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

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

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