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
    Torrid Zone

    Torrid Zone

    Torrid Zone

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

    Torrid Zone
  • 1959
    The Last Angry Man

    The Last Angry Man

    The Last Angry Man

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    Dr. Sam Abelman is a Jewish doctor contentedly spending his autumn years serving his own Brooklyn neighborhood. But when his nephew, would-be...

    The Last Angry Man
  • 1948
    The Time of Your Life

    The Time of Your Life

    The Time of Your Life

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    Joe spends a lot of his time at Nick's Pacific Street Saloon. Tom, who credits Joe with once saving his life, stops by regularly to run errands for...

    The Time of Your Life
  • 1931
    The Spider

    The Spider

    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...

    The Spider
  • 1935
    Whipsaw

    Whipsaw

    Whipsaw

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    Hot jewels from London make their way to New York, where they are stolen by racketeer Ed Dexter, who hides them with the help of his vivacious...

    Whipsaw
  • 1941
    Shining Victory

    Shining Victory

    Shining Victory

    6.11941HD

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

    Shining Victory
  • 1957
    Armored Attack!

    Armored Attack!

    Armored Attack!

    6.21957HD

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

    Armored Attack!
  • 1923
    The Call of the Canyon

    The Call of the Canyon

    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...

    The Call of the Canyon
  • 1935
    Rendezvous

    Rendezvous

    Rendezvous

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    A decoding expert tangles with enemy spies.

    Rendezvous
  • 1954
    Go Man Go

    Go Man Go

    Go Man Go

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

    Go Man Go
  • 1941
    Navy Blues

    Navy Blues

    Navy Blues

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    On a layover in Hawaii, two conniving Navy seamen borrow money to wager bets that their ship will win the upcoming gunnery practice trophy, having...

    Navy Blues
  • 1931
    The Yellow Ticket

    The Yellow Ticket

    The Yellow Ticket

    5.11931HD

    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
  • 1939
    Daughters Courageous

    Daughters Courageous

    Daughters Courageous

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    Nan Masters, a single mother living with her four marriageable daughters, plans to marry Sam Sloane, businessman. Out of the blue her first husband...

    Daughters Courageous
  • 1927
    The Rough Riders

    The Rough Riders

    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....

    The Rough Riders
  • 1927
    Sorrell and Son

    Sorrell and Son

    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...

    Sorrell and Son
  • 1932
    Young America

    Young America

    Young America

    5.51932HD

    Mrs. Doray sits with a Juvenile Court Judge to learn more about problem children and what to do about them. One of the cases involves 13 year old...

    Young America
  • 1957
    Drango

    Drango

    Drango

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    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...

    Drango
  • 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
  • 1958
    The Invisible Avenger

    The Invisible Avenger

    The Invisible Avenger

    5.31958HD

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

    The Invisible Avenger