Cinematography: Barney McGill

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


High Tension

1936 · Movie · 63 min. · United States

Direction Allan Dwan

Cast Brian Donlevy · Glenda Farrell · Norman Foster · Helen Wood

Plot Brawling cable layer Steve Reardon doesn't want to marry girlfriend Edith but he also doesn't want her to date other men.

7.3

25 votes

7.3

25 votes

Other Men's Women

1931 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

Direction William A. Wellman

Cast Grant Withers · Mary Astor · Regis Toomey · James Cagney

Plot Events take an unhappy turn for two Bill and Jack, two locomotive engineers, after Bill is attracted to his best friend's wife.

7.2

131 votes

7.2

131 votes

Employees' Entrance

1933 · Movie · 75 min. · United States

Direction Roy Del Ruth

Cast Warren William · Loretta Young · Wallace Ford · Alice White

Plot Kurt Anderson is the tyrannical manager of a New York department store in financial straits. He thinks nothing of firing an employee of more than 20 years or of toying...

7.0

48 votes

7.0

48 votes

What Price Glory

1926 · Movie · 116 min. · United States

Direction Raoul Walsh

Cast Edmund Lowe · August Tollaire · Mathilde Comont · Sammy Cohn

Plot U.S. Marine sergeants Quirt and Flagg are inveterate romantic rivals on peacetime assignments in China and the Philippines. In 1917, W.W. I brings them to France, where Flagg, now a...

6.9

58 votes

6.9

58 votes

20,000 Years in Sing Sing

1932 · Movie · 78 min. · United States

Direction Michael Curtiz

Cast Spencer Tracy · Bette Davis · Arthur Byron · Lyle Talbot

Plot Sent to Sing Sing prison, influential crook Spencer Tracy is unregenerate and refuses to adhere to the rules. While in solitary confinement, Tracy reconsiders his attitude. Thanks to the correctional...

6.7

560 votes

6.7

560 votes

The Bowery

1933 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Raoul Walsh

Cast Wallace Beery · George Raft · Jackie Cooper · Fay Wray

Plot "In the Gay Nineties New York had grown up into bustles and balloon Sleeves ... but The Bowery had grown younger, louder and more rowdy until it was known as...

6.7

135 votes

6.7

135 votes

Night Nurse

1931 · Movie · 72 min. · United States

Direction William A. Wellman

Cast Barbara Stanwyck · Ben Lyon · Joan Blondell · Blanche Friderici

Plot Lora Hart manages to land a job in a hospital as a trainee nurse. Upon completion of her training she goes to work as a night nurse for two small...

6.6

245 votes

6.6

245 votes

Svengali

1931 · Movie · 81 min. · United States

Direction Archie Mayo

Cast John Barrymore · Marian Marsh · Donald Crisp · Bramwell Fletcher

Plot Sinister music maestro Svengali can control the actions of women through hypnotism and his telepathic powers. When a pupil he has seduced announces she has left her husband for him,...

6.6

211 votes

6.6

211 votes

The Doorway to Hell

1930 · Movie · 78 min. · United States

Direction Archie Mayo

Cast Lew Ayres · Dorothy Mathews · Leon Janney · Robert Elliott

Plot Lou Ricarno is a smart guy. His plan is to organize the various gangs in Chicago so that the mugs will not liquidate each other. With the success of his...

6.5

108 votes

6.5

108 votes

Hard to Handle

1933 · Movie · 78 min. · United States

Direction Mervyn LeRoy

Cast James Cagney · Mary Brian · Allen Jenkins · Ruth Donnelly

Plot Small time con artist Lefty Merrill has co-organized a crooked dance marathon and set-up his girlfriend to win the prize money. When his partner disappears with money before the contest...

6.4

42 votes

6.4

42 votes

The Mayor of Hell

1933 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Archie Mayo · Michael Curtiz

Cast James Cagney · Madge Evans · Arthur Byron · Allen Jenkins

Plot Five members of a teen-age gang, including leader Jimmy Smith, are sent to the State Reformatory, presided over by the melodramatically callous Thompson. Soon, Patsy Gargan, a former gangster appointed...

6.2

85 votes

6.2

85 votes

Noah's Ark

1928 · Movie · 135 min. · United States

Direction Michael Curtiz · Darryl F. Zanuck

Cast George O'Brien · Paul McAllister · Myrna Loy · Dolores Costello

Plot The Biblical story of Noah and the Great Flood, with a parallel story of soldiers in the First World War.

6.2

62 votes

6.2

62 votes

The Cabin in the Cotton

1932 · Movie · 78 min. · United States

Direction Michael Curtiz

Cast Richard Barthelmess · Dorothy Jordan · Bette Davis · Hardie Albright

Plot A tenant farmer's son is caught in the middle of owner-tenant disputes when he falls for the plantation owner's seductive daughter.

6.1

64 votes

6.1

64 votes

The Mad Genius

1931 · Movie · 81 min. · United States

Direction Michael Curtiz

Cast John Barrymore · Marian Marsh · Charles Butterworth · Donald Cook

Plot A crippled puppeteer rescues an abused young boy and turns the boy into a great ballet dancer. Complications ensue when, as a young man, the dancer falls in love with...

5.9

25 votes

5.9

25 votes

Born To Be Bad

1934 · Movie · 62 min. · United States

Direction Lowell Sherman

Cast Loretta Young · Cary Grant · Marion Burns · Jackie Kelk

Plot Cary Grant is a wealthy dairy farmer who falls victim to the schemes of conniving single mother Loretta Young. After Young is declared an unfit parent, Grant and wife Marion...

5.8

100 votes

5.8

100 votes

Bureau of Missing Persons

1933 · Movie · 73 min. · United States

Direction Roy Del Ruth

Cast Bette Davis · Lewis Stone · Pat O'Brien · Glenda Farrell

Plot Butch Saunders has been transferred to Missing Persons because he was too brutal in other police work. He regards the assignment as "kindergarten" work. When a young woman asks him...

5.2

42 votes

5.2

42 votes

The Phantom Submarine

1940 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

Direction Charles Barton

Cast Anita Louise · Bruce Bennett · Oscar O’Shea · John Tyrrell

Plot On the night before he sails in search of the steamship Arcadia's sunken gold, Paul Sinclair (Bruce Bennett)meets Madeliene Nielson (Anita Louise) in a San Francisco nightclub. On the second...

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Mammy

1930 · Movie · 84 min. · United States

Direction Michael Curtiz

Cast Al Jolson · Lois Moran · Lowell Sherman · Louise Dresser

Plot Mammy features Al Jolson as the star of a travelling minstrel show, appearing in a small Southern town. Jolson falls in love with an actress in the troupe (Lois Moran),...

Not rated

Not rated

Midnight Taxi

1937 · Movie · 73 min. · United States

Direction Eugene Forde

Cast Brian Donlevy · Frances Drake · Alan Dinehart · Sig Ruman

Plot G-Man Chick Gardner, posing as a taxi driver, convinces the members of a counterfeiting gang that he is on their side and is taken into the organization by Philip Strickland,...

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Not rated

Redheads on Parade

1935 · Movie · 78 min. · United States

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Not rated