James Wong Howe Movies

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

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,...

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

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

In 1620s France, dreaded swordsman Gil de Berault returns from carrying out a mission for Cardinal Richelieu, and finds the Cardinal worried about...

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

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...

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

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

Lowe plays Chatrand the Great, a magician with great hypnotic and magical powers. During his evening performance at an upscale theater, a murder...

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...

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

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...

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

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...

Feuding ranchers and sheepherders.

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....

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...

A wild dancer in a cheap Seville cafe, Mariposa is taken to New York by Señor Sprott, a prominent theatrical producer. Billed as "The...

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