Cinematography: Henry Gerrard

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


Beggars of Life

1928 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction William A. Wellman

Cast Wallace Beery · Louise Brooks · Richard Arlen · Bob Perry

Synopsis After killing her treacherous step-father, a girl tries to escape the country with a young vagabond. She dresses as a boy, they hop freight trains, quarrel with a group of hobos, and steal a car in their attempt to escape...

7.2

145 votes

7.2

145 votes

Little Women

1933 · Movie · 115 min. · United States

Direction George Cukor

Cast Katharine Hepburn · Joan Bennett · Paul Lukas · Frances Dee

Synopsis Josephine March and her three sisters Margaret, Amy, and Beth grow up with their mother's guidance while their father fights in the American Civil War (1861 to 1865). The vivacious quartet are very close and happy despite limited means. Laurie...

7.0

2K votes

7.0

2K votes

The Most Dangerous Game

1932 · Movie · 63 min. · United States

Direction Irving Pichel · Ernest B. Schoedsack

Cast Joel McCrea · Fay Wray · Leslie Banks · Robert Armstrong

Synopsis After a shipwreck, a big game hunter washes up on a remote island only to discover that its owner, also a hunter, has tired of tracking animals and has developed a taste for a new prey...humans. Co-Director Schoedsack performed the...

6.9

2K votes

6.9

2K votes

Of Human Bondage

1934 · Movie · 83 min. · United States

Direction John Cromwell

Cast Leslie Howard · Bette Davis · Frances Dee · Kay Johnson

Synopsis The interior life of a natural-born introvert is a tricky thing to convey in any story medium, but perhaps nowhere more than in feature films. Fortunately for this 1934 version of Of Human Bondage (the first of three), the introverted...

6.8

1K votes

6.8

1K votes

Thunderbolt

1929 · Movie · 87 min. · United States

Direction Josef von Sternberg

Cast George Bancroft · Fay Wray · Richard Arlen · Tully Marshall

Synopsis A criminal known as Thunderbolt is imprisoned and facing execution. Into the next cell is placed Bob Morgan, an innocent man who has been framed and who is in love with Thunderbolt's girl, without knowing of their relationship. Thunderbolt hopes...

6.3

30 votes

6.3

30 votes

Penguin Pool Murder

1932 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

Direction George Archainbaud

Cast Edna May Oliver · Robert Armstrong · James Gleason · Mae Clarke

Synopsis The body of unscrupulous stockbroker Gerald Parker suddenly appears in the penguin tank at the aquarium. Naturally, suspicion falls on his wife and her boyfriend, who were present. Inspector Piper investigates with the unsolicited aid of teacher Hildegard Withers, a...

5.7

46 votes

5.7

46 votes

The Little Minister

1934 · Movie · 110 min. · United States

Direction Richard Wallace

Cast Katharine Hepburn · John Beal · Alan Hale · Donald Crisp

Synopsis In rural 1840's Scotland, Gavin Dishart arrives to become the new "little minister" of Thrums's Auld Licht church. He meets a mysterious young gypsy girl in the dens and to his horror Babbie draws him into her escape from the...

5.6

86 votes

5.6

86 votes

The Fountain

1934 · Movie · 83 min. · United States

Direction John Cromwell

Cast Ann Harding · Brian Aherne · Paul Lukas · Jean Hersholt

Synopsis Set during the first World War in neutral, but pro-German, Holland, Lewis Allison, an interned British officer, is paroled to the castle of Baron Von Leyden and finds living there, but now married to German officer Rupert Von Narwitz, his...

5.4

33 votes

5.4

33 votes

Fighting Caravans

1931 · Movie · 92 min. · United States

Direction Otto Brower · David Burton

Cast Gary Cooper · Lili Damita · Ernest Torrence · Tully Marshall

Synopsis A young frontier scout helps guide a freight wagon train across the country, fighting off Indians and evil traders, while his two crusty companions try and save him from falling in love.

5.4

210 votes

5.4

210 votes

Blind Adventure

1933 · Movie · 65 min. · United States

Direction Ernest B. Schoedsack

Cast Robert Armstrong · Helen Mack · Roland Young · Ralph Bellamy

Synopsis King Kong co-star Robert Armstrong plays Richard Bruce, an American in London who stumbles into the lair of a kidnap-blackmail gang. Playing his cards close to his vest, Bruce manages to get his hands on the "secret papers" that are...

5.2

53 votes

5.2

53 votes

Ladies of the Mob

1928 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

Direction William A. Wellman

Cast Clara Bow · Richard Arlen · Helen Lynch · Mary Alden

Synopsis A dead criminal's daughter falls in love with a small-time crook and tries to get him to reform before he winds up like her father.

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The Phantom of Crestwood

1932 · Movie · 76 min. · United States

Direction J. Walter Ruben

Cast Ricardo Cortez · Anita Louise · Karen Morley · Pauline Frederick

Synopsis Jenny Wren coerces banker Priam Andes to have a dinner party at his shorefront estate Crestwood, and instructs him to invite three other men, each of whom she plans to extort money from. Jenny plans to retire to Europe after...

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Safety in Numbers

1930 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

Direction Victor Schertzinger

Cast Charles 'Buddy' Rogers · Kathryn Crawford · Josephine Dunn · Carole Lombard

Synopsis A songwriter hires three chorus girls to show him the "underside" of big-city life.

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Man of Two Worlds

1934 · Movie · 92 min. · United States

Direction J. Walter Ruben

Cast Francis Lederer · Elissa Landi · Henry Stephenson · J. Farrell MacDonald

Synopsis A British explorer in the Arctic hires a local Eskimo as an assistant. The earnest but unsophisticated young man happens to see a photograph of the explorer's beautiful daughter and falls in love with her. Soon afterwards a medical emergency...

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Two White Arms

1932 · Movie · 91 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Fred Niblo

Cast Adolphe Menjou · Margaret Bannerman · Claud Allister · Jane Baxter

Synopsis A man in an unsatisfying marriage fakes amnesia in his sly pursuit of extramarital adventures.

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Not rated

The Man I Love

1929 · Movie · 74 min. · United States

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Honey

1930 · Movie · 75 min. · United States

Direction Wesley Ruggles

Cast Nancy Carroll · Harry Green · Lillian Roth · Richard 'Skeets' Gallagher

Synopsis A once-wealthy sister and brother rent out their Southern mansion and stay on as cook and butler.

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Not rated

Betrayal

1929 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

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