Movies: James Wong Howe

  • 1934
    Stamboul Quest

    Stamboul Quest (1934)

    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 theater. He suspects Ali Bey, Turkish commander for the Dardanelles, and dispatches Annemarie to Consta...

    Stamboul Quest
  • 1940
    Saturday's Children

    Saturday's Children (1940)

    Saturday's Children

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

    Saturday's Children
  • 1932
    Dance Team

    Dance Team (1932)

    Dance Team

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    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 and decide to team up. As “Mulligan & Kirk” they have their highs and lows while falling in love but ...

    Dance Team
  • 1941
    Shining Victory

    Shining Victory (1941)

    Shining Victory

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    In a Scottish sanitarium, a brilliant research psychiatrist works on a treatment for dementia praecox. He falls for his altruistic female lab assistant and they begin a passionate, tragic relationship....

    Shining Victory
  • 1923
    The Spanish Dancer

    The Spanish Dancer (1923)

    The Spanish Dancer

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    The Spanish Dancer is the story of Maritana, a Romani girl who dances in courtyards and even tells people's fortunes. Despite her lowly position, Maritana wishes to be a Countess. Her ambitions are realized when she meets the handsome Count Don Cesar...

    The Spanish Dancer
  • 1932
    Amateur Daddy

    Amateur Daddy (1932)

    Amateur Daddy

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    Jim Gladden, a construction site foreman, is partially responsible for the accidental death of one of his workers, Fred Smith, and makes good on Fred's deathbed request to go to Scotch Valley and take care of his surviving wife and children. When Jim...

    Amateur Daddy
  • 1927
    The Rough Riders

    The Rough Riders (1927)

    The Rough Riders

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    The story of the military unit organized by future U.S. President Teddy Roosevelt and its adventures in Cuba during the Spanish-American War of 1898. This film is lost....

    The Rough Riders
  • 1926
    Padlocked

    Padlocked (1926)

    Padlocked

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    Padlocked
  • 1931
    Transatlantic

    Transatlantic (1931)

    Transatlantic

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    As a luxurious ocean liner makes its way across the Atlantic Ocean, the audience is made privy to the travails of several of its passengers. Edmund Lowe heads the cast as Monty Greer, a suave gambler who falls in love with Judy, the daughter of immig...

    Transatlantic
  • 1932
    After Tomorrow

    After Tomorrow (1932)

    After Tomorrow

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    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 married. Each has a selfish mother: Sydney's is cold, Pete's is clingy. Sidney's mother is looking for h...

    After Tomorrow
  • 1955
    Lincoln's Doctor's Dog

    Lincoln's Doctor's Dog (1955)

    Lincoln's Doctor's Dog

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

    Lincoln's Doctor's Dog
  • 1960
    Tess of the Storm Country

    Tess of the Storm Country (1960)

    Tess of the Storm Country

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    Fourth reworking of the classic Grace Miller White novel, this time updated to the 60s, with young Scottish lassie Tess (Diane Baker) becoming embroiled in a conflict about a toxic chemical plant near her new home in Pennsylvania....

    Tess of the Storm Country
  • 1931
    The Spider

    The Spider (1931)

    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 occurs. A hand wearing a sinister spider ring raises a revolver, the lights go out, and a shot rings out!...

    The Spider
  • 1933
    Beauty for Sale

    Beauty for Sale (1933)

    Beauty for Sale

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    A beautiful woman lands a job at an exclusive salon that deals with the wives of wealthy businessmen. Her contact with these men leads to a series of affairs....

    Beauty for Sale
  • 1923
    The Call of the Canyon

    The Call of the Canyon (1923)

    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 fiancee, Carley Burch, follows him to Arizona but soon decides she'd rather go back to New York. When F...

    The Call of the Canyon
  • 1919
    Told in the Hills

    Told in the Hills (1919)

    Told in the Hills

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    Told in the Hills
  • 1927
    Sorrell and Son

    Sorrell and Son (1927)

    Sorrell and Son

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    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 promising job offer and is forced to take work as a menial. Both his dignity and his health are damaged...

    Sorrell and Son
  • 1932
    Man About Town

    Man About Town (1932)

    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 old friend the British ambassador over a beautiful Hungarian woman, and it leads to espionage, black...

    Man About Town
  • 1923
    To the Last Man

    To the Last Man (1923)

    To the Last Man

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    Feuding ranchers and sheepherders....

    To the Last Man
  • 1925
    Not So Long Ago

    Not So Long Ago (1925)

    Not So Long Ago

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    Against the backdrop of New York City of the early 1850s, a young woman -- naively seeking to win the love she reads about in the romance novels she devours -- finds one prospect in an earnest denizen of the Bowery, and another in an elegant young ar...

    Not So Long Ago