Movies: James Wong Howe

  • 1970
    Last of the Mobile Hot Shots

    Last of the Mobile Hot Shots (1970)

    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
  • 1927
    Sorrell and Son

    Sorrell and Son (1927)

    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 promising job offer and is forced to take work as a menial. Both his dignity and his health are damaged...

    Sorrell and Son
  • 1954
    Go Man Go

    Go Man Go (1954)

    Go Man Go

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

    Go Man Go
  • 1930
    Today

    Today (1930)

    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 downward plunge of her once-privileged life and drifts into prostitution....

    Today
  • 1923
    The Spanish Dancer

    The Spanish Dancer (1923)

    The Spanish Dancer

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    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, Maritana wishes to be a Countess. Her ambitions are realized when she meets the handsome Count Don Cesar...

    The Spanish Dancer
  • 1931
    The Spider

    The Spider (1931)

    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 occurs. A hand wearing a sinister spider ring raises a revolver, the lights go out, and a shot rings out!...

    The Spider
  • 1927
    The Rough Riders

    The Rough Riders (1927)

    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. This film is lost....

    The Rough Riders
  • 1925
    The Charmer

    The Charmer (1925)

    The Charmer

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    A wild dancer in a cheap Seville cafe, Mariposa is taken to New York by Señor Sprott, a prominent theatrical producer. Billed as "The Charmer," Mariposa becomes the toast of two continents. Among her most ardent admirers are Ralph Bayne, a millionair...

    The Charmer
  • 1924
    The Side Show of Life

    The Side Show of Life (1924)

    The Side Show of Life

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

    The Side Show of Life
  • 1932
    Amateur Daddy

    Amateur Daddy (1932)

    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 Fred's deathbed request to go to Scotch Valley and take care of his surviving wife and children. When Jim...

    Amateur Daddy
  • 1934
    Have a Heart

    Have a Heart (1934)

    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 magnanimously offers to not back out of the marriage. After rejecting his offer she starts a doll shop and t...

    Have a Heart
  • 1926
    Padlocked

    Padlocked (1926)

    Padlocked

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    Padlocked
  • 1935
    The Night Is Young

    The Night Is Young (1935)

    The Night Is Young

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    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 ballet dancer Lisl Gluck....

    The Night Is Young
  • 1931
    Transatlantic

    Transatlantic (1931)

    Transatlantic

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    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 Lowe heads the cast as Monty Greer, a suave gambler who falls in love with Judy, the daughter of immig...

    Transatlantic
  • 1922
    The Woman Who Walked Alone

    The Woman Who Walked Alone (1922)

    The Woman Who Walked Alone

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    When Iris Champneys’ marriage to the Earl of Lemister ends in divorce she moves to Africa to operate a tavern. Seven years later she becomes reacquainted with Clement Gaunt, formerly employed by Lemister and secretly in love with Iris, who is on the ...

    The Woman Who Walked Alone
  • 1932
    Man About Town

    Man About Town (1932)

    Man About Town

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    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 old friend the British ambassador over a beautiful Hungarian woman, and it leads to espionage, black...

    Man About Town
  • 1934
    The Show-Off

    The Show-Off (1934)

    The Show-Off

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    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 for a good price and an old railroad deal comes through, he's back on top and ready to marry Amy aga...

    The Show-Off
  • 1954
    Autumn in Rome

    Autumn in Rome (1954)

    Autumn in Rome

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

    Autumn in Rome
  • 1922
    The Siren Call

    The Siren Call (1922)

    The Siren Call

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

    The Siren Call
  • 1923
    The Call of the Canyon

    The Call of the Canyon (1923)

    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 fiancee, Carley Burch, follows him to Arizona but soon decides she'd rather go back to New York. When F...

    The Call of the Canyon