Cinematography: Glen MacWilliams

The best movies, series, and documentaries with cinematography by Glen MacWilliams. Explore visually stunning titles that highlight an exceptional filmmaking.


Lazybones

1925 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

Direction Frank Borzage

Cast Madge Bellamy · Buck Jones · ZaSu Pitts · Leslie Fenton

Synopsis Steve Tuttle, the titular lazybones, takes on the responsibility of raising a fatherless girl, causing a scandal in his small town. Many years later, having returned from World War I, he discovers that he loves the grown-up girl.

7.3

73 votes

7.3

73 votes

Lifeboat

1944 · Movie · 96 min. · United States

Direction Alfred Hitchcock

Cast Tallulah Bankhead · John Hodiak · William Bendix · Hume Cronyn

Synopsis In the Atlantic during WWII, a ship and a German U-boat are involved in a battle and both are sunk. The survivors from the ship gather in one of the boats. They are from a variety of backgrounds: an international...

7.3

5K votes

7.3

5K votes

While Paris Sleeps

1932 · Movie · 67 min. · United States

Direction Allan Dwan

Cast Victor McLaglen · Helen Mack · William Bakewell · Jack La Rue

Synopsis Fifteen years after Jacques Costaud, a French war veteran and a recipient of France's prestigous Croix de Guerre, kills a man and is sentenced to life in prison, he escapes from a penal colony in French Guyana. Jacques is chased...

6.8

22 votes

6.8

22 votes

The Front Page

1931 · Movie · 101 min. · United States

Direction Lewis Milestone

Cast Adolphe Menjou · Pat O'Brien · Mary Brian · Edward Everett Horton

Synopsis Hildy Johnson, newspaper reporter, is engaged to Peggy Grant and planning to move to New York for a higher paying advertising job. The court press room is full of lame reporters who invent stories as much as write them. All...

6.7

295 votes

6.7

295 votes

Oliver Twist

1922 · Movie · 94 min. · United States

Direction Frank Lloyd

Cast Jackie Coogan · James A. Marcus · Aggie Herring · Nelson McDowell

Synopsis Oliver's mother, a penniless outcast, died giving birth to him. As a young boy Oliver is brought up in a workhouse, later apprenticed to an uncaring undertaker, and eventually is taken in by a gang of thieves who befriend him...

6.7

312 votes

6.7

312 votes

Wing and a Prayer

1944 · Movie · 97 min. · United States

Direction Henry Hathaway

Cast Don Ameche · Dana Andrews · William Eythe · Charles Bickford

Synopsis An aircraft carrier is sent on a decoy mission around the Pacific, with orders to avoid combat, thus lulling Japanese alertness before the battle of Midway. All the men have their individual worries and concerns, but become increasingly frustrated at...

6.3

83 votes

6.3

83 votes

King Solomon's Mines

1937 · Movie · 80 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Robert Stevenson

Cast Paul Robeson · Cedric Hardwicke · John Loder · Roland Young

Synopsis African adventure about a quest in Africa to find the fabled King Solomon’s Mines, a fabulously wealthy diamond mine deep in the heart of the jungle. The explorers, led by Allan Quartermaine (Cedric Hardwicke), are searching for Patrick O’Brien, the...

6.2

798 votes

6.2

798 votes

Great Guns

1941 · Movie · 74 min. · United States

Direction Monty Banks

Cast Stan Laurel · Oliver Hardy · Sheila Ryan · Dick Nelson

Synopsis Laurel and Hardy join the army. They are hardly soldiers, but they believe their employer, (Dick Nelson) will need them now he's drafted.

6.1

30 votes

6.1

30 votes

Shock

1946 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

Direction Alfred L. Werker

Cast Vincent Price · Lynn Bari · Frank Latimore · Annabel Shaw

Synopsis A psychologically distraught woman is committed to a private sanitarium by the man whom she witnessed commit a murder.

6.0

266 votes

6.0

266 votes

Dressed to Kill

1941 · Movie · 74 min. · United States

Direction Eugene Forde

Cast Lloyd Nolan · Mary Beth Hughes · Sheila Ryan · William Demarest

Synopsis Detective Michael Shayne and his girlfriend Joanne leave a marriage bureau when shots fired in a nearby theatre draw his attention to a string of theatrical murders.

6.0

26 votes

6.0

26 votes

A-Haunting We Will Go

1942 · Movie · 68 min. · United States

Direction Alfred L. Werker

Cast Stan Laurel · Oliver Hardy · Sheila Ryan · John Shelton

Synopsis The boys are recruited by a gang of thugs to get a coffin containing one of their far from dead colleagues to Dayton to try and get at an inheritance. After the coffin gets switched with the one Dante the...

6.0

71 votes

6.0

71 votes

The Clairvoyant

1934 · Movie · 83 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Maurice Elvey

Cast Claude Rains · Fay Wray · Mary Clare · Jane Baxter

Synopsis Maximus, a small-time music hall mind reader, has frightening flashes of precognition; but he cannot predict or control them ...until he realizes he has them in the presence of Christine, attractive daughter of a publisher, who makes Rene, his equally...

5.9

70 votes

5.9

70 votes

My Favorite Martian (TV Series)

1963 · Series · 30 min. · United States

Direction Oscar Rudolph · Leslie Goodwins · John Erman · David Alexander

Cast Ray Walston · Bill Bixby · Pamela Britton · Alan Hewitt

Synopsis A sarcastic Martian comes to live with a hapless young Terran on Earth.

5.8

149 votes

5.8

149 votes

Hawaiian Eye (TV Series)

1959 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Edward Dein · Alvin Ganzer · Paul Landres · André De Toth

Cast Connie Stevens · Robert Conrad · Poncie Ponce · Anthony Eisley

Synopsis TV Series (1959-1963) 134 episodes. Set against the beautiful tropical landscape of Honolulu, Hawaii, this series centered around the cases of Hawaiian Eye Private Investigations and the two handsome, slick, tough-guy detectives who ran the firm - Thomas Jefferson Lopaka,...

5.8

21 votes

5.8

21 votes

My Boy

1921 · Movie · 55 min. · United States

Direction Albert Austin · Victor Heerman

Cast Jackie Coogan · Claude Gillingwater · Mathilde Brundage · Patsy Marks

Synopsis An orphan escapes immigration officials at Ellis Island and goes to live with an old ship's master who can't find work and can't pay the rent.

5.6

26 votes

5.6

26 votes

Waltzes from Vienna

1934 · Movie · 80 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Alfred Hitchcock

Cast Jessie Matthews · Edmund Gwenn · Fay Compton · Esmond Knight

Synopsis Schani, Johan Strauss Jr., is forced by his father to forget music and to work in a bakery. Here he falls in love with Resi. The girl gets very jealous when a rich and beautiful contessa asks Schani to write...

5.4

212 votes

5.4

212 votes

The Great Barrier

1937 · Movie · 83 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Milton Rosmer · Geoffrey Barkas

Cast Richard Arlen · Barry MacKay · Roy Emerton · Antoinette Cellier

Synopsis The building of the Canadian Pacific Railway.

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Law of the Plainsman (TV Series)

1959 · Series · 30 min. · United States

Direction Paul Landres · William F. Claxton · John Peyser · Bobby Gordon

Cast Michael Ansara · Dayton Lummis · Nora Marlowe · Gina Gillespie

Synopsis Sam Buckhart was an Apache Indian who had saved the life of a U.S. Cavalry officer after an Indian ambush. When the officer died, he left Sam money that was used for an education at private schools and Harvard University....

Not rated

Not rated

Captain January

1924 · Movie · 64 min. · United States

Direction Edward F. Cline

Cast Hobart Bosworth · Baby Peggy · Irene Rich · Lincoln Stedman

Synopsis A lighthouse keeper finds a little girl who is washed ashore tied to some wreckage. He adopts her and they become inseparable. Eventually her real family finds her and tries to take her away.

Not rated

Not rated