Cinematography: Hal Mohr

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


The Wedding March

1928 · Movie · 113 min. · United States

Direction Erich von Stroheim

Cast Erich von Stroheim · Fay Wray · Matthew Betz · George Fawcett

Plot A young impoverished aristocrat falls in love with an inn-keepers daughter, but has to marry money.

7.5

434 votes

7.5

434 votes

Underworld U.S.A.

1961 · Movie · 99 min. · United States

Direction Samuel Fuller

Cast Cliff Robertson · Dolores Dorn · Beatrice Kay · Paul Dubov

Plot Fourteen-year-old Tolly Devlin sees four hoods beat his father to death. Twenty years later, the killers have risen to the top of the crime syndicate and Tolly has a plan...

7.4

1K votes

7.4

1K votes

Captain Blood

1935 · Movie · 114 min. · United States

Direction Michael Curtiz

Cast Errol Flynn · Olivia de Havilland · Lionel Atwill · Basil Rathbone

Plot The quintessential swashbuckler. Irsih doctor Peter Blood is wrongly sentenced to deportation and slavery to the Caribbean. There he amuses himself with insults at DE Havilland. He plans an escape...

7.3

8K votes

7.3

8K votes

Rancho Notorious

1952 · Movie · 89 min. · United States

Direction Fritz Lang

Cast Marlene Dietrich · Arthur Kennedy · Mel Ferrer · Gloria Henry

Plot A western based on the story "Gunsight Whitman" by Silvia Richards. Vern Haskell, a nice rancher, seeks out to avenge his fiancé's death when she is killed during a robbery....

7.3

3K votes

7.3

3K votes

Another Part of the Forest

1948 · Movie · 107 min. · United States

Direction Michael Gordon

Cast Fredric March · Dan Duryea · Edmond O'Brien · Ann Blyth

Plot This 'prequel' to The Little Foxes tells how the ruthless members of the old-South Hubbard family got that way

7.3

78 votes

7.3

78 votes

Destry Rides Again

1939 · Movie · 94 min. · United States

Direction George Marshall

Cast Marlene Dietrich · James Stewart · Irene Hervey · Mischa Auer

Plot Kent, the unscrupulous boss of Bottleneck has Sheriff Keogh killed when he asks one too many questions about a rigged poker game that gives Kent a stranglehold over the local...

7.1

1K votes

7.1

1K votes

State Fair

1933 · Movie · 97 min. · United States

Direction Henry King

Cast Janet Gaynor · Will Rogers · Lew Ayres · Sally Eilers

Plot Stong's 1932 novel is the basis for the popular film with Pat Boone and Ann-Margret and the recent Rodgers and Hammerstein Broadway musical. The plot follows the adventures of the...

6.9

66 votes

6.9

66 votes

The Last Performance

1927 · Movie · 60 min. · United States

Direction Pál Fejös

Cast Conrad Veidt · Mary Philbin · Leslie Fenton · Fred MacKaye

Plot A middle-aged magician is in love with his beautiful young assistant. She, on the other hand, is in love with the magician's young protege, who turns out to be a...

6.8

58 votes

6.8

58 votes

The Lineup

1958 · Movie · 86 min. · United States

Direction Don Siegel

Cast Eli Wallach · Robert Keith · Richard Jaeckel · Mary LaRoche

Plot An international drug-smuggling racket plants heroin on unsuspecting American tourists traveling in Asia, so that the dope traffic can pass through customs undetected. Two psychopathic killers (Eli Wallach and Robert...

6.8

576 votes

6.8

576 votes

Sparrows

1926 · Movie · 84 min. · United States

Direction William Beaudine

Cast Mary Pickford · Roy Stewart · Mary Louise Miller · Gustav von Seyffertitz

Plot Molly, the eldest child at a baby farm hidden deep in a swamp, must rescue the others when their cruel master decides that one of them will be disposed of.

6.6

63 votes

6.6

63 votes

The Lost Moment

1947 · Movie · 89 min. · United States

Direction Martin Gabel

Cast Robert Cummings · Susan Hayward · Agnes Moorehead · Joan Lorring

Plot In a long flashback, a New York publisher is in Venice pursuing the lost love letters of an early-19th-century poet, Jeffrey Ashton, who disappeared mysteriously. Using a false name, Lewis...

6.6

175 votes

6.6

175 votes

Woman on the Run

1950 · Movie · 77 min. · United States

Direction Norman Foster

Cast Ann Sheridan · Dennis O'Keefe · Robert Keith · John Qualen

Plot Frank Johnson, sole witness to a gangland murder, goes into hiding and is trailed by Police Inspector Ferris, on the theory that Frank is trying to escape from possible retaliation....

6.6

434 votes

6.6

434 votes

Bullets or Ballots

1936 · Movie · 82 min. · United States

Direction William Keighley

Cast Edward G. Robinson · Joan Blondell · Barton MacLane · Humphrey Bogart

Plot After he's thrown off the force for hitting his superior, ex-cop Edward G. Robinson is hired as an "advisor" by city crime boss Barton MacLane, but gunman Humphrey Bogart doesn't...

6.6

463 votes

6.6

463 votes

Under Pressure

1935 · Movie · 72 min. · United States

Direction Raoul Walsh

Cast Edmund Lowe · Victor McLaglen · Florence Rice · Marjorie Rambeau

Plot Two members of a crew of "sandhogs", men who work on an underwater tunnel project, battle each other over the same woman and a rival team of sandhogs to see...

6.6

46 votes

6.6

46 votes

Rookie of the Year (TV)

1955 · Movie · 30 min. · United States

Direction John Ford

Cast John Wayne · Vera Miles · Ward Bond · James Gleason

Plot A small town sports writer attending the World Series recognizes a young ballplayer as the son of former baseball hero who was banned for throwing a game.

6.4

35 votes

6.4

35 votes

Cheers for Miss Bishop

1941 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction Tay Garnett

Cast Martha Scott · William Gargan · Edmund Gwenn · Sterling Holloway

Plot Nostalgic, poignant story of a schoolteacher in a midwestern town who devotes her life to teaching. A warm reassuring film in the tradition of "Miss Dove" and "Mr. Chips".

6.4

52 votes

6.4

52 votes

The Wild One

1953 · Movie · 79 min. · United States

6.4

3K votes

6.4

3K votes

An Act of Murder

1948 · Movie · 91 min. · United States

Direction Michael Gordon

Cast Fredric March · Edmond O'Brien · Florence Eldridge · Geraldine Brooks

Plot A hard-line judge is tempted toward mercy-killing by his wife's terminal cancer.

6.4

40 votes

6.4

40 votes

Watch on the Rhine

1943 · Movie · 114 min. · United States

Direction Herman Shumlin

Cast Bette Davis · Paul Lukas · Geraldine Fitzgerald · Lucile Watson

Plot Sara and Kurt Muller and their three children are returning to her mother's home in Washington DC after 18 years in Europe. A Romanian Count living there discovers Kurt's attache...

6.4

199 votes

6.4

199 votes

Phantom Of The Opera

1943 · Movie · 92 min. · United States

Direction Arthur Lubin

Cast Nelson Eddy · Susanna Foster · Claude Rains · Edgar Barrier

Plot Pit violinist Claudin hopelessly loves rising operatic soprano Christine Dubois (as do baritone Anatole and police inspector Raoul) and secretly aids her career. But Claudin loses both his touch and...

6.3

1K votes

6.3

1K votes