Cinematography: William C. Thompson
The best movies, series, and documentaries with cinematography by William C. Thompson. Explore visually stunning titles that highlight an exceptional filmmaking.
Dementia
1955 · Movie · 56 min. · United States
Direction John Parker
Cast Adrienne Barrett · Bruno VeSota · Ben Roseman · Richard Barron
Plot As the narrator invites us to explore the horrors of an insane mind, a young woman wakes from a nightmare in a cheap hotel room. We follow her through the...
6.4
412 votes
6.4
412 votes
Glen or Glenda
1953 · Movie · 70 min. · United States
Direction Ed Wood
Cast Bela Lugosi · Ed Wood · Dolores Fuller · Lyle Talbot
Plot Upon discovering the suicide of a known transvestite, the police inspector seeks enlightenment from a psychiatrist familiar with the phenomenom. The psychiatrist tells him two tales. Glen is to be...
4.7
1K votes
4.7
1K votes
Final Curtain (S)
1957 · Movie · 20 min. · United States
Direction Ed Wood
Cast Duke Moore · Dudley Manlove · Jeannie Stevens
Plot After a horror play's final performance, The Vampire roams the theater.
4.5
24 votes
4.5
24 votes
Bride of the Monster
1955 · Movie · 68 min. · United States
Direction Ed Wood
Cast Bela Lugosi · Tor Johnson · Tony McCoy · Loretta King
Plot Dr. Varnoff captures twelve men for his experiment: to turn them into supermen using atomic energy. Newspaperwoman Lawton gets too snoopy for her own good.
4.4
858 votes
4.4
858 votes
Plan 9 from Outer Space
1959 · Movie · 79 min. · United States
Direction Ed Wood
Cast Bela Lugosi · Maila Nurmi · Lyle Talbot · Gregory Walcott
Plot PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE is Ed Wood's unintentionally hilarious film in which aliens plan to take over the world by resurrecting only three corpses. Horror icon Bela Lugosi died...
4.4
5K votes
4.4
5K votes
The Astounding She-Monster
1957 · Movie · 62 min. · United States
Direction Ronald V. Ashcroft
Cast Robert Clarke · Kenne Duncan · Marilyn Harvey · Jeanne Tatum
Plot A scientist and a gang that has kidnapped a rich heiress come up against a beautiful but lethal alien who has crash-landed her spaceship on Earth.
4.3
40 votes
4.3
40 votes
Maniac
1934 · Movie · 51 min. · United States
Direction Dwain Esper
Cast William Woods · Horace B. Carpenter · Ted Edwards · Phyllis Diller
Plot An ex-vaudeville actor gifted at impersonation assists a mad scientist to reanimate corpses and soon goes mad himself.
4.1
64 votes
4.1
64 votes
Jail Bait (Hidden Face)
1954 · Movie · 72 min. · United States
Direction Ed Wood
Cast Lyle Talbot · Dolores Fuller · Herbert Rawlinson · Steve Reeves
Plot Vic Brady draws young Don Gregor into a life of crime. He then blackmails Gregor's plastic surgeon father into fixing up his face so he can evade the cops. This...
4.0
159 votes
4.0
159 votes
Night of the Ghouls
1959 · Movie · 69 min. · United States
Direction Ed Wood
Cast Kenne Duncan · Duke Moore · Tor Johnson · Valda Hansen
Plot Phony spiritualist raises the dead.
3.8
178 votes
3.8
178 votes
Son of the Renegade
1953 · Movie · min. · United States
Direction Reg Browne
Cast Johnny Carpenter · Lori Irving · Joan McKellen · Valley Keene
Plot In a throw-back to the worse of the 1930's indie westerns, Red River Johnny (Johnny Carpenter) gathers his friends (most of whom are called some variation of the name Bill)and...
3.3
59 votes
3.3
59 votes
The Sinister Urge
1960 · Movie · 71 min. · United States
Direction Ed Wood
Cast Kenne Duncan · Duke Moore · Jean Fontaine · Carl Anthony
Plot A flunky for a porno movie ring starts murdering the smut films' lead actresses.
3.2
75 votes
3.2
75 votes
The Devil's Sleep
1949 · Movie · 77 min. · United States
Direction W. Merle Connell
Cast Lita Grey · Will Charles · William Thomason · Timothy Farrell
Plot The head of an illegal drug ring uses a women's health spa as a front for his sleeping-pill racket.
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The Golden Mistress
1954 · Movie · 83 min. · United States
Direction Abner Biberman
Cast John Agar · Rosemarie Stack · Jacques Molant · André Narcisse
Plot Ann Dexter, daughter of an itinerant Haiti waterfront character, Carl Dexter, brings a golden idol, which her father her stolen at a voodoo ceremony, to Bill Buchanan, who is known...
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Project Moonbase (Project Moon Base)
1953 · Movie · 63 min. · United States
Direction Richard Talmadge
Cast Ross Ford · Donna Martell · Hayden Rorke · Larry Johns
Plot In the not-too-distant future of 1970, the United States is considering building bases on the Moon, and send a female colonel and two men to investigate. One of the men...
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Revenge
1918 · Movie · 70 min. · United States
Direction Tod Browning
Cast Edith Storey · Wheeler Oakman · Ralph Lewis · Alberta Ballard
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Too Soon to Love
1960 · Movie · 85 min. · United States
Direction Richard Rush
Cast Jennifer West · Richard Evans · Warren Parker · Ralph Manza
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No Greater Love
1932 · Movie · 59 min. · United States
Direction Lewis Seiler
Cast Dickie Moore · Alexander Carr · Richard Bennett · Beryl Mercer
Plot Owing more than just a passing nod to "Abie's Irish Rose," a kindly Jewish delicatessen owner in New York City, Sidney Cohen, adopts a young, crippled Irish girl, Mildred, with...
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Racket Girls
1951 · Movie · 70 min. · United States
Direction Robert C. Dertano
Cast Peaches Page · Timothy Farrell · Clara Mortensen · Rita Martínez
Plot Scalli is a gangster who manages women wrestlers as a front for his bookmaking, drug, and prostitution rackets. He trusts the wrong people and ends up trying to run away...
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The Violent Years
1956 · Movie · 65 min. · United States
Direction William Morgan
Cast Jean Moorhead · Barbara Weeks · Art Millan · Theresa Hancock
Plot Paula Parkins is the teenage daughter of wealthy parents whom don't seem to make time for her, so she looks for thrills as the leader of her all girl gang...
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