Cinematography: William V. Skall

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


Rope

1948 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

Direction Alfred Hitchcock

Cast James Stewart · John Dall · Farley Granger · Cedric Hardwicke

Plot Brandon and Philip are two young men who share a New York apartment. They consider themselves intellectually superior to their friend David Kentley and as a consequence decide to murder...

8.1

35K votes

8.1

35K votes

Quo Vadis

1951 · Movie · 171 min. · United States

Direction Mervyn LeRoy

Cast Robert Taylor · Deborah Kerr · Peter Ustinov · Leo Genn

Plot Returning to Rome after 3 years in the field, General Marcus Vinicius meets Lygia and falls in love with her. She is a Christian and doesn't want to have anything...

7.3

11K votes

7.3

11K votes

Ramona

1936 · Movie · 84 min. · United States

6.9

53 votes

6.9

53 votes

The Return of Frank James

1940 · Movie · 91 min. · United States

Direction Fritz Lang

Cast Henry Fonda · Gene Tierney · Jackie Cooper · Henry Hull

Plot Frank James continues to avoid arrest in order to take revenge on the Ford brothers for their murder of his brother Jesse.

6.8

1K votes

6.8

1K votes

Northwest Passage (Book I - Rogers' Rangers)

1940 · Movie · 125 min. · United States

Direction King Vidor

Cast Spencer Tracy · Robert Young · Walter Brennan · Ruth Hussey

Plot Based on the Kenneth Roberts novel of the same name, this film tells the story of two friends who join Rogers' Rangers, as the legendary elite force engages the enemy...

6.7

1K votes

6.7

1K votes

The Memphis Belle: A Story of a Flying Fortress

1944 · Documentary · 45 min. · United States

Direction William Wyler

Plot Documentary about the 25th and last bombing mission of a B17, the "Memphis Belle". The "Memphis Belle" took part in a great bombing raid on sub-pens in Wilhelmshafen, Germany. On...

6.7

128 votes

6.7

128 votes

Reap the Wild Wind

1942 · Movie · 118 min. · United States

Direction Cecil B. DeMille

Cast John Wayne · Paulette Goddard · Ray Milland · Raymond Massey

Plot In 1840, America's line life is the sea, with an intense commerce. In Key West shore, two ship savage companies dispute the wrecked vessels. The honest one belongs to the...

6.6

1K votes

6.6

1K votes

Life with Father

1947 · Movie · 118 min. · United States

Direction Michael Curtiz

Cast William Powell · Irene Dunne · Elizabeth Taylor · Edmund Gwenn

Plot In late nineteenth century New York a Wall Street broker likes to think his house runs his way, but finds himself constantly bemused at how much of what happens is...

6.4

312 votes

6.4

312 votes

Kim

1950 · Movie · 112 min. · United States

Direction Victor Saville

Cast Errol Flynn · Dean Stockwell · Paul Lukas · Robert Douglas

Plot During the British Raj, the orphan of a British soldier poses as a Hindu and is torn between his loyalty to a Buddhist mystic and aiding the English secret service.

6.2

679 votes

6.2

679 votes

Joan of Arc

1948 · Movie · 145 min. · United States

Direction Victor Fleming

Cast Ingrid Bergman · José Ferrer · Francis L. Sullivan · Ward Bond

Plot In the Fifteenth Century, France is a defeated and ruined nation after the One Hundred Years War against England. The fourteen years old farm girl Joan of Arc claims to...

6.1

734 votes

6.1

734 votes

Night and Day

1946 · Movie · 128 min. · United States

Direction Michael Curtiz

Cast Cary Grant · Alexis Smith · Monty Woolley · Mary Martin

Plot With Michael Curtiz (Casablanca) as director, Cary Grant in the lead, and wall-to-wall songs by Cole Porter, how could Night and Day lose? Why, by taking broad liberties with the...

6.0

533 votes

6.0

533 votes

The Little Princess

1939 · Movie · 93 min. · United States

Direction Walter Lang

Cast Shirley Temple · Richard Greene · Anita Louise · Ian Hunter

Plot Based on Frances Hodgson Burnett’s popular children’s book and stage play, THE LITTLE PRINCESS features one of Shirley Temple’s most memorable performances and her first Technicolor appearance. Temple stars as...

5.9

529 votes

5.9

529 votes

Billy the Kid

1941 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction David Miller · Frank Borzage

Cast Robert Taylor · Brian Donlevy · Ian Hunter · Mary Howard

Plot It's Pat Garrett vs. Billy the Kid again in a remake of the 1930 Johnny Mack Brown starrer. At least this one's in vibrant Technicolor.

5.9

653 votes

5.9

653 votes

The Mikado

1939 · Movie · 90 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Victor Schertzinger

Cast Kenny Baker · Martyn Green · Sydney Granville · John Barclay

Plot The son of the Mikado of Japan, a wandering minstrel, falls for a girl who is engaged to her guardian.

5.9

27 votes

5.9

27 votes

The Forest Rangers

1942 · Movie · 87 min. · United States

Direction George Marshall

Cast Fred MacMurray · Paulette Goddard · Susan Hayward · Lynne Overman

Plot Ranger Don Stuart fights a forest fire with timber boss friend Tana 'Butch' Mason, and finds evidence of arson. He suspects Twig Dawson but can't prove it. Butch loves Don...

5.8

27 votes

5.8

27 votes

The Golden Hawk

1952 · Movie · 83 min. · United States

Direction Sidney Salkow

Cast Sterling Hayden · Rhonda Fleming · Helena Carter · John Sutton

Plot Kit Gerardo, also known as The Hawk, is one of Frances's most daring privateers, rescues Rouge from a Spanish ship. She is also a pirate, working to restore the fortune...

5.3

50 votes

5.3

50 votes

The Twilight Zone: Mr. Dingle, the Strong (TV)

1961 · Movie · 25 min. · United States

Direction John Brahm

Cast Burgess Meredith · James Westerfield · Eddie Ryder · Douglas Spencer

Plot A timid vacuum-cleaner salesman is given the strength of 300 men by some experimenting aliens.

5.3

83 votes

5.3

83 votes

To the Shores of Tripoli

1942 · Movie · 86 min. · United States

Direction H. Bruce Humberstone

Cast John Payne · Maureen O'Hara · Randolph Scott · Nancy Kelly

Plot Sergeant Dixie Smith has more raw recruits to turn into Marines, if he can. Among them is cocky casanova Chris Winters, son of an officer, who's just tried to "mash"...

5.0

94 votes

5.0

94 votes

Cripple Creek

1952 · Movie · 78 min. · United States

Direction Ray Nazarro

Cast George Montgomery · Karin Booth · Jerome Courtland · William Bishop

Plot Lawmen infiltrate bandit gang to catch mining crooks.

4.8

42 votes

4.8

42 votes

The Silver Chalice

1954 · Movie · 142 min. · United States

Direction Victor Saville

Cast Paul Newman · Virginia Mayo · Pier Angeli · Jack Palance

Plot A Greek artisan is commissioned to cast the cup of Christ in silver and sculpt around its rim the faces of the disciples and Jesus himself. He travels to Jerusalem...

4.6

400 votes

4.6

400 votes