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

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

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...

Not rated

Not rated

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...

Not rated

Not rated

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...

Not rated

Not rated

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...

Not rated

Not rated

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...

Not rated

Not rated