Cinematography: W. Howard Greene

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


Jesse James

1939 · Movie · 105 min. · United States

Direction Henry King

Cast Tyrone Power · Henry Fonda · Nancy Kelly · Randolph Scott

Plot The railroads are squeezing farmers off their land. When a railroad agent kills their mother, Frank and Jesse James take up robbing banks and trains. The public regard them as...

7.2

1K votes

7.2

1K votes

A Star is Born

1937 · Movie · 111 min. · United States

Direction William A. Wellman

Cast Fredric March · Janet Gaynor · Adolphe Menjou · May Robson

Plot Esther Blodgett is just another starry-eyed farm kid trying to break into the movies. Waitressing at a Hollywood party, she catches the eye of alcoholic star Norman Maine, is given...

7.0

2K votes

7.0

2K votes

The Trail of the Lonesome Pine

1936 · Movie · 102 min. · United States

Direction Henry Hathaway

Cast Henry Fonda · Fred MacMurray · Sylvia Sidney · Fred Stone

Plot The Trail of the Lonesome Pine is a 1936 romance film based on the novel of the same name. It was directed by Henry Hathaway. It was the second full...

6.7

456 votes

6.7

456 votes

The Shepherd of the Hills

1941 · Movie · 98 min. · United States

Direction Henry Hathaway

Cast John Wayne · Betty Field · Harry Carey · Beulah Bondi

Plot Young Matt Masters, an Ozark Mountains moonshiner, hates the father he has never seen, who apparently deserted Matt's mother and left her to die. His obsession contributes to the hatred...

6.7

494 votes

6.7

494 votes

The Violent Men

1955 · Movie · 96 min. · United States

Direction Rudolph Maté

Cast Glenn Ford · Barbara Stanwyck · Edward G. Robinson · Dianne Foster

Plot Crippled cattle baron Lew Wilkison causes nothing but trouble for the peaceful landowners living in his valley. Wilkison wants every spot in the region for himself and he'll do anything...

6.7

692 votes

6.7

692 votes

The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex

1939 · Movie · 106 min. · United States

Direction Michael Curtiz

Cast Bette Davis · Errol Flynn · Olivia de Havilland · Donald Crisp

Plot A romantic drama film based on the relationship between Queen Elizabeth I (played by Bette Davis) and Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex (played by Errol Flynn).

6.6

853 votes

6.6

853 votes

Nothing Sacred

1937 · Movie · 77 min. · United States

Direction William A. Wellman

Cast Carole Lombard · Fredric March · Charles Winninger · Walter Connolly

Plot When a small-town girl is diagnosed with a rare, deadly disease, an ambitious newspaper man turns her into a national heroine.

6.6

1K votes

6.6

1K votes

North West Mounted Police

1940 · Movie · 125 min. · United States

Direction Cecil B. DeMille

Cast Gary Cooper · Madeleine Carroll · Paulette Goddard · Preston Foster

Plot In 1885, three mismatched frontiersmen (teacher Riel, whiskey trader Corbeau, and trapper Duroc) foment rebellion in central Canada; only the local Mounties stand in their way. Constable Ronnie Logan loves...

6.4

1K votes

6.4

1K votes

Blossoms in the Dust

1941 · Movie · 99 min. · United States

Direction Mervyn LeRoy

Cast Greer Garson · Walter Pidgeon · Felix Bressart · Marsha Hunt

Plot Edna marries Texan Sam Gladney, operator of a wheat mill. They have a son, who is killed when very young. Edna discovers by chance how the law treats children who...

6.4

155 votes

6.4

155 votes

Phantom Of The Opera

1943 · Movie · 92 min. · United States

Direction Arthur Lubin

Cast Nelson Eddy · Susanna Foster · Claude Rains · Edgar Barrier

Plot Pit violinist Claudin hopelessly loves rising operatic soprano Christine Dubois (as do baritone Anatole and police inspector Raoul) and secretly aids her career. But Claudin loses both his touch and...

6.3

1K votes

6.3

1K votes

Jungle Book

1942 · Movie · 104 min. · United States

Direction Zoltan Korda

Cast Sabu · Joseph Calleia · Patricia O’Rourke · Rosemary DeCamp

Plot An old Indian man tells a British woman the story of the jungle boy Mowgli. In an Indian village, a young child Natu wandered away into the jungle and was...

5.9

1K votes

5.9

1K votes

Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves

1944 · Movie · 87 min. · United States

5.9

733 votes

5.9

733 votes

Can't Help Singing

1944 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Frank Ryan

Cast Deanna Durbin · Robert Paige · Akim Tamiroff · David Bruce

Plot With the California Gold Rush beginning, Senator Frost's singing daughter Caroline loves a young army officer; the Senator can't stand him, and has him sent to California. Headstrong Caroline follows...

5.8

24 votes

5.8

24 votes

Tycoon

1947 · Movie · 122 min. · United States

Direction Richard Wallace

Cast John Wayne · Laraine Day · Cedric Hardwicke · Judith Anderson

Plot Engineer Johnny Munroe is enlisted to build a railroad tunnel through a mountain to reach mines. His task is complicated, and his ethics are compromised, when he falls in love...

5.6

144 votes

5.6

144 votes

The Big Cat

1949 · Movie · 75 min. · United States

5.5

46 votes

5.5

46 votes

Cobra Woman

1944 · Movie · 71 min. · United States

Direction Robert Siodmak

Cast Maria Montez · Jon Hall · Sabu · Edgar Barrier

Plot Upon discovering his fiancée Tollea has been kidnaped, Ramu and his friend Kado set out for a Pacific isle where all strangers are to be killed on arrival and the...

5.4

261 votes

5.4

261 votes

The Climax

1944 · Movie · 86 min. · United States

Direction George Waggner

Cast Boris Karloff · Susanna Foster · Turhan Bey · Gale Sondergaard

Plot Dr. Hohner (Karloff), theatre physician at the Vienna Royal Theatre, murders his mistress, the star soprano when his jealousy drives him to the point of mad obsession. Ten years later,...

5.4

94 votes

5.4

94 votes

Al Jennings of Oklahoma

1951 · Movie · 79 min. · United States

Direction Ray Nazarro

Cast Dan Duryea · Gale Storm · Dick Foran · Gloria Henry

Plot The four Jennings brothers are Lawyers. When Al has a brother murdered, he goes after the murderer. He outdraws him but a witness says it was murder. Escaping the Sheriff...

5.1

30 votes

5.1

30 votes

Pirates of Monterey

1947 · Movie · 77 min. · United States

Direction Alfred L. Werker

Cast Maria Montez · Rod Cameron · Mikhail Rasumny · Phillip Reed

Plot Captain Phillip Kent, a soldier of fortune, and his friend Sergeant Pio, journey from Mexico City to Monterey on a secret mission. Their assignment consists in delivering state-of-the art new...

5.1

70 votes

5.1

70 votes

Gypsy Wildcat

1944 · Movie · 77 min. · United States

Direction Roy William Neill

Cast Maria Montez · Jon Hall · Peter Coe · Nigel Bruce

Plot In an unspecified Renaissance kingdom, no sooner has Anube's gypsy tribe encamped near Baron Tovar's village when Count Orso is found murdered. The wicked baron blames the gypsies and imprisons...

5.0

41 votes

5.0

41 votes