clues together to find out what has happened.
The Dragon Murder Case
1934 · 19 votes
Movie5.9CrimeMysteryFive men have to prove their innocence when a blackmailer is murdered.
The Phantom of Crestwood
1932 · 18 votes
Movie9.0DramaIn this romance, a slightly crooked and highly ambitious mayoral candidate convinces a woman to help him blackmail the incumbent by using a little baby as evidence in a paternity suit. The girl goes along with it until she learns that the mayor is innocent.
Straight from the Heart
1935 · 1 votes
Movie9.0DramaA small town drunk beats a teetotal banker guilty of a shady transaction.
The Good Old Soak
1937 · 1 votes
Movie4.8MysteryComedyAn escaped lunatic, a mysterious swami, and various lovers all have designs on a famous opera singer.
Moonlight Murder
1936 · 6 votes