James Wong Howe Movies

Feuding ranchers and sheepherders.

1973 documentary about the Oscar-winning director of photography, featuring lighting tutorials with Howe.

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

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

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

During the dark days of the Civil War, a doctor gives President Lincoln a puppy to buoy his spirits.

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

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

The story of an unsung hero in filmmaking and the racial barriers he faced growing up and into his career, through archival footage of himself and...

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....