Cinematography: Jack MacKenzie

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


Mike Hammer (TV Series)

1956 · Series · 30 min. · United States

Direction Boris Sagal · Richard Irving · William Witney · John English

Cast Darren McGavin · Bart Burns · Vito Scotti · Johnny Seven

Synopsis TV Series (1956-1959) 78 episodes. The adventures of Mickey Spillane's tough-talking, brawling, skirt-chasing private detective Mike Hammer, who's always ready to use his fists on a "mug" or his charm on a "skirt" to get the case solved.

6.5

28 votes

6.5

28 votes

Direction Jean Yarbrough

Cast Bud Abbott · Lou Costello · Sid Fields · Gordon Jones

Synopsis Bud and Lou are unemployed actors living in Mr. Fields' boarding house. Lou's girlfriend Hillary lives across the hall. Any premise would lead to slapstick, puns, lots of gimmicks from their movies. Very popular originally and in reruns.

6.4

25 votes

6.4

25 votes

Great Guy

1936 · Movie · 66 min. · United States

Direction John G. Blystone

Cast James Cagney · Mae Clarke · James Burke · Edward Brophy

Synopsis It's the New York Department of Weights and Measures vs. a systematic effort to cheat the public by giving them less product than they pay for...organized by crooked city alderman Marty Cavanaugh, who put the last chief deputy inspector in...

6.1

462 votes

6.1

462 votes

Laugh and Get Rich

1931 · Movie · 72 min. · United States

6.0

62 votes

6.0

62 votes

Isle of the Dead

1945 · Movie · 71 min. · United States

Direction Mark Robson

Cast Boris Karloff · Ellen Drew · Marc Cramer · Katherine Emery

Synopsis On a Greek island during the 1912 war, several people are trapped by quarantine for the plague. If that isn't enough worry, one of the people, a superstitious old peasant woman, suspects one young girl of being a vampiric kind...

6.0

397 votes

6.0

397 votes

Two O'Clock Courage

1945 · Movie · 68 min. · United States

Direction Anthony Mann

Cast Tom Conway · Ann Rutherford · Richard Lane · Lester Matthews

Synopsis After nearly running over him with her cab, Patty Mitchell picks up a fare who claims to have amnesia. As he fumbles to remember the basic facts of his identity, Patty becomes interested in the stranger and decides to help...

5.6

170 votes

5.6

170 votes

Kept Husbands

1931 · Movie · 76 min. · United States

Direction Lloyd Bacon

Cast Dorothy Mackaill · Joel McCrea · Ned Sparks · Mary Carr

Synopsis Blue collar steelworker Richard Brunton (McCrea) saves two of his fellow workers after an accident at a factory. In gratitude, his boss, millionaire Arthur Parker invites Richard for dinner with his family. Arthur's daughter Dot (Mackaill) is instantly impressed and...

5.5

22 votes

5.5

22 votes

Leave It to Beaver (TV Series)

1957 · Series · 30 min. · United States

Direction Joe Connelly · Dick Conway · Bob Mosher · Norman Tokar

Cast Barbara Billingsley · Jerry Mathers · Hugh Beaumont · Tony Dow

Synopsis TV Series (1957-1963). Join the Cleavers, America's quintessential family. Theodore "Beaver" Cleaver (Jerry Mathers) can't seem to avoid trouble, and his older brother Wally (Tony Dow), and mischievous pal Eddie Haskell (Ken Osmond), aren't any help. But with some wise...

5.5

38 votes

5.5

38 votes

Child of Divorce

1946 · Movie · 62 min. · United States

Direction Richard Fleischer

Cast Sharyn Moffett · Regis Toomey · Madge Meredith · Walter Reed

Synopsis An eight-year-old girl is an unwilling and disturbed witness of parental quarrels in her home, and when the parents finally secure a divorce, the judge decrees that the young girl live with her mother for eight months and her father...

5.3

44 votes

5.3

44 votes

Zombies on Broadway

1945 · Movie · 69 min. · United States

Direction Gordon Douglas

Cast Wally Brown · Alan Carney · Bela Lugosi · Anne Jeffreys

Synopsis Two inept press agents are ordered to the island of San Sebastian to get a zombie for an opening night publicity stunt of a nightclub. They find a likely source in Dr. Paul Renault, who has spent much time studying...

5.0

55 votes

5.0

55 votes

The Return of Dracula

1958 · Movie · 77 min. · United States

Direction Paul Landres

Cast Francis Lederer · Norma Eberhardt · Ray Stricklyn · John Wengraf

Synopsis After a vampire leaves his native Balkans, he murders a Czech artist, assumes his identity, and moves in with the dead man's American cousins.

4.8

78 votes

4.8

78 votes

The Vampire

1957 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Paul Landres

Cast John Beal · Coleen Gray · Wood Romoff · Kenneth Tobey

Synopsis A small town doctor mistakenly ingests an experimental drug made from the blood of vampire bats which transforms the kindly medic into a bloodthirsty monster.

4.8

38 votes

4.8

38 votes

Scattergood Survives a Murder

1942 · Movie · 66 min. · United States

Direction Christy Cabanne

Cast Guy Kibbee · John Archer · Margaret Hayes · Wallace Ford

Synopsis Scattergood meets the new owner of the local newspaper, Dunker Gillson. One of Gillson's first tasks is to interview the wealthy but reclusive Quentin sisters, Lydia and Cynthia, who have stayed in their old musty house for years. The somewhat...

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Cimarron City (TV Series)

1958 · Series · 30 min. · United States

Direction Richard Bartlett · John Meredyth Lucas · John Brahm

Cast George Montgomery · John Smith · Audrey Totter · Dan Blocker

Synopsis TV Series (1958–1960). Cimarron City is booming due to oil and gold and hopes to become capital of the future state of Oklahoma. Matthew Rockford is the son of the city's founder; he's now mayor and a major cattle rancher....

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Breaking the Ice

1938 · Movie · 81 min. · United States

Direction Edward F. Cline

Cast Bobby Breen · Charles Ruggles · Dolores Costello · Irene Dare

Synopsis Tommy Martin lives with mother Martha in a conservative religious community but dreams of a singing career. He leaves to join a traveling show where he befriends skating sensation Irene and performs lively tunes to make a living.

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Code of the West

1947 · Movie · 57 min. · United States

Direction William Berke

Cast James Warren · Debra Alden · John Laurenz · Steve Brodie

Synopsis Knowing the railroad is coming, Carter is after the rancher's land. Bob and Chito return just in time to save Banker Stockton and his money from Carter's men. When Stockton then lends the ranchers money, Carter has them burned out....

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The Monkey's Paw

1933 · Movie · 58 min. · United States

Direction Wesley Ruggles · Ernest B. Schoedsack

Cast Ivan Simpson · Louise Carter · C. Aubrey Smith · Bramwell Fletcher

Synopsis A mother wishes for the return of her dead son--a wish that is granted by the severed paw of a dead monkey.

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The Falcon Strikes Back

1943 · Movie · 66 min. · United States

Direction Edward Dmytryk

Cast Tom Conway · Harriet Hilliard · Jane Randolph · Edgar Kennedy

Synopsis The Falcon is framed for the murder of a banker and the theft of war bonds. He makes his escape into the mountains where he hides out in a rustic lodge. From here he uncovers a phony war bond operation.

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High Air (TV)

1956 · Movie · 30 min. · United States

Direction Allan Dwan

Cast William Bendix · Dennis Hopper · John Alderson · Leo Gordon

Synopsis A father and his estranged son, both tunnel workers in New York City, are forced to deal with each other during a dangerous collapse.

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Not rated

Gildersleeve's Bad Day

1943 · Movie · 62 min. · United States

Direction Gordon Douglas

Cast Harold Peary · Jane Darwell · Nancy Gates · Charles Arnt

Synopsis Assorted citizens of Summerfield, including Gildersleeve of radio fame, sit on a jury in the trial of bank robber Louie Barton. Through coincidence, Gildersleeve is wrongly suspected of bribe-taking. His efforts to get out of trouble only get him deeper...

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