Cinematography: Harold Rosson

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


Honky Tonk

1941 · Movie · 105 min. · United States

Direction Jack Conway

Cast Clark Gable · Lana Turner · Frank Morgan · Claire Trevor

Plot When gambler Candy Johnson comes to the small-town Yellow Creek he has set his mind on the narrow path to live an honest life. He falls in love with young...

6.1

162 votes

6.1

162 votes

Madam Satan

1930 · Movie · 116 min. · United States

Direction Cecil B. DeMille

Cast Kay Johnson · Reginald Denny · Lillian Roth · Roland Young

Plot Angela and Bob Brooks are an upper class couple. Unfortunately, Bob is an unfaithful husband. But Angela has a plan to win back her husband's affections. An elaborate masquerade ball...

6.0

68 votes

6.0

68 votes

Command Decision

1948 · Movie · 112 min. · United States

Direction Sam Wood

Cast Clark Gable · Walter Pidgeon · Van Johnson · Brian Donlevy

Plot Army generals struggle with the decision to prioritize bombing the German factories producing new jet fighters over the extremely high casualties the mission will cost.

6.0

126 votes

6.0

126 votes

The Hucksters

1947 · Movie · 115 min. · United States

Direction Jack Conway

Cast Clark Gable · Deborah Kerr · Sydney Greenstreet · Adolphe Menjou

Plot Victor Norman is just out of the service and looking for a job in advertising. By playing hard to get, he figures that he can get a good job and...

6.0

102 votes

6.0

102 votes

Lone Star

1952 · Movie · 94 min. · United States

Direction Vincent Sherman

Cast Clark Gable · Ava Gardner · Broderick Crawford · Lionel Barrymore

Plot Rip-roaring big star, big budget semi-historical story about cattle baron Devereaux Burke, who is enlisted by an aging Andrew Jackson to dissuade Sam Houston from establishing Texas as a republic....

6.0

235 votes

6.0

235 votes

A Yank at Oxford

1938 · Movie · 102 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Jack Conway

Cast Robert Taylor · Lionel Barrymore · Maureen O'Sullivan · Vivien Leigh

Plot Lee Sheridan, a young American comes to study at Oxford University, but is instantly disliked by the other students, because of his brash and big-headed attitude. After several scrapes with...

5.9

303 votes

5.9

303 votes

Mambo

1954 · Movie · 110 min. · United States

5.8

44 votes

5.8

44 votes

Strange Lady in Town

1955 · Movie · 112 min. · United States

5.8

83 votes

5.8

83 votes

That Mothers Might Live (S)

1938 · Movie · 10 min. · United States

Direction Fred Zinnemann

Cast Shepperd Strudwick · John Nesbitt · William Bailey · Rudolph Anders

Plot It's the mid-nineteenth century. As long as their have been hospitals, the joy that women have felt having just given birth in a hospital may be quickly marred by their...

5.8

25 votes

5.8

25 votes

Pete Kelly's Blues

1955 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction Jack Webb

Cast Jack Webb · Janet Leigh · Edmond O'Brien · Peggy Lee

Plot Pete Kelly's Blues is arguably the most stylish of director/star Jack Webb's theatrical features. Beginning with a brilliantly evocative pre-credits prologue, wherein we see how WWI vet Pete Kelly (Webb)...

5.7

110 votes

5.7

110 votes

Toward the Unknown

1956 · Movie · 115 min. · United States

Direction Mervyn LeRoy

Cast William Holden · Lloyd Nolan · Virginia Leith · Charles McGraw

Plot A dishonored pilot who is no longer allowed to fly attempts to clear his name.

5.7

37 votes

5.7

37 votes

To Please A Lady

1950 · Movie · 91 min. · United States

Direction Clarence Brown

Cast Clark Gable · Barbara Stanwyck · Adolphe Menjou · Will Geer

Plot Arrogant Mike Brannan (Clark Gable) is a famous driver of midget race cars and is the type of man crowds love to hate. He earned his bad-boy image after he...

5.5

145 votes

5.5

145 votes

Living in a Big Way

1947 · Movie · 104 min. · United States

Direction Gregory La Cava

Cast Gene Kelly · Marie McDonald · Charles Winninger · Phyllis Thaxter

Plot Leo Gogarty marries Margaud Morgan after a whirlwind romance just before shipping out to war. When he returns he is surprised to discover not only that his bride is not...

5.4

32 votes

5.4

32 votes

Flight Command

1940 · Movie · 116 min. · United States

Direction Frank Borzage

Cast Robert Taylor · Ruth Hussey · Walter Pidgeon · Paul Kelly

Plot Ensign Alan Drake is assigned to the elite "Hell Cat" squadron of Navy fliers based in San Diego, despite being relatively inexperienced. Getting off on bad footing by ruining the...

5.3

22 votes

5.3

22 votes

Love Is Better Than Ever

1952 · Movie · 81 min. · United States

Direction Stanley Donen

Cast Larry Parks · Elizabeth Taylor · Josephine Hutchinson · Tom Tully

Plot The dancing teacher Anastasia falls in love with the smart theatre agent Jud. He likes her, too, but does not want to give up his solo life at all. Thus...

4.4

39 votes

4.4

39 votes

Hell Below

1933 · Movie · 101 min. · United States

Direction Jack Conway

Cast Robert Montgomery · Walter Huston · Madge Evans · Jimmy Durante

Plot On leave in Italy, Lt. Tommy Knowlton falls in love with Jean Standish, who's not only married, but is the daughter of his submarine's commander. Friction between the two officers...

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As You Like It

1936 · Movie · 96 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Paul Czinner

Cast Elisabeth Bergner · Henry Ainley · Felix Aylmer · Laurence Olivier

Plot A duke usurps his brother's land and power, banishing him and his retinue into the forest of Arden. The banished duke's daughter, Rosalind, remains with her cousin Celia. She has...

Not rated

Not rated

The Case of Lena Smith

1929 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

Direction Josef von Sternberg

Cast Esther Ralston · Gustav von Seyffertitz · James Hall · Emily Fitzroy

Plot In late 19th century Vienna, Lena Smith, a naive peasant girl from Hungary, has a child by a corrupt young cavalry officer, and goes to work his house as a...

Not rated

Not rated

Men Call It Love

1931 · Movie · 72 min. · United States

Direction Edgar Selwyn

Cast Adolphe Menjou · Leila Hyams · Norman Foster · Mary Duncan

Plot A well-off bachelor finds himself at a loss for what to do when a married woman comes on to him while he's thoroughly involved with someone else's wife.

Not rated

Not rated

Dr. Kildare Goes Home

1940 · Movie · 79 min. · United States

Direction Harold S. Bucquet

Cast Lew Ayres · Lionel Barrymore · Laraine Day · Samuel S. Hinds

Plot Dr. James Kildare has just completed his internship at Blair General Hospital and is assigned to work with his mentor, Dr. Leonard Gillespie. But fearing for the health of his...

Not rated

Not rated