Cinematography: John L. Russell

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


Incident at a Corner (TV)

1960 · Movie · 60 min. · United States

Direction Alfred Hitchcock

Cast Vera Miles · Philip Ober · Jerry Paris · George Peppard

Plot A school crossing guard reprimands the PTA president for careless driving. He is later dismissed from his job on the basis of an anonymous note accusing him of being too...

6.6

285 votes

6.6

285 votes

City That Never Sleeps

1953 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction John H. Auer

Cast Gig Young · Mala Powers · William Talman · Edward Arnold

Plot Johnny Kelly is a Chicago cop from a long line of police officers. He's grown tired of the job and his married life. He plans on leaving his wife for...

6.5

86 votes

6.5

86 votes

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Back for Christmas (TV)

1956 · Movie · 26 min. · United States

Direction Alfred Hitchcock

Cast John Williams · Isobel Elsom · Arthur Gould-Porter · Lillian Kemble-Cooper

Plot Herbert is digging in his basement when his wife Hermione calls him upstairs to eat. She thinks he is making a wine cellar, but he is really planning to kill...

6.5

505 votes

6.5

505 votes

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Wet Saturday (TV)

1956 · Movie · 25 min. · United States

Direction Alfred Hitchcock

Cast Cedric Hardwicke · John Williams · Tita Purdom · Kathryn Givney

Plot Mr. Princey's daughter has just murdered the schoolmaster. A murderess in the family? That won't do. It's up to Mr. Princey to frame someone else for her crime.

6.4

239 votes

6.4

239 votes

Alfred Hitchcock presents: I Killed the Count: Part 1 (TV)

1957 · Movie · 25 min. · United States

Direction Robert Stevens

Cast Alfred Hitchcock · John Williams · Alan Napier · Charles Cooper

Plot A maid discovers the body of Count Victor Mattoni. It's up to Inspector Davidson from Scotland Yard to find the murderer, in part one of a three-part episode.

6.4

29 votes

6.4

29 votes

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Mr. Blanchard's Secret (TV)

1956 · Movie · 26 min. · United States

Direction Alfred Hitchcock

Cast Robert Horton · Meg Mundy · Mary Scott · Dayton Lummis

Plot A mystery writer's imagination gets her in trouble when she turns her overstimulated mind to her new next-door neighbors -- and wonders why she has never seen the wife.

6.3

263 votes

6.3

263 votes

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Arthur (TV)

1959 · Movie · 26 min. · United States

Direction Alfred Hitchcock

Cast Laurence Harvey · Hazel Court · Robert Douglas · Patrick MacNee

Plot When his fiancée Helen leaves chicken farmer Arthur for another man, he accepts her decision by conveniently enjoying the life of a bachelor. A year passes and Helen pays him...

6.3

134 votes

6.3

134 votes

Alfred Hitchcock presents: I Killed the Count: Part 2 (TV)

1957 · Movie · 25 min. · United States

Direction Robert Stevens

Cast Alfred Hitchcock · John Williams · Rosemary Harris · Alan Napier

Plot Inspector Davidson continues to investigate the murder of Count Mattoni, in part two of this three-part story.

6.3

28 votes

6.3

28 votes

The Virginian (TV Series)

1962 · Series · 75 min. · United States

Direction Don McDougall · Abner Biberman · Anton Leader · William Witney

Cast James Drury · Doug McClure · Rusty Lane · Clu Gulager

Plot TV Series (1962-1971). 9 Seasons. 249 Episodes. The Shiloh Ranch in Wyoming Territory of the 1890s is owned in sequence by Judge Garth, the Grainger brothers, and Col. MacKenzie. It...

6.2

189 votes

6.2

189 votes

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: The Derelicts (TV)

1956 · Movie · 30 min. · United States

Direction Robert Stevenson

Cast Robert Newton · Phillip Reed · Peggy Knudsen · Johnny Silver

Plot Inventor Ralph Cowell murders his silent partner Alfred, only to be blackmailed by vagrant Peter Goodfellow, who witnessed the crime.

6.1

80 votes

6.1

80 votes

The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms

1953 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

Direction Eugène Lourié

Cast Paul Hubschmid · Paula Raymond · Cecil Kellaway · Kenneth Tobey

Plot A ferocious dinosaur awakened by an Arctic atomic test terrorizes the North Atlantic and ultimately New York City.

6.1

651 votes

6.1

651 votes

The Cabinet of Caligari

1962 · Movie · 106 min. · United States

Direction Roger Kay

Cast Glynis Johns · Dan O'Herlihy · Richard Davalos · Lawrence Dobkin

Plot Jane's car breaks down and she makes her way to a nearby estate, owned by a mysterious man named Caligari...

6.1

76 votes

6.1

76 votes

The Green Promise

1949 · Movie · 93 min. · United States

Direction William D. Russell

Cast Marguerite Chapman · Walter Brennan · Robert Paige · Natalie Wood

Plot A stubborn old farmer won't listen to any of his neighbors about how to improve the efficiency of his farm with modern methods, as he thinks "the old ways" were...

5.8

99 votes

5.8

99 votes

The Eternal Sea

1955 · Movie · 103 min. · United States

Direction John H. Auer

Cast Sterling Hayden · Alexis Smith · Ben Cooper · Dean Jagger

Plot 'The Eternal Sea' is the biography of admiral John M. Hoskins, who continued to serve throughout WW2 despite the loss of a leg in the early phases of the conflict.

5.7

25 votes

5.7

25 votes

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Shopping for Death (TV)

1956 · Movie · 25 min. · United States

Direction Robert Stevens

Cast Jo Van Fleet · Robert H. Harris · John Qualen · Michael Ross

Plot Two retired insurance salesmen confront an aggressive, hostile woman in hopes of saving her from a disaster.

5.6

89 votes

5.6

89 votes

Star in the Dust

1956 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

Direction Charles F. Haas

Cast John Agar · Mamie Van Doren · Richard Boone · Coleen Gray

Plot The sheriff of Gunlock is planning to hang Sam Hall, who shot three farmers found on cattle land, at sundown. At the casino, betting is 8 to 3 he won't...

5.6

131 votes

5.6

131 votes

The Man from Planet X

1951 · Movie · 71 min. · United States

Direction Edgar G. Ulmer

Cast Robert Clarke · Margaret Field · Raymond Bond · William Schallert

Plot American journalist John Lawrence is invited to join astronomer John Elliott at his observatory on a remote island off the Scottish coast where Elliott is monitoring a passing planet that...

5.6

575 votes

5.6

575 votes

Make Haste to Live

1954 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction William A. Seiter

Cast Dorothy McGuire · Stephen McNally · Mary Murphy · Edgar Buchanan

Plot Crystal 'Chris' Benson, a single mother in a small New Mexico town, senses a shadowy menace stalking her in the night. She acquires a gun and makes arrangements anticipating her...

5.4

43 votes

5.4

43 votes

Hell's Half Acre

1954 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction John H. Auer

Cast Wendell Corey · Evelyn Keyes · Elsa Lanchester · Marie Windsor

Plot A woman who believes her missing husband is in prison in Hawaii on a murder charge travels there to see if it actually is him. However, he escapes before she...

5.2

22 votes

5.2

22 votes

Tobor the Great

1954 · Movie · 77 min. · United States

5.0

68 votes

5.0

68 votes