Cinematography: Russell Metty
The best movies, series, and documentaries with cinematography by Russell Metty. Explore visually stunning titles that highlight an exceptional filmmaking.
Crashout
1955 · Movie · 88 min. · United States
Direction Lewis R. Foster
Cast William Bendix · Arthur Kennedy · Luther Adler · William Talman
Plot The survivors of a prison break set out on an arduous journey to retrieve some loot.
6.8
58 votes
6.8
58 votes
Columbo: Suitable for Framing (TV)
1971 · Movie · 76 min. · United States
Direction Hy Averback
Cast Peter Falk · Ross Martin · Don Ameche · Kim Hunter
Plot Noted art critic Dale Kingston kills his uncle for his valuable collection of paintings. Despite Columbo's suspicions, all the clues point to the dead man's ex-wife. Can the lieutenant reveal...
6.7
377 votes
6.7
377 votes
Madigan
1968 · Movie · 101 min. · United States
Direction Don Siegel
Cast Richard Widmark · Henry Fonda · Inger Stevens · Harry Guardino
Plot Adapted from Richard Dougherty's THE COMMISSIONER, MADIGAN stars Richard Widmark as the eponymous New York detective in this warmup for Don Siegel's DIRTY HARRY. Joined by his partner Rocco Bonaro...
6.7
1K votes
6.7
1K votes
Man of a Thousand Faces
1957 · Movie · 122 min. · United States
Direction Joseph Pevney
Cast James Cagney · Dorothy Malone · Jane Greer · Jim Backus
Plot Loose biography of actor Lon Chaney. Growing up with deaf parents, he learns what it is like to be different. As an actor, he puts that knowledge (together with lots...
6.7
378 votes
6.7
378 votes
Story of G.I. Joe
1945 · Movie · 109 min. · United States
Direction William A. Wellman
Cast Robert Mitchum · Burgess Meredith · Freddie Steele · Wally Cassell
Plot War correspondent Ernie Pyle joins Company C, 18th Infantry as this American army unit fights its way across North Africa in World War II. He comes to know the soldiers...
6.6
440 votes
6.6
440 votes
The Lady Gambles
1949 · Movie · 99 min. · United States
Direction Michael Gordon
Cast Barbara Stanwyck · Robert Preston · Stephen McNally · Edith Barrett
Plot When Joan Boothe accompanies husband-reporter David to Las Vegas, she begins gambling to pass the time while he is doing a story...
6.6
146 votes
6.6
146 votes
Columbo: Murder by the Book (TV)
1971 · Movie · 79 min. · United States
Direction Steven Spielberg
Cast Peter Falk · Jack Cassidy · Rosemary Forsyth · Martin Milner
Plot Ken Franklin is a rich socialite living in a luxurious coastal mansion bought from his years of writing crime and mystery books. However, what he once wrote as fiction becomes...
6.6
958 votes
6.6
958 votes
Madame X
1966 · Movie · 100 min. · United States
Direction David Lowell Rich
Cast Lana Turner · John Forsythe · Ricardo Montalban · Burgess Meredith
Plot A woman married to a wealthy socialite, is compromised by the accidental death of a man who had been romantically pursuing her, and is forced by her mother-in-law to assume...
6.6
383 votes
6.6
383 votes
A Woman's Vengeance
1948 · Movie · 96 min. · United States
Direction Zoltan Korda
Cast Charles Boyer · Ann Blyth · Jessica Tandy · Cedric Hardwicke
Plot Country squire Henry Maurier is patient with his wife Emily, a neurotic invalid, but her brother surprises Henry with his young mistress Doris. The same night, Emily dies of her...
6.5
109 votes
6.5
109 votes
This Earth is Mine
1959 · Movie · 125 min. · United States
Direction Henry King
Cast Rock Hudson · Jean Simmons · Dorothy McGuire · Claude Rains
6.4
506 votes
6.4
506 votes
Columbo: Lady in Waiting (TV)
1971 · Movie · 75 min. · United States
Direction Norman Lloyd
Cast Peter Falk · Susan Clark · Jessie Royce Landis · Richard Anderson
Plot A mousy heiress murders her brother, pretending she thought he was a burglar. Lt. Columbo unravels her alibi.
6.4
340 votes
6.4
340 votes
Ride the Pink Horse
1947 · Movie · 101 min. · United States
Direction Robert Montgomery
Cast Robert Montgomery · Wanda Hendrix · Andrea King · Thomas Gomez
Plot In the bordertown of San Pablo, preparing for an annual 'Mexican Fiesta,' arrives Gagin: tough, mysterious and laconic. His mission: to find the equally mysterious Frank Hugo, evidently for revenge;...
6.4
259 votes
6.4
259 votes
Columbo: Dead Weight (TV)
1971 · Movie · 90 min. · United States
Direction Jack Smight
Cast Peter Falk · Eddie Albert · Kate Reid · Suzanne Pleshette
Plot A war hero shoots and kills his business partner; an easily manipulated young divorcée is the only witness.
6.4
347 votes
6.4
347 votes
Midnight Lace
1960 · Movie · 105 min. · United States
Direction David Miller
Cast Doris Day · Rex Harrison · John Gavin · Myrna Loy
Plot Kit and Anthony Preston never had a real honeymoon, and the midnight lace pajamas are for when they can finally get out of London. Anthony's business is very pressing these...
6.4
1K votes
6.4
1K votes
Dance, Girl, Dance
1940 · Movie · 90 min. · United States
Direction Dorothy Arzner
Cast Maureen O'Hara · Louis Hayward · Lucille Ball · Virginia Field
6.4
197 votes
6.4
197 votes
Miracle in the Rain
1956 · Movie · 108 min. · United States
Direction Rudolph Maté
Cast Jane Wyman · Van Johnson · Peggie Castle · Fred Clark
Plot A fanciful, O. Henryesque tale set in New York City during World War II. A shy, lonely woman and a dashing soldier from Tennessee meet in the rain late one...
6.4
81 votes
6.4
81 votes
Portrait in Black
1960 · Movie · 112 min. · United States
Direction Michael Gordon
Cast Lana Turner · Anthony Quinn · Richard Basehart · Sandra Dee
Plot Lana Turner and Anthony Quinn are lovers who murder Lana's cruel, but wealthy husband, played by Lloyd Nolan. Since Quinn is her husband's physician, the murder is easily committed, but...
6.3
284 votes
6.3
284 votes
Thoroughly Modern Millie
1967 · Movie · 138 min. · United States
Direction George Roy Hill
Cast Julie Andrews · James Fox · Mary Tyler Moore · Carol Channing
Plot In 1922 New York City, Millie Dillmount and Miss Dorothy Brown are just two of the girls living at the Priscilla Hotel for Single Young Ladies run by Mrs. Meers....
6.3
459 votes
6.3
459 votes
Kiss the Blood Off My Hands
1948 · Movie · 79 min. · United States
Direction Norman Foster
Cast Joan Fontaine · Burt Lancaster · Robert Newton · Lewis L. Russell
Plot Bill Saunders, disturbed ex-soldier, kills a man in a postwar London pub brawl. Fleeing, he hides out in the apartment of lonely nurse Jane Wharton. Later, despite misgivings about his...
6.2
281 votes
6.2
281 votes
Arch of Triumph
1948 · Movie · 120 min. · United States
Direction Lewis Milestone
Cast Ingrid Bergman · Charles Boyer · Charles Laughton · Louis Calhern
Plot In winter of 1938, Paris is crowded with refugees from the Nazis, who live in the black shadows of night, trying to evade deportation. One such is Dr. Ravic, who...
6.2
637 votes
6.2
637 votes