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

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