Cinematography: Theodor Sparkuhl

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


College Holiday

1936 · Movie · 86 min. · United States

Direction Frank Tuttle

Cast Jack Benny · George Burns · Gracie Allen · Mary Boland

Plot Expecting to put on a musical show, singing and dancing college students are brought to a struggling hotel to be guinea pigs in an ancient Greek-themed eugenics experiment.

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Decameron Nights

1924 · Movie · 100 min. · United Kingdom

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Thirteen Hours by Air

1936 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

Direction Mitchell Leisen

Cast Fred MacMurray · Joan Bennett · ZaSu Pitts · John Howard

Plot United Airlines pilot Fred Macmurray is looking and chasing after blonde with a secret Joan Bennett - while minding his own business - partly to win a bet he made...

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The Lady's from Kentucky

1939 · Movie · 67 min. · United States

Direction Alexander Hall

Cast George Raft · Ellen Drew · Hugh Herbert · ZaSu Pitts

Plot Good-natured gambler Marty Black falls into ownership of a booking joint but soon falls on hard times. His one out is a marker for half-ownership in a young thoroughbred, which...

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St. Louis Blues

1939 · Movie · 92 min. · United States

Direction Raoul Walsh

Cast Dorothy Lamour · Lloyd Nolan · Tito Guízar · Jerome Cowan

Plot A Broadway musical comedy star tires of the same old grind and flees the city. She runs into the skipper of a showboat who befriends her, and they make plans...

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Rangers of Fortune

1940 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

Direction Sam Wood

Cast Fred MacMurray · Patricia Morison · Betty Brewer · Albert Dekker

Plot Two cowboys come to the aid of a town under the control of a crooked boss.

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The Flying Scotsman

1929 · Movie · 50 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Castleton Knight

Cast Gordon Harker · Alec Hurley · Pauline Johnson · Moore Marriott

Plot A young fireman on the Flying Scotsman train falls in love with the beautiful daughter of the driver who is about to retire. The young fireman has replaced another named...

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Street of Chance

1942 · Movie · 74 min. · United States

Direction Jack B. Hively

Cast Burgess Meredith · Claire Trevor · Louise Platt · Sheldon Leonard

Plot Frank Thompson (Burgess Meredith), awakens in the middle of the street, after wreckage falling from a building in New York City hits him in the head. Frank soon discovers that...

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My Wife, the Movie Star

1918 · Movie · 60 min. · Germany

Direction Ernst Lubitsch

Cast Ossi Oswalda · Paul Biensfeldt · Max Kronert · Julius Dewald

Plot While making a movie in the Alps, the female star falls in love with a nobleman.

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Queen of the Mob

1940 · Movie · 61 min. · United States

Direction James P. Hogan

Cast Ralph Bellamy · Blanche Yurka · J. Carrol Naish · Jeanne Cagney

Plot Infamous Ma Webster rules her clan of mobsters – mainly consisting of her three more or less criminally inclined sons – with an iron hand and without mercy. She is...

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Fuhrmann Henschel

1918 · Movie · min. · Germany

Direction Ernst Lubitsch

Cast Emil Jannings

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The Remarkable Andrew

1942 · Movie · 81 min. · United States

Direction Stuart Heisler

Cast Brian Donlevy · William Holden · Ellen Drew · Montagu Love

Plot When Andrew Long, hyper-efficient small town accountant, finds a $1240 discrepancy in the city budget, his superiors try to explain it away. When he insists on pursuing the matter, he's...

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Yours for the Asking

1936 · Movie · 68 min. · United States

Direction Alexander Hall

Cast George Raft · Dolores Costello · Ida Lupino · Reginald Owen

Plot Casino operator Johnny Lamb hires down-on-her-luck socialite Lucille Sutton as his casino hostess, in order to help her and to improve casino income. But Lamb's pals fear he may follow...

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Murder, He Says

1945 · Movie · 91 min. · United States

Direction George Marshall

Cast Fred MacMurray · Helen Walker · Marjorie Main · Jean Heather

Plot Trotter pollster Pete Marshall is trying to find a missing coworker. In a rural town he stumbles onto the roughian Fleagle family. Bert and Mert would just as soon "splatter"...

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All Women Have Secrets

1939 · Movie · 66 min. · United States

Direction Kurt Neumann

Cast Virginia Dale · Joseph Allen · Jeanne Cagney · Peter Lind Hayes

Plot When they decide they might as well be penniless husbands and wives as penniless campus sweethearts, three couples at a Midwestern university, against the advice of their friends, get married....

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Father Brown, Detective

1934 · Movie · 68 min. · United States

Direction Edward Sedgwick

Cast Walter Connolly · Paul Lukas · Gertrude Michael · Robert Loraine

Plot After notorious jewel thief Flambeau meets Evelyn Fischer during a raid on a casino, he falls deeply in love with her. Later Flambeau sends notes to both Leopold Fischer, who...

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The Lovers of Midnight

1931 · Movie · 109 min. · France

Direction Augusto Genina · Marc Allégret

Cast Danièle Parola · Pierre Batcheff · Louis Zellas · Josseline Gaël

Plot Gaston Bouchard, sentenced to 20 years in a penal colony, escapes and meets Marcel Valmont on the train. He notices a ticket to South America and a large sum of...

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Forgotten Faces

1936 · Movie · 71 min. · United States

Direction Ewald André Dupont

Cast Herbert Marshall · Gertrude Michael · James Burke · Robert Cummings

Plot Harry Ashton is a superstitious gambling house owner, who relies on sprigs of heliotrope as his good luck charm. One day, Harry catches his wife, Cleo with another man. Harry...

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The Tenor, Inc.

1916 · Movie · min. · Germany

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Pacific Blackout

1941 · Movie · 76 min. · United States

Direction Ralph Murphy

Cast Robert Preston · Martha O'Driscoll · Philip Merivale · Eva Gabor

Plot While bombers roar overhead during a practice blackout in a large American West coast city, Robert Draper, is among the prisoners in a police van. The inventor of a new...

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