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

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

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