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
Direction Herbert Wilcox
Cast Lionel Barrymore · Ivy Duke · Werner Krauss · Randle Ayrton
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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
Direction Ernst Lubitsch
Cast Ossi Oswalda · Ernst Lubitsch · Victor Janson
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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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