Direction: David Howard

The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by David Howard. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.


The Renegade Ranger

1938 · Movie · 59 min. · United States

Direction David Howard

Cast George O'Brien · Rita Hayworth · Tim Holt · Ray Whitley

Synopsis Texas Ranger Jack Steele is assigned to bring in former ranch owner Judith Alvarez, now the leader of a gang who is waging war against the crooked government officials who cheated the ranchers out of their land.

5.5

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5.5

25 votes

Daniel Boone

1936 · Movie · 75 min. · United States

Direction David Howard

Cast George O'Brien · Heather Angel · John Carradine · Ralph Forbes

Synopsis In 1775, Daniel Boone leads thirty settler families to Kentucky where they face two threats: Indian raiders led by renegade white Simon Girty, who opposes settlement; and the schemes of effete Stephen Marlowe to seize title to the new lands....

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5.1

214 votes

The Fighting Gringo

1939 · Movie · 59 min. · United States

Direction David Howard

Cast George O'Brien · Lupita Tovar · Lucio Villegas · William Royle

Synopsis Ben Wallace is after Don Aliso's rancho. After falsifying his land survey, he frames him for murder. But Wallace has a dull-witted accomplice in Rance Potter and this is who Wade Barton thinks he can trick into a confession.

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Eran trece

1931 · Movie · 79 min. · United States

Direction David Howard

Cast Juan Torena · Manuel Arbó · Ana María Custodio · Rafael Calvo

Synopsis This is the Spanish-language version, with a different cast and crew, of the Charlie Chan film Charlie Chan Carries On (1931), in which Charlie sets out to discover the killer of an American found dead in a London hotel room.

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Painted Desert

1938 · Movie · 58 min. · United States

Direction David Howard

Cast George O'Brien · Laraine Day · Ray Whitley · Stanley Fields

Synopsis Fawcett has obtained the deed to Banning's mine. Thinking the mine is worthless he sells it to Bob McVey. But when he learns the mine contains Tungsten, he sets out to get it back.

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Park Avenue Logger

1937 · Movie · 67 min. · United States

Direction David Howard

Cast George O'Brien · Beatrice Roberts · Willard Robertson · Ward Bond

Synopsis 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...

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Conflict

1936 · Movie · 60 min. · United States

Direction David Howard

Cast John Wayne · Jean Rogers · Ward Bond · Tommy Bupp

Synopsis Pat's ability as a logging/mining camp fighter sets him up to box prizefighter Corrigan. Unknown to his supporters, he's actually in collusion with Corrigan to throw the fight - until he runs into reporter Maude.

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Gun Law

1938 · Movie · 60 min. · United States

Direction David Howard

Cast George O'Brien · Rita Oehmen · Ray Whitley · Paul Everton

Synopsis 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...

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Border G-Man

1938 · Movie · 60 min. · United States

Direction David Howard

Cast George O'Brien · Laraine Day · Ray Whitley · John Miljan

Synopsis Government agent Jim Galloway is sent undercover to investigate shifty businessman Louis Rankin for violations of the Neutrality Act, a law forbidding the exporting of troops and war materiel to foreign countries. After hiring on as Rankin's new take-charge foreman,...

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Arizona Legion

1939 · Movie · 58 min. · United States

Direction David Howard

Cast George O'Brien · Laraine Day · Carlyle Moore Jr. · Chill Wills

Synopsis This region of Arizona is lawless. Even when the criminal are captured, they are acquitted by the jury or the witness takes a sudden illness. Boone is a hard drinking, shoot up the town cowboy who is trying to get...

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Direction David Howard

Synopsis Docu-drama bringing to life the nerve-jangling audio confessions of some of the world's most notorious murders and serial killers.

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Robbers' Roost

1932 · Movie · 64 min. · United States

Direction David Howard · Louis King

Cast George O'Brien · Maureen O'Sullivan · Walter McGrail · Maude Eburne

Synopsis Running from the law, Jim Hall joins Hays' gang. Hays is foreman on the Herrick ranch and plans to rustle Herrick's cattle. Attracted to Herrick's sister Helen, Jim decides to tell the Sheriff about the raid. But when his plan...

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Mystery Ranch

1932 · Movie · 56 min. · United States

Direction David Howard

Cast George O'Brien · Cecilia Parker · Charles Middleton · Forrester Harvey

Synopsis To maintain his vast ranch holdings, Henry Steele holds Jane, the daughter of his deceased business partner, against her will. Stalwart ranger Bob Sanborn rescues Jane in a riding incident and is invited to stay over at the ranch by...

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Direction Colbert Clark · David Howard

Cast Jack Mulhall · Bob Steele · Lucile Browne · Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams

Synopsis 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.

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Crimson Romance

1934 · Movie · 71 min. · United States

Direction David Howard

Cast Ben Lyon · Sari Maritza · Erich von Stroheim · Hardie Albright

Synopsis 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...

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Flick

2008 · Movie · 92 min. · United Kingdom

Direction David Howard

Cast Faye Dunaway · Hugh O'Conor · Ricci Harnett · Esme Coles

Synopsis Memphis cop Lieutenant McKenzie is called in to investigate a series of strange deaths and weird sightings following the resurrection of a murder victim from the 1950s (a local boy) who is brought back to life in modern times and...

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Trouble in Sundown

1939 · Movie · 60 min. · United States

Direction David Howard

Cast George O'Brien · Rosalind Keith · Ray Whitley · Chill Wills

Synopsis 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...

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