John Howard

John Howard

Total Credits at Criticker: 48 (Actor), 2 (Director), 1 (Writer)

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    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. (imdb)
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    Lost Horizon
    A plane crash delivers a group of people to the secluded land of Shangri-La, but is it the miraculous utopia it appears to be?
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    The Fighting Kentuckian
    In Alabama in 1818, Kentucky militiaman John Breen falls in love with a French exile and discovers a plot to steal the land her fellow exiles plan to settle on. (imdb)
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    Radar Secret Service
    G-men track stolen Uranium-238 shipment using new radar technology; they also recruit the girlfriend of a gang member as an informant. Radar helps, but it takes an undercover blonde to really get the goods on criminal masterminds. (imdb)
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    The Invisible Woman
    Eccentric Professor Gibbs, brilliant but impractical, invents an invisibility machine and advertises for a guinea pig. What he gets is Kitty Carroll, an attractive, adventurous model, who thinks being invisible would help her settle a few scores. Complications arise when three comic gangsters steal the machine to use on their boss. But they fail to reckon with the Revenge of the Invisible Woman! (imdb)
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    Father Takes a Wife
    Staid shipping magnate Osborne Sr.'s life is transformed when he falls in love with actress Leslie Collier. (Much to the chagrin of his son and daughter-in-law, who wish that he would act his age.) But while on their honeymoon they discover a young singer, Carlos Bardez, stowed away on their yacht. Complications ensue as Leslie invites the handsome tenor to live with them until he is discovered. Father is not amused. (imdb)
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    The Undying Monster
    Surviving members of an aristocratic Welsh family are threatened by a legendary monster when they venture out on chilly, foggy nights. (imdb)
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    Arrest Bulldog Drummond
    The invention of a war machine, that brings to explosion everything one wants to, puts Scotland Yard and Captain Drummond into alarm. (imdb)
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    Bulldog Drummond Comes Back
    The girlfriend of Captain Drummond has been kidnapped by an enemy of Drummond who seeks revenge. But Drummond and his friend Colonel Nielsen at once follow his trail. (imdb)
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    Bulldog Drummond in Africa
    Drummond, his girlfriend and his butler try to free an high post of Scotland Yard who has been kidnapped. (imdb)
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    Bulldog Drummond\
    A bank-robbery in London prevents - again - the marriage of Bulldog Drummond with his girlfriend. But this time when the delinquents are caught it will be celebrated at last. (imdb)
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    Bulldog Drummond\
    In this episode captain Drummond tries to find the killer of various people. All assassinations were provoked by a diamond of great value, but Drummond will face the danger. (imdb)
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    Bulldog Drummond\
    Captain Drummond travels to Switzerland in order to marry his girlfriend but the disappearance of a dangerous cargo of explosives makes him delay his plans. (imdb)
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    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.
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    Destination Inner Space
    Strange goings on at the site of an experimental underwater laboratory as a mysterious object of unknown origin is detected in the area. A group of researchers investigate and come face to face with the object, a large automated extraterrestrial probe. They board the craft and discover a small object at first considered to be some sort of instrument package, which they take back to the lab for closer inspection. It is then that events take a turn for the worse. (imdb)
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    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 and eliminate the foreign agents. (imdb)
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    Green Hell
    A group of adventurers head deep into a South American jungle in search of ancient Incan treasure. A beautiful woman, brought to their camp by hired bearers, has come to join her husband, a newer member of the group, who was recently killed by hostile natives. As the months go by, jealousies and tempers flare as fights break out over the woman... (imdb)
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    What a Life
    In the first Henry Aldrich film, Henry (Jackie Cooper) is falsely accused of making trouble at school. He must clear himself. (imdb)
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    Experiment Alcatraz
    A doctor tests his theory that blood diseases can be cured by atomic radiation by using prison inmates as experiments. (imdb)
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    Love from a Stranger
    A newly married woman begins to suspect that her husband is a killer. Even worse, she soon comes to believe that she will be his next victim. (imdb)
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    Make Haste to Live
    Crystal 'Chris' Benson, a single mother in a small New Mexico town, senses a shadowy menace stalking her in the night. She acquires a gun and makes arrangements anticipating her own death, tape-recording a message for her teenage daughter which (in flashback) tells of her involvement with Steve Blackford, who has very good reason to hate her. Chris is determined and resourceful, but Steve has had 18 years to plan revenge. Doom closes in. (imdb)
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    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 that feeds on the local inhabitants. (imdb)
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    The Man from Dakota
    During the Civil War a beautiful woman helps two Union spies cross into the Confederacy and gather information. (imdb)
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    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 gang by making them think he is the Pecos Kid on the lam. (imdb)
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    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 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. (imdb)
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    Border Flight
    Border Flight devotes most of its running time to the exploits of the U.S. Coast Guard's airborne division. Flight lieutenants Dan Conlan (John Howard) and Pat Tornell (Grant Withers) find it impossible to get along, especially when battling over the affections of heroine Ann Blane (Frances Farmer). Hoping to get the goods on a gang of flying smugglers, Pat arranges to get thrown out of the coast guard and joins the villains. (allrovi.com)
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    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 into him in Nanking during a Japanese bombing raid. (imdb)
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    Isle of Missing Men
    A penal colony governor invites a ravishing blond vagabond to join him for a week on his island prison grounds, unaware that she has manipulated their meeting for ulterior motives. (imdb)
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    13 Hours by Air
    Making a transcontinental plane flight in only thirteen hours was quite an achievement when this film was made in 1936 -- but it was not impossible, as indicated by Paramount's last-minute decision to "downsize" the film's original title, Twenty Hours by Air. In anticipation of Airport 34 years later, womanizing pilot Jack Gordon (Fred MacMurray) is called upon to safely guide his plane through a blinding blizzard. (allmovie.com)
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    Annapolis Farewell
    Tom Brown and Richard Cromwell, who'd previously played military-academy classmates in Tom Brown of Culver (1932), were reunited in Paramount's Annapolis Farewell. Brown plays Click Haley, a wise-guy naval cadet who learns the hard way to tow the line and honor the traditions of the academy. Cromwell is cast as Click's more serious roommate Boyce Avery, and it perhaps goes without saying that the two heroes have a falling out over the affections of heroine Madeline Deming (Rosalind Keith). (imdb)
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    Valiant Is the Word for Carrie
    You're going to fall in love with Carrie...a woman without money, reputation or friends, who fought for the happiness of two youngsters in as stirring a fight as you will witness on stage or screen or read about. (imdb)
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    Easy to Take
    In this comedy, Uncle Rodney, the host of a kiddie show, finds himself assuming guardianship of a bratty lad at the behest of his radio station, which thinks it would boost ratings. The host is also to become trustee of the boy's estate. When the host meets the boys lovely big sister, he is elated. His mood crashes when he discovers that both urchins are broke. He dutifully supports them and keeps the mansion going. Uncle Rodney's good deeds soon land him a sponsor and a new love. (allmovie.com)
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    Hitting a New High
    In this musical, a nightclub singer (Lily Pons) secretly aspires to sing at the Met. To help her, her agent (Jack Oakie) decides to dress her up as "Ooga-Hunga, the Bird Girl" and send her off on a merry chase of an influential opera lover (Eric Blore) who has gone on an African safari. When he sees her, he is truly agog and at last she fulfills her lifelong goal. Songs include: "You're Like a Song," "I Hit a New High," "Let's Give Love Another Chance," and "This Never Happened Before". (allmovie.com)
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    The Mad Doctor
    A crazed physician marries a wealthy women and, with the help of his demented assistant, murders them for their money. (imdb)
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    The Man Who Returned to Life
    David Jameson, a Northerner, is forced to flee from a Maryland town where he is suspected of murdering the girl who attempted to force him to marry her on the eve of his wedding to another girl. He flees and assumes a new identity but returns to save the life of the man accused of killing him. (imdb)
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    Models, Inc.
    A young woman gets involved in a racket in which beautiful young models marry for money. (imdb)
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    Grand Jury Secrets
    In this drama, an ingenious journalist finds himself at odds with his brother the district attorney over his unconventional methods of investigating a story; especially when they interfere with the judicial process as they did when he began eavesdropping upon a grand jury. One of the reporter's tricks involves several ham radios strategically placed around the city. With the help of the operators, the journalist is able to get scoops. (allmovie.com)
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    Prison Farm
    A young woman falls in love with with an armed robber. She gets arrested while visiting him in prison, and winds up in prison herself. (imdb)
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    Soak the Rich
    A college founder's daughter falls for a campus radical opposed to her father.
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    A Tragedy at Midnight
    This Republic murder mystery starts with a radio broadcast by Greg Sherman who solves cases on the air that the local police cannot solve. As he names the perpetrator of a recent murder we see the criminal, who is listening to the show, become alarmed and start to make his escape. The scene shifts to the police department where the chief, fearing for his job, assigns officers to get something, anything, on Sherman and get him off the air.
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    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 sinks an American yacht and the single survivor, Sue Curry, is rescued by an American submarine, the "Sea Serpent", commanded by Commander Chris Warren. He hears her story and attempts to radio a warning to Pearl Harbor.
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    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.
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    The Merger
    Troy Carrington, a former professional football player returns to his country town after an abrupt end to his sporting career and is persuaded to coach the hapless local footy team, the Roosters. (imdb)
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    Spine
    Spine (1986) - Direct-to-Video
    A madman stalks nurses, brutally stabbing them to death. In his fevered mind, he believes his victims to be a woman from his past named Linda. Police struggle to apprehend him before he can murder and mutilate again. (imdb)
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    I, Jane Doe
    While stationed in France during World War II, an American fighter pilot marries a French girl, but when he goes home he doesn't take her with him. That's because he's already married to a successful lawyer back in the U.S. (imdb)
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    Touchdown, Army
    Prep football star Jimmy Howal gets a reception far different from what he expected when he enters West Point. His cocky attitude earns him the enmity of many upperclassmen, especially hot-tempered southerner Brandon Culpepper, who also sees Howal as a rival for beautiful Toni Denby, daughter of West Point officer Colonel Denby. Just before the Army-Navy football game, Howals' name is posted as failing French, and the cadets fear he will be kept from playing because of it.
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    Hold \
    Two football players fight over the same girl.
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    Public Prosecutor
    A film noir drama-dey cop & crime show, Public Prosecutor was created for one major networks but they gave up on the series and another early TV network called DuMont picked it up.
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