James Wong Howe Movies

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...

The Rickshaw Boy (1981) was another product of James Wong Howe’s wishes. In 1980, Yung travelled to Beijing to film retired old-time rickshaw...

Lamont Cranston, aka The Shadow, investigates the murder of a New Orleans bandleader.

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

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

Sally (Jean Parker) is engaged to be married, loves dancing and kids. But her life is ruined when an accident cripples her and her betrothed...

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

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...

Psychiatrist finds herself falling for her patient.

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

Jewel thieves pull a heist on a diamond mining operation in Africa and take the foreman hostage before escaping into the Kalahari Desert, but when...

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...