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: 0.6875
  • 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

    6.333 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 already started affecting Rukh. Consumed by paranoia, he begins to suspect that his wife is having an affair. Wild for revenge, Rukh hatches a deadly plot...using his own poisoned body as a weapon to kill.

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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 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.

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  • 1929
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    The Racketeer

    The Racketeer

    4.9 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

    4.6 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 run from the law.

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  • 1932
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    The Final Edition

    The Final Edition

    6 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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    Hell's House

    Hell's House

    5.1 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

    5 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, 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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  • 1930
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    Her Man

    Her Man

    5.1 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 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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  • 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 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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  • 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 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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  • 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 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.

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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 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.

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  • 1936
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    Revolt of the Zombies

    Revolt of the Zombies

    3.167 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 into walking zombies and uses these unholy powers to create a race of slave laborers. An expedition is sent to the ruins of Angkor Wat, in hopes of ending the count's activities once and for all. Unfortunately, one of the members of the expedition has his own agenda.

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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 to find she has a husband.

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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 to find she has a husband.

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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 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.

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  • 1920
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    Why Change Your Wife?

    Why Change Your Wife?

    5.5 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 Sally's superficiality, Beth strives to improve her looks. The original couple falls in love again at a summer resort.

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  • 1932
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    Hell's House

    Hell's House

    5.1 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

    4.2 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 U.S. and then selling it to the U.S. government.

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  • 1940
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    Cafe Hostess

    Cafe Hostess

    5.3 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

    4.972 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 bitterly feuding years later when they own adjacent ranches. Bill, the foundling whom Cash has raised to young manhood, wants to end the feud and extends an olive branch toward Jeff, who now has a lovely daughter. But during a mining venture, the bitterness escalates. Is Bill to be set against his own adoptive father?

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  • 1931
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    The Painted Desert

    The Painted Desert

    4.972 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 bitterly feuding years later when they own adjacent ranches. Bill, the foundling whom Cash has raised to young manhood, wants to end the feud and extends an olive branch toward Jeff, who now has a lovely daughter. But during a mining venture, the bitterness escalates. Is Bill to be set against his own adoptive father?

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  • 1928
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    Skyscraper

    Skyscraper

    5.6 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 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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  • 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, of which he is a member. He is loved by Lois, an American whose favor is sought by Rizzio, also a double agent, who suspects Cyril's disloyalty to Germany. With the intention of conveying false information to the Imperial German Government, Cyril, accompanied by his faithful mechanic, Handy, and by Lois, escapes to Germany, though Lois is herself abducted by Rizzio and brought to headquarters in a U-boat. Innocently, she betrays Cyril, and they are both sentenced to death. On a pretense of aiding Cyril, Rizzio urges Lois to accompany him on a diplomatic mission, but Cyril and Handy overcome their captors; and Lois and Cyril escape to England in his aircraft.

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  • 1934
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    King Kelly of the U.S.A.

    King Kelly of the U.S.A.

    4 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 daughter of the dotty king, who has promised her to another.

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  • 1929
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    The Leatherneck

    The Leatherneck

    5.3 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 are still peacetime officers in the US Marines when an unscrupulous character steals Boyd's girl and his two buddies go off to rescue her. When they don't come back, Boyd goes after them to rescue all. This is all done in flashback from a court martial trial for desertion.

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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 buddies work side by side to rescue the deluge-threatened townsfolk.

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  • 1926
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    The Reckless Lady

    The Reckless Lady

    1 1926 HD

    Set amidst French resorts and featuring gambling casinos and an automobile race, a mother and wife develops a mania for gambling, much to the dismay of her husband and daughter. A lost film.

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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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  • 1924
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    Don't Doubt Your Husband

    Don't Doubt Your Husband

    1 1924 HD

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  • 1924
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    Don't Doubt Your Husband

    Don't Doubt Your Husband

    1 1924 HD

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  • 1923
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    Fashion Row

    Fashion Row

    1 1923 HD

    Two peasant sisters flee Russia during the revolution and sail to America. One, Olga Farinova (Mae Murray), masquerades as a princess, becomes a noted actress, and marries a millionaire's son. Olga repudiates her sister, Zita (Mae Murray), who has no illusions about her past life or present poverty. When Olga is shot by Kaminoff (Elmo Lincoln), a rejected suitor, Zita is adopted into the husband's family.

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  • 1927
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    The Perfect Sap

    The Perfect Sap

    1 1927 HD

    Wealthy young Herbert Alden, a would-be detective, is practicing housebreaking with his valet, an ex-convict, when he meets George and Polly, two real thieves; they are discovered and, following a chase, they go to Herbert's city apartment. George arranges with one of them, Tony-the-Lizard, to rob the guests at a ball given by Herbert's father at his country home. Herbert discovers that Tony is Tracy Sutton, a social lion engaged to Herbert's sister Roberta; and believing Herbert to be a famous criminal, Tony seeks his advice.

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  • 1970
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    The Wilderness Woman

    The Wilderness Woman

    1 1970 HD

    "Kodiak" MacLean, after years of gold prospecting in the Alaskan Klondike, finally strikes it rich and hits a million-dollar bonanza. His daughter, Juneau, immediately thinks it is time to move out of the snowdrifts into a suite in New York City's Ritz Hotel. And begins to spend with a shovel what her father made with a pick.

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  • 1932
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    The Last Man

    The Last Man

    1 1932 HD

    Directed by Howard Higgin. With Charles Bickford, Constance Cummings, Alec B. Francis, Alan Roscoe.

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  • 1934
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    The Line-Up

    The Line-Up

    2.3 1934 HD

    Bob Curtis (William Gargan), the youngest member of the New York City plain-clothes squad, is assigned to help Detective-Sergeant Doyle (Paul Hurst) uncover the people behind a number of fur robberies. Peggy Arnold (Marian Nixon), a beautiful girl, comes under suspicion, but Bob, convinced of her innocence, adopts a desperate plan to clear her and round up the real criminals.

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  • 1970
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    7.7 1970 HD

    Western von gestern is a German television series.

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  • 1970
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    7.7 1970 HD

    Western von gestern is a German television series.

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