Cinematography: Joseph MacDonald
The best movies, series, and documentaries with cinematography by Joseph MacDonald. Explore visually stunning titles that highlight an exceptional filmmaking.
Titles found: 70
My Darling Clementine
1946 · Movie · 97 min. · United States
Direction John Ford
Cast Henry Fonda · Linda Darnell · Victor Mature · Walter Brennan
Synopsis In My Darling Clementine (1946), Wyatt Earp becomes the marshal of Tombstone after his brother is killed in a cattle dispute. Determined to bring justice, he forms an uneasy alliance with Doc Holliday, a troubled gambler and gunslinger. As tensions...
8.0
8K votes
8.0
8K votes
Yellow Sky
1948 · Movie · 98 min. · United States
Direction William A. Wellman
Cast Gregory Peck · Anne Baxter · Richard Widmark · Robert Arthur
Synopsis In 1867, a gang led by James “Stretch” Dawson robs a bank and flees into the desert. Out of water, the outlaws come upon a ghost town called Yellow Sky and its only residents, a hostile young woman named Mike...
7.5
2K votes
7.5
2K votes
¡Viva Zapata!
1952 · Movie · 113 min. · United States
Direction Elia Kazan
Cast Marlon Brando · Anthony Quinn · Jean Peters · Joseph Wiseman
Synopsis Emiliano Zapata is a Mexican peon whose tribal land is stolen under the corrupt administration of Porfirio Díaz. Seeking justice, he and his fellow villagers join the revolutionaries under Madero. Zapata rises to the rank of General in the rebel...
7.5
5K votes
7.5
5K votes
Pickup on South Street
1953 · Movie · 80 min. · United States
Direction Samuel Fuller
Cast Richard Widmark · Jean Peters · Thelma Ritter · Richard Kiley
Synopsis While on the subway to deliver a piece of film she believes contains corporate secrets, Candy's wallet is stolen by Skip McCoy. The film actually contains government secrets on their way to "the Commies", and Candy has been under surveillance...
7.4
3K votes
7.4
3K votes
The Young Lions
1958 · Movie · 167 min. · United States
Direction Edward Dmytryk
Cast Marlon Brando · Montgomery Clift · Dean Martin · Maximilian Schell
Synopsis The Young Lions (1958) follows the intertwined lives of three men during World War II. Christian Diestl, a disillusioned German soldier, grapples with the horrors of war. Michael Whiteacre, an American Broadway producer, is drafted and struggles with duty and...
7.2
6K votes
7.2
6K votes
Call Northside 777
1948 · Movie · 111 min. · United States
Direction Henry Hathaway
Cast James Stewart · Richard Conte · Lee J. Cobb · Helen Walker
Synopsis In 1932, a cop is killed and Frank Wiecek sentenced to life. Eleven years later, a newspaper ad by Frank's mother leads Chicago reporter P.J. O'Neal to look into the case. For some time, O'Neal continues to believe Frank guilty....
7.2
2K votes
7.2
2K votes
A Hatful of Rain
1957 · Movie · 109 min. · United States
Direction Fred Zinnemann
Cast Anthony Franciosa · Eva Marie Saint · Don Murray · Lloyd Nolan
Synopsis A Korean War veteran's morphine addiction wreaks havoc upon his family.
7.2
320 votes
7.2
320 votes
Panic in the Streets
1950 · Movie · 93 min. · United States
Direction Elia Kazan
Cast Richard Widmark · Paul Douglas · Jack Palance · Barbara Bel Geddes
Synopsis A medical examiner discovers that an innocent shooting victim in a robbery died of bubonic plague. With only 48 hours to find the killer, who is now a ticking time bomb threatening the entire city, a grisly manhunt through the...
7.1
2K votes
7.1
2K votes
Down to the Sea in Ships
1949 · Movie · 120 min. · United States
Direction Henry Hathaway
Cast Richard Widmark · Lionel Barrymore · Dean Stockwell · Paul Harvey
7.1
255 votes
7.1
255 votes
Niagara
1953 · Movie · 89 min. · United States
Direction Henry Hathaway
Cast Marilyn Monroe · Joseph Cotten · Jean Peters · Denis O'Dea
Synopsis George and Rose Loomis are honeymooning at a Niagara Falls motel. She plots with Ted Patrick to do him in, but all does not go smoothly. For one thing, after Loomis is reported missing Polly Cutler spies him at the...
7.0
5K votes
7.0
5K votes
Bigger than Life
1956 · Movie · 95 min. · United States
Direction Nicholas Ray
Cast James Mason · Barbara Rush · Walter Matthau · Robert F. Simon
Synopsis James Mason plays Ed Avery, a small-town, '50s schoolteacher working two jobs and suffering debilitating illness who finds a cure - a new experimental wonder drug that seems to take away his pain and appears to free him from the...
7.0
1K votes
7.0
1K votes
Warlock
1959 · Movie · 121 min. · United States
Direction Edward Dmytryk
Cast Richard Widmark · Henry Fonda · Anthony Quinn · Dorothy Malone
Synopsis Warlock offers us a mean-spirited, mercenary Henry Fonda and an honest, peaceloving Richard Widmark. A Wyatt Earp-like frontier marshal, Fonda agrees to protect the small town of Warlock from an outlaw gang, but only if he's permitted to plunder the...
7.0
4K votes
7.0
4K votes
Broken Lance
1954 · Movie · 96 min. · United States
Direction Edward Dmytryk
Cast Spencer Tracy · Robert Wagner · Jean Peters · Richard Widmark
Synopsis Edward Dmytryk directed this literate Western, a remake of HOUSE OF STRANGERS, which is itself loosely based on Shakespeare's KING LEAR. Tyrannical cattle baron Matt Devereaux (Spencer Tracy) has raised his older sons harshly, leaving them neglected and bitter, particularly...
6.9
1K votes
6.9
1K votes
The Dark Corner
1946 · Movie · 99 min. · United States
Direction Henry Hathaway
Cast Lucille Ball · Clifton Webb · William Bendix · Mark Stevens
Synopsis Private investigator Bradford Galt has moved to New York from San Fransisco after serving a jail term on account of his lawyer partner Tony Jardine. When he finds someone is tailing - and possibly trying to kill him, Galt believes...
6.9
656 votes
6.9
656 votes
O. Henry's Full House
1952 · Movie · 117 min. · United States
Direction Henry Hathaway · Howard Hawks · Henry King · Henry Koster
Cast Fred Allen · Anne Baxter · Jeanne Crain · Farley Granger
Synopsis This anthology film assembles five respected directors and a top-notch cast to bring a handful of stories by the great American author O. Henry to the screen. In The Cop and the Anthem, a tramp named Soapy (Charles Laughton) tries...
6.8
477 votes
6.8
477 votes
The Street with No Name
1948 · Movie · 91 min. · United States
Direction William Keighley
Cast Mark Stevens · Richard Widmark · Lloyd Nolan · Barbara Lawrence
Synopsis After two gang-related killings in "Center City," a suspect (who was framed) is arrested, released on bail...and murdered. Inspector Briggs of the FBI recruits a young agent, Gene Cordell, to go undercover in the shadowy Skid Row area (alias George...
6.8
518 votes
6.8
518 votes
Rio Conchos
1964 · Movie · 107 min. · United States
Direction Gordon Douglas
Cast Richard Boone · Stuart Whitman · Anthony Franciosa · Jim Brown
Synopsis Two Army officers, an alcoholic ex-Confederate soldier and a womanizing Mexican travel to Mexico on a secret mission to prevent a megalomaniacal ex-Confederate colonel from selling a cache of stolen rifles to a band of murderous Apaches.
6.8
896 votes
6.8
896 votes
Walk on the Wild Side
1962 · Movie · 114 min. · United States
Direction Edward Dmytryk
Cast Laurence Harvey · Capucine · Jane Fonda · Anne Baxter
Synopsis At the Doll House, a 1930's New Orleans bordello, Hallie is the main attraction both for clients and for Jo, the madame. Her comfortable if tedious life is disrupted by the arrival in town of Dove Linkhorn, her true love...
6.8
743 votes
6.8
743 votes
House of Bamboo
1955 · Movie · 102 min. · United States
Direction Samuel Fuller
Cast Robert Stack · Robert Ryan · Shirley Yamaguchi · Brad Dexter
Synopsis Sandy Dawson had assembled a platton of ex-army thugs to run panchinko parlours while pulling off bloody heists and armed robbery. The murder of a friend brings Eddie Spanier into the group, along with his friend's Japanese wife.
6.8
1K votes
6.8
1K votes
The Sand Pebbles
1966 · Movie · 179 min. · United States
Direction Robert Wise
Cast Steve McQueen · Richard Attenborough · Candice Bergen · Richard Crenna
Synopsis Engineer Jake Holman arrives aboard the gunboat U.S.S. San Pablo, assigned to patrol a tributary of the Yangtze in the middle of exploited and revolution-torn 1926 China. His iconoclasm and cynical nature soon clash with the "rice-bowl" system which runs...
6.8
2K votes
6.8
2K votes