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...

Max

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

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