Cinematography: Alvin Wyckoff

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


If I Had a Million

1932 · Movie · 83 min. · United States

Direction Ernst Lubitsch · Norman Taurog · Norman Z. McLeod · William A. Seiter

Cast Gary Cooper · Charles Laughton · George Raft · Jack Oakie

Synopsis Buoyant, star-studded comedy about a dying steel tycoon (Richard Bennett) who randomly selects eight people from a phone book and gives them each a million dollars. Among the lucky recipients are a clumsy china salesman (Charles Ruggles), a working girl...

6.6

856 votes

6.6

856 votes

The Cheat

1915 · Movie · 59 min. · United States

Direction Cecil B. DeMille

Cast Fannie Ward · Sessue Hayakawa · Jack Dean · Yutaka Abe

Synopsis A venal, spoiled stockbroker's wife impulsively embezzles $10,000 from the charity she chairs and desperately turns to a Japanese ivory trader to replace the stolen money.

6.5

233 votes

6.5

233 votes

The Whispering Chorus

1918 · Movie · 86 min. · United States

Direction Cecil B. DeMille

Cast Raymond Hatton · Kathlyn Williams · Edythe Chapman · Elliott Dexter

Synopsis John Trimble has embezzled and obtains another identity by having a mutilated body buried in his place. He is later arrested for murdering himself. During the trial his mother, before dying from shock, asks him to keep his identity secret...

6.4

29 votes

6.4

29 votes

Male and Female

1919 · Movie · 117 min. · United States

Direction Cecil B. DeMille

Cast Gloria Swanson · Lila Lee · Theodore Roberts · Raymond Hatton

Synopsis Gloria Swanson plays a spoiled maiden who always gets her way until shipwrecked with her butler, then learns which qualities are really admirable in a person.

6.3

87 votes

6.3

87 votes

Don't Change Your Husband

1919 · Movie · 71 min. · United States

Direction Cecil B. DeMille

Cast Elliott Dexter · Gloria Swanson · Lew Cody · Sylvia Ashton

Synopsis Leila porter comes to dislike her husband James, a glue king who is always eating onions and looking sloppy. But after she divorces him and marries two-timing playboy Schuyler Van Sutphen the now-reformed James looks pretty good.

6.2

44 votes

6.2

44 votes

Joan the Woman

1916 · Movie · 138 min. · United States

Direction Cecil B. DeMille

Cast Geraldine Farrar · Raymond Hatton · Hobart Bosworth · Theodore Roberts

Synopsis A WWI English officer is inspired the night before a dangerous mission by a vision of Joan of Arc, whose story he relives.

6.0

77 votes

6.0

77 votes

6.0

44 votes

6.0

24 votes

Carmen

1915 · Movie · 59 min. · United States

Direction Cecil B. DeMille

Cast Geraldine Farrar · Wallace Reid · Pedro de Cordoba · Horace B. Carpenter

Synopsis In order to help her smuggler kinsmen, a sultry gypsy seduces and corrupts an officer of the Civil Guard turning him into a traitor and murderer.

5.9

110 votes

5.9

110 votes

The Little American

1917 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

Direction Cecil B. DeMille · Joseph Levering

Cast Mary Pickford · Jack Holt · Raymond Hatton · Ben Alexander

Synopsis A young American has her ship torpedoed by a German U-boat but makes it back to ancestral home in France, where she witnesses German brutality firsthand. f

5.8

33 votes

5.8

33 votes

Blood and Sand

1922 · Movie · 86 min. · United States

Direction Fred Niblo

Cast Rudolph Valentino · Nita Naldi · Lila Lee · Rosa Rosanova

Synopsis Juan is the son of a poor widow in Seville. Against his mother's wishes he pursues a career as toreador. He rapidly gains national prominence, and takes his childhood sweetheart Carmen as his bride. He meets the Marquis' daughter Dona...

5.7

250 votes

5.7

250 votes

Forbidden Fruit

1921 · Movie · 87 min. · United States

Direction Cecil B. DeMille

Cast Agnes Ayres · Clarence Burton · Theodore Roberts · Kathlyn Williams

Synopsis Mary Maddock becomes a seamstress after her husband Steve wastes their money on booze. Her employer provides her as an escort to accompany millionaire Mallory. Her husband tries blackmailing Mallory and is later killed by the police, leaving Mary free...

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Fool's Paradise

1921 · Movie · United States

Direction Cecil B. DeMille

Cast Dorothy Dalton · Conrad Nagel · Mildred Harris · Theodore Kosloff

Synopsis In a Mexican border town Arthur befriends cantina girl Poll. She falls for him but he still loves the dancer Rosa. When the cigar Poll gives him explodes and blinds him, Arthur is duped into thinking Poll is Rosa and...

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The New Klondike

1926 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

Direction Lewis Milestone

Cast Thomas Meighan · Lila Lee · Paul Kelly · Hallie Manning

Synopsis Tom Kelly, a small-town baseball pitcher, is sent to a minor-league team in Florida, and fails to make the team. He starts dabbling in real estate, in the midst of the Florida land boom (in which a lot of the...

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The Storm

1930 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

Direction William Wyler

Cast Lupe Velez · Paul Cavanagh · William Boyd · Alphonse Ethier

Synopsis Burr and Dave, two close friends who have backed each other up in countless difficulties, are torn apart by the arrival of a woman, Manette, who becomes stranded with them in their cabin during a raging blizzard.

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Seven Seas Corp.

1934 · Movie · 62 min. · United States

Direction Lois Weber

Cast Virginia Cherrill · Mona Maris · Hardie Albright · David Newell

Synopsis Plantation owner William Hawkes (David Newell) doesn't approve of the fact that most of the white men on the island have married, or are living with native girls. He doesn't approve of mixed marriages and is equally opposed to accepting...

Not rated

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Maria Rosa

1916 · Movie · 50 min. · United States

Direction Cecil B. DeMille

Cast Geraldine Farrar · Wallace Reid · Pedro de Cordoba · James Neill

Synopsis Ramon loves Catalonian peasant Maria Rosa. He uses a knife belonging to her love Andreas to kill fisherman Pedro, so Andreas goes to jail for ten years. Maria will wait for him, but Ramon convinces her Andreas dies in prison...

Not rated

Not rated