Cinematography: Loyal Griggs
The best movies, series, and documentaries with cinematography by Loyal Griggs. Explore visually stunning titles that highlight an exceptional filmmaking.
Shane
1953 · Movie · 118 min. · United States
Direction George Stevens
Cast Alan Ladd · Jean Arthur · Van Heflin · Brandon De Wilde
Plot George Stevens' classic Western, adaptated from the Jack Schaefer novel, stars Alan Ladd in the title role. Riding the ranges of Wyoming's Grand Tetons, Shane stops at the farm of...
7.7
11K votes
7.7
11K votes
The Ten Commandments
1956 · Movie · 219 min. · United States
Direction Cecil B. DeMille
Cast Charlton Heston · Yul Brynner · Anne Baxter · Edward G. Robinson
Plot To escape the edict of Egypt's Pharoah, Rameses I, condemning all first-born Hebrew males, the infant Moses is set adrift on the Nile in a reed basket. Saved by the...
7.3
17K votes
7.3
17K votes
The Tin Star
1957 · Movie · 93 min. · United States
Direction Anthony Mann
Cast Henry Fonda · Anthony Perkins · Betsy Palmer · Michel Ray
Plot Anthony Mann made some of the greatest Westerns of the 1950s, all in partnership with James Stewart. Perhaps needing to prove himself as his own man, in 1957 Mann dropped...
7.2
2K votes
7.2
2K votes
In Harm's Way
1965 · Movie · 167 min. · United States
Direction Otto Preminger
Cast John Wayne · Kirk Douglas · Patricia Neal · Tom Tryon
Plot This all-star epic treatment of the bombing of Pearl Harbor details the devastating sneak attack on the naval base as well as the explosive behind-the-scenes stories. A navy man goes...
6.6
805 votes
6.6
805 votes
Hurry Sundown
1967 · Movie · 146 min. · United States
Direction Otto Preminger
Cast Michael Caine · Jane Fonda · Faye Dunaway · John Phillip Law
Plot Set in the south in the days just after World War II, a black and a white farmer team up to irrigate their fields and escape the crushing poverty that...
6.5
418 votes
6.5
418 votes
Elephant Walk
1954 · Movie · 103 min. · United States
Direction William Dieterle
Cast Elizabeth Taylor · Dana Andrews · Peter Finch · Abraham Sofaer
Plot John Wiley takes his new bride, Ruth to "Elephant Walk", a tea plantation in Ceylon which happens to be on the path where elephants roam. Soon Ruth discovers the truth...
6.4
1K votes
6.4
1K votes
The Slender Thread
1965 · Movie · 98 min. · United States
Direction Sydney Pollack
Cast Sidney Poitier · Anne Bancroft · Telly Savalas · Steven Hill
Plot Alan is a Seattle college student volunteering at a crisis center. One night when at the clinic alone, a woman calls up the number and tells Alan that she needs...
6.4
105 votes
6.4
105 votes
We're No Angels
1955 · Movie · 106 min. · United States
Direction Michael Curtiz
Cast Humphrey Bogart · Peter Ustinov · Aldo Ray · Joan Bennett
6.4
1K votes
6.4
1K votes
The Hangman
1959 · Movie · 87 min. · United States
Direction Michael Curtiz
Cast Robert Taylor · Tina Louise · Fess Parker · Jack Lord
Plot A Federal Marshall nicknamed "The Hangman" traces a robbery suspect to a small town, but the convict has turned his life around, he's now married and he and his wife...
6.3
141 votes
6.3
141 votes
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1970 · Movie · 97 min. · United States
Direction Ralph Nelson
Cast Jim Brown · George Kennedy · Fredric March · Lynn Carlin
Plot Racial tensions threaten to explode when a black man is elected sheriff of a small, racially divided town in the Deep South.
6.3
65 votes
6.3
65 votes
White Christmas
1954 · Movie · 120 min. · United States
Direction Michael Curtiz
Cast Bing Crosby · Danny Kaye · Rosemary Clooney · Vera-Ellen
Plot After World War II, song and dance men Bob Wallace and Phil Davis, form a successful partnership eventually becoming top Broadway producers. Bob agrees to take in a nightclub act...
6.2
699 votes
6.2
699 votes
Three Violent People
1956 · Movie · 100 min. · United States
Direction Rudolph Maté
Cast Charlton Heston · Anne Baxter · Gilbert Roland · Tom Tryon
Plot Former dance hall girl Lorna, masquerading as a lady, meets and marries Confederate ex-officer Colt Saunders, returning to his rich Texas ranch. Everyone there is enchanted with Lorna. But the...
6.2
658 votes
6.2
658 votes
The Greatest Story Ever Told
1965 · Movie · 200 min. · United States
Direction George Stevens · David Lean · Jean Negulesco
Cast Max von Sydow · Dorothy McGuire · Charlton Heston · Claude Rains
Plot George Stevens presents his monumental adaptation of the story of Jesus Christ starring Max von Sydow. The film concentrates on the most familiar episodes of the biblical story, including the...
6.0
3K votes
6.0
3K votes
The Buccaneer
1958 · Movie · 119 min. · United States
Direction Anthony Quinn
Cast Yul Brynner · Claire Bloom · Charlton Heston · Charles Boyer
Plot During the War of 1812 against Britain: General Andrew Jackson has only 1,200 men left to defend New Orleans when he learns that a British fleet will arrive with 60...
5.9
334 votes
5.9
334 votes
The Bridges at Toko-Ri
1954 · Movie · 102 min. · United States
Direction Mark Robson
Cast William Holden · Grace Kelly · Fredric March · Mickey Rooney
Plot Set during the Korean War, a Navy fighter pilot must come to terms with with his own ambivalence towards the war and the fear of having to bomb a set...
5.7
816 votes
5.7
816 votes
The Jayhawkers!
1959 · Movie · 100 min. · United States
Direction Melvin Frank
Cast Jeff Chandler · Fess Parker · Nicole Maurey · Henry Silva
Plot In the maelstrom of Pre-Civil War Kansas, a government agent infiltrates the vigilante group called the Jayhawks.
5.6
89 votes
5.6
89 votes
Tonka
1958 · Movie · 97 min. · United States
Direction Lewis R. Foster
Cast Sal Mineo · Phil Carey · Jerome Courtland · Rafael Campos
Plot In Dakota territory in the 1870s, White Bull, a young Sioux, proves his manhood by catching and training a wild colt he names Tonka. When a cruel cousin claims the...
5.6
22 votes
5.6
22 votes
The Sad Sack
1957 · Movie · 98 min. · United States
Direction George Marshall
Cast Jerry Lewis · David Wayne · Phyllis Kirk · Peter Lorre
Plot In his second solo starring film after breaking with Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis plays cartoonist George Baker's classic GI misfit The Sad Sack. Lewis' constitutional inability to do anything right...
5.5
112 votes
5.5
112 votes
Visit to a Small Planet
1960 · Movie · 85 min. · United States
Direction Norman Taurog
Cast Jerry Lewis · Joan Blackman · Earl Holliman · Fred Clark
Plot Jerry Lewis is Kreton, a childish alien who, against his teacher's will leaves his planet to visit the Earth, and lands in the backyard of a famous television journalist who...
5.4
114 votes
5.4
114 votes
Passage West
1951 · Movie · 76 min. · United States
Direction Lewis R. Foster
Cast John Payne · Dennis O'Keefe · Arleen Whelan · Frank Faylen
Plot In 1863, having escaped from a rock-quarry prison in Salt Lake, six inmates led by convicted murderer Pete Black take over a small wagon train headed by preacher Jacob Karns....
5.3
85 votes
5.3
85 votes