Cinematography: Joseph MacDonald

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


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

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