Movies by Kenneth Howell

Hot Water

Hot Water

The Jones family is in an uproar when Dad's campaign for mayor appears sabotaged by an anonymous newspaper article.

Young as You Feel

Young as You Feel

Father sells his drugstore and the Jones family heads for New York to enjoy sophisticated city life. They lose all their money before deciding to go back home.

A Trip to Paris

A Trip to Paris

The Jones Family heads to Gay Paree in celebration of the 25th wedding anniversary of Pa and Ma Jones. It doesn't take long for the Joneses to be victimized by clever Parisian con artists.

Borrowing Trouble

Borrowing Trouble

The Jones family drugstore is robbed and it looks like the culprit is a boy the family has taken a liking to.

Back to Nature

Back to Nature

The Jones family goes to a convention traveling in a trailer. The oldest daughter gets involved with a convict, the oldest son has a love affair, and the youngest son gets into photography.

Educating Father

Educating Father

Jones family romp with father trying to convince son to follow him as a druggist, rather than becoming a pilot, until the son's piloting skills come in handy.

On Their Own

On Their Own

The Jones family (without father) head for California to open a bungalow court. To increase business they advertise for families with children and pets. A neighbor threatens to sue.

Off to the Races

Off to the Races

The Jones family's uncle George enters his trotting horse in the fair grounds race. The family helps raise the entrance fee and care for the horse.

The Jones Family in Hollywood

The Jones Family in Hollywood

Father goes to an American Legion convention in Hollywood and the family goes along, visiting a studio a causing havoc on the set.

Safety in Numbers

Safety in Numbers

The Jones family patriarch, also mayor, is swindled into thinking the town swamp is a rich mineral deposit.

Down on the Farm

Down on the Farm

Excitement runs high when a family's farm is chosen as the site for a big cornhusking contest.

Big Business

Big Business

A small town drugstore owner (Jed Prouty) hopes to strike it rich by investing his savings in an oil well. Comedy.

In Old Amarillo

In Old Amarillo

A drought is about to end the cattle business. The owner of a canning factory wants to buy all the remaining cattle cheap. He plans to ruin the cattlemen's plans to ship water by train and to seed the clouds for rain. Roy is sent by a packing house to investigate.

Love on a Budget

Love on a Budget

This late entry in the popular "The Jones Family" series of '30s comedies has the family contending with a troublesome (and possibly crooked) uncle while trying to cut household expenses.

Sweater Girl

Sweater Girl

College students attempt to solve a series of murders on campus while also trying to put together the school's big show.

Her First Beau

Her First Beau

15-year-old Penelope (Penny) Wood has two great interests - Chuck Harris and the hope that some day she might become a famous,great writer. Chuck also has two interests - his home-made glider and the hope that some day he will go to Tech college. His indifference to Penny is her chief source of annoyance. Mervyn Roberts, Penny's uncle who is only five years older than she is, arrives home with a guest, Roger Van Vleck, and Penny falls for Roger's sophistication. Chuck, resentful, continues to work on his glider over his father's objections. ...

Quick Millions

Quick Millions

In Hollywood the Jones family runs into crooks who convince them they have inherited a gold mine at the Grand Canyon.

Every Saturday Night

Every Saturday Night

First of the Jones family movies with kids who ignore father and get consolation from mother through a series of family episodes.

Four Days Wonder

Four Days Wonder

Jeanne Dante stars as precocious 13-year-old Judy Widdell, a devoted fan of dime-novel detective stories. When a real murder occurs in the vicinity, Judy insists upon playing sleuth, dragging teenaged astronomer Tom Fenton (Kenneth Howell) into her Sherlock shenanigans.

Dead End Kids vs. Spies, Inc.

Dead End Kids vs. Spies, Inc.

The Dead End Kids smash a spy ring in this feature-length version of the Universal serial Junior G-Men. Billy, the leader of the Dead End Kids, learns that his scientist father has been captured by the "Order of the Flaming Torch." This group of fifth columnists plans to use America's biggest brains to destroy the country from within. When the saboteurs outwit the gang's street smarts, the kids have no choice but to ask the FBI for help. The feds send in their own teenage contingent -- The Junior G-Men! Now the two groups must form an uneasy...