Cast: Robert McWade
Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Robert McWade. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.
Titles found: 53
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...
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
Direction William K. Howard
Cast Janet Gaynor · Charles Farrell · Minna Gombell · Dudley Digges
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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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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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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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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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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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