Cinematography: Gordon Avil

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


The Champ

1931 · Movie · 87 min. · United States

Direction King Vidor

Cast Wallace Beery · Jackie Cooper · Irene Rich · Roscoe Ates

Plot Dink Purcell loves his alcoholic father, ex-heavyweight champion Andy "Champ" Purcell, despite his frequent binges, his frequent gambling and their squalid living conditions. And there's nothing Andy wouldn't do for...

7.1

742 votes

7.1

742 votes

Hallelujah!

1929 · Movie · 109 min. · United States

Direction King Vidor

Cast Daniel L. Haynes · Nina Mae McKinney · William Fountaine · Harry Gray

Plot In a juke joint, sharecropper Zeke falls for a beautiful dancer, Chick, but she's only setting him up for a rigged craps game. He loses $100, the money he got...

7.0

328 votes

7.0

328 votes

Hogan's Heroes (TV Series)

1965 · Series · 30 min. · United States

Direction Bernard Fein · Albert S. Ruddy Production · Gene Reynolds · Edward H. Feldman

Cast Bob Crane · Werner Klemperer · John Banner · Robert Clary

Plot TV Series (1965-1971). Colonel Hogan leads a ragtag band of POW's caught behind German lines. The bumbling Germans give Hogan and his crew plenty of opportunities to sabotage their war...

6.7

57 votes

6.7

57 votes

Rebel in Town

1956 · Movie · 78 min. · United States

Direction Alfred L. Werker

Cast John Payne · Ruth Roman · J. Carrol Naish · Ben Cooper

Plot Ex-Confederate Bedloe Mason and his four sons ride into a small Western town with robbery in mind. Hearing a suspicious "click," Wes Mason whirls and shoots dead a boy playing...

6.5

58 votes

6.5

58 votes

Shield for Murder

1954 · Movie · 82 min. · United States

Direction Howard W. Koch · Edmond O'Brien

Cast Edmond O'Brien · Marla English · John Agar · Emile Meyer

Plot A vicious cop kills a bookie's runner and steals $25,000 from the corpse. He then frames everyone in sight in order to keep to the money to buy a model...

6.5

73 votes

6.5

73 votes

Zorro (TV Series)

1957 · Series · 30 min. · United States

Direction Hollingsworth Morse · Charles Barton · Norman Foster · John Meredyth Lucas

Cast Guy Williams · Gene Sheldon · Henry Calvin · Don Diamond

Plot TV Series (1957-1959). 3 Seasons. 82 Episodes. The only son of Don Alejandro returns to 1820s California to fight the corrupt local military. He plays the foppish dandy by day...

6.5

934 votes

6.5

934 votes

Big House U.S.A

1955 · Movie · 83 min. · United States

Direction Howard W. Koch

Cast Broderick Crawford · Ralph Meeker · Reed Hadley · William Talman

Plot When young Danny Lambert runs away from camp in south-central Colorado, he becomes the object of a park-wide-search by his wealthy father Robertson Lambert. He is found by Jerry Barker...

6.4

115 votes

6.4

115 votes

Billy the Kid

1930 · Movie · 98 min. · United States

Direction King Vidor

Cast Johnny Mack Brown · Wallace Beery · Kay Johnson · Karl Dane

Plot In this version of the Billy the Kid legend, Billy, after shooting down land baron William Donovan's henchmen for killing Billy's boss, is hunted down and captured by his friend,...

6.4

40 votes

6.4

40 votes

Wanted: Dead or Alive (TV Series)

1958 · Series · 30 min. · United States

Direction Thomas Carr · Don McDougall · George Blair · Murray Golden

Cast Steve McQueen · James Coburn · Jack Tornek · Michael Landon

Plot TV Series (1958-1961). Wanted: Dead or Alive was an American Western television show which ran for three seasons from 1958 to 1961, starred unconventional-looking leading man Steve McQueen, and was...

6.4

70 votes

6.4

70 votes

On Our Merry Way

1948 · Movie · 108 min. · United States

Direction King Vidor · George Stevens · Leslie Fenton

Cast James Stewart · Henry Fonda · Burgess Meredith · Charles D. Brown

Plot Also released under the title A MIRACLE CAN HAPPEN, this three-part anthology features vignettes that are connected by a question from feature reporter Oliver Pease (Burgess Meredith): "Has a child...

5.7

524 votes

5.7

524 votes

The Black Sleep

1956 · Movie · 82 min. · United States

Direction Reginald Le Borg

Cast Basil Rathbone · Akim Tamiroff · Lon Chaney Jr. · John Carradine

Plot England, 1872. The night before he is to be hanged for a murder he did not commit, young Dr. Gordon Ramsey is visited in his cell by his old mentor,...

5.2

85 votes

5.2

85 votes

War Paint

1953 · Movie · 89 min. · United States

Direction Lesley Selander

Cast Robert Stack · Joan Taylor · Charles McGraw · Keith Larsen

Plot Lieut. Billings and his army patrol are ordered to deliver a new peace treaty to the Indian Commissioner, who is missing. They have nine days to get the treaty to...

5.1

76 votes

5.1

76 votes

Beachhead

1954 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Stuart Heisler

Cast Tony Curtis · Frank Lovejoy · Mary Murphy · Eduard Franz

Plot In World War II, after his platoon rendezvouses with a French spy and his beautiful daughter, U.S. Marine Tony Curtis must lead the whole bunch through a perilous jungle in...

4.9

179 votes

4.9

179 votes

Fort Yuma

1955 · Movie · 78 min. · United States

Direction Lesley Selander

Cast Peter Graves · John Hudson · Joan Vohs · Joan Taylor

Plot In this western, a white man kills an Apache Chief and starts a war. This time the Apaches choose an interesting way to exact their revenge: they will dress up...

4.7

87 votes

4.7

87 votes

13 Frightened Girls!

1963 · Movie · 89 min. · United States

Direction William Castle

Cast Murray Hamilton · Joyce Taylor · Hugh Marlowe · Khigh Dhiegh

Plot Thirteen girls in a Swiss boarding school, particularly one Candace Hull ("Kitten", "Candy"), stir up trouble on their vacation as they mess with the diplomatic affairs of their elders and...

4.0

44 votes

4.0

44 votes

King Dinosaur

1955 · Movie · 63 min. · United States

Direction Bert I. Gordon

Cast William Bryant · Wanda Curtis · Douglas Henderson · Patti Gallagher

Plot Blasting off to a newly discovered planet called Nova, which moved into our solar system, four explorers behold a fantastic adventure. The mysterious new planet has similar characteristics of Earth,...

4.0

49 votes

4.0

49 votes

Disneyland: Sammy, the Way-Out Seal: (TV)

1965 · Movie · 89 min. · United States

Direction Norman Tokar

Cast Jack Carson · Robert Culp · Patricia Barry

Plot Disney film about two young brothers who secretly bring home a seal from their summer vacation and try to hide it from Mom and Dad. Havoc ensues as Sammy's antics...

Not rated

Not rated

Convict Stage

1965 · Movie · 71 min. · United States

Direction Lesley Selander

Cast Harry Lauter · Don 'Red' Barry · Jodi Mitchell · Hanna Hertelendy

Plot Ben has been after the Sims brothers since they gunned down his sister. His wife, threatening to leave him, sees his chance to get her back and get his revenge...

Not rated

Not rated

Law of the Plainsman (TV Series)

1959 · Series · 30 min. · United States

Direction Paul Landres · William F. Claxton · John Peyser · Bobby Gordon

Cast Michael Ansara · Dayton Lummis · Nora Marlowe · Gina Gillespie

Plot Sam Buckhart was an Apache Indian who had saved the life of a U.S. Cavalry officer after an Indian ambush. When the officer died, he left Sam money that was...

Not rated

Not rated

The Sign of Zorro

1958 · Movie · 91 min. · United States

Direction Lewis R. Foster · Norman Foster

Cast Guy Williams · Henry Calvin · Gene Sheldon · Romney Brent

Plot In this film, edited from eight episodes of Disney's hit TV series, Don Diego returns home to find his town under the heel of a cruel dictator, Capitan Monastario. Diego...

Not rated

Not rated