David Howard

Nacimiento : 1896-10-06, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Muerte : 1941-12-21

Películas

Dude Cowboy
Director
A Nevada rancher goes undercover for the U. S. Secret Service to help capture a gang of counterfeiters. Director David Howard's 1941 B-western stars Tim Holt, Marjorie Reynolds, Lee White, Eddie Kane, Ray Whitley, Helen Holmes, Glenn Strange, Byron Foulger, Eddie Dew, Tom London and Hank Worden.
Six-Gun Gold
Director
Three cowboys find that a U.S. Marshal relative is an impostor.
Triple Justice
Director
Brad Henderson arrives in Star City just in time to witness three men rob a bank of $30,000 and kill a teller. Charged for the crime and jailed, Brad realizes he must escape and track down the real killers since the only one who can prove his innocence is his friend, Sheriff Bill Gregory, who has been shot and will not soon regain consciousness. Chasing down the robbers one by one, he eventually discovers the identity of the gang's ringleader.
Prairie Law
Director
Judge Curry is selling Austin's land to nesters and his men are rustling his cattle to provide beef. When the Sheriff accuses butcher Gore of possessing stolen beef, Gore kills him. Curry then holds a quick election to change the county seat so he can preside at the trial. But Brill gets the Governor to change it back and this leads to the big shootout between Curry's men and Brill and the ranchers.
Bullet Code
Director
Protecting himself in an attack by rustlers, Rancher Steve Holden believes he has killed one of the attackers, young Bud Mathews, who in reality has warned Holden of the rustlers' approach. Unaware that Mathews was actually killed by rustler boss Cass Barton, Holden heads out to Mathews' home town where he plans to tell the boy's family of his death but instead uncovers a plan by a local businessman to force Mathews' father out of his ranch.
Legion of the Lawless
Director
Residents of a small frontier town take up arms when vigilantes try to block a railroad right-of-way.
The Marshal Of Mesa City
Director
A retired lawman gets back into action to fight political corruption.
The Fighting Gringo
Director
A gunfighter and his partners clear a Spanish rancher charged with murder.
Timber Stampede
Director
Cattlemen fight corrupt railroad men out to destroy the forest.
The Rookie Cop
Director
A rookie cop tries to prove his friend is innocent of a robbery, despite the police commissioner's objection to his use of a trained German Shepherd dog named Ace.
Trouble in Sundown
Director
The bank has been robbed, the night watchman killed and the safe opened. The townspeople want John as he was the only one with the combination. Clint gets John out of town but before the mob turns ugly but the deputy is shot when he and Clint go to get John at the shack. Things look bad for John, but Clint does not believe that John did the robbery and he will look for the real crooks.
Arizona Legion
Director
A federal agent infiltrates an outlaw band that's taken over a western town.
Lawless Valley
Director
After doing time for a crime he didn't commit, a cowboy tries to find the men who framed him.
El renegado
Director
El capitán Jack Steele es un ranger de Texas destinado a investigar el caso de la hermosa Judith Alvarez, acusada de asesinato. El asunto parece sencillo, pero no tarda mucho en descubrir que no todo es lo que parece. La corrupción y los intereses del gobierno por conseguir tierras y ganado llevan al ranger a creer en la inocencia de Judith, colocándolo a él también en el punto de mira de los verdaderos asesinos.
Painted Desert
Director
A cowboy and a bandit face off over possession of a valuable mine.
Border G-Man
Director
A federal agent goes undercover in order to capture a gang that's been smuggling munitions and horses near the Texas border.
Gun Law
Director
Finding a man alone in the desert, Marshal Tom is relieved - of his horse, clothes and water. When he catches up to Raven, he finds him dying from drinking bad water. When he gets to Gunsight, everyone thinks that he is the outlaw Raven and he plays it out so that he can end lawlessness.
Hollywood Stadium Mystery
Director
A boxer is killed in the ring, and the only clue is a tune that a man was whistling.
Park Avenue Logger
Director
Millioniare Curran, thinking his son too intellectual, sends him west to learn logging at one of his lumber camps. Unknown to his father, Grant Curan is a professional wrestler and easily able to handle the thugs that attack him at the lumber camp. This enables him to stay on the job and he soon undercovers how his father is being cheated by the local boss.
Conflict
Director
Pat destaca como boxeador entre sus compañeros de la mina, lo cual le lleva a enfrentarse a un profesional, Corrigan. Lo que nadie sabe es que el combate está amañado, hasta que conoce a la periodista Maude.
Daniel Boone
Director
En 1775, 30 colonos americanos, junto con sus esposas e hijos, se disponían a seguir al héroe americano Daniel Boone desde su colonia natal en Yadkin, Carolina del Norte, hasta el valle de Ken-tu-ki, llamada por los indios "la tierra oscura y sangrienta". Éste será un peligroso viaje en el que deberán enfrentarse al jefe blanco Simon Girt, que, con la ayuda de los indios, se dedica a robar y asesinar a los colonos de los territorios fronterizos.
The Border Patrolman
Director
When a border patrolman catches their spoiled daughter smoking in a no-smoking area, parents hire him to watch over her. She then runs over to Mexico and gets involved with jewel thieves and he has to go save her.
The Mine with the Iron Door
Director
Having acquired the controlling interest in the Eureka Discovery Corporation for five-hundred dollars, and selling half of it to a detective for two-hundred dollars, Bob Harvey sets off with his new partner to find the buried treasure of San Capello---with very strange consequences.
O'Malley of the Mounted
Director
O'Malley pretends to be an outlaw in order to join a gang terrorizing towns along the American border.
Thunder Mountain
Director
Gold mining cowboy western romantic melodrama (based on the story by Zane Grey) about a pair of cowboys who find a gold mine in "Thunder Mountain", but have no money to develop it. One of the cowboys rescues a girl on a stagecoach and her grateful father agrees to finance them. Along the way, she pretends to fall in love with one of the cowboys. Thinking he is about to be very rich, he sets out, but upon arrival, he finds that a bad man has stolen the claim and started a town. There, everyone turns on him, including the girl, but luckily, another pretty girl, a barmaid (who is secretly in love with him), sticks by him, and he ends up in a climactic shootout on the mountain where the gold is stashed.
Hard Rock Harrigan
Director
The plot revolves around a rivalry between sand-hog "Hard Rock" Harrigan (O'Brien) and his foreman Black Jack Riley. At the center of their conflict is their mutual affection for heroine "Andy" Anderson (Irene Hervey). But when the chips are down and Riley is trapped in a tunnel cave-in, it is Harrigan who comes to the rescue.
Whispering Smith Speaks
Director
O'Brien is "Whispering" Smith, so named because he speaks softly but knows how to fend for himself. The son of a railroad president, Smith is determined to learn the business from the ground up, so he gets a job as a track walker for his dad's rail line. While going about his duties, he meets Nan Roberts (Irene Ware), who is about to sell her Colorado ranch. Smith finds out that there are valuable tungsten deposits on her land and makes certain she won't be cheated by the villains
The Marines Are Coming
Director
Expelled from his lieutenancy in the Marine Corps, Bill Traylor reenlists as a private. His unit is sent to a Latin American country where a rebel leader called The Torch promotes insurrection. There Traylor encounters again Captain Benton, the man responsible for his disgrace and his rival for the love of a girl.
In Old Santa Fe
Director
Gangster Chandler and his accomplice Tracy arrive at a dude ranch. Cowboy Kentucky arrives at the same time. When Tracy double-crosses his boss and has the stage robbed, Kentucky finds the outlaws and brings them in. Tracy frames him for the murder of the driver but his pal Cactus gets him out of jail. He returns just as Chandler shoots Tracy and Kentucky finds himself arrested for another murder.
Crimson Romance
Director
After Fred von Bergen, a German immigrant in America, is forced from his job by anti-German hysteria before the first world war, he and his friend Bob Wilson leave America and join the German air force. There, both men fall in love with ambulance driver Alida Hoffman. When America enters the war, Bob is caught between loyalty to his home country and the threat of execution for desertion and treason to Germany. It remains for his friend Fred to extricate him from the dilemma - but at what cost?
The Lost Jungle
Writer
Clyde Beatty, an animal trainer and circus star, leads a search for his missing girlfriend and her father who were on an expedition looking for a lost tropical island. Using a dirigible as his mode of transportation, Beatty and his band head off in search of the missing explorers only to crash their airship on the same island their friends are located. Battling wild animals and a gang of greedy men searching for gold, Beatty and his party must rescue his girlfriend and father all the while trying to escape their jungle island. Feature version of the same-title serial of the same year, with refilmed sequences substantially altering the plot and characters of the original chapterplay.
The Lost Jungle
Director
Clyde Beatty, an animal trainer and circus star, leads a search for his missing girlfriend and her father who were on an expedition looking for a lost tropical island. Using a dirigible as his mode of transportation, Beatty and his band head off in search of the missing explorers only to crash their airship on the same island their friends are located. Battling wild animals and a gang of greedy men searching for gold, Beatty and his party must rescue his girlfriend and father all the while trying to escape their jungle island. Feature version of the same-title serial of the same year, with refilmed sequences substantially altering the plot and characters of the original chapterplay.
The Mystery Squadron
Screenplay
Hank Davis, foreman on a huge dam project, enlists the aid of his two flyer friends when a sinister figure known as The Black Ace leads his Mystery Squadron of masked pilots in an attempt to destroy the dam.
The Mystery Squadron
Director
Hank Davis, foreman on a huge dam project, enlists the aid of his two flyer friends when a sinister figure known as The Black Ace leads his Mystery Squadron of masked pilots in an attempt to destroy the dam.
Smoke Lightning
Director
After Smoke wins the Blake ranch in a poker game, Blake commits suicide and Smoke deeds the ranch to Blake’s young daughter. But the Sheriff is after the ranch and has Smoke arrested for the murder of Blake and then brings in an impostor to pose as the girl’s relative.
La cueva de los bandidos
Director
Jim Hall, fugitivo de la ley, se une a la banda de Hays, capataz del rancho Herrick, que se propone robar el ganado del ranchero. Jim se siente atraído por la hermana de éste y confiesa al sheriff el inminente robo, pero después cae prisionero de la banda.
The Golden West
Director
Lovers David Lunch and Betty Summers are caught in the feud between their two families. When David kills the Summers son, he escapes to the West. He marries and when his boy is two he and his wife are killed by Indians who take the boy. Twenty years later the boy is now the Indian chief. Betty's daughter is nearby and the two are destined to meet.
Mystery Ranch
Director
Megalomaniacal rancher is a law unto himself, until a Ranger is called-upon to bring him to justice.
The Rainbow Trail
Director
The wall to Surprise Valley has broken, and Jane Withersteen is forced to choose between Lassiter's life and Fay Larkin's marriage to a Mormon.
Eran trece
Director
En Londres, el millonario americano Louis Potter es hallado muerto, estrangulado, en su habitación de hotel. El Inspector Duff (Rafael Calvo) investiga la escena del crimen y concluye que el asesinato se produjo en otro lugar y el cadáver fue llevado ahí. Scotland Yard no tiene pistas decisivas, y no hay chance de impedir al resto de los viajeros continuar su rumbo. Así que esa misma noche el grupo zarpa para el Continente en un recorrido que los llevará por Francia, Italia, Grecia y Singapur. Duff se propone seguir al grupo en todas sus destinaciones y no hay mayores novedades entre San Remo y Hong Kong, pero al llegar a Honolulú, se reúne con su viejo amigo, Charlie Chan (Manuel Arbó), jefe de homicidios de la policía local. Chan se pone manos a la obra para continuar la investigación de su colega herido y resolver el caso.
Esclavas de la moda
Director
A woman owning a small dressmaker's shop decides to reopen it in Broadway in luxury at all expenses, trusting merely on the cards'premonitions. She wants her little children to pair with the richest boys. Her husband, who discouraged her, dies and the business soon takes flight.
When Love Laughs
Director
José Mojica plays a singing vacquero who stops off in la cantina to have muchas cervezas with los muchachos. While José is all beered up, he boasts that he can tame the wild mare -- a horse no man can ride -- owned by local ranchero Don Alvarado (a stolid performance by Carlos Villarias). While he's in the neighbourhood, José also boasts that he can tame the Don's daughter, a Mexican spitfire played by Mona Maris.
The Last of the Vargas
Director
A cowboy avenges his father's murder, but must flee the law as a result. He attempts the rescue of a young woman from an outlaw, but becomes entangled with the outlaw's wife.
Common Clay
Director
A maid with a checkered past falls in love with the son in the posh household where she works, and gives him a baby.
Orgullo de hidalgo
Assistant Director
Fernanda nace huérfana a la sombra de un árbol durante el terremoto de San Francisco y los Borel de España deciden adoptarla "sin haber merecido semejante castigo". En Barcelona, Fernanda crecerá como una mujer muy hermosa, vanidosa y fascinada con el agua, siendo entonces pretendida por don Diego a quien ella no da mayores esperanzas. Pero enamorado de ella, cuando la chica amenaza con irse de nuevo a San Francisco, don Diego decide seguirla… y está dispuesto a ofrecerle tantas bañeras como ninguna mujer ha tenido jamás.