Cinematography: Theodor Sparkuhl
The best movies, series, and documentaries with cinematography by Theodor Sparkuhl. Explore visually stunning titles that highlight an exceptional filmmaking.
Star Spangled Rhythm
1942 · Movie · 99 min. · United States
Direction George Marshall
Cast Bing Crosby · Bob Hope · Fred MacMurray · Franchot Tone
Plot Pop Webster (Victor Moore) is a former silent movie star once known as "Bronco Billy" who now works as the guard on the main gate at Paramount Pictures. However, he's...
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Enter Madame
1935 · Movie · 83 min. · United States
Direction Elliott Nugent
Cast Elissa Landi · Cary Grant · Lynne Overman · Sharon Lynn
Plot Man marries opera singer, winds up taking back seat to her career.
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Grausige Nächte
1921 · Movie · 83 min. · Germany
Direction Lupu Pick
Cast Edith Posca · Alfred Abel · Arnold Korff · Adele Sandrock
Plot The young Evelyne lives with a man, her fiancee Frank, with whom she has a child. But her fiancee is a rundown drunk constantly hanging over the bottle. Evelyne wants...
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Johnny Come Lately
1943 · Movie · 97 min. · United States
Direction William K. Howard
Cast James Cagney · Grace George · Marjorie Main · Marjorie Lord
Plot An ex-newspaper man is saved from a vagrancy rap by the elderly editor of a failing paper. The two band together to expose political corruption through the written word, disregarding...
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Dangerous to Know
1938 · Movie · 70 min. · United States
Direction Robert Florey
Cast Anna May Wong · Akim Tamiroff · Gail Patrick · Lloyd Nolan
Plot Racketeer Steve Recka, art patron and political power-maker, rules his town and Madame Lan Ying, his beautiful Oriental friend and hostess (read: mistress), with an iron hand. He meets Margaret...
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Manon Lescaut
1926 · Movie · 99 min. · Germany
Direction Arthur Robison
Cast Lya De Putti · Vladimir Gajdarov · Eduard Rothauser · Fritz Greiner
Plot In the beginning, Manon Lescaut, a young mistress, is taken away from a convent by the French nobleman des Grieux, who is young as well, under the pretext he's her...
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Midnight Club
1933 · Movie · 64 min. · United States
Direction Alexander Hall · George Somnes
Cast Clive Brook · George Raft · Helen Vinson · Alison Skipworth
Plot Elegant Colin Grant and his associates are successful jewelry thieves, even unmasked to their victims, their perfect alibis making impossible for the Comissioner police to arrest them. Things are running...
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Rulers of the Sea
1939 · Movie · 97 min. · United States
Direction Frank Lloyd
Cast Douglas Fairbanks Jr. · Margaret Lockwood · Will Fyffe · George Bancroft
Plot Story of the beginnings of the steam-powered engine and its use in the first steamship voyage across the Atlantic Ocean.
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The Big Broadcast of 1937
1936 · Movie · 100 min. · United States
Direction Mitchell Leisen
Cast Jack Benny · George Burns · Gracie Allen · Bob Burns
Plot A cream-of-the-crop gathering of 1930's radio stars, who lend themselves to a storyline about a failing radio station which needs to put on a huge ratings winner to have any...
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Caravan
1934 · Movie · 101 min. · United States
Direction Erik Charell
Cast Charles Boyer · Loretta Young · Jean Parker · Phillips Holmes
Plot The young Countess Wilma is forced to wed by midnight or lose her inheritance. Wilma impulsively chooses gypsy vagabond Latzi, offering him a huge sum of money if he'll consent....
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Intoxication
1919 · Movie · min. · Germany
Direction Ernst Lubitsch
Cast Asta Nielsen · Alfred Abel · Pola Negri · Karl Meinhardt
Plot Gaston finally succeeds as a dramatist and decides to leave his wife and child for another woman. When the child dies, the finger is pointed at him and he winds...
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This Ancient Law
1923 · Movie · 128 min. · Germany
Direction Ewald André Dupont
Cast Henny Porten · Ruth Weyher · Hermann Vallentin · Abraham Morewski
Plot Baruch Mayr, son of an orthodox rabbi from a poor shtetl in Galizia, decides to break with the family tradition and leave the shtetl to become an actor. Due to...
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Night Plane from Chungking
1943 · Movie · 69 min. · United States
Direction Ralph Murphy
Cast Robert Preston · Ellen Drew · Otto Kruger · Steven Geray
Plot Without lights and in a driving rain, a bus is lumbering along the muddy Assam Road en route from Chunking to the Indian border. Passengers include Albert Pasavy (Otto Kruger),...
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No More Women
1934 · Movie · 76 min. · United States
Direction Albert S. Rogell
Cast Edmund Lowe · Victor McLaglen · Sally Blane · Minna Gombell
Plot Two deep-sea divers, known only by their nicknames of "Three-Time" and "Forty-Fathoms," find that no place on earth is big enough for both of them at the same time, even...
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The Hard-Boiled Canary
1941 · Movie · 80 min. · United States
Direction Andrew L. Stone
Cast Allan Jones · Susanna Foster · Margaret Lindsay · Lynne Overman
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The Informer
1929 · Movie · 83 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Arthur Robison
Cast Lya De Putti · Lars Hanson · Warwick Ward · Carl Harbord
Plot In Ireland, an IRA man betrays a killer to the police, thinking he is his mistress's lover.
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Dr. Broadway
1942 · Movie · 68 min. · United States
Direction Anthony Mann
Cast Macdonald Carey · Jean Phillips · Eduardo Ciannelli · Richard Lane
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Der lustige Ehemann
1919 · Movie · min. · Germany
Direction Léo Lasko
Cast Victor Janson · Irmgard Bern · Marga Köhler · Wally Koch
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The Way of All Flesh
1940 · Movie · 86 min. · United States
Direction Louis King
Cast Akim Tamiroff · Gladys George · William Henry · Muriel Angelus
Plot Paul Kriza is a cashier of a bank in a small town, and the happy husband of Anna and the father of four children. He is sent to New York...
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Opened by Mistake
1940 · Movie · 67 min. · United States
Direction George Archainbaud
Cast Charles Ruggles · Janice Logan · Robert Paige · William Frawley
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