Howard Higgin
Рождение : 1891-02-15, Denver, Colorado, USA
Смерть : 1938-12-16
История
From Wikipedia
Howard Higgin (February 15, 1891 - December 16, 1938) was an American writer and director of motion pictures in the 1920s and 1930s.
Higgin's first directing job was a 1922 comedy for legendary Wallace Reid, Rent Free. His later films include High Voltage and Skyscraper, and he worked with Wallace Beery, Clark Gable (as writer/director of Gable's screen breakthrough role as the unshaven villain in The Painted Desert), Carole Lombard, Bette Davis (in Hell's House), Pat O'Brien, Alan Hale, Sr., Blanche Sweet, Basil Rathbone, Robert Armstrong and Mae Clarke, among many others.
Higgins' movie career spanned 38 years, having begun working on film crews in 1919. He died in Los Angeles at age 47.
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At the request of the Mexican government, a federal agent and a lady reporter team up to catch a gang that has been smuggling gold from Mexico to the U.S. and then selling it to the U.S. government.
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When silver is found in Virginia City, Lawyer John Storm leads a group from Indiana west. He soon has to defend them all in court against a company that is after their claims. Fighting a crooked Judge, he gets a mis-trial by telling how much each of the jurors was bribed. Then he gets the Governor to appoint a new Judge. But just as the retrial opens, the Judge learns his daughter has been kidnaped.
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Действие происходит в Камбодже после Первой мировой войны. Злой граф Мазовия овладел тайными знаниями, позволяющими лишать людей воли и превращать их в зомби, и собирается создать расу рабовладельцев. К руинам Ангкор-Вата отправляется научная экспедиция, цель которой - открыть секрет зомбификации и положить конец деятельности Мазовии. Но у одного из участников экспедиции есть свои планы...
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Доктор Янош Рух обнаруживает источник нового излучения, которое обладает почти волшебными целебными свойствами. Но вещество таит в себе и опасность, и оно начинает влиять на разум Руха. Охваченный паранойей, он подозревает, что его открытие украли другие ученые. Одержимый жаждой мести, Рух собирается использовать собственное отравленное тело в качестве орудия убийства.
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A theatrical troupe headed by a flashy showman finds itself in the tiny--and bankrupt--kingdom of Belgardia. The showman falls in love with the daughter of the dotty king, who has promised her to another.
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When his bank fails, a young man loses not only all his money but his fiancée, deserts him, too. Depressed, he joins a circus.
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The teenage daughter of a puritanical Reverend promises him she will not marry until she is older, but after a night of heavy drinking she wakes up to find she has a husband.
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The teenage daughter of a puritanical Reverend promises him she will not marry until she is older, but after a night of heavy drinking she wakes up to find she has a husband.
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A reporter gets the best story of her life when she goes under cover to take down the head of a crime syndicate.
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Молодой человек Джимми Мейсон живет на ферме со своей овдовевшей матерью. Но однажды пожилую женщину сбивает машина, и она умирает. Оставшись один, Джимми решает переехать в большой город к своим дяде Генри и тете Эмме, которые владеют многоквартирным домом. Там он знакомится с одним из жильцов Мэттом Келли, который представляет Джимми свою очаровательную подружку Пегги. Но Джимми даже не подозревает, что на самом деле Мэтт-мелкий бандит и рэкетир.
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Молодой человек Джимми Мейсон живет на ферме со своей овдовевшей матерью. Но однажды пожилую женщину сбивает машина, и она умирает. Оставшись один, Джимми решает переехать в большой город к своим дяде Генри и тете Эмме, которые владеют многоквартирным домом. Там он знакомится с одним из жильцов Мэттом Келли, который представляет Джимми свою очаровательную подружку Пегги. Но Джимми даже не подозревает, что на самом деле Мэтт-мелкий бандит и рэкетир.
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Пересекая Аризонскую равнину с востока на запад, два давних друга Бил Кэш и Джеф Кэмерон находят оставленный фургон переселенцев, а в нем брошенного грудного ребенка. Друзья решают усыновить мальчика и назвать Биллом Бойдом, но кто станет приемным отцом? Из-за этого вопроса друзья в одночасье становятся заклятыми врагами и только спустя двадцать лет, когда мальчик вырастет и станет настоящим мужчиной, конфликт будет исчерпан. Билл Бойд заставит прежних друзей примириться, и забытьразногласия, которые становились все более и более ожесточенными за эти годы.
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Пересекая Аризонскую равнину с востока на запад, два давних друга Бил Кэш и Джеф Кэмерон находят оставленный фургон переселенцев, а в нем брошенного грудного ребенка. Друзья решают усыновить мальчика и назвать Биллом Бойдом, но кто станет приемным отцом? Из-за этого вопроса друзья в одночасье становятся заклятыми врагами и только спустя двадцать лет, когда мальчик вырастет и станет настоящим мужчиной, конфликт будет исчерпан. Билл Бойд заставит прежних друзей примириться, и забытьразногласия, которые становились все более и более ожесточенными за эти годы.
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A sex worker yearns to leave the grimy underground community she was born into, and sees her way out through a sympathetic sailor.
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A dapper gangster sponsors an alcoholic violinist in order to win the love of a glamorous divorced socialite.
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A busload of passengers gets stranded in a snowstorm and take refuge in an abandoned church, where they run into a mysterious man who may be on the run from the law.
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SAL OF SINGAPORE was nominated for an Oscar for achievement in Writing during the second year of the Academy Awards. The film, being a part-talkie, nearly disappared from view. However, a preservation print does exist at UCLA, although it is unavailable for public viewing, awaiting restoration.
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Tale of a pair of dam workers who, despite their strong friendship, duke it out on a regular basis. But when the dam threatens to burst, the battling buddies work side by side to rescue the deluge-threatened townsfolk.
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Blondy and Swede are gruff best friends who build skyscrapers. Blondy gets sweet on a girl he saves from a falling beam, Sally, but when he is injured in an accident and temporarily crippled, he rejects her. Swede tries every desperate measure to get Blondy to fight back, to try to walk, even masquerading as stealing Sally away from him.
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WW1 espionage tale....
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Writer
Billy Morrow (Ben Lyon), who comes from a wealthy family, is sailing to Europe with his father (Holbrook Blinn) on their yacht. Along for the ride is Mrs. Parr (Claire Eames) and her stepdaughter. Near the French coast, Billy discovers that Mrs. Parr wants to arrange a marriage between him and the girl, so he escapes and takes a lifeboat ashore.
Director
Billy Morrow (Ben Lyon), who comes from a wealthy family, is sailing to Europe with his father (Holbrook Blinn) on their yacht. Along for the ride is Mrs. Parr (Claire Eames) and her stepdaughter. Near the French coast, Billy discovers that Mrs. Parr wants to arrange a marriage between him and the girl, so he escapes and takes a lifeboat ashore.
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William Hyatt (Tom Moore) runs an exclusive shoe store, and his happy marriage to Grace (Florence Vidor) is nearly derailed by his well-meaning, but hopelessly gauche pal, Al Hennessy (Sterling). Dagmar, a Parisian shoe designer (Esther Ralston) has come to town to meet with Hyatt and Hennessy, and Hennessy describes the situation to Grace in the worst possible manner, convincing her that her husband is having an affair.
Screenplay
William Hyatt (Tom Moore) runs an exclusive shoe store, and his happy marriage to Grace (Florence Vidor) is nearly derailed by his well-meaning, but hopelessly gauche pal, Al Hennessy (Sterling). Dagmar, a Parisian shoe designer (Esther Ralston) has come to town to meet with Hyatt and Hennessy, and Hennessy describes the situation to Grace in the worst possible manner, convincing her that her husband is having an affair.
Director
Naturalized American Raoul Melnotte travels from Chicago to his native France in search of his childhood sweetheart, Marie Dufrayne.
Screenplay
A successful businesswoman falls in love with one of her (much younger) factory workers. She doesn't know that he is in love with her younger sister.
Scenario Writer
A young girl is forced to give up college when her father loses all his money. She soon meets and falls for a young man at a party, only to discover that he's married. As if that weren't bad enough, he is soon seriously injured in an automobile accident, and doctors say that he may never walk again.
Writer
A bored rich housewife wants to go on the stage, but her husband won't let her. When she meets a despairing actress who looks exactly like her, she suggests they swap places for a little while, giving the actress a break while the rich husband is out of town. But the rich husband comes back early, causing havoc for the actress, plus the rich housewife is finding herself attracted to the actress's boyfriend.
Art Direction
A silent film drama based on the Broadway play of the same name by James Forbes..
Director
A penniless artist moves into an abandoned house, but is discovered by the daughter of its former owner.
Production Manager
Robert and Beth Bordon are married but share little. He runs into Sally at a cabaret and the Gordons are soon divorced. Just as he gets bored with Sally's superficiality, Beth strives to improve her looks. The original couple falls in love again at a summer resort.
