Cinematography: Winton C. Hoch

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


The Quiet Man

1952 · Movie · 129 min. · United States

Direction John Ford

Cast John Wayne · Maureen O'Hara · Barry Fitzgerald · Ward Bond

Plot John Wayne stars as Sean Thornton, a retired American boxing champion trying to put tragedy behind him by returning to Innisfree, the bucolic Irish village of his birth. He purchases...

8.0

29K votes

8.0

29K votes

The Searchers

1956 · Movie · 119 min. · United States

Direction John Ford

Cast John Wayne · Natalie Wood · Jeffrey Hunter · Ward Bond

Plot Ethan Edwards (John Wayne), a case-hardened Civil War veteran, returns to his brother Aaron's (Walter Coy) Texas home in 1868. When Rev. Samuel Johnson Clayton (Ward Bond) arrives to raise...

8.0

31K votes

8.0

31K votes

She Wore a Yellow Ribbon

1949 · Movie · 103 min. · United States

Direction John Ford

Cast John Wayne · Joanne Dru · John Agar · Ben Johnson

Plot Captain Nathan Brittles, on the eve of retirement, takes out a last patrol to stop an impending massive Indian attack. Encumbered by women who must be evacuated, Brittles finds his...

7.5

7K votes

7.5

7K votes

The Three Godfathers (3 Godfathers)

1948 · Movie · 103 min. · United States

Direction John Ford

Cast John Wayne · Pedro Armendáriz · Harry Carey Jr. · Ward Bond

Plot Three outlaws on the run discover a dying woman and her baby. They swear to bring the infant to safety across the desert, even at the risk of their own...

6.9

2K votes

6.9

2K votes

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (TV Series)

1964 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Irwin Allen · Jus Addiss · Jerry Hopper · Sobey Martin

Cast Richard Basehart · David Hedison · Robert Dowdell · Del Monroe

Plot Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea is a 1960s American science fiction television series based on the 1961 film of the same name. Both were created by Irwin Allen,...

6.8

251 votes

6.8

251 votes

Mister Roberts

1955 · Movie · 123 min. · United States

Direction John Ford · Mervyn LeRoy

Cast Henry Fonda · James Cagney · Jack Lemmon · William Powell

Plot Mister Roberts is aboard a US cargo ship, working in the Pacific during the Second World War. He'd do anything to leave the quiet of the ship to join in...

6.6

2K votes

6.6

2K votes

The Time Tunnel (TV Series)

1966 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Irwin Allen · Sobey Martin · Nathan Juran · William Hale

Cast James Darren · Robert Colbert · Whit Bissell · John Zaremba

Plot Scientists Tony Newman and Doug Phillips are the young heads of Project Tic-Toc, a multi-billion dollar government installation buried beneath the desert. They have invented a Time Tunnel, which will...

6.6

348 votes

6.6

348 votes

This Earth is Mine

1959 · Movie · 125 min. · United States

6.4

506 votes

6.4

506 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

So Dear to My Heart

1948 · Movie · 79 min. · United States

Direction Harold D. Schuster · Hamilton Luske

Cast Burl Ives · Beulah Bondi · Bobby Driscoll · Luana Patten

Plot Set in early 20th century Indiana (in 1903), So Dear to My Heart tells the tale of Jeremiah Kincaid (Bobby Driscoll) and his quest to raise his 'champion' lamb, Danny...

6.0

61 votes

6.0

61 votes

Dive Bomber

1941 · Movie · 133 min. · United States

Direction Michael Curtiz

Cast Errol Flynn · Fred MacMurray · Ralph Bellamy · Alexis Smith

Plot A new flight surgeon (Flynn) and a Navy pilot (MacMurray) overcome personal differences to work on solving the problem of Altitude Sickness which causes blackouts at high altitude. The real...

5.9

204 votes

5.9

204 votes

Darby O'Gill and the Little People

1959 · Movie · 93 min. · United States

Direction Robert Stevenson

Cast Sean Connery · Albert Sharpe · Janet Munro · Jimmy O'Dea

Plot Darby O'Gill and the Little People is a Disney film set in rural Ireland at the beginning of the 19th century. Based on the books of Herminie Templeton Kavanagh, the...

5.9

220 votes

5.9

220 votes

Tap Roots

1948 · Movie · 109 min. · United States

Direction George Marshall

Cast Van Heflin · Susan Hayward · Boris Karloff · Julie London

Plot Morna Dabney is engaged to soldier Clay MacIvor in the days before the War Between the States. Morna's grandfather Big Sam Dabney founded their Mississippi plantation near Levington, which thrives...

5.8

75 votes

5.8

75 votes

Halls of Montezuma

1951 · Movie · 113 min. · United States

Direction Lewis Milestone

Cast Richard Widmark · Jack Palance · Reginald Gardiner · Robert Wagner

Plot The marines attack a strongly held enemy island in the Pacific. We follow them from the beach to a Japanese rocket site through enemy infested jungle as their ex-school teacher...

5.8

307 votes

5.8

307 votes

Melody Time

1948 · Movie · 72 min. · United States

Direction Clyde Geronimi · Wilfred Jackson · Jack Kinney · Hamilton Luske

Plot Segments: "Once Upon a Wintertime," two lovers recued from an icy river by friendly animals; "Bumble Boogie," bee beset by musical instruments and symbols come to life; "Johnny Appleseed," story...

5.8

646 votes

5.8

646 votes

Tulsa

1949 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Stuart Heisler

Cast Susan Hayward · Robert Preston · Pedro Armendáriz · Lloyd Gough

Plot It's Tulsa, Oklahoma at the start of the oil boom and Cherokee Lansing's rancher father is killed in a fight with the Tanner Oil Company. Cherokee plans revenge by bringing...

5.7

283 votes

5.7

283 votes

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea

1961 · Movie · 105 min. · United States

Direction Irwin Allen

Cast Walter Pidgeon · Joan Fontaine · Barbara Eden · Peter Lorre

Plot The experimental submarine Seaview emerges from testsunder the Arctic ice-pack to find the sky on fire, a passing comethaving set the Van Allen radiation belt alight. Seaview’s designer AdmiralHarriman Nelson...

5.6

605 votes

5.6

605 votes

Robinson Crusoe on Mars

1964 · Movie · 110 min. · United States

Direction Byron Haskin

Cast Paul Mantee · Victor Lundin · Adam West

Plot Stranded on Mars with only a monkey as a companion, an astronaut must figure out how to find oxygen, water, and food on the lifeless planet.

5.5

237 votes

5.5

237 votes

The Big Circus

1959 · Movie · 109 min. · United States

Direction Joseph M. Newman

Cast Victor Mature · Red Buttons · Rhonda Fleming · Kathryn Grant

Plot When circus owner Hank Whirling tries to get his bankrupt show back on the road, he is thwarted by bad luck and accidents. As the mishaps increase, it becomes obvious...

5.5

122 votes

5.5

122 votes

Return to Paradise

1953 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction Mark Robson

Cast Gary Cooper · Barry Jones · Roberta Haynes · Moira Walker

Plot Based on the short story "Mr. Morgan" from "Return To Paradise" (James Michener's sequel to "Tales of the South Pacific"). Morgan (Gary Cooper), a drifter and soldier-of-fortune washes up on...

5.5

367 votes

5.5

367 votes