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

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

...tick... tick... tick...

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