Cinematography: Karl Struss

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


Drums of Love

1928 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction D.W. Griffith

Cast Mary Philbin · Lionel Barrymore · Don Alvarado · Tully Marshall

Plot Princess Emmanuella agrees to marry the Duke of a neighboring kingdom in order to keep the peace between their two countries. However, when the duke's handsome brother arrives to escort...

5.9

21 votes

5.9

21 votes

The Taming of the Shrew

1929 · Movie · 63 min. · United States

Direction Sam Taylor

Cast Mary Pickford · Douglas Fairbanks · Edwin Maxwell · Joseph Cawthorne

Plot In sixteenth century Padua, Hortensio loves Bianca, the youngest daughter of Baptista. But Baptista will not allow the two to get married until his eldest daughter, the extremely headstrong Katherine,...

5.6

74 votes

5.6

74 votes

The Alligator People

1959 · Movie · 74 min. · United States

Direction Roy Del Ruth

Cast Beverly Garland · Bruce Bennett · Lon Chaney Jr. · George Macready

Plot A woman in a hypnotic state recounts to two doctors the details of a horrific experience from her past life that began with the mysterious and sudden disappearance of her...

5.5

116 votes

5.5

116 votes

Belle of the Nineties

1934 · Movie · 73 min. · United States

5.5

92 votes

5.5

92 votes

Skippy

1931 · Movie · 85 min. · United States

Direction Norman Taurog

Cast Jackie Cooper · Robert Coogan · Mitzi Green · Jackie Searl

Plot In this film based on the popular comic strip, Skippy interrupts his usual routine of finding loopholes in his parents' rules when he makes friends with Sooky, a boy from...

5.4

24 votes

5.4

24 votes

Kronos

1957 · Movie · 76 min. · United States

Direction Kurt Neumann

Cast Jeff Morrow · Barbara Lawrence · John Emery · George O'Hanlon

Plot Scientists investigate what appears to be a meteorite that crashes into the ocean. After a few days and nights of mysterious lights and noises, a giant machine comes out of...

5.4

72 votes

5.4

72 votes

Rocketship X-M

1950 · Movie · 77 min. · United States

Direction Kurt Neumann

Cast Lloyd Bridges · Osa Massen · John Emery · Noah Beery Jr.

Plot Astronauts (Lloyd Bridges, Osa Massen, John Emery, Noah Beery, Jr., and Hugh O'Brien) blast off to explore the moon on. Because of craft malfunction and some fuel calculations, they end...

5.3

123 votes

5.3

123 votes

Go West Young Man

1936 · Movie · 82 min. · United States

5.3

29 votes

5.3

29 votes

Coquette

1929 · Movie · 76 min. · United States

Direction Sam Taylor

Cast Mary Pickford · Johnny Mack Brown · Matt Moore · John St. Polis

Plot A flirtatious southern belle is compromised with one of her beaus.

5.2

32 votes

5.2

32 votes

She Devil

1957 · Movie · 77 min. · United States

5.2

46 votes

5.2

46 votes

Tarzan and the Leopard Woman

1946 · Movie · 69 min. · United States

5.2

177 votes

5.2

177 votes

Anything Goes

1936 · Movie · 106 min. · United States

5.2

40 votes

5.2

40 votes

Tarzan's Savage Fury

1952 · Movie · 81 min. · United States

Direction Cy Endfield

Cast Lex Barker · Dorothy Hart · Patric Knowles · Charles Korvin

Plot Tarzan's cousin comes to Africa in hopes that Tarzan will help him secure a fortune in diamonds essential to England's military security. The cousin is immediately killed off by his...

5.0

74 votes

5.0

74 votes

Mohawk

1956 · Movie · 76 min. · United States

Direction Kurt Neumann

Cast Scott Brady · Lori Nelson · Allison Hayes · Rita Gam

Plot An artist working in a remote army post is juggling the storekeeper's daughter, his fiancée newly arrived from the east, and the Indian Chief's daughter. But when a vengeful settler...

4.9

196 votes

4.9

196 votes

Two Nights with Cleopatra

1954 · Movie · 78 min. · Italy

Direction Mario Mattoli

Cast Sophia Loren · Alberto Sordi · Paul Muller · Nando Bruno

Plot In this Italian bedroom farce, the lusty "Queen of the Nile" is determined to be with her lover, Marc Antony, before he heads off to war. Unfortunately, she has been...

4.8

56 votes

4.8

56 votes

Rose of Cimarron

1952 · Movie · 72 min. · United States

Direction Harry Keller

Cast Jack Buetel · Mala Powers · Bill Williams · Jim Davis

Plot A white girl raised by Indians sets out to find out who murdered her adoptive parents.

4.7

41 votes

4.7

41 votes

Tarzan's Magic Fountain

1949 · Movie · 73 min. · United States

Direction Lee Sholem

Cast Lex Barker · Brenda Joyce · Albert Dekker · Evelyn Ankers

Plot An aviatrix emerges from the jungle looking as young as she was when her plane went down many years before. Unscrupulous hunters discover that this is due to a secret...

4.6

56 votes

4.6

56 votes

Tarzan's Peril

1951 · Movie · 78 min. · United States

Direction Byron Haskin

Cast Lex Barker · Virginia Huston · George Macready · Douglas Fowley

Plot Escaped convicts are selling weapons to a warlike native tribe.

4.5

47 votes

4.5

47 votes

Tarzan and the She-Devil

1953 · Movie · 75 min. · United States

Direction Kurt Neumann

Cast Lex Barker · Henry Brandon · Joyce Mackenzie · Monique van Vooren

Plot Ivory poachers, headed by Lyra the She-Devil, Vargo and Fidel, capture a native tribe to carry their loot. Tarzan intervenes and is captured. Jane is also captured and believed killed,...

4.2

39 votes

4.2

39 votes

Mesa of Lost Women

1953 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

Direction Ron Ormond · Herbert Tevos

Cast Jackie Coogan · Allan Nixon · Richard Travis · Lyle Talbot

Plot A mad scientist named Arana is creating giant spiders and dwarves in his lab on Zarpa Mesa in Mexico. He wants to create a master race of superwomen by injecting...

3.5

60 votes

3.5

60 votes