Cinematography: Irving Glassberg
The best movies, series, and documentaries with cinematography by Irving Glassberg. Explore visually stunning titles that highlight an exceptional filmmaking.
Titles found: 51
Bend of the River
1952 · Movie · 91 min. · United States
Direction Anthony Mann
Cast James Stewart · Arthur Kennedy · Rock Hudson · Julie Adams
Synopsis Two men with questionable pasts, Glyn McLyntock and his friend Cole, lead a wagon-train load of homesteaders from Missouri to the Oregon territory. They establish a settlement outside of Portland and as winter nears, it is necessary for McLyntock and...
7.6
8K votes
7.6
8K votes
The Tarnished Angels
1957 · Movie · 91 min. · United States
Direction Douglas Sirk
Cast Rock Hudson · Robert Stack · Dorothy Malone · Jack Carson
Synopsis Story of a friendship between an eccentric journalist and a daredevil barnstorming pilot.
7.3
1K votes
7.3
1K votes
The Web
1947 · Movie · 87 min. · United States
Direction Michael Gordon
Cast Ella Raines · Edmond O'Brien · William Bendix · Vincent Price
Synopsis Leopold Kroner, formerly of Colby Enterprises, is released after five years in prison for embezzlement. Andrew Colby, claiming that Kroner has threatened him, hires lawyer Bob Regan as a secret bodyguard. Sure enough, Kroner turns up in Colby's room with...
7.1
145 votes
7.1
145 votes
Undertow
1949 · Movie · 71 min. · United States
Direction William Castle
Cast Scott Brady · John Russell · Dorothy Hart · Peggy Dow
Synopsis After being released from prison, an ex-convict is framed for a murder. The man sets out to find the real killers before the police blame the crime on him.
6.8
31 votes
6.8
31 votes
The Lawless Breed
1953 · Movie · 83 min. · United States
Direction Raoul Walsh
Cast Rock Hudson · Julie Adams · John McIntire · Dennis Weaver
Synopsis Released from jail, John Wesley Hardin leaves an account of his life with the local newspaper. It tells of his overly religious father, his resulting life of cards and guns, and his love for his step-sister replaced on her death...
6.6
644 votes
6.6
644 votes
Backlash
1956 · Movie · 84 min. · United States
Direction John Sturges
Cast Richard Widmark · Donna Reed · William Campbell · John McIntire
Synopsis Jim Slater's father (whom he never knew) died in the Apache ambush at Gila Valley, and Jim is searching for the one survivor, who supposedly went for help but disappeared with a lot of gold. In the process, he gets...
6.4
609 votes
6.4
609 votes
Captain Lightfoot
1955 · Movie · 92 min. · United States
Direction Douglas Sirk
Cast Rock Hudson · Barbara Rush · Jeff Morrow · Kathleen Ryan
6.2
533 votes
6.2
533 votes
The Black Shield of Falworth
1954 · Movie · 99 min. · United States
Direction Rudolph Maté
Cast Tony Curtis · Janet Leigh · David Farrar · Barbara Rush
Synopsis In the days of King Henry IV, stalwart young Myles and his sister Meg have been raised as peasants, without any knowledge of who their father really was. But one day they journey to Macworth castle. There Myles falls in...
6.2
799 votes
6.2
799 votes
The Mississippi Gambler
1953 · Movie · 99 min. · United States
Direction Rudolph Maté
Cast Tyrone Power · Piper Laurie · Julie Adams · John McIntire
Synopsis Mark Fallon, with partner Kansas John Polly, tries to introduce honest gambling on the riverboats. His first success makes enemies of the crooked gamblers and of fair Angelique Dureau, whose necklace he won. Later in New Orleans, Mark befriends Angelique's...
6.1
307 votes
6.1
307 votes
The Prince who was a Thief
1951 · Movie · 88 min. · United States
Direction Rudolph Maté
Cast Tony Curtis · Piper Laurie · Marvin Miller · Everett Sloane
Synopsis In 13th-century Tangiers, regent Mustapha hires master thief Yussef to murder the baby Prince Hussein so Mustapha can take the throne in the infant's place. Yussef, too kind-hearted to kill the boy, instead adopts him and rears him as a...
6.1
254 votes
6.1
254 votes
The Rawhide Years
1956 · Movie · 85 min. · United States
Direction Rudolph Maté
Cast Tony Curtis · Colleen Miller · Arthur Kennedy · William Demarest
Synopsis Ben Matthews gives up the flashy life of a riverboat gambler, hoping to settle down in Galena with his girlfriend, luscious entertainer Zoe. But Galena's leading citizen is murdered on the boat; Ben, on arrival, finds a lynch mob after...
6.0
191 votes
6.0
191 votes
Red Canyon
1949 · Movie · 82 min. · United States
Direction George Sherman
Cast Ann Blyth · Howard Duff · George Brent · Edgar Buchanan
Synopsis Red Canyon was one of several medium-budget, Technicolor westerns turned out by Universal-International between 1949 and 1959. Howard Duff plays wandering cowpoke Lin Sloane, who spends most of the film trying to capture a fabled wild stallion. While thus occupied,...
6.0
106 votes
6.0
106 votes
The Black Castle
1952 · Movie · 82 min. · United States
Direction Nathan Juran
Cast Boris Karloff · Lon Chaney Jr. · Richard Greene · Stephen McNally
Synopsis Man investigates the disappearance of two of his friends who were the guests of a sinister Austrian count.
6.0
79 votes
6.0
79 votes
The Strange Door
1951 · Movie · 81 min. · United States
Direction Joseph Pevney
Cast Charles Laughton · Boris Karloff · Sally Forrest · Richard Wyler
Synopsis Alain, the Sire de Maletroit, plots revenge on his younger brother Edmund for stealing Alain's childhood sweetheart, now deceased. Alain imprisons Edmund in a dungeon for 20 years. He then convinces Edmund's grown daughter Blanche that her father is dead.
5.8
70 votes
5.8
70 votes
Black Bart
1948 · Movie · 80 min. · United States
Direction George Sherman
Cast Yvonne De Carlo · Dan Duryea · Jeffrey Lynn · Percy Kilbride
Synopsis Cheerful outlaw Charlie Boles leaves former partners Lance and Jersey and heads for California, where the Gold Rush is beginning. Soon, a lone gunman in black is robbing Wells Fargo gold shipments. One fateful day, the stage he robs carries...
5.8
106 votes
5.8
106 votes
Casbah
1948 · Movie · 94 min. · United States
Direction John Berry
Cast Yvonne De Carlo · Tony Martin · Peter Lorre · Märta Torén
Synopsis Pepe Le Moko (Tony Martin) leads a gang of jewel thieves in the Casbah of Algiers, where he has exiled himself to escape imprisonment in his native France. Inez (Yvonne DeCarlo), his girl friend, is infiriated when Pepe flirts with...
5.7
98 votes
5.7
98 votes
Ride Clear of Diablo
1954 · Movie · 80 min. · United States
Direction Jesse Hibbs
Cast Audie Murphy · Susan Cabot · Dan Duryea · Abbe Lane
Synopsis Railroad surveyer Clay O'Mara (Audie Murphy) goes after rustlers who murdered his father and brother. Along the way, he first arrests then teams up with outlaw Whitey Kincaid (Dan Duryea) who helps Clay only to see how long the tenderfoot...
5.7
107 votes
5.7
107 votes
Border River
1954 · Movie · 80 min. · United States
Direction George Sherman
Cast Joel McCrea · Yvonne De Carlo · Pedro Armendáriz · Howard Petrie
Synopsis Zona Libre is a small enclave across the river from America. Despotically ruled by General Calleja, it offers sanctuary to outlaws, at a price. Newly arrived is Clete Mattson who has $2million in gold to buy guns for the Confederacy....
5.6
132 votes
5.6
132 votes
Showdown at Abilene
1956 · Movie · 80 min. · United States
Direction Charles F. Haas
Cast Jock Mahoney · Martha Hyer · Lyle Bettger · David Janssen
Synopsis Jim Trask, former sheriff of Abilene, returns to the town after fighting for the Confederacy to find everyone thought he was dead. His old friend Dave Mosely is now engaged to Trask's former sweetheart and is one of the cattlemen...
5.6
45 votes
5.6
45 votes
Twilight for the Gods
1958 · Movie · 114 min. · United States
Direction Joseph Pevney
Cast Rock Hudson · Cyd Charisse · Arthur Kennedy · Leif Erickson
Synopsis Adapted by Ernest Gann from his own novel, Twilight for the Gods bears traces of Gann's earlier The High and the Mighty. This "psychological adventure" stars Rock Hudson as Captain Bell, who crawls into a bottle after being court-martialed and...
5.5
129 votes
5.5
129 votes