Cinematography: Paul Vogel

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


The Time Machine

1960 · Movie · 103 min. · United States

Direction George Pal

Cast Rod Taylor · Alan Young · Yvette Mimieux · Sebastian Cabot

Plot From the book by H.G. Wells, a scientist and tinkerer builds a time machine and uses it to explore the distant future where there are two races, a mild gentle...

7.2

9K votes

7.2

9K votes

The Wings of Eagles

1957 · Movie · 107 min. · United States

Direction John Ford

Cast John Wayne · Maureen O'Hara · Dan Dailey · Ward Bond

Plot A biography of Navy flier-turned-screenwriter Frank W. "Spig" Wead.

7.0

2K votes

7.0

2K votes

Scene of the Crime

1949 · Movie · 94 min. · United States

Direction Roy Rowland

Cast Van Johnson · Arlene Dahl · Gloria DeHaven · Tom Drake

Plot Homicide detective Mike Conovan investigates the shooting of fellow detective Monigan...who apparrently was moonlighting as guard for a bookie. He finds that all the bookies in town are being robbed,...

6.9

40 votes

6.9

40 votes

The Tall Target

1951 · Movie · 78 min. · United States

Direction Anthony Mann

Cast Dick Powell · Paula Raymond · Adolphe Menjou · Marshall Thompson

Plot A detective tries to prevent the assassination of President Lincoln during a train ride.

6.8

184 votes

6.8

184 votes

Battleground

1949 · Movie · 118 min. · United States

Direction William A. Wellman

Cast Van Johnson · John Hodiak · Ricardo Montalban · George Murphy

Plot December, 1944. The Nazis, in the face of the onrushing Allies, turned and pushed into the Ardennes Forest in Belgium and Luxembourg for what would be their last major offensive...

6.8

645 votes

6.8

645 votes

Interrupted Melody

1955 · Movie · 106 min. · United States

Direction Curtis Bernhardt

Cast Glenn Ford · Eleanor Parker · Roger Moore · Cecil Kellaway

Plot Marjorie Lawrence (Eleanor Parker) crowds her life with excitement and achievement from the day she leaves her Australian home and goes to Paris to study voice. After a triumphal debut...

6.6

175 votes

6.6

175 votes

High Wall

1947 · Movie · 99 min. · United States

Direction Curtis Bernhardt

Cast Robert Taylor · Audrey Totter · Herbert Marshall · Dorothy Patrick

Plot Steven Kenet, suffering from a recurring brain injury, appears to have strangled his wife. Having confessed, he's committed to an understaffed county asylum full of pathetic inmates. There, Dr. Ann...

6.6

218 votes

6.6

218 votes

The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm

1962 · Movie · 135 min. · United States

Direction Henry Levin · George Pal

Cast Laurence Harvey · Karlheinz Böhm · Claire Bloom · Walter Slezak

Plot Big-budget fantasy based very loosely on the Grimm Brothers' lives and three of their stories: "The Dancing Princesses," "The Cobbler and the Elves," and "The Singing Bone." Good, fun Puppetoon...

6.6

583 votes

6.6

583 votes

Kid Glove Killer

1942 · Movie · 74 min. · United States

Direction Fred Zinnemann

Cast Van Heflin · Marsha Hunt · Lee Bowman · Samuel S. Hinds

Plot First feature film from director Fred Zinneman is a snappy little "B" feature that features Van Heflin as the head of a city crime lab who solves the murder of...

6.6

48 votes

6.6

48 votes

The Happy Years

1950 · Movie · 110 min. · United States

Direction William A. Wellman

Cast Dean Stockwell · Darryl Hickman · Scotty Beckett · Margalo Gillmore

Plot Friends and family try to tame an unruly student at the turn of the century.

6.4

51 votes

6.4

51 votes

High Society

1956 · Movie · 111 min. · United States

Direction Charles Walters

Cast Bing Crosby · Grace Kelly · Frank Sinatra · Celeste Holm

Plot C.K. Dexter-Haven, a successful popular jazz musician, lives in a mansion near his ex-wife's Tracy Lord's family estate. She is on the verge of marrying a man blander and safer...

6.4

1K votes

6.4

1K votes

Dial 1119

1950 · Movie · 75 min. · United States

Direction Gerald Mayer

Cast Marshall Thompson · Virginia Field · Andrea King · Sam Levene

Plot A former mental patient murders a bus driver, then takes refuge in a bar, where he holds the patrons hostage.

6.4

58 votes

6.4

58 votes

Black Hand

1950 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Richard Thorpe

Cast Gene Kelly · J. Carrol Naish · Teresa Celli · Marc Lawrence

Plot Now grown-up, Johnny Columbo returns to New York from Italy having sworn a vendetta against the Black Hand who killed his father years earlier. Becoming romantically involved with a girl...

6.3

183 votes

6.3

183 votes

A Lady Without Passport

1950 · Movie · 74 min. · United States

Direction Joseph H. Lewis

Cast Hedy Lamarr · John Hodiak · James Craig · George Macready

Plot After World War II, people try to sneak into the U.S. illegally with the help of a human smuggling ring run by Palinov (George Macready). U.S. Immigration operative Peter Karczag...

6.3

142 votes

6.3

142 votes

The Gazebo

1959 · Movie · 102 min. · United States

Direction George Marshall

Cast Glenn Ford · Debbie Reynolds · Carl Reiner · John McGiver

Plot TV writer Elliot Nash (Glenn Ford) is happily married to Broadway star Nell (Debbie Reynolds), when a blackmailer arrives on the scene with photos of young Nell in her birthday...

6.3

180 votes

6.3

180 votes

The Tell-Tale Heart (S)

1941 · Movie · 20 min. · United States

Direction Jules Dassin

Cast Joseph Schildkraut · Roman Bohnen · Oscar O’Shea · Will Wright

Plot In this classic Edgar Allan Poe story, a man commits a murder, but afterward the victim's beating heart torments the murderer's mind.

6.3

166 votes

6.3

166 votes

Lady in the Lake

1946 · Movie · 105 min. · United States

Direction Robert Montgomery

Cast Robert Montgomery · Audrey Totter · Lloyd Nolan · Tom Tully

Plot The camera shows Phillip Marlowe's view from the first-person in this adaptation of Raymond Chandler's book. The detective is hired to find a publisher's wife, who is supposed to have...

6.1

702 votes

6.1

702 votes

The Money Trap

1965 · Movie · 91 min. · United States

Direction Burt Kennedy

Cast Glenn Ford · Elke Sommer · Rita Hayworth · Joseph Cotten

Plot When half a million dollars disappears from a doctor office's safe, the cops assigned to the burglary case, Joe and Pete, decide to find the money and keep it for...

5.8

122 votes

5.8

122 votes

Green Fire

1954 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction Andrew Marton

Cast Stewart Granger · Grace Kelly · Paul Douglas · John Ericson

Plot Rian Mitchell discovers an emerald deposit in South America, but gets chased away before he can start to mine. He tricks his partner, Vic, into returning to the site. While...

5.8

378 votes

5.8

378 votes

The Rack

1956 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction Arnold Laven

Cast Paul Newman · Wendell Corey · Walter Pidgeon · Edmond O'Brien

Plot Captain Edward Hall returns to the USA after two years in a prison camp in the korean war. In the camp he was brainwashed and helped the Chinese convince the...

5.8

191 votes

5.8

191 votes