Howard Shoup Movies

Carpet-sweeper manufacturer John Bower has no patience with inefficiency, lawyers, or vacuum cleaners. He's a bit of a skinflint, too. His family...

Starstruck Indiana small-town girl Lily is pestering theatrical producer John Thornway for a role but he is reluctant.

Prudence resigns from her teaching position after being criticized for giving a student her copy of a romance novel. She sails for Italy, takes a job...

Torchy Blane and Steve McBride try to nab a gangster by tracking his moll.

True story of the doctor who considered it was not immoral to search for a drug that would cure syphilis.

A Central American plantation manager and his boss battle over a traveling showgirl.

In 1927, a Kansas City, Missouri cornet player and his band perform nightly at a seedy speakeasy until a racketeer tries to extort them in exchange...

A trucker with a pregnant wife fights a New York mobster's protection racket.

A lowly office clerk angers his fiancee and future mother-in-law by spending money intended for marriage furniture on a statue of a pretty girl,...

Sandy Vantine and her uncle, Paul Vantine, return from Europe with an antique cabinet purchased during their trip. Jim Moore, a reporter who had met...

Linda works at an advertising agency, but, unlike the other women in the secretarial pool, she hopes to succeed in the business rather than just find...

Morning Express ace reporter 'Timmy' Blake uses her wiles and charms to get the scoop on rival papers, and keep her editor happy. When the Express...

A hardened crook behind bars comes up against a reform-minded warden.

Steel-worker brothers compete for the same woman.

A San Francisco astrologer correctly predicts a ship passenger's death and then helps the police look for the murderer.

A celebrated New York cabbie is pressed into service for a perilous journey through World War II China.

Long distance telephone calls save the day when Aunt Emily tries to sell the farm, and when Harriet tries to decide whose proposal to accept, Tom's...

Two big city lawyers are handed an important case but then find it requires them to deal with the oddball and very shrewd characters in a small town.

An ambitious attorney (Edward Norris) tries to prove a man (John Litel) who killed to protect his wife's (Margaret Lindsay) honor was justified.