Cinematography: Irving Glassberg

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


Bend of the River

1952 · Movie · 91 min. · United States

Direction Anthony Mann

Cast James Stewart · Arthur Kennedy · Rock Hudson · Julie Adams

Plot 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...

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

Plot 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

Plot 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...

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

Plot 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

Plot 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,...

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

Plot 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...

6.4

609 votes

6.4

609 votes

Captain Lightfoot

1955 · Movie · 92 min. · United States

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

Plot 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...

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

Plot 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...

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

Plot 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...

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

Plot 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...

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

Plot 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...

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

Plot 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

Plot 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...

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

Plot 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...

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

Plot 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...

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

Plot 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)...

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

Plot 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...

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

Plot 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...

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

Plot 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...

5.5

129 votes

5.5

129 votes