James Wong Howe Movies

A Brooklyn pier racketeer bullies boat-owners into paying protection money but two fed-up fishermen decide to eliminate the gangster themselves...

Famous singer Fanny Brice has divorced her first husband Nicky Arnstein. During the Great Depression she has trouble finding work as an artist, but...

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...

Jimmy Durante is jungle movie star Schnarzan the Conqueror, but the public is tiring of his fake lions. When Baron Munchausen comes to town with real...

Pepe Le Moko is a notorious thief, who escaped from France. Since his escape, Moko has become a resident and leader of the immense Casbah of Algiers....

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...

Abe Lincoln in Illinois is a 1940 biographical film which tells the story of the life of Abraham Lincoln from his departure from Kentucky until his...

Tongues begin to wag when a lonely widow becomes romantically involved with a military man. Problems arise when the gossip is filtered down to her...

A mismatched couple's marital problems come to the surface when the husband develops an interest in their pretty boarder.

During the Spanish Civil War, an agent on a mission to purchase coal meets with murder and counterspies.

Helen Chernen pushes her younger sister Katherine into show business in order to escape their small town poverty.

The romantic story of Hungarian pianist Franz Liszt, whose scandalous love affair forced him to abandon his adoring audiences.

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

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...

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...

Five young adults in a small American town face the revelations of secrets that threaten to ruin their hopes and dreams.

A freedom-loving French journalist sacrifices his happiness and security to battle Nazi tyranny.

A grieving widow embarks on a new romance when she discovers her late husband had been cheating on her.

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

Embittered after serving time for a burglary he did not commit, Joe Bell is soon back in jail, on a prison farm. His love for the foreman's daughter...