John Howard
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1913-04-14
Locus Natus: Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Et ut: John Richard Cox Jr., John Cox Jr., John Cox
The Philadelphia Story
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.
release : 1940.12.05popularis : 10.955
Lost Horizon
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...
release : 1937.03.03popularis : 10.868
Radar Secret Service
A federal agent and his partner track uranium-ore hijackers with radar.
release : 1950.01.28popularis : 1.721
The Undying Monster
A werewolf prowls around at night but only kills certain members of one family. It seems like just a coincidence, but the investigating Inspector...
release : 1942.11.27popularis : 2.058
The Invisible Woman
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...
release : 1940.12.28popularis : 10.342
Experiment Alcatraz
A doctor testing drugs on convicts gets mixed up in a murder investigation.
release : 1950.11.21popularis : 1.241
The Mad Doctor
A reporter sleuths the mystery behind an oft-married Viennese doctor whose wives met mysterious fates.
release : 1940.12.20popularis : 1.548
Psycho Sisters
After her husband dies, a woman begins to have a nervous breakdown and is consoled by her younger sister. Soon, however, other members of the family...
release : 1974.12.25popularis : 3.16
Destination Inner Space
A futuristic underwater sea-lab is having problems with a UFO that's parked between them and a nearby deep ocean trench. As they investigate, they...
release : 1966.05.01popularis : 5.382
The Fighting Kentuckian
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...
release : 1949.09.15popularis : 17.324
Arrest Bulldog Drummond
The invention of a machine that can cause remote explosions brings the attention of Scotland Yard and Bulldog Drummond.
release : 1938.11.25popularis : 1.141
Bulldog Drummond Comes Back
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...
release : 1937.09.24popularis : 3.794
I, Jane Doe
While stationed in France during World War II, an American fighter pilot marries a French girl but leaves her behind when he returns to the U.S. The...
release : 1948.05.25popularis : 3.962
The High and the Mighty
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...
release : 1954.07.03popularis : 11.007
Love from a Stranger
Cecily Harrington, struggling along on a small allowance, wins a fortune in a lottery. She decides to travel rather than marrying her fiance Nigel...
release : 1947.11.15popularis : 1.292
Father Takes a Wife
A famous actress has to win over her ready-made family when she weds a shipping magnate.
release : 1941.10.03popularis : 1.59
Make Haste to Live
A single mother in New Mexico senses her own death in the hands of a mysterious stalker.
release : 1954.03.25popularis : 2.713
Bulldog Drummond's Secret Police
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...
release : 1939.03.29popularis : 2.043
Three Girls About Town
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...
release : 1941.10.23popularis : 4.83
Submarine Raider
On December 6, 1941, Captain Yamanada of the Japanese aircraft carrier "Hiranamu", orders full steam ahead for Pearl Harbor. His ship encounters and...
release : 1942.06.04popularis : 3.053
Bulldog Drummond's Bride
Hugh “Bulldog” Drummond is on the precipice of matrimony to his beloved Phyllis -- but a bank robbery and a daring escape is going to get...
release : 1939.07.12popularis : 5.88
Bulldog Drummond's Revenge
Captain Drummond is travelling to Switzerland to marry his girlfriend. However, when a cargo containing dangerous explosives goes missing from its...
release : 1937.12.16popularis : 2.834
Bulldog Drummond in Africa
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...
release : 1938.08.05popularis : 3.218
Sunday Night at the Trocadero
A series of vignettes with a loose plot. Featured are Frank Morgan, Groucho Marx, Frank McHugh, Robert Benchley and The Brian Sisters. Not bad, more...
release : 1937.10.02popularis : 2.66
The Unknown Terror
A woman leads an expedition into a remote jungle to find her long-lost brother, but instead finds a mad scientist who has created a fungus monster...
release : 1957.08.12popularis : 5.033
Models Inc.
The wealthy owner of a modeling agency keeps a new student in the high life, unaware that she and a recently released convict share a criminal and...
release : 1952.05.19popularis : 1.573
Bulldog Drummond's Peril
Drummond's wedding with Phyllis is interrupted when the inspector guarding their gifts is killed. He tries to trace the killers and uncovers the...
release : 1938.03.18popularis : 6.16
Green Hell
A group of adventurers head deep into South American jungle in search of an ancient Incan treasure.
release : 1940.01.26popularis : 2.535
A Tragedy at Midnight
The host of a whodunit radio show finds himself involved in his own mystery when he awakens to find a woman with a knife in her back in his bedroom.
release : 1942.02.02popularis : 3.76
The Man from Dakota
A frontier scout, a Boston officer and a Russian girl escape with a map past Confederates.
release : 1940.02.16popularis : 1.812
Isle of Missing Men
A young woman receives an invitation from the Governor of an island prison to spend a week with him. She does so, but conceals the fact that her...
release : 1942.09.18popularis : 2.535
Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 5
Fifth film in the Hedda Hopper documentary series.
release : 1942.01.01popularis : 0.89
The Destructors
Foreign agents are after a substance called "laser rubies" that can power a killer laser beam. Government agents are dispatched to protect the rubies...
release : 1968.05.03popularis : 2.751
The Texas Rangers Ride Again
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...
release : 1940.12.13popularis : 2.894
Car 99
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...
release : 1935.03.02popularis : 2.068
13 Hours by Air
Womanizer and airline pilot Jack Gordon must fly the world's fastest airliner from New York to California while dealing with dangerous jewel thieves...
release : 1936.04.30popularis : 3.873
What a Life
Jackie Cooper stars in this first film in the wholesome "Henry Aldrich" series of teen comedies.
release : 1939.10.05popularis : 0.885
Touchdown, Army
Prep football star Jimmy Howal gets a reception far different from what he expected when he enters West Point.
release : 1938.08.04popularis : 0.615
Buck and the Preacher
A wagon master and a con-man preacher help freed slaves dogged by cheap-labor agents out West.
release : 1972.03.17popularis : 6.588
Prison Farm
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...
release : 1938.06.17popularis : 3.491
Valiant Is the Word for Carrie
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,...
release : 1936.10.06popularis : 6.59
The Man Who Returned to Life
An accused killer is granted a reprieve when his victim returns to town in the flesh after an eight-year absence.
release : 1942.02.05popularis : 1.753
Grand Jury Secrets
A newspaper reporter gets involved with shady stock promoters when he listens in on a jury room session.
release : 1939.06.23popularis : 1.969
Hold 'Em Navy
Two football players fight over the same girl.
release : 1937.11.04popularis : 1.641
Disputed Passage
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...
release : 1939.10.25popularis : 5.726
Annapolis Farewell
Commodore Fitzhugh, an old retired naval officer, lives at the Annapolis Naval Academy and, unhappy with the "modern" navy, likes to talk about his...
release : 1935.08.23popularis : 5.177
Soak the Rich
Tycoon Humphrey Craig is fearful that a "soak the rich" bill will pass in the United States Senate.
release : 1936.01.17popularis : 0.885
Tight Shoes
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.
release : 1941.06.13popularis : 0.878
Let Them Live
A young man goes up against a crooked town boss.
release : 1937.04.25popularis : 1.469
Easy to Take
To boost the ratings of a kiddie show, the host agrees to take guardianship of of a bratty boy who has a lovely older sister.
release : 1936.11.06popularis : 0.554
Moochie of Pop Warner Football
Moochie joins a Pop Warner Football team, but has troubles with the mayor’s son. When the two make amends, they help the team win and go to the...
release : 1960.11.20popularis : 4.459
Hitting a New High
A Paris cabaret singer dreams of becoming a Metropolitan Opera singer. A press agent arranges her Manhattan debut by way of Africa.
release : 1937.12.24popularis : 2.867
Mountain Music
Mary Beamish, a folksy Ozark girl, yearns for the glitter of show business and for a man. She knows she is anything but gorgeous, but figures her...
release : 1937.06.18popularis : 1.619
Border Flight
Frances Farmer's second film is a typical B-programmer from the Paramount lot of 1936--up and coming stars (John Howard, Robert Cummings, Grant...
release : 1936.05.29popularis : 4.275
My Boys Are Good Boys
Teenagers at a correctional facility devise a plan to rob an armored van.
release : 1978.01.01popularis : 1.261
Penitentiary
The story of a D.A. who becomes a prison warden and winds up overseeing the sentence of a man he prosecuted.
release : 1938.02.05popularis : 1.233