Cinematography: Maury Gertsman

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


Monkey on my Back

1957 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction André De Toth

Cast Cameron Mitchell · Dianne Foster · Paul Richards · Jack Albertson

Synopsis The true story of Barney Ross, a World War II hero and champion professional boxer, who became addicted to morphine.

6.5

124 votes

6.5

124 votes

Singapore

1947 · Movie · 79 min. · United States

Direction John Brahm

Cast Fred MacMurray · Ava Gardner · Roland Culver · Richard Haydn

Synopsis After the war, Matt Gordon returns to Singapore to retrieve a fortune in smuggled pearls. Arrived, he reminisces in flashback about his prewar fiancée...

6.4

79 votes

6.4

79 votes

Rachel and the Stranger

1948 · Movie · 92 min. · United States

Direction Norman Foster

Cast William Holden · Loretta Young · Robert Mitchum · Gary Gray

Synopsis A wandering frontiersman (Robert Mitchum) visits a backwoodsman (William Holden) and his wife (Loretta Young), and during his stay has a profound effect on their relationship.

6.2

291 votes

6.2

291 votes

One Way Street

1950 · Movie · 79 min. · United States

Direction Hugo Fregonese

Cast James Mason · Märta Torén · Dan Duryea · Basil Ruysdael

Synopsis After stealing a gangster's money and his girlfriend, a doctor heads for a small village in Mexico.

6.2

48 votes

6.2

48 votes

The Glass Web

1953 · Movie · 81 min. · United States

Direction Jack Arnold

Cast Edward G. Robinson · John Forsythe · Kathleen Hughes · Marcia Henderson

Synopsis A beautiful but heartless television actress, uses seduction and tricks to blackmail the men in her life to a point, where she could get herself killed.

6.2

43 votes

6.2

43 votes

Terror by Night

1946 · Movie · 58 min. · United States

Direction Roy William Neill

Cast Basil Rathbone · Nigel Bruce · Alan Mowbray · Renee Godfrey

Synopsis Holmes is hired by Roland Carstairs to prevent the theft of the Star of Rhodesia, an enormous diamond owned by Carstairs' mother, Lady Margaret. Believing the diamond will be stolen on a train trip from London to Edinburgh, Holmes deftly...

6.1

745 votes

6.1

745 votes

Never Say Goodbye

1956 · Movie · 96 min. · United States

Direction Jerry Hopper · Douglas Sirk

Cast Rock Hudson · Cornell Borchers · George Sanders · Shelley Fabares

Synopsis In present-day U.S., Dr. Michael Parker, a prominent surgeon, unexpectedly runs into his German-born wife whom he thought was dead. Victor, an artist and his "dead" wife's now boyfriend, berates Dr. Parker for "killing" her. The bulk of the story...

6.1

162 votes

6.1

162 votes

One Desire

1955 · Movie · 94 min. · United States

6.0

193 votes

6.0

193 votes

Peter Gunn (TV Series)

1958 · Series · 30 min. · United States

Direction Boris Sagal · Lamont Johnson · Blake Edwards · David Orrick McDearmon

Cast Craig Stevens · Herschel Bernardi · Lola Albright · Byron Kane

Synopsis The cases of a stylishly cool private detective.

6.0

32 votes

6.0

32 votes

Back to God's Country

1953 · Movie · 78 min. · United States

Direction Joseph Pevney

Cast Rock Hudson · Marcia Henderson · Steve Cochran · Hugh O´Brian

Synopsis Late 1800s. In the icy wilderness of Alaska, businessman Paul Blake and his assistant, Frank Hudson, kill an Eskimo and steal his map. When the dead man's sled dog, Wapi, attacks the men, they beat the Great Dane with a...

5.9

173 votes

5.9

173 votes

Red Ball Express

1952 · Movie · 83 min. · United States

Direction Budd Boetticher

Cast Jeff Chandler · Alex Nicol · Charles Drake · Judith Braun

Synopsis A racially integrated platoon fights to overcome their differences during World War II.

5.8

30 votes

5.8

30 votes

House of Horrors

1946 · Movie · 65 min. · United States

Direction Jean Yarbrough

Cast Rondo Hatton · Robert Lowery · Virginia Grey · Bill Goodwin

Synopsis Marcel De Lange is a struggling sculptor whose work and sanity are derided by the New York art critics. After waspishly officious critic F. Holmes Harmon ruins a sale for De Lange by dismissing his expressionistic cubist work as "tripe"...

5.8

23 votes

5.8

23 votes

Strange Confession

1945 · Movie · 62 min. · United States

Direction John Hoffman

Cast Lon Chaney Jr. · Brenda Joyce · J. Carrol Naish · Milburn Stone

Synopsis A scientist who is working on a cure for influenza is victimized by his unscrupulous boss, who releases the vaccine before it's ready, resulting in the death of the scientist's young son.

5.8

36 votes

5.8

36 votes

Johnny Stool Pigeon

1949 · Movie · 76 min. · United States

Direction William Castle

Cast Howard Duff · Shelley Winters · Dan Duryea · Tony Curtis

Synopsis A narcotics agent convinces a convict (one he helped send to Alcatraz) to go undercover with him to help expose a heroin drug smuggling ring. The unlikely pair travels from San Francisco to Vancouver and finally to a dude ranch...

5.8

28 votes

5.8

28 votes

Frenchie

1950 · Movie · 81 min. · United States

Direction Louis King

Cast Joel McCrea · Shelley Winters · Paul Kelly · Elsa Lanchester

Synopsis Frenchie Fontaine sells her successful business in New Orleans to come West. Her reason? Find the men who killed her father, Frank Dawson. But she only knows one of the two who did and she's determined to find out the...

5.7

70 votes

5.7

70 votes

The Lone Hand

1953 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

5.7

121 votes

5.7

121 votes

Bengal Brigade

1954 · Movie · 84 min. · United States

Direction Laslo Benedek

Cast Rock Hudson · Arlene Dahl · Ursula Thiess · Torin Thatcher

Synopsis Rock Hudson stars as British army officer, Captain Claybourne, fighting to help put down the Sepoy revolt against British rule in India.

5.7

364 votes

5.7

364 votes

Cattle Drive

1951 · Movie · 77 min. · United States

5.6

108 votes

5.6

108 votes

How to Make a Monster

1958 · Movie · 73 min. · United States

Direction Herbert L. Strock

Cast Robert H. Harris · Gary Conway · Paul Brinegar · Gary Clarke

Synopsis When master monster make-up man Pete is sacked by the new bosses of American International studios he uses his creations to exact revenge.

5.5

54 votes

5.5

54 votes