James Wong Howe Movies

  • 2007
    The Man Who Shot Chinatown: The Life and Work of John A. Alonzo

    The Man Who Shot Chinatown: The Life and Work of John A. Alonzo

    The Man Who Shot Chinatown: The Life and Work of John A. Alonzo

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    Cinematographer John A. Alonzo was one of the driving creative forces in the resurgence of expressionistic American movies of the late 1960s and...

    The Man Who Shot Chinatown: The Life and Work of John A. Alonzo
  • 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
  • 1926
    Padlocked

    Padlocked

    Padlocked

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    Padlocked
  • 1932
    Amateur Daddy

    Amateur Daddy

    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...

    Amateur Daddy
  • 1941
    Shining Victory

    Shining Victory

    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...

    Shining Victory
  • 1932
    Chandu the Magician

    Chandu the Magician

    Chandu the Magician

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    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...

    Chandu the Magician
  • 1931
    Surrender

    Surrender

    Surrender

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    Story of French prisoner in Germany who falls in love with a German general's daughter. From the novel "Axelle" by Pierre Benoit.

    Surrender
  • 1934
    Have a Heart

    Have a Heart

    Have a Heart

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    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...

    Have a Heart
  • 1931
    The Yellow Ticket

    The Yellow Ticket

    The Yellow Ticket

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    A young Russian girl is forced into a life of prostitution in Czarist Russia, and she and a British journalist find their lives endangered when she...

    The Yellow Ticket
  • 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
  • 1935
    Biography of a Bachelor Girl

    Biography of a Bachelor Girl

    Biography of a Bachelor Girl

    6.31935HD

    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
  • 1959
    The Story on Page One

    The Story on Page One

    The Story on Page One

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    An adulterous couple is accused of murder after the woman's husband is shot and killed during a scuffle. A high-profile court case tells the story.

    The Story on Page One
  • 1933
    Beauty for Sale

    Beauty for Sale

    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...

    Beauty for Sale
  • 1932
    After Tomorrow

    After Tomorrow

    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...

    After Tomorrow
  • 1963
    The Small World: The Gypsy Children of Granada

    The Small World: The Gypsy Children of Granada

    The Small World: The Gypsy Children of Granada

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    In this unsold television pilot for a proposed travelogue series, Richard Erdman visits with the children and townsfolk of the Sacromonte district of...

    The Small World: The Gypsy Children of Granada
  • 1932
    Dance Team

    Dance Team

    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...

    Dance Team
  • 1923
    To the Last Man

    To the Last Man

    To the Last Man

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    Feuding ranchers and sheepherders.

    To the Last Man
  • 1970
    Last of the Mobile Hot Shots

    Last of the Mobile Hot Shots

    Last of the Mobile Hot Shots

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

    Last of the Mobile Hot Shots
  • 1922
    The Siren Call

    The Siren Call

    The Siren Call

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

    The Siren Call
  • 1930
    Today

    Today

    Today

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    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...

    Today