Cinematography: Arthur C. Miller

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


How Green Was My Valley

1941 · Movie · 118 min. · United States

Direction John Ford

Cast Walter Pidgeon · Maureen O'Hara · Roddy McDowall · Donald Crisp

Plot This story of a Welsh valley's turn-of-the-century descent from pristine paradise to despoiled coal mining region, is told in flashback form by Huw Morgan, an old man who has decided...

8.2

11K votes

8.2

11K votes

The Ox-Bow Incident

1942 · Movie · 72 min. · United States

Direction William A. Wellman

Cast Henry Fonda · Dana Andrews · Mary Beth Hughes · Anthony Quinn

Plot In Nevada in 1885, two worn out cowboys, Gil (Henry Fonda) and Art (Harry Morgan), ride into Darby’s Saloon and Hotel looking for a drink. Shortly after their arrival, they...

8.0

4K votes

8.0

4K votes

A Letter to Three Wives

1949 · Movie · 103 min. · United States

Direction Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Cast Kirk Douglas · Ann Sothern · Linda Darnell · Paul Douglas

Plot Three wives in spats with their husbands receive a note from a former friend that she has run off with one of their spouses. Trapped on a boat for a...

7.7

3K votes

7.7

3K votes

The Gunfighter

1950 · Movie · 84 min. · United States

Direction Henry King

Cast Gregory Peck · Helen Westcott · Millard Mitchell · Jean Parker

Plot Aging gunslinger, Jimmy Ringo, rides into a strange town where he's immediately recognized. As kids gather at the saloon windows to glimpse the killer and townsfolk gossip about his exploits,...

7.5

2K votes

7.5

2K votes

The Razor's Edge

1946 · Movie · 145 min. · United States

Direction Edmund Goulding

Cast Tyrone Power · Gene Tierney · John Payne · Anne Baxter

Plot Well-to-do Chicagoan, Larry Darrell, breaks off his engagement to Isabel and travels the world seeking enlightenment, eventually finding his guru India. Isabel marries Gray, and following the crash of 1929,...

7.4

2K votes

7.4

2K votes

Young Mr. Lincoln

1939 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction John Ford

Cast Henry Fonda · Alice Brady · Marjorie Weaver · Arleen Whelan

Plot John Ford's film on the early career of Abraham Lincoln, which centers on an apocryphal murder trial, impressed even the great Sergei Eisenstein. This biography provides a glimpse into the...

7.3

2K votes

7.3

2K votes

Tobacco Road

1941 · Movie · 84 min. · United States

7.1

1K votes

7.1

1K votes

The Prowler

1951 · Movie · 92 min. · United States

Direction Joseph Losey

Cast Van Heflin · Evelyn Keyes · John Maxwell · Katherine Warren

Plot Webb Garwood is a cynical policeman who believes that success comes from lucky breaks. Responding to a prowler complaint at the home of Susan Gilvray, he is immediately attracted to...

7.0

746 votes

7.0

746 votes

Man Hunt

1941 · Movie · 105 min. · United States

Direction Fritz Lang

Cast Walter Pidgeon · Joan Bennett · George Sanders · Roddy McDowall

Plot British hunter Thorndike vacationing in Bavaria has Hitler in his gunsight. He is captured, beaten, left for dead, and escapes back to London where he is hounded by German agents...

7.0

1K votes

7.0

1K votes

The Keys of the Kingdom

1944 · Movie · 137 min. · United States

Direction John M. Stahl

Cast Gregory Peck · Vincent Price · Thomas Mitchell · Rose Stradner

Plot A young priest, Father Chisholm is sent to China to establish a Catholic parish among the non-Christian Chinese. While his boyhood friend, also a priest, flourishes in his calling as...

7.0

653 votes

7.0

653 votes

The Mark of Zorro

1940 · Movie · 93 min. · United States

Direction Rouben Mamoulian

Cast Tyrone Power · Linda Darnell · Basil Rathbone · Gale Sondergaard

Plot In Madrid, the talented aristocratic military swordsman and rider Diego Vega returns to the Mexican California to reunite with his father, the Alcalde Don Alejandro Vega, and his mother. When...

7.0

1K votes

7.0

1K votes

Gentleman's Agreement

1947 · Movie · 118 min. · United States

Direction Elia Kazan

Cast Gregory Peck · Dorothy McGuire · John Garfield · Celeste Holm

Plot Gregory Peck is an investigative journalist assigned to write about anti-Semitism. Frustrated with cold facts and statistics, he decides to get an insider's view by telling people he is Jewish....

6.8

1K votes

6.8

1K votes

Johnny Apollo

1940 · Movie · 94 min. · United States

Direction Henry Hathaway

Cast Tyrone Power · Dorothy Lamour · Edward Arnold · Lloyd Nolan

Plot The son of a jailed Wall Street broker turns to crime to pay for his father's release.

6.8

221 votes

6.8

221 votes

A Royal Scandal

1945 · Movie · 94 min. · United States

Direction Otto Preminger · Ernst Lubitsch

Cast Tallulah Bankhead · Charles Coburn · Anne Baxter · William Eythe

Plot A Royal Scandal dwells upon a fictional incident in the life of Russia's Catherine the Great.

6.7

329 votes

6.7

329 votes

Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake

1942 · Movie · 98 min. · United States

Direction John Cromwell

Cast Tyrone Power · Gene Tierney · George Sanders · Frances Farmer

Plot Cheated out of his estate by his sadistic uncle, young Benjamin Blake goes to the South Seas to make his fortune so he can return to claim his birthright.

6.7

379 votes

6.7

379 votes

Dragonwyck

1946 · Movie · 103 min. · United States

Direction Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Cast Gene Tierney · Walter Huston · Vincent Price · Glenn Langan

Plot When Miranda Wells was invited to live with her dark and charming distant cousin Nicholas Van Ryan in order to school his daughter at Dragonwyyck manor she was a naive...

6.7

1K votes

6.7

1K votes

Whirlpool

1949 · Movie · 97 min. · United States

Direction Otto Preminger

Cast Gene Tierney · Richard Conte · José Ferrer · Charles Bickford

Plot A woman secretly suffering from kleptomania is hypnotized in an effort to cure her condition. Soon afterwards, she is found at the scene of a murder with no memory of...

6.6

799 votes

6.6

799 votes

The Song of Bernadette

1943 · Movie · 156 min. · United States

Direction Henry King

Cast Jennifer Jones · William Eythe · Charles Bickford · Vincent Price

Plot In 1858 France, Bernadette, an adolescent peasant girl, has a vision of "a beautiful lady" in the city dump. She never claims it to be anything other than this, but...

6.5

920 votes

6.5

920 votes

The Walls of Jericho

1948 · Movie · 106 min. · United States

Direction John M. Stahl

Cast Cornel Wilde · Linda Darnell · Anne Baxter · Kirk Douglas

Plot After County Attorney Dave Connors helps Julian Norman with her shiftless father, Jefferson Norman, she leaves Jericho, Kansas to college to study for a law degree.A few years later, Algeria...

6.4

124 votes

6.4

124 votes

Anna and the King of Siam

1946 · Movie · 128 min. · United States

Direction John Cromwell

Cast Irene Dunne · Rex Harrison · Linda Darnell · Gale Sondergaard

Plot ad feedbackIn 1862, young English widow Anna Owens accepts the job of teaching the royal children of Siam. On her arrival in Bangkok, culture clash is immediate. The king respects...

6.4

549 votes

6.4

549 votes