James Wong Howe Movies

When delusional madman Roxor kidnaps a scientist in hopes of using his death ray to achieve world dominance, he is opposed by Chandu, a powerful...

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...

A circus wild animal trainer searches for the son who was taken away from him by a meddling relative years earlier.

Story of a rising stage star and the trouble she causes by her ambition.

Fourth reworking of the classic Grace Miller White novel, this time updated to the 60s, with young Scottish lassie Tess (Diane Baker) becoming...

In the Depression, Pete and Sidney are good kids, working hard, giving money to their parents, and engaged for three years while they save to get...

Sally (Jean Parker) is engaged to be married, loves dancing and kids. But her life is ruined when an accident cripples her and her betrothed...

An English circus clown finds he's lost his touch after returning from war.

A Central American plantation manager and his boss battle over a traveling showgirl.

A wild dancer in a cheap Seville cafe, Mariposa is taken to New York by Señor Sprott, a prominent theatrical producer. Billed as "The...

A new bride gets caught between her decadent husband and his black half-brother.

An inventor and his bride get testy in the city as they try to make ends meet.

Stephen Sorrell, a decorated war hero, raises his son Kit alone after Kit's mother deserts husband and child in the boy's infancy. Sorrell loses a...

A wealthy young society couple loses their fortune. When the husband is forced to take a job like everyone else, the wife cannot deal with the sudden...

Love complicates the hunt for gold in 1890's Alaska.

A lonely young woman sings two melancholy ballads in her Manhattan high rise apartment.

James Wong Howe follows artist Dong Kingman over the course of a day, in which the maestro starts and finishes a watercolor of a street in New York...

A police inspector "solves" a crime that, in fact, may not have occurred at all.

Feuding ranchers and sheepherders.

Jimmy Mulligan and Poppy Kirk, both out of work, strike up a conversation outside a radio shop and discover a shared dream of hitting it big dancing...