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