Cinematography: Percy Hilburn
The best movies, series, and documentaries with cinematography by Percy Hilburn. Explore visually stunning titles that highlight an exceptional filmmaking.
Ben-Hur
1925 · Movie · 143 min. · United States
Direction Fred Niblo
Cast Ramon Novarro · May McAvoy · Francis X. Bushman · Betty Bronson
Plot Erstwhile childhood friends, Judah Ben-Hur and Messala meet again as adults, this time with Roman officer Messala as conqueror and Judah as a wealthy, though conquered, Israelite. A slip of...
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4K votes
7.6
4K votes
West of Zanzibar
1928 · Movie · 65 min. · United States
Direction Tod Browning
Cast Lon Chaney · Lionel Barrymore · Mary Nolan · Warner Baxter
Plot Magician Phroso's wife Anna leaves him for another man, named Crane, who fights with Phroso and leaves him paralyzed. Later Anna returns and he finds her dead, leaving behind a...
7.1
309 votes
7.1
309 votes
The Blackbird
1926 · Movie · 86 min. · United States
Direction Tod Browning
Cast Lon Chaney · Owen Moore · Renée Adorée · Doris Lloyd
Plot Two thieves, the Blackbird and West End Bertie, fall in love with the same girl, a French nightclub performer named Fifi. Each man tries to outdo the other to win...
6.4
125 votes
6.4
125 votes
The Unholy Three
1930 · Movie · 72 min. · United States
Direction Jack Conway
Cast Lon Chaney · Lila Lee · Elliott Nugent · Harry Earles
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33 votes
6.2
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Iron Man
1931 · Movie · 73 min. · United States
Direction Tod Browning
Cast Lew Ayres · Robert Armstrong · Jean Harlow · John Miljan
Plot Prizefighter Mason loses his opening fight so wife Rose leaves him for Hollywood. Without her around Mason trains and starts winning. Rose comes back and wants Mason to dump his...
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Good News
1930 · Movie · 78 min. · United States
Direction Nick Grinde
Cast Mary Lawlor · Stanley Smith · Bessie Love · Cliff Edwards
Plot Tom Marlowe is the star of his college football team, and has a promising romance with a female college student, Connie Lane. He does not excel, however, in his college...
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Memory Lane
1926 · Movie · 78 min. · United States
Direction John M. Stahl
Cast Eleanor Boardman · Conrad Nagel · William Haines · John Steppling
Plot Mary, on the day of her wedding to Jimmie, finds she has not lost her affection for another sweetheart, Joe. A confrontation arises when Jimmie discovers that Joe has come...
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Way for a Sailor
1930 · Movie · 85 min. · United States
Direction Sam Wood
Cast John Gilbert · Wallace Beery · Jim Tully · Leila Hyams
Plot Jack is a sailor who lives to go to sea. A typical sailor, he is always broke and has been in seven jails in the last seven ports. The one...
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The Mysterious Island
1929 · Movie · 95 min. · United States
Direction Lucien Hubbard
Cast Lionel Barrymore · Jacqueline Gadsden · Lloyd Hughes · Montagu Love
Plot On a volcanic island near the kingdom of Hetvia rules Count Dakkar, a benevolent leader and scientist who has eliminated class distinction among the island's inhabitants. Dakkar, his daughter Sonia...
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After Midnight
1927 · Movie · 70 min. · United States
Direction Monta Bell
Cast Norma Shearer · Lawrence Gray · Gwen Lee · Eddie Sturgis
Plot A story of New York's nightlife: Mary (Norma Shearer) is a cabaret hostess with a heart of gold and her sister Maizie (Gwen Lee) is a gold-digger with no heart.
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Redemption
1930 · Movie · 75 min. · United States
Direction Fred Niblo · Lionel Barrymore
Cast John Gilbert · Renée Adorée · Conrad Nagel · Eleanor Boardman
Plot Fedya wins Lisa away from her fiance, Victor Karenin. But after Fedya weds Lisa, he becomes infatuated with a gypsy girl, Masha. His duplicity leads to tragedy.
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The World and Its Woman
1919 · Movie · 70 min. · United States
Direction Frank Lloyd
Cast Geraldine Farrar · Lou Tellegen · Mae Giraci · Francis Marion
Plot A Russian peasant girl rises to fame as an operatic diva. She becomes beloved of a Russian prince. When the 1917 revolution overthrows the czar's government, the pair attempts to...
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Children of Pleasure
1930 · Movie · 70 min. · United States
Direction Harry Beaumont
Cast Lawrence Gray · Wynne Gibson · Judith Wood · Kenneth Thomson
Plot Successful songwriter falls for society girl who is just playing around. He doesn't realize that his girl-Friday is the one he really loves until it is almost too late. Although...
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The Tower of Lies
1925 · Movie · 70 min. · United States
Direction Victor Sjöström
Cast Norma Shearer · Lon Chaney · Ian Keith · Claire McDowell
Plot After his beloved daughter leaves for the city to pay off his debt, an old farmer goes mad when her letters become less frequent and it is suspected she may...
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The Rogue Song
1930 · Movie · 104 min. · United States
Direction Lionel Barrymore
Cast Lawrence Tibbett · Catherine Dale Owen · Nance O'Neil · Judith Vosselli
Plot Russia, 1910. Yegor, a dashing (as well as singing) bandit leader meets Princess Vera at a mountain inn. They end up falling in love, but the relationship is shattered when...
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Man, Woman and Sin
1927 · Movie · 70 min. · United States
Direction Monta Bell
Cast John Gilbert · Jeanne Eagels · Gladys Brockwell · Marc McDermott
Plot John Gilbert plays Albert Whitcomb, who is devoted to his mother (Gladys Brockwell). He lands a job as a cub reporter at a newspaper and becomes romantically entangled with the...
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Dangerous Days
1920 · Movie · 70 min. · United States
Direction Reginald Barker
Cast Lawson Butt · Clarissa Selwynne · Rowland V. Lee · Ann Forrest
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When Doctors Disagree
1919 · Movie · 50 min. · United States
Direction Victor Schertzinger
Cast Mabel Normand · Walter Hiers · George Nichols · Fritzi Ridgeway
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Confessions of a Queen
1925 · Movie · 64 min. · United States
Direction Victor Sjöström
Cast Alice Terry · Lewis Stone · John Bowers · Eugenie Besserer
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The Cossacks
1928 · Movie · 92 min. · United States
Direction George W. Hill · Clarence Brown
Cast John Gilbert · Renée Adorée · Ernest Torrence · Nils Asther
Plot Lukashka is the son of a fierce Cossack chief, but he would rather relax in the woods or flirt with his sweetheart Maryana than go to battle with the neighboring...
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