Cinematography: Joseph F. Biroc
The best movies, series, and documentaries with cinematography by Joseph F. Biroc. Explore visually stunning titles that highlight an exceptional filmmaking.
Bye Bye Birdie
1963 · Movie · 112 min. · United States
Direction George Sidney
Cast Janet Leigh · Ann-Margret · Dick Van Dyke · Bobby Rydell
Plot Conrad Birdie is an Elvis Presley-type rock 'n' roll star who is drafted into the Army, much to the horror of his broke agent, Albert Peterson. In an attempt to...
5.9
259 votes
5.9
259 votes
The Longest Yard
1974 · Movie · 123 min. · United States
Direction Robert Aldrich
Cast Burt Reynolds · Eddie Albert · Ed Lauter · Michael Conrad
Plot In this rough-and tumble movie, actually filmed on-location at the Georgia State Prison, the cons are the heroes and the guards are the heavies. Eddie Albert is the sadistic warden...
5.8
2K votes
5.8
2K votes
Cahill U.S.Marshal
1973 · Movie · 98 min. · United States
Direction Andrew V. McLaglen
Cast John Wayne · George Kennedy · Gary Grimes · Neville Brand
Plot J.D. Cahill is the toughest U.S. Marshal they've got, just the sound of his name makes bad guys stop in their tracks, so when his two young boy's want to...
5.8
771 votes
5.8
771 votes
...All the Marbles
1981 · Movie · 113 min. · United States
Direction Robert Aldrich
Cast Peter Falk · Vicki Frederick · Laurene Landon · Burt Young
Plot Harry manages The California Dolls, a female wrestling tag team endlessly touring America. He is also romantically involved with one of them. Their fortunes seem on the slide (particularly when...
5.8
179 votes
5.8
179 votes
Ice Palace
1960 · Movie · 143 min. · United States
Direction Vincent Sherman
Cast Richard Burton · Robert Ryan · Martha Hyer · Jim Backus
Plot At the end of World War I, Zeb Kennedy, a canner, and Thor Storm, a fishing boat captain, set up a fish cannery in Alaska and through the years find...
5.8
75 votes
5.8
75 votes
The Organization
1971 · Movie · 106 min. · United States
Direction Don Medford
Cast Sidney Poitier · Allen Garfield · Gerald S. O'Loughlin · Bernie Hamilton
Plot After a group of young revolutionaries break into a company's corporate headquarters and steal $5,000,000 worth of heroin to keep it off the street, they call on San Francisco Police...
5.7
169 votes
5.7
169 votes
On Our Merry Way
1948 · Movie · 108 min. · United States
Direction King Vidor · George Stevens · Leslie Fenton
Cast James Stewart · Henry Fonda · Burgess Meredith · Charles D. Brown
Plot Also released under the title A MIRACLE CAN HAPPEN, this three-part anthology features vignettes that are connected by a question from feature reporter Oliver Pease (Burgess Meredith): "Has a child...
5.7
524 votes
5.7
524 votes
My Dear Secretary
1948 · Movie · 94 min. · United States
Direction Charles Martin
Cast Laraine Day · Kirk Douglas · Keenan Wynn · Helen Walker
Plot A budding young writer thinks it's her lucky day when she is chosen to be the new secretary for Owen Waterbury, famous novelist. She is soon disppointed, however, when he...
5.7
522 votes
5.7
522 votes
Roughshod
1949 · Movie · 88 min. · United States
Direction Mark Robson
Cast Robert Sterling · Gloria Grahame · Claude Jarman Jr. · John Ireland
Plot Wrangler Clay Phillips and his young brother are taking horses to Sonora when they come across four dancehall girls heading the same way, stuck with a wrecked buggy. He takes...
5.7
41 votes
5.7
41 votes
Hustle
1975 · Movie · 120 min. · United States
Direction Robert Aldrich
Cast Burt Reynolds · Catherine Deneuve · Ben Johnson · Paul Winfield
Plot Burt Reynolds stars as Phil Gaines, a L.A. cop who would rather be living in the 1930s when life was cleaner. Ironically, he is in love with a prostitute (Catherine...
5.7
317 votes
5.7
317 votes
The Duchess and the Dirtwater Fox
1976 · Movie · 103 min. · United States
Direction Melvin Frank
Cast George Segal · Goldie Hawn · Conrad Janis · Thayer David
Plot A female hustler is chasing after rich men, but becomes repeatedly mixed up with a suave con man and card shark through a series of misadventures before falling in love...
5.6
41 votes
5.6
41 votes
I Saw What You Did
1965 · Movie · 82 min. · United States
Direction William Castle
Cast Joan Crawford · John Ireland · Leif Erickson · Sara Lane
Plot Teenagers, Libby and Kit, innocently spend an evening doing random prank calls. These calls lead to murderous consequences.
5.6
235 votes
5.6
235 votes
Under the Yum Yum Tree
1963 · Movie · 110 min. · United States
Direction David Swift
Cast Jack Lemmon · Carol Lynley · Dean Jones · Edie Adams
Plot A love-struck landlord tries to convince a pretty tenant to dump her fiance and give him a chance.
5.6
166 votes
5.6
166 votes
The Bat
1959 · Movie · 80 min. · United States
Direction Crane Wilbur
Cast Vincent Price · Agnes Moorehead · Gavin Gordon · John Sutton
Plot Mystery writer Cornelia Van Gorder has rented a country house called "The Oaks", which not long ago had been the scene of some murders committed by a strange and violent...
5.5
198 votes
5.5
198 votes
Warning Shot (TV)
1967 · Movie · 100 min. · United States
Direction Buzz Kulik
Cast David Janssen · Ed Begley · Keenan Wynn · Sam Wanamaker
Plot An officer goes on suspension when he shoots a suspect in self defense and the man's gun vanishes.
5.5
24 votes
5.5
24 votes
The choirboys
1977 · Movie · 119 min. · United States
Direction Robert Aldrich
Cast Charles Durning · Louis Gossett Jr. · Perry King · Clyde Kusatsu
5.5
69 votes
5.5
69 votes
World for Ransom
1954 · Movie · 82 min. · United States
Direction Robert Aldrich
Cast Dan Duryea · Gene Lockhart · Patric Knowles · Reginald Denny
Plot Made by the same production set-up on the same lot that was producing the 1953-54 "China Smith/Captain China" TV series that starred Dan Duryea as soldier-of-fortune China Smith, using many...
5.5
45 votes
5.5
45 votes
Who's Minding the Mint?
1967 · Movie · 97 min. · United States
Direction Howard Morris
Cast Jim Hutton · Dorothy Provine · Milton Berle · Joey Bishop
Plot Harry Lucas works at the US mint. One night he accidentally destroys $50,000. Things look pretty bleak for Harry until he hits upon the idea of breaking into the mint...
5.4
42 votes
5.4
42 votes
Appointment in Honduras
1953 · Movie · 79 min. · United States
Direction Jacques Tourneur
Cast Glenn Ford · Ann Sheridan · Zachary Scott · Rodolfo Acosta
Plot Ann Sheridan and Zachary Scott find trouble in Central America when they are confronted by Glenn Ford and his bandits.
5.4
250 votes
5.4
250 votes
China Gate
1957 · Movie · 97 min. · United States
Direction Samuel Fuller
Cast Gene Barry · Angie Dickinson · Nat 'King' Cole · Paul Dubov
Plot Near the end of the French phase of the Vietnam War, a group of mercenaries are recruited to travel through enemy territory to the Chinese border, to blow up an...
5.4
109 votes
5.4
109 votes