Cinematography: John Alton
The best movies, series, and documentaries with cinematography by John Alton. Explore visually stunning titles that highlight an exceptional filmmaking.
Singin' in the Rain
1952 · Movie · 102 min. · United States
Direction Stanley Donen · Gene Kelly
Cast Gene Kelly · Donald O´Connor · Debbie Reynolds · Jean Hagen
Plot Silent screen stars Don Lockwood and Lina Lamont face a crisis when the advent of talkies threatens to end their careers, until Don comes up with idea of adding songs...
8.1
47K votes
8.1
47K votes
The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg
1927 · Movie · 103 min. · United States
Direction Ernst Lubitsch
Cast Ramon Novarro · Norma Shearer · Jean Hersholt · Gustav von Seyffertitz
Plot Nephew and heir to the King of a small country, Karl Heinrich is taken to Heidelberg to study by his tutor, Dr. Jüttner. There he falls in love with Kathi,...
7.6
507 votes
7.6
507 votes
Elmer Gantry
1960 · Movie · 145 min. · United States
Direction Richard Brooks
Cast Burt Lancaster · Jean Simmons · Shirley Jones · Arthur Kennedy
Plot Elmer Gantry is a fast talking, hard drinking traveling salesman who always has a risqué story and a hip flask to entertain cronies and customers alike. He is immediately taken...
7.6
3K votes
7.6
3K votes
Tea and Sympathy
1956 · Movie · 123 min. · United States
Direction Vincente Minnelli
Cast Deborah Kerr · John Kerr · Leif Erickson · Edward Andrews
7.2
786 votes
7.2
786 votes
Designing Woman
1957 · Movie · 118 min. · United States
Direction Vincente Minnelli
Cast Gregory Peck · Lauren Bacall · Dolores Gray · Tom Helmore
Plot On a vacation, sports journalist Mike meets designer Marilla. They fall in love and marry right away. However back at home they realize that they're living in different worlds and...
7.2
2K votes
7.2
2K votes
The Big Combo
1955 · Movie · 84 min. · United States
Direction Joseph H. Lewis
Cast Cornel Wilde · Richard Conte · Brian Donlevy · Jean Wallace
Plot Police Lt. Diamond (Cornel Wilde) is told to close his surveillance of suspected mob boss Mr. Brown (Richard Conte) because it's costing the department too much money with no results....
7.2
1K votes
7.2
1K votes
Devil's Doorway
1950 · Movie · 84 min. · United States
Direction Anthony Mann
Cast Robert Taylor · Louis Calhern · Paula Raymond · Marshall Thompson
Plot A Native American Civil War hero returns home to fight for his people.
7.0
760 votes
7.0
760 votes
Silver Lode
1954 · Movie · 81 min. · United States
Direction Allan Dwan
Cast John Payne · Lizabeth Scott · Dan Duryea · Dolores Moran
Plot Dan Ballard, a respected citizen in the western town of Silver Lode, has his wedding interrupted by four men led by Ned McCarthy, an old acquaintance who, as a US...
7.0
724 votes
7.0
724 votes
Driftwood
1947 · Movie · 88 min. · United States
Direction Allan Dwan
Cast Ruth Warrick · Walter Brennan · Dean Jagger · Charlotte Greenwood
Plot Six-year-old Jenny rescues a collie dog, the only survivor of a plane wreck. A tag on the dog's neck states that it is en route to a medical laboratory where...
6.9
40 votes
6.9
40 votes
The Catered Affair
1956 · Movie · 92 min. · United States
Direction Richard Brooks
Cast Bette Davis · Ernest Borgnine · Debbie Reynolds · Barry Fitzgerald
Plot At breakfast, Jane announces that she and Ralph are getting married the next week. All Jane and Ralph want is a small wedding with the immediate family and no reception....
6.9
508 votes
6.9
508 votes
Mystery Street
1950 · Movie · 93 min. · United States
Direction John Sturges
Cast Ricardo Montalban · Sally Forrest · Bruce Bennett · Elsa Lanchester
Plot A skeleton is found on a Massachusetts beach. Boston detective Lt. Peter Morales (Ricardo Montalban) takes it to Harvard, where Dr. McAdoo (Bruce Bennett) determines that it belonged to a...
6.8
395 votes
6.8
395 votes
The Brothers Karamazov
1958 · Movie · 146 min. · United States
Direction Richard Brooks
Cast Yul Brynner · Claire Bloom · Maria Schell · Lee J. Cobb
Plot This epic 19th-century Russian tale is based on the critically acclaimed novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Four very different brothers growing up in a rural village in tsarist Russia plot against...
6.8
1K votes
6.8
1K votes
Father of the Bride
1950 · Movie · 93 min. · United States
Direction Vincente Minnelli
Cast Spencer Tracy · Elizabeth Taylor · Joan Bennett · Leo G. Carroll
Plot The comic trials and tribulations that beset a family, mostly the father, prior to their daughter's wedding day. Taylor and Tracy give wonderful performances and it's easy to understand why...
6.8
4K votes
6.8
4K votes
T-Men
1947 · Movie · 92 min. · United States
Direction Anthony Mann
Cast Dennis O'Keefe · Mary Meade · Alfred Ryder · Wallace Ford
Plot Two agents from the U.S. Treasury Department just got in over their heads. Partners Dennis O'Brien and Tony Genaro are ordered by their superiors to infiltrate the notorious gang behind...
6.7
628 votes
6.7
628 votes
Slightly Scarlet
1956 · Movie · 99 min. · United States
Direction Allan Dwan
Cast John Payne · Rhonda Fleming · Arlene Dahl · Kent Taylor
Plot Kleptomaniac Dorothy Lyons is paroled from prison in custody of her sister June, secretary to "reform" political candidate Frank Jansen. Ben Grace, associate of crime boss Sol Caspar, sees this...
6.7
416 votes
6.7
416 votes
Raw Deal
1948 · Movie · 79 min. · United States
Direction Anthony Mann
Cast Dennis O'Keefe · Claire Trevor · Marsha Hunt · John Ireland
Plot Violent and viscerally sexual, Anthony Mann's muscular low-budget noir tells the tale of a framed gangster's quest for vengeance after he busts out of prison. Once freed, gangster Joe Sullivan...
6.7
605 votes
6.7
605 votes
Hollow Triumph
1948 · Movie · 83 min. · United States
Direction Steve Sekely · Paul Henreid
Cast Paul Henreid · Joan Bennett · Eduard Franz · Leslie Brooks
Plot John Muller (Paul Henreid), medical school dropout and brilliant crook, plans a holdup which goes a little bit wrong, and finds vindictive gambler Rocky Stansyck after him. At the end...
6.6
544 votes
6.6
544 votes
The People Against O'Hara
1951 · Movie · 102 min. · United States
Direction John Sturges
Cast Spencer Tracy · Pat O'Brien · Diana Lynn · John Hodiak
Plot James Curtayne (Spencer Tracy) has retired from law but he returns to defend John O'Hara (James Arness) on a murder charge. Curtayne's drinking and rustiness result in O'Hara's being found...
6.6
294 votes
6.6
294 votes
He Walked By Night
1948 · Movie · 79 min. · United States
Direction Alfred L. Werker · Anthony Mann
Cast Richard Basehart · Scott Brady · Roy Roberts · Whit Bissell
Plot This film-noir piece, told in semi-documentary style, follows police on the hunt for a resourceful criminal who shoots and kills a cop.
6.6
412 votes
6.6
412 votes
The Teahouse of the August Moon
1956 · Movie · 123 min. · United States
Direction Daniel Mann
Cast Marlon Brando · Glenn Ford · Machiko Kyô · Eddie Albert
Plot This adaptation of the popular stage play takes place after the end of World War II, in Okinawa, Japan. The plot concerns Army Capt. Fisby, who has been assigned to...
6.6
1K votes
6.6
1K votes