The best Kenneth Howell’s movies

Kenneth Howell

Kenneth Howell

21/02/1913- 28/09/1966
Today we present the best Kenneth Howell’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 Kenneth Howell’s movies.
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Ball of Fire

Ball of Fire
7.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 02/12/1941
  • Character: College Boy
A group of academics have spent years shut up in a house working on the definitive encyclopedia. When one of them discovers that his entry on slang is hopelessly outdated, he ventures into the wide world to learn about the evolving language. Here he meets Sugarpuss O’Shea, a nightclub singer, who’s on top of all the slang—and, it just so happens, needs a place to stay.

Girls' School

Girls' School
5.9/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 30/09/1938
  • Character: Edgar Brown
Wealthy high school girls are sent to a boarding school to learn proper etiquette. Linda Simpson stays out all night. She tells her roommate, Betty Fleet, that it was because she's planning to elope. Linda gets in trouble when the faculty finds out from a monitor's report submitted by reluctant Natalie Freeman, a poor girl attending on scholarship.

The Eagle and the Hawk

The Eagle and the Hawk
7/10
  • Genre: ActionDramaWar
  • Release: 06/05/1933
  • Character: Lt. John Stevens
The pilots of a Royal Air Force squadron in World War I face not only physical but mental dangers in their struggle to survive while fighting the enemy.

The Wrong Way Out

The Wrong Way Out
6/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 24/12/1938
  • Character: Windy Brown
Two young people get married and run away, even though their parents advise them to build up their savings first. After they get settled they can barely make ends meet. When opportunity suddenly presents itself, they start on a downward spiral of crime.

Hot Water

Hot Water
5.1/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 24/09/1937
  • Character: Jack Jones
The Jones family is in an uproar when Dad's campaign for mayor appears sabotaged by an anonymous newspaper article.

Junior G-Men

Junior G-Men
6.5/10
A gang of urban street kids and a club of suburban would-be federal agents, at first rivals, join forces to rescue the father of one of the kids, the inventor of a super-explosive and its remote detonator, from the clutches of a band of foreign subversives call the "Flaming Torch Gang". A 12-episode movie serial with the chapters: •1. Enemies Within •2. The Blast of Doom •3. Human Dynamite •4. Blazing Danger •5. Trapped By Traitors •6. Traitors' Treachery •7. Flaming Death •8. Hurled Through Space •9. The Plunge of Peril •10.The Toll of Treason •11.Descending Doom •12.The Power of Patriotism

Old Man Rhythm

Old Man Rhythm
5.6/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 02/08/1935
  • Character: College Boy
Romantic rivalries between father and son enrolled at the same college.

In Old Amarillo

In Old Amarillo
6.3/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 15/05/1951
  • Character: Phil Hills (as Ken Howell)
A drought is about to end the cattle business. The owner of a canning factory wants to buy all the remaining cattle cheap. He plans to ruin the cattlemen's plans to ship water by train and to seed the clouds for rain. Roy is sent by a packing house to investigate.

Safety in Numbers

Safety in Numbers
6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 30/05/1938
  • Character: Jack Jones
The Jones family patriarch, also mayor (Prouty), is swindled into thinking the town swamp is a rich mineral deposit.

Borrowing Trouble

Borrowing Trouble
6.4/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 10/12/1937
  • Character: Jack Jones
The Jones family drugstore is robbed and it looks like the culprit is a boy the family has taken a liking to.

Pride of the Bowery

Pride of the Bowery
5.9/10
Muggs is tricked into entering a Civilian Conservation Corps camp by Danny in order to get in shape. Muggs resists and battles with the camp captain and with other campers. He also becomes involved in trying to help one of his friends get out of trouble.

Saturday's Millions

Saturday's Millions
6.3/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 30/09/1933
  • Character: Student
Jim Fowler is Western University's football hero and is constantly besieged by reporters. Jim's father Ezra comes to visit him and becomes reacquainted with an old Western football chum, Mr. Chandler, who happens to be the father of Jim's girlfriend Joan. Jim keeps his roommate, Andy, busy by sending him to collect money on their laundry concessions business, even though Andy is desperately trying to meet his girlfriend Thelma, who has just come for a visit. When the coach tells Chandler and Fowler that Jim is nervous and erratic, Chandler invites Jim to spend the night before the big game at his home.

I Give My Love

I Give My Love
6.1/10
  • Release: 17/07/1934
  • Character: Frank Howard
After accidentally killing her no-good husband, Judy makes her true love promise not to tell her small son about his imprisoned mother. She is released ten years later...

Too Busy to Work

Too Busy to Work
5.9/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 17/11/1939
  • Character: Jack Jones
The Jones family females decide to teach Father a lesson. He's neglecting the family business to run for mayor, so they decide to neglect their household chores.

She Had to Choose

She Had to Choose
6/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 01/10/1934
  • Character: Announcer
A young actress hits Hollywood determined to be a movie star and runs into a lot of roadblocks along the way.

Educating Father

Educating Father
6.1/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 23/05/1936
  • Character: Jack Jones
Jones family romp with father trying to convince son to follow him as a druggist, rather than becoming a pilot, until the son's piloting skills come in handy.

Everybody's Baby

Everybody's Baby
6.2/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 24/03/1939
  • Character: Jack Jones
The Jones family encounters new theories of childrearing when an author arrives in town to lecture on the topic.

Her First Beau

Her First Beau
5.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 08/05/1941
  • Character: Roger Van Vleck
15-year-old Penelope (Penny) Wood has two great interests - Chuck Harris and the hope that some day she might become a famous,great writer. Chuck also has two interests - his home-made glider and the hope that some day he will go to Tech college. His indifference to Penny is her chief source of annoyance. Mervyn Roberts, Penny's uncle who is only five years older than she is, arrives home with a guest, Roger Van Vleck, and Penny falls for Roger's sophistication. Chuck, resentful, continues to work on his glider over his father's objections. His father wants it destroyed but Elmer Tuttle, their hired man, hides it.

Big Business

Big Business
5.8/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 18/06/1937
  • Character: Jack Jones
A small town drugstore owner (Jed Prouty) hopes to strike it rich by investing his savings in an oil well. Comedy.

Quick Millions

Quick Millions
4.8/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 25/08/1939
  • Character: Jack Jones (as Ken Howell)
In Hollywood the Jones family runs into crooks who convince them they have inherited a gold mine at the Grand Canyon.

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