Cinematography: Harry J. Wild

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


Pitfall

1948 · Movie · 86 min. · United States

Direction André De Toth

Cast Dick Powell · Lizabeth Scott · Jane Wyatt · Raymond Burr

Plot John Forbes is a family man who's tired of the 9 to 5 humdrum of his job an insurance company executive. Life gets a little more exciting for him when...

7.0

302 votes

7.0

302 votes

The Twilight Zone: Third from the Sun (TV)

1959 · Movie · 25 min. · United States

Direction Richard L. Bare

Cast Fritz Weaver · Edward Andrews · Joe Maross · Denise Alexander

Plot William Sturka works as a hydrogen specialist in a highly secure plant. Conditions are tense and there are constant rumors of war. The latest is that it's going to happen...

6.9

188 votes

6.9

188 votes

Murder, My Sweet

1944 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction Edward Dmytryk

Cast Dick Powell · Claire Trevor · Anne Shirley · Otto Kruger

Plot Detective Philip Marlowe''s search for a two-timing woman leads him to blackmail and murder.

6.9

1K votes

6.9

1K votes

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

1953 · Movie · 91 min. · United States

Direction Howard Hawks

Cast Marilyn Monroe · Jane Russell · Charles Coburn · Tommy Noonan

Plot Showgirls Lorelei Lee and Dorothy Shaw travel to Paris, pursued by a private detective hired by the suspicious father of Lorelei's fiancé, as well as a rich, enamored old man...

6.8

7K votes

6.8

7K votes

The Woman on the Beach

1947 · Movie · 71 min. · United States

Direction Jean Renoir

Cast Joan Bennett · Robert Ryan · Charles Bickford · Nan Leslie

Plot After recuperation from physical and psychological trauma during the war, Robert Ryan finds himself stationed at a sleepy Coast Guard outpost on the California coast. He's restless and diffident about...

6.8

1K votes

6.8

1K votes

They Won't Believe Me

1947 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction Irving Pichel

Cast Susan Hayward · Robert Young · Jane Greer · Rita Johnson

Plot On trial for murder, Larry Ballantyne regurgitates an unbelievable story. He recounts how he philanders to other women while his rich loving wife Gretta tries to keep him in line....

6.7

235 votes

6.7

235 votes

The Threat

1949 · Movie · 66 min. · United States

Direction Felix E. Feist

Cast Michael O'Shea · Virginia Grey · Charles McGraw · Julie Bishop

Plot At Folsom Prison, several inmates escape...including killer Arnold Kluger, who swore revenge on the detective and district attorney who convicted him. Despite precautions, the two men are soon in Kluger's...

6.6

51 votes

6.6

51 votes

Macao

1952 · Movie · 81 min. · United States

Direction Josef von Sternberg

Cast Robert Mitchum · Jane Russell · William Bendix · Thomas Gomez

Plot In the anything-goes Macao, Nick Cochran is mistaken for a U.S. agent who is trying to arrest mobster Halloran, so Halloran makes the first move against him. A pretty nightclub...

6.6

628 votes

6.6

628 votes

Walk Softly, Stranger

1950 · Movie · 81 min. · United States

Direction Robert Stevenson

Cast Joseph Cotten · Alida Valli · Spring Byington · Paul Stewart

Plot A charming, smooth-talking gambler calling himself Chris Hale arrives in Ashton, home of the Corelli shoe factory. Claiming to have lived there as a boy, he soon ingratiates himself with...

6.5

226 votes

6.5

226 votes

Wanted: Dead or Alive (TV Series)

1958 · Series · 30 min. · United States

Direction Thomas Carr · Don McDougall · George Blair · Murray Golden

Cast Steve McQueen · James Coburn · Jack Tornek · Michael Landon

Plot TV Series (1958-1961). Wanted: Dead or Alive was an American Western television show which ran for three seasons from 1958 to 1961, starred unconventional-looking leading man Steve McQueen, and was...

6.4

70 votes

6.4

70 votes

Easy Living

1949 · Movie · 77 min. · United States

Direction Jacques Tourneur

Cast Victor Mature · Lucille Ball · Lizabeth Scott · Sonny Tufts

Plot Pete Wilson is on top. He is the highest paid professional football player in the league. He has seen other players come and go, but he was MVP last year...

6.4

153 votes

6.4

153 votes

The Big Steal

1949 · Movie · 71 min. · United States

Direction Don Siegel

Cast Robert Mitchum · Jane Greer · William Bendix · Ramon Novarro

Plot Accused of robbing the army payroll, Lt. Duke Halliday heads to Mexico to clear his name with the police on his tail. He pursues Jim Fiske, the man who actually...

6.3

709 votes

6.3

709 votes

His Kind of Woman

1951 · Movie · 120 min. · United States

Direction John Farrow · Richard Fleischer

Cast Robert Mitchum · Jane Russell · Vincent Price · Tim Holt

Plot Nick Ferraro, deported crime boss, needs to re-enter the USA. His plan involves "honest" gambler Dan Milner, who's subjected to a series of "misfortunes," then bribed to take a trip...

6.2

419 votes

6.2

419 votes

My Forbidden Past

1951 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

Direction Robert Stevenson

Cast Robert Mitchum · Ava Gardner · Melvyn Douglas · Lucile Watson

Plot Barbara Beaurevel lives with her aunt and cousin in New Orleans in the late 1800's. In love with Mark Lucas, a research doctor at Tulane University, her plans to marry...

6.2

289 votes

6.2

289 votes

Cornered

1945 · Movie · 102 min. · United States

Direction Edward Dmytryk

Cast Dick Powell · Walter Slezak · Micheline Cheirel · Nina Vale

Plot On being demobbed at the end of the war, Canadian flyer Laurence Gerard returns to France to discover who ordered the killing of a group of Resistence fighters including his...

6.1

248 votes

6.1

248 votes

Nocturne

1946 · Movie · 87 min. · United States

Direction Edwin L. Marin

Cast George Raft · Lynn Bari · Virginia Huston · Joseph Pevney

Plot Police detective Joe Warner investigates the shooting of womanizing composer Keith Vincent. Evidence points to suicide and that is the official verdict, but Joe doesn't buy it and obsessively keeps...

6.1

137 votes

6.1

137 votes

Till the End of Time

1946 · Movie · 105 min. · United States

Direction Edward Dmytryk

Cast Dorothy McGuire · Guy Madison · Robert Mitchum · Bill Williams

Plot Three former GIs have a hard time readjusting to civilian life. Perry can't deal with the loss of the use of his legs. William is in trouble with bad debts....

6.1

176 votes

6.1

176 votes

Guy de Maupassant's Mademoiselle Fifi

1944 · Movie · 69 min. · United States

Direction Robert Wise

Cast Simone Simon · John Emery · Kurt Kreuger · Alan Napier

Plot In occupied France during the Franco-Prussian War, a young French laundress shares a coach ride with several of her condescending social superiors. But when a Prussian officer holds the coach...

6.1

85 votes

6.1

85 votes

Johnny Angel

1945 · Movie · 79 min. · United States

Direction Edwin L. Marin

Cast George Raft · Claire Trevor · Signe Hasso · Lowell Gilmore

Plot Johnny Angel sets out to learn who hijacked a gold shipment from his father's ship and killed his father, the captain. He is joined in the search by Paulette, whose...

6.0

71 votes

6.0

71 votes

Gambling House

1950 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

Direction Ted Tetzlaff

Cast Victor Mature · Terry Moore · William Bendix · Zachary Charles

Plot Small time racketeer Marc Fury agrees to plead self-defense for a murder committed by gang boss Joe Farrow in exchange for Farrow's I.O.U. for $50,000. He is acquitted but is...

5.8

71 votes

5.8

71 votes