The best John Howard’s movies

John Howard

John Howard

14/04/1913- 19/02/1995
Today we present the best John Howard’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best John Howard’s movies.
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The Philadelphia Story

The Philadelphia Story
7.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 05/12/1940
  • Character: George Kittredge
When a rich woman's ex-husband and a tabloid-type reporter turn up just before her planned remarriage, she begins to learn the truth about herself.

Lost Horizon

Lost Horizon
7.6/10
British diplomat Robert Conway and a small group of civilians crash land in the Himalayas, and are rescued by the people of the mysterious, Eden-like valley of Shangri-la. Protected by the mountains from the world outside, where the clouds of World War II are gathering, Shangri-la provides a seductive escape for the world-weary Conway.

The High and the Mighty

The High and the Mighty
6.6/10
Dan Roman is a veteran pilot haunted by a tragic past. Now relegated to second-in-command cockpit assignments he finds himself on a routine Honolulu-to-San Francisco flight - one that takes a terrifying suspense-building turn when disaster strikes high above the Pacific Ocean at the point of no return.

Buck and the Preacher

Buck and the Preacher
6.6/10
A wagon master and a con-man preacher help freed slaves dogged by cheap-labor agents out West.

The Fighting Kentuckian

The Fighting Kentuckian
6.4/10
John Breen (John Wayne), a Kentucky militiaman falls in love with French exile Fleurette De Marchand (Vera Ralston). He discovers a plot to steal the land that Fleurette's exiles plan to settle on and aims to foil it.

The Invisible Woman

The Invisible Woman
6/10
Kitty Carroll, an attractive store model, volunteers to become a test subject for a machine that will make her invisible so that she can use her invisibility to exact revenge on her ex-boss.

Three Girls About Town

Three Girls About Town
6.4/10
Faith and Hope Banner, sisters, are "convention hostesses" in a hotel. A body is discovered next door as the magician's convention is leaving and the mortician's convention is arriving, and the sisters, with help from manager Wilburforce Puddle, try to hide it. Complicating matters, Hope's boyfriend, Tommy, is a newspaper reporter in the hotel covering some labor negotiations.

Bulldog Drummond's Secret Police

Bulldog Drummond's Secret Police
6.1/10
  • Genre: MysteryThriller
  • Release: 29/03/1939
  • Character: Captain Hugh 'Bulldog' Drummond
Captain Drummond and his girlfriend want to marry but a hidden treasure in the house in which they want to celebrate their marriage is complicating the situation involving a series of deaths and an elusive murderer.

Prison Farm

Prison Farm
6.3/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 17/06/1938
  • Character: Dr. Roi Conrad
Shirley Ross plays an innocent young girl convicted for complicity in a crime committed by her boy friend (Lloyd Nolan). The male crook is sentence to six months on a prison farm populated by both men and women (segregated, of course). Ross is also incarcerated, suffering the cruelties of the sadistic male and female guards (including J. Carroll Naish and future "Ma Kettle" Marjorie Main!)

Green Hell

Green Hell
5.7/10
A group of adventurers head deep into South American jungle in search of an ancient Incan treasure.

The Texas Rangers Ride Again

The Texas Rangers Ride Again
6/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 13/12/1940
  • Character: Jim Kingston aka Pecos Kid
With thousands of cattle being rustled from White Sage ranch the 1930's Texas Rangers are called in. They manage to get one of their agents into the gang by making them think he is the Pecos Kid on the lam.

Disputed Passage

Disputed Passage
6.4/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 25/10/1939
  • Character: John Wesley Beaven
A doctor's medical studies are threatened by his infatuation with a Chinese girl. The girl returns to China, but complications ensue when she runs into him in Nanking during a Japanese bombing raid.

Bulldog Drummond in Africa

Bulldog Drummond in Africa
6/10
  • Genre: ActionAdventure
  • Release: 05/08/1938
  • Character: Captain Hugh Chesterton 'Bulldog' Drummond
Drummond has to leave for Morocco on his wedding day with his fiancee and trusted friends to rescue his friend Nielsen who is kidnapped by an international criminal.

Bulldog Drummond Comes Back

Bulldog Drummond Comes Back
5.9/10
Drummond's girlfriend is kidnapped by his enemies and he along with his friend Nielsen, an inspector from Scotland Yard, follow the trail and try to rescue her from the kidnappers.

Tight Shoes

Tight Shoes
6.8/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 13/06/1941
  • Character: Jimmy Rupert
A crook with big feet buys shoes that are too tight from a salesman, then decides to use the store as a front for illegal gambling.

Experiment Alcatraz

Experiment Alcatraz
5.6/10
  • Genre: Crime
  • Release: 21/11/1950
  • Character: Dr. Ross Williams
A doctor testing drugs on convicts gets mixed up in a murder investigation.

Arrest Bulldog Drummond

Arrest Bulldog Drummond
6/10
The invention of a machine that can cause remote explosions brings the attention of Scotland Yard and Bulldog Drummond.

Car 99

Car 99
6.3/10
  • Genre: ActionCrime
  • Release: 02/03/1935
  • Character: Trooper Carney
A story of the Michigan State Police and the strong sense of loyalty and duty it instills in its men. It follows the career of a newly-inducted rookie, Ross Martin, who has joined the force at the urging of his sweetheart, Mary Adams. Martin soon distinguishes himself by his bravery in the apprehension of criminals. But when the leader of a gang of bank robbers falls into his hands and then escapes, because of carelessness on Martin's part, he is suspended from the force.

The Undying Monster

The Undying Monster
6.1/10
  • Genre: HorrorMystery
  • Release: 27/11/1942
  • Character: Oliver Hammond
A werewolf prowls around at night but only kills certain members of one family. It seems like just a coincidence, but the investigating Inspector soon finds out that this tradition has gone on for generations and tries to find a link between the werewolf and the family, leading to a frightening conclusion.

Valiant Is the Word for Carrie

Valiant Is the Word for Carrie
6.3/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 06/10/1936
  • Character: Paul Darnley
Carrie Snyder is a prostitute, who is forced out of the fictional southern town of Crebillon, after forming a friendship with a young boy named Paul, whose dying mother is unable to protest against her son visiting such a woman. After Carrie has left town Paul runs away from his abusive father, and meets a girl named Lady who has run away from a burning trainwreck, not wanting to go back to the people she was with. Carrie comes back for Paul and ends up taking Paul and Lady to New York with her.

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