Cinematography: Ernest Steward

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


Checkpoint

1956 · Movie · 86 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Ralph Thomas

Cast Anthony Steel · Odile Versois · Stanley Baker · James Robertson Justice

Plot Stanley Baker's character is sent to steal the plans from another company of their racing car designs, to ensure his employers win the competition. However when opening a safe containing...

5.1

23 votes

5.1

23 votes

Deadlier Than the Male

1967 · Movie · 101 min. · United Kingdom

5.1

59 votes

5.1

59 votes

The Face of Fu Manchu

1965 · Movie · 94 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Don Sharp

Cast Christopher Lee · Nigel Green · Joachim Fuchsberger · Karin Dor

Plot Grisly strangulations in London alert Nayland Smith of Scotland Yard to the possibility of the fiendish Fu Manchu may not be dead after all, even though Smith witnessed his execution....

5.1

485 votes

5.1

485 votes

The Iron Petticoat

1956 · Movie · 87 min. · United Kingdom

5.0

257 votes

5.0

257 votes

Upstairs and Downstairs

1959 · Movie · 98 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Ralph Thomas

Cast Mylène Demongeot · Michael Craig · Anne Heywood · James Robertson Justice

Plot On marrying the boss's daughter, Richard takes his father-in-law's advice to hire a live-in domestic. He soon finds good help is hard to come by. Run-ins follow with dipsomaniacs, bank...

5.0

36 votes

5.0

36 votes

Dark Places

1973 · Movie · 91 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Don Sharp

Cast Christopher Lee · Joan Collins · Herbert Lom · Jane Birkin

Plot A scheming couple plot to conceal a hidden cache of stolen money from its rightful owner. The only problem is that the house they plan to hide it in is...

4.9

55 votes

4.9

55 votes

The Brides of Fu Manchu

1966 · Movie · 94 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Don Sharp

Cast Christopher Lee · Douglas Wilmer · Heinz Drache · Marie Versini

Plot Christopher Lee returns as Sax Rohmer's insidious Asian villain Fu Manchu, in this time Fu and his army of henchmen are kidnaping the daughters of prominent scientists and taking them...

4.8

174 votes

4.8

174 votes

Doctor at Sea

1955 · Movie · 93 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Ralph Thomas

Cast Dirk Bogarde · Brenda De Banzie · Brigitte Bardot · James Robertson Justice

Plot With a view to escaping both boredom as a junior G.P. and unwanted womanly advances, young doctor Simon Sparrow becomes a medical officer on "the Lotus", an all-male cargo ship....

4.7

40 votes

4.7

40 votes

One more time

1970 · Movie · 91 min. · United States

4.2

21 votes

4.2

21 votes

Carry On Camping

1969 · Movie · 88 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Gerald Thomas

Cast Sid James · Kenneth Williams · Charles Hawtrey · Joan Sims

Plot Sid and Bernie keep having their amorous intentions snubbed by their girlfriends Joan and Anthea. The boys suggest a camping holiday, secretly intending to take them to a nudist camp....

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Ooh... You Are Awful

1972 · Movie · 97 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Cliff Owen

Cast Dick Emery · Derren Nesbitt · Ronald Fraser · William Franklyn

Plot Charlie Tully and womanising Reggie Peek con two rich Italians out of £500,000 but during their flight out Charlie is arrested for coning an American and a dog. Reggie stores...

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Up to His Neck

1954 · Movie · 90 min. · United Kingdom

Direction John Paddy Carstairs

Cast Ronald Shiner · Brian Rix · Laya Raki · Harry Fowler

Plot A story of A.B. picked up by destroyer after being marooned for ten years on Pacific island inhabited by hula girls.

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Carry On Dick

1974 · Movie · 91 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Gerald Thomas

Cast Sid James · Barbara Windsor · Kenneth Williams · Hattie Jacques

Plot Dick Turpin is terrorising the countryside around Upper Dencher. Captain Fancey and Sergeant Jock Strapp plan to put an end to his escapades, and enlist the help of the Reverend...

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Callan

1974 · Movie · 106 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Don Sharp

Cast Edward Woodward · Eric Porter · Carl Möhner · Catherine Schell

Plot David Callan, top agent/assassin for the S.I.S., was forced to retire because he had lost his nerve. Now, Callan is called back into service to handle the assassination of Schneider,...

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Circus of Fear

1966 · Movie · 90 min. · United Kingdom

Direction John Llewellyn Moxey · Werner Jacobs

Cast Christopher Lee · Leo Genn · Anthony Newlands · Heinz Drache

Plot A circus becomes the location for stolen loot and murder.

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Piccadilly Third Stop

1960 · Movie · 90 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Wolf Rilla

Cast Terence Morgan · Yoko Tani · John Crawford · Mai Zetterling

Plot A Playboy tries to recruit a gang, who include an American who needs cash to satisfy his wife's expensive tastes, and an old time expert cracksman, to rob a foreign...

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Twenty-Four Hours to Kill

1965 · Movie · 94 min. · United Kingdom

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Crooks Anonymous

1962 · Movie · 88 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Ken Annakin

Cast Leslie Phillips · Stanley Baxter · Julie Christie · Wilfrid Hyde-White

Plot Forsdyke, a pathological petty thief subjects himself to a strict correction course run by a wealthy ex-con Widdowes and his Crooks Anonymous organization. Forsdyke's young and innocent girlfriend Babette, holds...

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Carry On Again Doctor

1969 · Movie · 86 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Gerald Thomas

Cast Sid James · Kenneth Williams · Charles Hawtrey · Jim Dale

Plot Dr Nookey is disgraced and sent to a remote island hospital. He is given a secret slimming potion by a member of staff, Gladstone Screwer, and he flies back to...

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Percy

1971 · Movie · 103 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Ralph Thomas

Cast Hywel Bennett · Denholm Elliott · Elke Sommer · Britt Ekland

Plot Edwin Antony (Hywel Bennett) is emasculated in an accident which kills a young philanderer. Doctors successfully replace his member with that of the dead man, but refuse to tell him...

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Not rated