James Wong Howe Movies

A few months after the end of the civil war, Major Drango is sent as military governor in a southern small town, whose citizens he must face the...

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...

During the dark days of the Civil War, a doctor gives President Lincoln a puppy to buoy his spirits.

Psychiatrist finds herself falling for her patient.

Two Russians fight to escape the seven Nazi soldiers trapped with them in a bombed building.

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...

A man's life is retold just after his funeral. Beginning as a track walker, Tom Garner rose through all sorts of railroad jobs to head the company....

Young Austrian Archduke Paul "Gustl" Gustave is in an arranged engagement but his uncle, the emperor, decides to let Gustl carry on a fling with...

1973 documentary about the Oscar-winning director of photography, featuring lighting tutorials with Howe.

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...

Jim Gladden, a construction site foreman, is partially responsible for the accidental death of one of his workers, Fred Smith, and makes good on...

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

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

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...

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

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...

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...

The story of an unsung hero in filmmaking and the racial barriers he faced growing up and into his career, through archival footage of himself and...

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