Back Door to Heaven 1939  N/R, 81 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: William K. Howard
Cast: Wallace Ford, William Harrigan, Aline MacMahon, Raymond Roe, Anita Magee, Jane Seymour, Stuart Erwin, William Redfield, Kenneth LeRoy, Jimmy Lydon, Alfred Webster, Van Heflin
As a youth, Frankie Regan (Jimmy Lydon) was a juvenile delinquent; the adult Frankie (Wallace Ford) tries, but fails miserably, to go straight.
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Evelyn Prentice 1934 N/R, 78 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: William K. Howard
Cast: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Una Merkel, Rosalind Russell, Harvey Stephens, Isabel Jewell, Frank Conroy, Henry Wadsworth, Edward Brophy, Jessie Ralph
Successful lawyer John Prentice (William Powell) and his wife Evelyn (Myrna Loy) unwittingly become involved in blackmail and murder.
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Fire Over England 1937  N/R, 92 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: William K. Howard
Cast: Flora Robson, Laurence Olivier, Vivien Leigh, Leslie Banks, Raymond Massey, Robert Newton, James Mason, Tamara Desni, Henry Oscar, Laurence Hanray
While made in the 1930s, this film was not released in the United States until 1941 when England was trying to get America to enter the war in Europe. Based on the story of Britain's defeat of the Spanish Armada, the plot involves a British Naval officer (Laurence Olivier) who goes to Spain looking for identities of English traitors.
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Johnny Come Lately 1943 N/R, 97 min.
Genre: Drama / Comedy
Director: William K. Howard
Cast: James Cagney, Marjorie Main, Hattie McDaniel, Grace George, Marjorie Lord, Edward McNamara, William Henry, Robert Barrat, George Cleveland, Margaret Hamilton, Norman Willis, Edwin Stanley, Irving Bacon, Tom Dugan, Lucien Littlefield
Ex-journalist Tom Richards (James Cagney) is a vagrant who happens into a newspaper job in a small town. He works with the editor, Vinnie McLeod (Grace George), to expose political corruption being carried out by W.M. Dougherty (Edward McNamara). After failed attempts, wealthy dowager Gashouse Mary (Marjorie Main) comes to Tom's aid and tells him about an embezzlement plot. Tom publishes the story and puts an end to the corruption.
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The Power and the Glory 1933 N/R, 73 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: William K. Howard
Cast: Spencer Tracy, Colleen Moore, Ralph Morgan, Helen Vinson, Phillip Trent, Henry Kolker, Sarah Padden, J. Farrell MacDonald, Robert Warwick
This is a great character study of Tom Garner's (Spencer Tracy) rise to the top of his profession only to find that his wife was unfaithful, and his life had no meaning.
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The Princess Comes Across 1936 N/R, 75 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: William K. Howard
Cast: Carole Lombard, Fred MacMurray, Douglass Dumbrille, Alison Skipworth, William Frawley, Porter Hall, Sig Ruman, Mischa Auer, George Barbier, Lumsden Hare
Pretending to be Swedish Princess Olga (Carole Lombard), a young actress from Brooklyn falls in love while sailing across the sea to get a movie contract.
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Sherlock Holmes 1932 N/R, 65 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: William K. Howard
Cast: Clive Brook, Ernest Torrence, Reginald Owen, Miriam Jordan, Herbert Mundin, Howard Leeds, Alan Mowbray, C. Montague Shaw, Lucien Prival, Stanley Fields
Set in 1930s' England, Sherlock Holmes (Clive Brook) has finally brought his nemesis, Moriarty (Ernest Torrence), to justice as the master criminal is sentenced to death. From the dock, Moriarty warns all that the prosecutor, the Scotland Yard investigator, and Sherlock Holmes will hang before he does. Holmes heads for retirement and the country with his bride-to-be. Then comes word of Moriarty's escape and the murder of the prosecutor.
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| 1. Back Door to Heaven (1939)
2. Evelyn Prentice (1934)
3. Fire Over England (1937)
4. Johnny Come Lately (1943)
5. The Power and the Glory (1933)
6. The Princess Comes Across (1936)
7. Sherlock Holmes (1932)
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