Howard Higgin

Howard Higgin

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.

  • Title: Howard Higgin
  • Popularity: 2.409
  • Known For: Directing
  • Birthday: 1891-02-15
  • Place of Birth: Denver, Colorado, USA
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  • 1936
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    The Invisible Ray

    The Invisible Ray

    6.3 1936 HD

    Dr. Janos Rukh discovers a certain type of radium that has almost magical healing properties. But the element has a dangerous side, too, and it has...

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  • 1924
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    Changing Husbands

    Changing Husbands

    1 1924 HD

    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...

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  • 1929
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    The Racketeer

    The Racketeer

    4.8 1929 HD

    A dapper gangster sponsors an alcoholic violinist in order to win the love of a glamorous divorced socialite.

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  • 1929
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    High Voltage

    High Voltage

    4.3 1929 HD

    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...

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  • 1932
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    The Final Edition

    The Final Edition

    5 1932 HD

    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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  • 1932
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    Hell's House

    Hell's House

    5.3 1932 HD

    A teenager lands in a brutal reform school for refusing to squeal on his bootlegger boss.

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  • 1928
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    Sal of Singapore

    Sal of Singapore

    1 1928 HD

    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,...

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  • 1930
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    Her Man

    Her Man

    5.3 1930 HD

    A prostitute sees a friendly sailor as a way out of Havana's grimy underworld.

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  • 1925
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    Smouldering Fires

    Smouldering Fires

    6.5 1925 HD

    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.

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  • 1933
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    Carnival Lady

    Carnival Lady

    5 1933 HD

    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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  • 1937
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    Battle of Greed

    Battle of Greed

    4 1937 HD

    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...

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  • 1925
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    The New Commandment

    The New Commandment

    1 1925 HD

    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...

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  • 1925
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    The New Commandment

    The New Commandment

    1 1925 HD

    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...

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  • 1925
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    The Trouble With Wives

    The Trouble With Wives

    1 1925 HD

    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...

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  • 1925
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    The Trouble With Wives

    The Trouble With Wives

    1 1925 HD

    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...

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  • 1936
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    Revolt of the Zombies

    Revolt of the Zombies

    3.1 1936 HD

    The story is set in Cambodia in the years following WWI. An evil count has come into possession of the secret methods by which men can be transformed...

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  • 1933
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    Reckless Decision

    Reckless Decision

    4.5 1933 HD

    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...

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  • 1933
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    Reckless Decision

    Reckless Decision

    4.5 1933 HD

    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...

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  • 1922
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    Rent Free

    Rent Free

    1 1922 HD

    A penniless artist moves into an abandoned house, but is discovered by the daughter of its former owner.

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  • 1925
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    In the Name of Love

    In the Name of Love

    1 1925 HD

    Naturalized American Raoul Melnotte travels from Chicago to his native France in search of his childhood sweetheart, Marie Dufrayne.

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  • 1924
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    Broken Barriers

    Broken Barriers

    1 1924 HD

    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...

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  • 1920
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    Why Change Your Wife?

    Why Change Your Wife?

    5.9 1920 HD

    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...

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  • 1932
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    Hell's House

    Hell's House

    5.3 1932 HD

    A teenager lands in a brutal reform school for refusing to squeal on his bootlegger boss.

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  • 1937
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    The Gold Racket

    The Gold Racket

    4 1937 HD

    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...

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  • 1940
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    Cafe Hostess

    Cafe Hostess

    5.5 1940 HD

    A dancehall girl meets a sailor and they fall in love, but the club’s owner doesn’t want the girl to leave.

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  • 1931
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    The Painted Desert

    The Painted Desert

    5 1931 HD

    Western pardners Jeff and Cash find a baby boy in an otherwise deserted emigrants' camp, and clash over which is to be "father." They are still...

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  • 1928
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    Skyscraper

    Skyscraper

    5.333 1928 HD

    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...

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  • 1926
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    The Great Deception

    The Great Deception

    1 1926 HD

    Cyril Mansfield, a handsome young Englishman, is associated with the German Secret Service as a spy in England but is loyal to British intelligence,...

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  • 1931
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    The Painted Desert

    The Painted Desert

    5 1931 HD

    Western pardners Jeff and Cash find a baby boy in an otherwise deserted emigrants' camp, and clash over which is to be "father." They are still...

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  • 1934
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    King Kelly of the U.S.A.

    King Kelly of the U.S.A.

    3.5 1934 HD

    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...

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  • 1929
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    The Leatherneck

    The Leatherneck

    5 1929 HD

    A film about male bonding. At the end of WW I, two Americans befriend a simple minded German and win him over into becoming an American. All three...

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  • 1928
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    Power

    Power

    6 1928 HD

    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...

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  • 1926
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    The Reckless Lady

    The Reckless Lady

    1 1926 HD

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  • 1923
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    The Famous Mrs. Fair

    The Famous Mrs. Fair

    1 1923 HD

    A silent film drama based on the Broadway play of the same name by James Forbes..

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  • 1970
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    7.5 1970 HD

    Western von gestern is a German television series.

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  • 1970
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    7.5 1970 HD

    Western von gestern is a German television series.

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