Cast: Robert McWade

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Robert McWade. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


High Tension

1936 · Movie · 63 min. · United States

Direction Allan Dwan

Cast Brian Donlevy · Glenda Farrell · Norman Foster · Helen Wood

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

7.3

25 votes

7.3

25 votes

Heroes for Sale

1933 · Movie · 71 min. · United States

Direction William A. Wellman

Cast Richard Barthelmess · Aline MacMahon · Loretta Young · Gordon Westcott

Synopsis A war veteran (Richard Barthelmess) whose cowardly comrade (Gordon Westcott) has accepted all the glory for his heroism battles a morphine addiction, then starts life anew in Chicago, where he prospers as the co-owner of a labor-saving laundry machine and...

7.2

314 votes

7.2

314 votes

Feet First

1930 · Movie · 93 min. · United States

Direction Clyde Bruckman

Cast Harold Lloyd · Barbara Kent · Robert McWade · Lillian Leighton

Synopsis 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 his true circumstances, in the store and later on a ship. Trying to deliver a...

7.2

647 votes

7.2

647 votes

Only Yesterday

1933 · Movie · 105 min. · United States

Direction John M. Stahl

Cast Margaret Sullavan · John Boles · Edna May Oliver · Billie Burke

Synopsis A one-night fling during World War I results in a young girl getting pregnant. Years later, she meets him again. Now a successful businessman, he doesn't even remember her, but tries to seduce her.

7.1

63 votes

7.1

63 votes

Movie Crazy

1932 · Movie · 98 min. · United States

Direction Clyde Bruckman · Harold Lloyd

Cast Harold Lloyd · Constance Cummings · Kenneth Thomson · Louise Closser Hale

Synopsis Harold Hall (Harold Lloyd), an accident prone young man with little or no acting ability, desperately wants to be in pictures. After a mix-up with his application photograph, he gets an offer to have a screen-test, and goes off to...

7.1

416 votes

7.1

416 votes

Grand Hotel

1932 · Movie · 115 min. · United States

Direction Edmund Goulding

Cast Greta Garbo · John Barrymore · Joan Crawford · Wallace Beery

Synopsis Berlin's plushest, most expensive hotel is the setting where in the words of Dr. Otternschlag "People come, people go. Nothing ever happens.". The doctor is usually drunk so he missed the fact that Baron von Geigern is broke and trying...

7.1

3K votes

7.1

3K votes

Next Time We Love

1936 · Movie · 87 min. · United States

Direction Edward H. Griffith

Cast Margaret Sullavan · James Stewart · Ray Milland · Grant Mitchell

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

6.8

63 votes

6.8

63 votes

Hard to Handle

1933 · Movie · 78 min. · United States

Direction Mervyn LeRoy

Cast James Cagney · Mary Brian · Allen Jenkins · Ruth Donnelly

Synopsis Small time con artist Lefty Merrill has co-organized a crooked dance marathon and set-up his girlfriend to win the prize money. When his partner disappears with money before the contest is over, he's forced to come up with a series...

6.4

42 votes

6.4

42 votes

I Am the Law

1938 · Movie · 83 min. · United States

Direction Alexander Hall

Cast Edward G. Robinson · Barbara O'Neil · John Beal · Wendy Barrie

Synopsis Law professor John Lindsay volunteers to clean up the corruption and graft in his town when the authorities seem unable to do so. When the gangsters infiltrate his staff, he recruits his law students to form an army of law...

6.2

124 votes

6.2

124 votes

Thirty Day Princess

1934 · Movie · 74 min. · United States

Direction Marion Gering

Cast Sylvia Sidney · Cary Grant · Edward Arnold · Henry Stephenson

Synopsis On her way to New York to find financial backing for her impoverished country, the Ruritanian Kingdom of Taronia, Princess "Zizzi" Catterina (Sylvia Sidney) falls ill with the mumps and has to be quarantined for a month onboard ship. In...

6.1

62 votes

6.1

62 votes

Ladies They Talk About

1933 · Movie · 69 min. · United States

Direction Howard Bretherton · William Keighley

Cast Barbara Stanwyck · Preston Foster · Lyle Talbot · Dorothy Burgess

Synopsis Gun moll Nan Taylor, caught after an otherwise successful bank robbery, falls for radio crusader David Slade and confides her guilt to him. Much to her surprise, he turns her in. As a "new fish" at San Quentin, Nan fits...

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6.0

75 votes

6.0

75 votes

The Prizefighter and the Lady

1933 · Movie · 102 min. · United States

Direction W.S. Van Dyke · Howard Hawks

Cast Myrna Loy · Max Baer · Primo Carnera · Jack Dempsey

Synopsis Steve is just a heavy duty bartender when Edwin J. Bennett, known as the Professor, starts training him for the ring. While doing road work, he is almost killed by a speeding car which crashes into a ditch. In the...

5.9

32 votes

5.9

32 votes

The Kennel Murder Case

1933 · Movie · 73 min. · United States

Direction Michael Curtiz

Cast William Powell · Mary Astor · Eugene Pallette · Ralph Morgan

Synopsis Archer Coe has been found dead in his locked bedroom. The cops consider it suicide, but Philo believes otherwise. When the Coroner shows up, he finds that Archer had been hit with a blunt object, stabbed and shot - making...

5.8

256 votes

5.8

256 votes

Kept Husbands

1931 · Movie · 76 min. · United States

Direction Lloyd Bacon

Cast Dorothy Mackaill · Joel McCrea · Ned Sparks · Mary Carr

Synopsis Blue collar steelworker Richard Brunton (McCrea) saves two of his fellow workers after an accident at a factory. In gratitude, his boss, millionaire Arthur Parker invites Richard for dinner with his family. Arthur's daughter Dot (Mackaill) is instantly impressed and...

5.5

22 votes

5.5

22 votes

The First Year

1932 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

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Diamond Jim

1935 · Movie · 88 min. · United States

Direction A. Edward Sutherland

Cast Edward Arnold · Jean Arthur · Binnie Barnes · Cesar Romero

Synopsis The story of legendary gambler Diamond Jim Brady and his romance with entertainer Lillian Russell.

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Not rated

Early to Bed

1936 · Movie · 75 min. · United States

Direction Norman Z. McLeod

Cast Mary Boland · Charles Ruggles · George Barbier · Gail Patrick

Synopsis 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 marriage because of his secret problem. He is a sleepwalker. When Tessie finally does...

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Not rated

The Pay-Off

1930 · Movie · 65 min. · United States

Direction Lowell Sherman

Cast Lowell Sherman · Marian Nixon · Hugh Trevor · William Janney

Synopsis 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 takes them under his wing. The thug, resentful of the couple, plans...

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Not rated

Mountain Justice

1937 · Movie · 83 min. · United States

Direction Michael Curtiz

Cast George Brent · Josephine Hutchinson · Robert Barrat · Guy Kibbee

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

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Not rated

Good Intentions

1930 · Movie · 69 min. · United States

Direction William K. Howard

Cast Edmund Lowe · Marguerite Churchill · Regis Toomey · Earle Foxe

Synopsis Racketeer David Cresson's sudden passion for the straight-and-narrow life is due to his falling in love with Helen Rankin, a society débutante. However, his former associate and gang-members are more than slightly irritated, distressed and downright hostile toward his reformation.

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Not rated