Cinematography: Arthur L. Todd

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


Wild Boys of the Road

1933 · Movie · 68 min. · United States

Direction William A. Wellman

Cast Frankie Darro · Edwin Phillips · Rochelle Hudson · Dorothy Coonan Wellman

Plot In the depths of the Depression, two teenage boys strike out on their own in order to help their struggling parents and find life on the road tougher than expected.

7.2

201 votes

7.2

201 votes

Monkey Business

1931 · Movie · 77 min. · United States

Direction Norman Z. McLeod

Cast The Marx Brothers · Groucho Marx · Harpo Marx · Chico Marx

Plot On a transatlantic crossing, the Marx brothers get up to their usual antics and manage to annoy just about everyone on board the ship. While stowing away on a ship...

7.0

3K votes

7.0

3K votes

Why We Fight 3: Divide and Conquer

1943 · Documentary · 57 min. · United States

6.7

51 votes

6.7

51 votes

Ever in My Heart

1933 · Movie · 68 min. · United States

Direction Archie Mayo

Cast Barbara Stanwyck · Otto Kruger · Ralph Bellamy · Ruth Donnelly

Plot In 1909 Mary Archer, daughter of small-town bluebloods, awaits the return from Germany of sometime beau Jeff. But Jeff brings with him a German friend, Hugo Wilbrandt, who loves and...

6.2

28 votes

6.2

28 votes

Crime School

1938 · Movie · 85 min. · United States

Direction Lewis Seiler

Cast Humphrey Bogart · Gale Page · Billy Halop · Bobby Jordan

Plot Deputy Commissioner of Correction Mark Braden finds a reform school in terrible condition and assumes control himself. He wins the boy's cooperation by being fair and falls in love with...

6.1

47 votes

6.1

47 votes

Million Dollar Legs

1932 · Movie · 64 min. · United States

Direction Edward F. Cline

Cast Jack Oakie · W.C. Fields · Andy Clyde · Lyda Roberti

Plot A small country on the verge of bankruptcy is persuaded to enter the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics as a means of raising money. Either a masterpiece of absurdity or a...

5.6

23 votes

5.6

23 votes

Hot Saturday

1932 · Movie · 73 min. · United States

Direction William A. Seiter

Cast Nancy Carroll · Cary Grant · Randolph Scott · Edward Woods

Plot Scandal erupts after a young woman (Nancy Carroll) innocently spends the night with a notorious playboy (Cary Grant) and neglects to tell her fiancé (Randolph Scott). a clever, somewhat twisted...

5.6

42 votes

5.6

42 votes

Gold Heels

1924 · Movie · 60 min. · United States

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Take It from Me

1926 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

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That's My Daddy

1927 · Movie · 60 min. · United States

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What Happened to Jones?

1926 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

Direction William A. Seiter

Cast Reginald Denny · Marian Nixon · Melbourne MacDowell · Frances Raymond

Plot The night before their wedding, Tom Jones is convinced by a group of friends to join a poker game, but a police raid forces them to flee. As the only...

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She Had to Say Yes

1933 · Movie · 65 min. · United States

Direction George Amy · Busby Berkeley

Cast Loretta Young · Winnie Lightner · Lyle Talbot · Regis Toomey

Plot It is the bottom of the depression and Sol Glass has the idea that the girls in the stenographic department should be used to entertain the clients. Seems the clients...

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Snowed Under

1936 · Movie · 63 min. · United States

Direction Ray Enright

Cast George Brent · Genevieve Tobin · Glenda Farrell · Patricia Ellis

Plot Alan Tanner's new play opens in a week, but Tanner just can't finish the third act. He's retreated to a snowbound cottage to work, but blonde neighbor Pat Quinn wants...

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Bad Men of Missouri

1941 · Movie · 71 min. · United States

Direction Ray Enright

Cast Dennis Morgan · Jane Wyman · Wayne Morris · Arthur Kennedy

Plot The Younger brothers, Cole (Dennis Morgan), Bob (Wayne Morris) and Jim (Arthur Kennedy), return to Missouri after the Civil War with intent to avenge the misdeeds of William Merrick (Victor...

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I've Got Your Number

1934 · Movie · 69 min. · United States

Direction Ray Enright

Cast Joan Blondell · Pat O'Brien · Allen Jenkins · Glenda Farrell

Plot The adventures of wisecracking telephone repairmen Terry and Johnny are by turns comic, risque, and heroic. Terry pursues Marie, a hotel switchboard operator, who loses her job when she innocently...

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How to Handle Women

1928 · Movie · 60 min. · United States

Direction William James Craft

Cast Glenn Tryon · Marian Nixon · Raymond Keane · Mario Carillo

Plot Leonard Higgins, a small-time commercial artist Prince Hendryx, and his country of Vulgaria from bankruptcy by exploiting the country's peanut crop, and wins the fair hand of Beatrice Fairbanks in...

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Touchdown!

1931 · Movie · 79 min. · United States

Direction Norman Z. McLeod

Cast Richard Arlen · Peggy Shannon · Jack Oakie · Regis Toomey

Plot Football coach Dan Curtis is eager for his small college team to win at all costs. However, he has a change of heart when a player is severely injured by...

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Earthworm Tractors

1936 · Movie · 69 min. · United States

Direction Ray Enright

Cast Joe E. Brown · June Travis · Guy Kibbee · Dick Foran

Plot Alexander Botts is a self-described natural born salesman and master mechanic, who is trying to make a big sale of Earthworm tractors to grouchy lumberman Johnson. Since Botts doesn't really...

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The Forward Pass

1929 · Movie · 78 min. · United States

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Deliverance

1919 · Movie · 85 min. · United States

Direction George Foster Platt

Cast Helen Keller · Anne Sullivan · Kate Adams Keller · Phillips Brooks Keller

Plot The true story of Helen Keller, who lost her vision and hearing at the age of two, was considered a hopeless case, but who through the diligent aid of teacher...

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