John C. Higgins

American screenwriter John C. Higgins specialized in complex murder mysteries during the 1930s and 1940s. Higgins' credits include Murder Man (1935), which served as the feature-film debut of James Stewart, and Kid Glove Killer (1942), director Fred Zinnemann's first full-length effort. During the postwar era, he penned several location-filmed, fact-based crime melodramas, among them He Walked by Night (1947) and Border Incident (1949). John C. Higgins' screen output also embraced horror films (The Black Sleep, 1956) and science fiction (Robinson Crusoe on Mars, 1964).

Highest Rated Movies

Rating	Title	Credit	Box Office	Year
No Score Yet	Shield for Murder	Screenwriter	—	2003
80%	Railroaded	Screenwriter	—	2003
No Score Yet	Daughters of Satan	Screenwriter	—	1972
No Score Yet	The File of the Golden Goose	Screenwriter	—	1969
No Score Yet	Impasse	Screenwriter	—	1969
94%	Robinson Crusoe on Mars	Screenwriter	—	1964
No Score Yet	Untamed Youth	Screenwriter	—	1957
No Score Yet	Quincannon, Frontier Scout	Screenwriter	—	1956
No Score Yet	The Black Sleep	Screenwriter	—	1956
No Score Yet	The Broken Star	Screenwriter	—	1956
No Score Yet	Big House, U.S.A.	Screenwriter	—	1955
No Score Yet	Seven Cities of Gold	Screenwriter	—	1955
No Score Yet	Pony Soldier	Screenwriter	—	1952
67%	Border Incident	Screenwriter	—	1949
86%	He Walked by Night	Screenwriter	—	1948
100%	Raw Deal	Screenwriter	—	1948
100%	T-Men	Screenwriter	—	1947
No Score Yet	Main Street After Dark	Screenwriter	—	1944
100%	Kid Glove Killer	Screenwriter	—	1942
No Score Yet	The Penalty	Screenwriter	—	1941
No Score Yet	The Murder Man	Screenwriter	—	1935

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