Cinematography: Ernest Palmer

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


Seventh Heaven (7th Heaven)

1927 · Movie · 110 min. · United States

Direction Frank Borzage

Cast Janet Gaynor · Charles Farrell · Gladys Brockwell · David Butler

Synopsis Chico (Charles Farrell) is a street cleaner who works in Paris. Diane (Janet Gaynor) is an unlucky woman who is abused by her elder sister. One day, Chico saves her from the beating of her sister and takes her to...

7.8

1K votes

7.8

1K votes

Street Angel

1928 · Movie · 102 min. · United States

Direction Frank Borzage

Cast Janet Gaynor · Charles Farrell · Natalie Kingston · Alberto Rabagliati

Synopsis In Naples, where prostitutes can pay their rent, Angela is sentenced to a year in the workhouse when she tries to steal(while streetwalking) to pay for medicine for her dying mother. She escapes and is hidden by a circus, where...

7.6

724 votes

7.6

724 votes

City Girl

1930 · Movie · 117 min. · United States

Direction F.W. Murnau

Cast Charles Farrell · Mary Duncan · David Torrence · Edith Yorke

Synopsis Director F.W. Murnau began City Girl as a silent film, hoping to match the artistic triumph of his earlier Sunrise. Murnau was frustrated by two elements: Fox's decision to hastily convert the film into a talkie, and his inability to...

7.4

561 votes

7.4

561 votes

Broken Arrow

1950 · Movie · 93 min. · United States

Direction Delmer Daves

Cast James Stewart · Jeff Chandler · Debra Paget · Will Geer

Synopsis By 1870, there has been 10 years of cruel war between settlers and Cochise's Apaches. Ex-soldier Tom Jeffords saves the life of an Apache boy and starts to wonder if Indians are human, after all; soon, he determines to use...

7.1

2K votes

7.1

2K votes

The Edge of the World

1937 · Movie · 81 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Michael Powell

Cast Niall MacGinnis · John Laurie · Belle Chrystall · Finlay Currie

Synopsis A trio wanders the cliffs of a Shetland island and encounters a gravestone at the edge of a precipice; it reads, "Peter Manson ... gone over." One man in the trio knows the story of the gravestone and tells it...

7.0

120 votes

7.0

120 votes

The River

1929 · Movie · 84 min. · United States

Direction Frank Borzage

Cast Mary Duncan · Charles Farrell · Ivan Linow · Margaret Mann

Synopsis The River, of which the central theme is desire, is the most erotic film of the silent cinema. Wreathed with the laurels of worldwide success and with an Oscar for 7th Heaven, American filmmaker of Italo-Swiss origin, Frank Borzage (1894-1962)...

7.0

101 votes

7.0

101 votes

Love Is News

1937 · Movie · 77 min. · United States

Direction Tay Garnett

Cast Tyrone Power · Loretta Young · Don Ameche · Slim Summerville

Synopsis When a crafty reporter uses false pretenses to get a story out of heiress Tony Gateson, she turns the tables on him, telling the press that she's engaged to him and that she's given him a million dollar dowry. Suddenly...

6.6

68 votes

6.6

68 votes

Thunder Birds

1942 · Movie · 78 min. · United States

Direction William A. Wellman

Cast Gene Tierney · Preston Foster · John Sutton · Jack Holt

Synopsis Prestiged pilot takes young amateur under his wing, soon discovering he's falling head over heels for the woman he loves.

6.4

79 votes

6.4

79 votes

6.4

66 votes

Blood and Sand

1941 · Movie · 124 min. · United States

Direction Rouben Mamoulian

Cast Tyrone Power · Linda Darnell · Rita Hayworth · Alla Nazimova

Synopsis Tyrone Power stars as a famous bullfighter torn between the love of a noble woman, his wife (Linda Darnell), and the tempestuous "other woman" (Rita Hayworth). A technicolor remake of the 1922 classic with Valentino.

6.2

769 votes

6.2

769 votes

Berkeley Square

1933 · Movie · 84 min. · United States

Direction Frank Lloyd

Cast Leslie Howard · Heather Angel · Valerie Taylor · Irene Browne

Synopsis A young American man is transported back to London in the time of the American Revolution and meets his ancestors.

6.2

23 votes

6.2

23 votes

Under Two Flags

1936 · Movie · 112 min. · United States

Direction Frank Lloyd

Cast Ronald Colman · Claudette Colbert · Victor McLaglen · Rosalind Russell

Synopsis Sergeant Victor comes to the French Foreign Legion after taking the blame for his brother's crime. Cigarette falls in love with him though Major Doyle is in love with her. Doyle sends Victor on dangerous assignments to be rid of...

6.1

91 votes

6.1

91 votes

Chad Hanna

1940 · Movie · 86 min. · United States

6.1

40 votes

6.1

40 votes

Cavalcade

1933 · Movie · 110 min. · United States

Direction Frank Lloyd

Cast Clive Brook · Diana Wynyard · Herbert Mundin · Frank Lawton

Synopsis A cavalcade of English life from New Year's Eve 1899 until 1933 seen through the eyes of well-to-do Londoners Jane and Robert Marryot. Amongst events touching their family are the Boer War, the death of Queen Victoria, the sinking of...

6.1

508 votes

6.1

508 votes

Centennial Summer

1946 · Movie · 102 min. · United States

Direction Otto Preminger

Cast Jeanne Crain · Cornel Wilde · Linda Darnell · William Eythe

Synopsis In 1876 Philadelphia, two sisters (Jeanne Crain and Linda Darnell) vie for the affections of a Frenchman (Cornel Wilde) who's come to town to prepare the French pavilion for the Centennial exposition.

5.8

26 votes

5.8

26 votes

Scudda Hoo! Scudda Hay!

1948 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction F. Hugh Herbert

Cast June Haver · Lon McCallister · Walter Brennan · Anne Revere

Synopsis Light-hearted, old-style romance about a farm-hand who arranges to buy a pair of mules from his employer. No one is able to handle the mules and he must train them. Adding to his dilemma, he pursues his boss's daughter who...

5.8

22 votes

5.8

22 votes

The Dolly Sisters

1945 · Movie · 114 min. · United States

Direction Irving Cummings

Cast Betty Grable · John Payne · June Haver · S.Z. Sakall

Synopsis In 1904, Uncle Latsie comes to New York from Hungary with two little nieces, who immediately take to cafe dancing. In 1912 they're still at it, but to pay Uncle's card debts they decide to go into vaudeville. Singer Harry...

5.7

39 votes

5.7

39 votes

Four Men and a Prayer

1938 · Movie · 85 min. · United States

Direction John Ford

Cast Loretta Young · Richard Greene · George Sanders · David Niven

Synopsis Colonel Loring Leigh, British Indian Army, appears to have issued an order that cost 90 lives. Cashiered, he returns home, tells his sons of a conspiracy by an arms syndicate to supply the rebels...then is found dead, an apparent suicide....

5.6

267 votes

5.6

267 votes

Kentucky

1938 · Movie · 96 min. · United States

Direction David Butler

Cast Loretta Young · Richard Greene · Karen Morley · Walter Brennan

Synopsis The blue grass of Kentucky was seen in three-strip Technicolor for the first time in this rambling racetrack drama. Sally Goodwin (Loretta Young) falls in love with Jack Dillon (Richard Greene), but the arrangement is complicated by a decades-old feud....

5.6

32 votes

5.6

32 votes

Week-End in Havana

1941 · Movie · 81 min. · United States

Direction Walter Lang

Cast Alice Faye · Carmen Miranda · John Payne · Cesar Romero

Synopsis A ship company employee, Jay Williams, is sent to Florida where one of the company cruise ships is stuck on a reef off of the coast. He obtains waivers from all of the passengers with the exception of Nan Spencer,...

5.6

34 votes

5.6

34 votes