Movies by William K. Howard

The Trial of Vivienne Ware

The Trial of Vivienne Ware

Vivienne Ware is defended by her ex-beau when she's accused of killing her faithless fiance.

Scotland Yard

Scotland Yard

A criminal fleeing a bank robbery has a chance encounter with a banker and his wife and takes a locket with both their pictures in it as a remembrance of the wife's stunning beauty. After enlisting for WWI to escape prosecution, his face is disfigured in combat, and plastic surgeons mistakenly give him the banker's face. As the banker is conveniently MIA, it gives the criminal the opportunity to plan a bank heist from the inside and also to get closer to the banker's wife.

The First Year

The First Year

Grace Livingston is leading a happy life in her small town, with her mother and father, being courted by two men, the steady but predictable Tommy Tucker and the more ambitious, flashy, and worldly Dick Loring, who seems closer to Grace in his desire for travel and adventure.

Good Intentions

Good Intentions

When love came the way of this gentleman crook he turned to the right---only to be caught in the swirling eddy of his criminal past! (original ad)

Evelyn Prentice

Evelyn Prentice

A criminal lawyer's wife is blackmailed when she is falsely accused of infidelity.

Don't Bet on Women

Don't Bet on Women

At a big party, Roger Fallon, now a woman-hater, right to the core - this all due to a failed marriage and disastrous love affairs - talks to Herbert Drake. Herbert who is happily married, bets Fallon that the next woman who walks into the room, whoever she is, won't let Fallon kiss her for 48 hours. Fallon takes the bet. Suddenly, a very beautiful and sexy woman walks in. It's Herbert's wife, Jeanne Drake...

The Light of Western Stars

The Light of Western Stars

Jack Holt, Billie Dove, and Noah Beery Sr., who starred together in Wanderers of the Wasteland, appear together again. Madeline Hammond, the sister of ranchman Al Hammond, arrives from the East. Gene Stewart, a rough and rowdy cowboy, convinces Madeline to marry him while he is on a drunken spree. Madeline sets out to reform him, and he sets out to rid their little section of the West of a band of outlaws.

The Main Event

The Main Event

Nightclub dancer Glory Frayne falls in love with championship boxer Red Lucas . Luca's latest opponent is likeable young pugilist Johnny Regan . When Johnny meets Glory, he is instantly smitten.....

A Guy Could Change

A Guy Could Change

A playboy is reformed by his daughter and fiancee.

White Gold

White Gold

A sheep farmer brings his new wife to his father's ranch and the old man takes an instant dislike to her.

A Ship Comes In

A Ship Comes In

Film which tells the story of immigrants coming to the United States.

Money and the Woman

Money and the Woman

An embezzler's wife begs his boss for forgiveness, only to fall in love with him.

This Side of Heaven

This Side of Heaven

A family man becomes innocently involved in an embezzlement.

The River Pirate

The River Pirate

This film concerns a youth torn between his fatherly gangland mentor and the beautiful, virtuous daughter of a police detective.

Sherlock Holmes

Sherlock Holmes

Moriarty is sentenced to death, and Sherlock Holmes prepares to retire to the country and marry his girl. But Moriarty has sworn that Holmes, Lt. Col. Gore-King of Scotland Yard, and his trial judge shall all be hanged too. When Moriarty escapes and proceeds to put his threat into operation, Holmes has to postpone his retirement.

Surrender

Surrender

Story of French prisoner in Germany who falls in love with a German general's daughter. From the novel "Axelle" by Pierre Benoit.

The Thundering Herd

The Thundering Herd

Story of a trader who uncovers a scheme to blame the Indians for a Buffalo massacre.

Klondike Fury

Klondike Fury

In this Alaskan adventure, a surgeon becomes a pilot after he messes up an operation. Unfortunately, he crashes during a storm and finds himself cared for by a lovely woman. He gets a chance to reclaim his self-esteem when her son suddenly needs the same operation the surgeon botched.

The Border Legion

The Border Legion

Cowhand Jim Cleve is wrongly accused of murder and rescued by Jack Kells, leader of a band of Idaho outlaws known as the Border Legion. But when the Legion takes Joan Randall prisoner and leaves Cleve to guard her, he realizes that he cannot remain part of an outlaw band and decides to rescue Joan.

Love, Live & Laugh

Love, Live & Laugh

Any movie that starts Jewish entertainer George Jessel as an Italian accordionist named Luigi can't be all bad. In love with the beautiful Margharita (Lila Lee), Luigi lands a job in the music store owned by the girl's uncle. Ultimately, however, our hero does the Pagliacci act when Margharita evinces a preference for handsome Pasquale (David Rollins). The film's best scene takes place in a nursery full of talented tots, a sequence that undoubtedly reminded Jessel of his days with Gus Edwards' "Schoolroom" act. Exercising his droit du seigne...