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),...
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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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Redheads on Parade
1935 · Movie · 78 min. · United States
Direction Norman Z. McLeod
Cast John Boles · Dixie Lee · Jack Haley · Raymond Walburn
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