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

Synopsis 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 a brick during a Roman parade causes Judah to be...

7.6

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

Synopsis 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 daughter. For 18 years Phroso, known as "Dead Legs" by...

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

Synopsis 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 her heart.

6.4

125 votes

6.4

125 votes

The Unholy Three

1930 · Movie · 72 min. · United States

6.2

33 votes

6.2

33 votes

Iron Man

1931 · Movie · 73 min. · United States

Direction Tod Browning

Cast Lew Ayres · Robert Armstrong · Jean Harlow · John Miljan

Synopsis 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 manager Regan and replace him with her secret lover Lewis.

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Good News

1930 · Movie · 78 min. · United States

Direction Nick Grinde

Cast Mary Lawlor · Stanley Smith · Bessie Love · Cliff Edwards

Synopsis 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 studies. A series of bad grades almost convinces the 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

Synopsis 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 along on their honeymoon.

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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

Synopsis 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 girl he tries to impress the most is in London...

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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

Synopsis 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 and her fiance, engineer Nicolai Roget have designed a submarine...

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After Midnight

1927 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

Direction Monta Bell

Cast Norma Shearer · Lawrence Gray · Gwen Lee · Eddie Sturgis

Synopsis 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

Synopsis 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

Synopsis 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 cross the icy steppes and find their way to America.

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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

Synopsis 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 he is dazzled by high society, he overhears the society...

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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

Synopsis 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 be using her body to get the money.

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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

Synopsis 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 Yegor kills Vera's brother, Prince Serge, for raping his sister,...

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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

Synopsis 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 society editor, Vera Worth (Jeanne Eagels), but he does not...

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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

Synopsis 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 Turks. However, his life changes when he is publicly humiliated...

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