James Wong Howe Movies

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

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...

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...

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....

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.

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...

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...

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

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...