Cinematography: Harry Jackson
The best movies, series, and documentaries with cinematography by Harry Jackson. Explore visually stunning titles that highlight an exceptional filmmaking.
The Band Wagon
1953 · Movie · 112 min. · United States
Direction Vincente Minnelli
Cast Fred Astaire · Cyd Charisse · Oscar Levant · Nanette Fabray
Plot Tony Hunter, a famous singer/dancer movie star, is feeling washed up and old hat (old top hat, tie and tails to be exact). The reporters are out for Ava Gardner,...
7.7
3K votes
7.7
3K votes
Anne of the Indies
1951 · Movie · 78 min. · United States
Direction Jacques Tourneur
Cast Jean Peters · Louis Jourdan · Debra Paget · Herbert Marshall
Plot The film begins with the sea battle where Anne's (Jean Peters) pirate ship attacks a trade ship that was on its way to Europe from the South America. As a...
7.0
1K votes
7.0
1K votes
Apartment for Peggy
1948 · Movie · 96 min. · United States
Direction George Seaton
Cast Jeanne Crain · William Holden · Edmund Gwenn · Gene Lockhart
Plot Professor Henry Barnes decides he's lived long enough and contemplates suicide. His attitude is changed by Peggy Taylor, a chipper young mother-to-be who charms him into renting out his attic...
6.3
40 votes
6.3
40 votes
Way of a Gaucho
1952 · Movie · 88 min. · United States
Direction Jacques Tourneur
Cast Rory Calhoun · Gene Tierney · Richard Boone · Hugh Marlowe
Plot Set in the Argentina of about 1875 in which a customary punishment for killing was a sentence to army service. A young gaucho deserts his army sentence and becomes a...
6.3
325 votes
6.3
325 votes
Three Little Words
1950 · Movie · 102 min. · United States
Direction Richard Thorpe
Cast Fred Astaire · Red Skelton · Vera-Ellen · Arlene Dahl
Plot Song-and-dance man Bert Kalmar can't continue his stage career after an injury for while, so he has to earn his money as a lyricst. Per chance he meets composer Harry...
6.0
70 votes
6.0
70 votes
Drums of Love
1928 · Movie · 100 min. · United States
Direction D.W. Griffith
Cast Mary Philbin · Lionel Barrymore · Don Alvarado · Tully Marshall
Plot Princess Emmanuella agrees to marry the Duke of a neighboring kingdom in order to keep the peace between their two countries. However, when the duke's handsome brother arrives to escort...
5.9
21 votes
5.9
21 votes
Halls of Montezuma
1951 · Movie · 113 min. · United States
Direction Lewis Milestone
Cast Richard Widmark · Jack Palance · Reginald Gardiner · Robert Wagner
Plot The marines attack a strongly held enemy island in the Pacific. We follow them from the beach to a Japanese rocket site through enemy infested jungle as their ex-school teacher...
5.8
307 votes
5.8
307 votes
Mother Wore Tights
1947 · Movie · 107 min. · United States
Direction Walter Lang
Cast Betty Grable · Dan Dailey · Mona Freeman · Connie Marshall
Plot In this chronicle of a vaudeville family, Myrtle McKinley (class of 1900) goes to San Francisco to attend business school, but ends up in a chorus line. Soon, star Frank...
5.8
33 votes
5.8
33 votes
Lydia Bailey
1952 · Movie · 89 min. · United States
Direction Jean Negulesco
Cast Dale Robertson · Anne Francis · Charles Korvin · William Marshall
Plot A young Boston lawyer, Albron Hamlin, goes to Haiti in 1802 to find Lydia Bailey, whose estate he must settle. The island is war-torn in the strife between Toussaing L'Overture,...
5.8
98 votes
5.8
98 votes
American Guerrilla in the Philippines
1950 · Movie · 105 min. · United States
Direction Fritz Lang
Cast Tyrone Power · Micheline Presle · Tom Ewell · Robert Patten
5.6
330 votes
5.6
330 votes
Think Fast, Mr. Moto
1937 · Movie · 70 min. · United States
Direction Norman Foster
Cast Peter Lorre · Virginia Field · Thomas Beck · Sig Ruman
Plot Mr. Moto encounters mysterious goings-on on a ship bound for Shanghai. He recognises his steward as the murderer of a man in San Francisco, and catches him trying to steal...
5.6
42 votes
5.6
42 votes
Pony Soldier
1952 · Movie · 82 min. · United States
Direction Joseph M. Newman
Cast Tyrone Power · Cameron Mitchell · Thomas Gomez · Penny Edwards
5.3
193 votes
5.3
193 votes
A Ticket to Tomahawk
1950 · Movie · 90 min. · United States
Direction Richard Sale
Cast Dan Dailey · Anne Baxter · Rory Calhoun · Walter Brennan
Plot In 1876 Dawson wants to prevent a train from getting to Tomahawk CO on time, to keep it from competing with his stage coach line. Kit, who must get the...
5.3
96 votes
5.3
96 votes
To the Shores of Tripoli
1942 · Movie · 86 min. · United States
Direction H. Bruce Humberstone
Cast John Payne · Maureen O'Hara · Randolph Scott · Nancy Kelly
Plot Sergeant Dixie Smith has more raw recruits to turn into Marines, if he can. Among them is cocky casanova Chris Winters, son of an officer, who's just tried to "mash"...
5.0
94 votes
5.0
94 votes
Take Care of My Little Girl
1951 · Movie · 93 min. · United States
Direction Jean Negulesco
Cast Jeanne Crain · Dale Robertson · Mitzi Gaynor · Jean Peters
Plot A young woman enters college and learns some hard truths about sorority life, including snobbery and the cruelty of hazing.
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Carnival in Costa Rica
1947 · Movie · 97 min. · United States
Direction Gregory Ratoff
Cast Dick Haymes · Vera-Ellen · Cesar Romero · Celeste Holm
Plot Pepe Castro and Luisa Molina return to Costa Rica from U.S. schools to find that their parents have arranged their marriage. Pepe has brought his new sweetheart Celeste with him...
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Strange Triangle
1946 · Movie · 65 min. · United States
Direction Ray McCarey
Cast Signe Hasso · Preston Foster · Annabel Shaw · Shepperd Strudwick
Plot Viperish Francine Huber seduces visiting salesman Sam Crane. Sam later finds out that Francine is married to a business associate of his and decides to have no more to do...
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365 Nights in Hollywood
1934 · Movie · 77 min. · United States
Direction George Marshall
Cast James Dunn · Alice Faye · Frank Mitchell · Jack Durant
Plot Down-on-his-luck film director Jimmie Dale takes a job at a fly-by-night acting school. He is drawn into the plans of the school's owner to bilk a wealthy young man out...
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Dancing in the Dark
1949 · Movie · 92 min. · United States
Direction Irving Reis
Cast William Powell · Mark Stevens · Betsy Drake · Adolphe Menjou
Plot Conceited film star Emery Slade was on top in 1932; in 1949, he's broke and still insufferable. Fox producer Crossman enlists Slade's aid to persuade broadway star Rosalie Brooks to...
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Give My Regards to Broadway
1948 · Movie · 92 min. · United States
Direction Lloyd Bacon
Cast Dan Dailey · Charles Winninger · Nancy Guild · Charles Ruggles
Plot The Norwick family has had a successful run on the vaudeville circuit, but now some of the family wants out. Mom is ready to retire on the family's farm, and...
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