James Wong Howe Movies

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

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...

A circus wild animal trainer searches for the son who was taken away from him by a meddling relative years earlier.

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

Psychiatrist finds herself falling for her patient.

Feuding ranchers and sheepherders.

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

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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...