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Howard Higgin is a Director and Scriptwriter American born on 15 february 1891 at Denver (USA)

Howard Higgin

Howard Higgin
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Nationality USA
Birth 15 february 1891 at Denver (USA)
Death 16 december 1938 (at 47 years)

Howard Higgin (né le 15 février 1891 à Denver et mort le 16 décembre 1938 d'une pneumonie à Los Angeles) est un scénariste et réalisateur américain.

Best films

Sal of Singapore
Sal of Singapore
(1928)
(Director) The Leatherneck
The Leatherneck
(1929)
(Director)

Usually with

William Boyd
William Boyd
(6 films)
Alan Hale
Alan Hale
(4 films)
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(4 films)
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(3 films)
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John J. Mescall
(1 films)
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Filmography of Howard Higgin (22 films)

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Director

Raw Timber
Raw Timber (1937)
, 1h3
Directed by Howard Higgin, Ray Taylor
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Tom Keene, Budd Buster, Robert Fiske, Lee Phelps, Jack Rutherford

Le garde forestier Tom Corbin surveille le chantier de coupe de bois de la McFarland and lumber company. Il découvre que le contremaitre Bart Williams falsifie à son profit les rapports pour le gouvernement. L'assistant de Williams, le géant Bull Riley, soupçonnant que Tom a tout découvert, lui donne une sévère correction lors d'un combat inégal. Tom fait alors son rapport et le gouvernement envoie l'inspecteur Joe Hanlon qui est assassiné dès son arrivée.
Hell's House
Hell's House (1932)
, 1h12
Directed by Howard Higgin
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Prison films
Actors Bette Davis, Pat O'Brien, Junior Durkin, Emma Dunn, Frank Coghlan, Jr., Charley Grapewin
Rating56% 2.8498552.8498552.8498552.8498552.849855
When orphaned Jimmy Mason is taken in by his Aunt Emma and Uncle Henry, he meets their boarder, Matt Kelly, who impresses the young man with his boastful swagger and alleged political connections, although in reality he's a bootlegger.
The Painted Desert
The Painted Desert (1931)
, 1h25
Directed by Howard Higgin
Origin USA
Genres Action, Western
Actors William Boyd, Clark Gable, Helen Twelvetrees, William Farnum, Edmund Breese, J. Farrell MacDonald
Rating52% 2.6074152.6074152.6074152.6074152.607415
Two cowboy friends, Jeff (J. Farrell MacDonald) and Cash (William Farnum), are traveling through the desert in the southwest U.S., when they come upon a baby who has been abandoned in the back of a covered wagon. They can't leave the defenseless child, so decide to take the baby with them, however, they argue over which of them would be better suited to raising the child. When Cash ends up prevailing in the debate, this creates a lifelong rift between the two friends.
High Voltage
High Voltage (1929)
, 1h3
Directed by Howard Higgin
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors William Boyd, Carole Lombard, Owen Moore, Phillips Smalley, Billy Bevan, Shannon Lee
Rating53% 2.6591752.6591752.6591752.6591752.659175
Billie (Carole Lombard) is on a bus, being hauled in to face felony charges, by Detective Dan (Owen Moore). The bus gets stuck in a snowstorm; and, the passengers meet William Boyd, who is already holed up, in a church, waiting out the storm.
The Leatherneck
The Leatherneck (1929)
, 1h5
Directed by Howard Higgin
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War
Actors William Boyd, Robert Armstrong, Alan Hale, Fred Kohler, Diane Ellis, Paul Weigel
Rating58% 2.909332.909332.909332.909332.90933
In the 1920s three U.S. Marines who have deserted return to their base in Tientsin, China; one is dead, one is insane and one is court martialed. On the witness stand he relates their story from the end of World War I. Following the Armistice with Germany Pvt Calhoun temporarily frees a German Prisoner of War named Schmidt to go drinking with him. In the bar another Marine, Pvt Hanlon refuses to drink with a German; their brawl escalates into a fight with the Military Police where the three become friends. The German eventually migrates to the United States where he enlists in the Marines.
Rent Free
Rent Free (1922)

Directed by Howard Higgin
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romance
Actors Wallace Reid, Lila Lee, Henry Arthur Barrows, Gertrude Short, Lucien Littlefield, Lillian Leighton

Buell est un jeune artiste peintre qui s'installe dans une maison abandonnée.

Scriptwriter

Revolt of the Zombies
Revolt of the Zombies (1936)
, 1h5
Directed by Victor Halperin, Jean Yarbrough
Origin USA
Genres Action, Horror
Themes Medical-themed films, Zombie films, Films about viral outbreaks, Disaster films
Actors Dean Jagger, Roy D'Arcy, George Cleveland, Carl Stockdale, E. Alyn Warren, John Archer
Rating34% 1.7108451.7108451.7108451.7108451.710845
On the Franco-Austrian Frontier during World War I, an Oriental priest, chaplain of a French colonial regiment, is condemned to life imprisonment because he possesses the power to turn men into zombies. In his prison cell, the priest prepares to burn a parchment containing the location of the secret formula. Gen. Mazovia (Roy D'Arcy) kills the priest and takes the partially burned parchment. After the war, an expedition of representatives from the Allied countries with colonial interests are sent to Cambodia to find and destroy forever the so-called "Secret of the Zombies". The group includes Colonel Mazovia; a student of dead languages, Armand Louque (Dean Jagger); Englishman Clifford Grayson (Robert Noland); General Duval (George Cleveland); and his daughter Claire (Dorothy Stone).
King Kelly of the U.S.A.
King Kelly of the U.S.A. (1934)
, 1h6
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Musical
Themes Musical films
Actors Edgar Kennedy, Ferdinand Gottschalk, Irene Ware, Franklin Pangborn, Joyce Compton, Otis Harlan
Rating48% 2.447952.447952.447952.447952.44795
James W. Kelly (Guy Robertson) and his pal Happy Moran (Edgar Kennedy) are taking their all-girl-dancing troupe across the ocean to tour Europe, when Kelly and the mysterious Catherine Bell (Irene Ware), fall for each other, literally.