James Wong Howe Movies

Lamont Cranston, aka The Shadow, investigates the murder of a New Orleans bandleader.

A young woman is hired to take care of an eerie old mansion, where she finds herself entangled with an enigmatic murderer.

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...

German Julius Reuter sends 19th-century news by carrier pigeon and then by wire, founding a news agency.

A Ukrainian village must suddenly contend with the Nazi invasion of June 1941. Re-edited version of The North Star (1943), to remove positive...

In a Scottish sanitarium, a brilliant research psychiatrist works on a treatment for dementia praecox. He falls for his altruistic female lab...

A decoding expert tangles with enemy spies.

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

Three WWI veterans thought long dead turn out to be still alive and return home - much to the consternation of their friends and family.

Everyweek Newsmagazine editor Richard Kurt pursues famous free-spirited portrait artist Marion Forsythe on her return to the states from Europe,...

After robbing and murdering his married lover and then making her death look like suicide, conniving philanderer Ronnie Mason relocates to Los...

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 matador must recover his courage after being gored in the ring.

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...

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...

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

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...

The story of Abe Saperstein and the creation of the Harlem Globetrotters.

Farewell Again is a multiplotted British comedy/drama about soldiers on leave and the people they've left. Given a six-hour pass after a tour of duty...

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