James Wong Howe Movies

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

Aubrey cons Amy into thinking he's a railroad bigwig. When he loses his job he takes one wearing a sandwich board. After he helps Joe sell his patent...

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...

After his wife deserts him, a doctor is obliged to abandon his practice in order to care for his infant son and ends up working as a janitor. This...

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

A despairing clown suffering a broken heart and a self-indulgent count who uncontrollably laughs learn to help each other with their problems, but...

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...

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

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

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...

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...