James Wong Howe Movies

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

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

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

A police inspector 'solves' a crime that, in fact, may not have occurred at all.

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

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...

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

Jack becomes an outlaw after being wrongly accused of killing a young Kootenai chieftain. He's known as "Genesee Jack" and prefers to live among...

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...

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

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...

James Wong Howe follows artist Dong Kingman over the course of a day, in which the maestro starts and finishes a watercolor of a street in New York...

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...

After his wife deserts him, a doctor is obliged to abandon his practice in order to care for his infant son and ends up working as a janitor. This...