James Wong Howe Movies

  • 1931
    The Spider

    The Spider

    The Spider

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    Lowe plays Chatrand the Great, a magician with great hypnotic and magical powers. During his evening performance at an upscale theater, a murder...

    The Spider
  • 1938
    Algiers

    Algiers

    Algiers

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    Pepe Le Moko is a notorious thief, who escaped from France. Since his escape, Moko has become a resident and leader of the immense Casbah of Algiers....

    Algiers
  • 1924
    The Breaking Point

    The Breaking Point

    The Breaking Point

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    Assuming that he has killed the husband of the woman he also loves, Judson Clark flees through a blizzard to a lonely cabin, where he nearly dies....

    The Breaking Point
  • 1934
    Hollywood Party

    Hollywood Party

    Hollywood Party

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    Jimmy Durante is jungle movie star Schnarzan the Conqueror, but the public is tiring of his fake lions. When Baron Munchausen comes to town with real...

    Hollywood Party
  • 1940
    A Dispatch from Reuters

    A Dispatch from Reuters

    A Dispatch from Reuters

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    German Julius Reuter sends 19th-century news by carrier pigeon and then by wire, founding a news agency.

    A Dispatch from Reuters
  • 1934
    Viva Villa!

    Viva Villa!

    Viva Villa!

    6.2861934HD

    In this fictionalized biography, young Pancho Villa takes to the hills after killing an overseer in revenge for his father's death.

    Viva Villa!
  • 1955
    Picnic

    Picnic

    Picnic

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    Labor Day in a small Kansas farm town. Hal, a burly and resolute drifter, jumps off a dusty freight train car with the purpose of visiting Alan, a...

    Picnic
  • 1934
    Manhattan Melodrama

    Manhattan Melodrama

    Manhattan Melodrama

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    The friendship between two orphans endures even though they grow up on opposite sides of the law and fall in love with the same woman.

    Manhattan Melodrama
  • 1953
    Jennifer

    Jennifer

    Jennifer

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    A young woman is hired to take care of an eerie old mansion, where she finds herself entangled with an enigmatic murderer.

    Jennifer
  • 1935
    Biography of a Bachelor Girl

    Biography of a Bachelor Girl

    Biography of a Bachelor Girl

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    Everyweek Newsmagazine editor Richard Kurt pursues famous free-spirited portrait artist Marion Forsythe on her return to the states from Europe,...

    Biography of a Bachelor Girl
  • 1934
    Stamboul Quest

    Stamboul Quest

    Stamboul Quest

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    In 1915, German Counter-Intelligence Chief Von Sturm learns that someone is providing the British with critical strategic planning for the Turkish...

    Stamboul Quest
  • 1932
    Man About Town

    Man About Town

    Man About Town

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    In a plan to trap potential enemy spies in Washington, an American secret agent sets up a gambling house. He soon finds himself in a rivalry with his...

    Man About Town
  • 1942
    Kings Row

    Kings Row

    Kings Row

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    Five young adults in a small American town face the revelations of secrets that threaten to ruin their hopes and dreams.

    Kings Row
  • 1932
    Young America

    Young America

    Young America

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    Mrs. Doray sits with a Juvenile Court Judge to learn more about problem children and what to do about them. One of the cases involves 13 year old...

    Young America
  • 1929
    Desert Nights

    Desert Nights

    Desert Nights

    5.21929HD

    A con man with his beautiful accomplice and a hostage steals a half million dollars worth of diamonds but finds they're all lost in the desert...

    Desert Nights
  • 1923
    The Call of the Canyon

    The Call of the Canyon

    The Call of the Canyon

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    Returning from World War I, Glenn Kilbourne travels to Arizona to regain his health. He meets a local girl, Flo Hutler, who helps him recover. His...

    The Call of the Canyon
  • 1935
    Whipsaw

    Whipsaw

    Whipsaw

    6.21935HD

    Hot jewels from London make their way to New York, where they are stolen by racketeer Ed Dexter, who hides them with the help of his vivacious...

    Whipsaw
  • 1975
    Funny Lady

    Funny Lady

    Funny Lady

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    Famous singer Fanny Brice has divorced her first husband Nicky Arnstein. During the Great Depression she has trouble finding work as an artist, but...

    Funny Lady
  • 1958
    Bell, Book and Candle

    Bell, Book and Candle

    Bell, Book and Candle

    6.51958HD

    A modern-day witch likes her neighbor but despises his fiancée, so she enchants him to love her instead... only to fall in love with him for...

    Bell, Book and Candle
  • 1965
    The Glory Guys

    The Glory Guys

    The Glory Guys

    6.51965HD

    Though a fictionalized Western based on George Armstrong Custer's 7th Cavalry Regiment at the Battle of the Little Big Horn, the film is almost a...

    The Glory Guys