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.


Alfred Hitchcock presents: Appointment at Eleven (TV)

1959 · Movie · 25 min. · United States

Direction Robert Stevens

Cast Clint Kimbrough · Norma Crane · Clu Gulager · Sean McClory

Plot David Logan lives at home with his mother and he's still upset that his father left them many years before. He is haunted by an event when he was twelve...

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So This Is New York

1948 · Movie · 79 min. · United States

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Jigsaw

1968 · Movie · 97 min. · United States

Direction James Goldstone

Cast Harry Guardino · Bradford Dillman · Hope Lange · Pat Hingle

Plot After inadvertently ingesting some sugar laced with LSD, a man wakes up with amnesia and in the middle of a murder plot.

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The Vanishing American

1955 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Joseph Kane

Cast Scott Brady · Audrey Totter · Forrest Tucker · Gene Lockhart

Plot Marion Warner (Audrey Totter) inherits property in Navaho country controlled by ruthless Indian agent Morgan (Forrest Tucker) and his henchman Glendon (Jim Davis). Because the property is a source of...

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Stories of the Century (TV Series)

1954 · Series · 30 min. · United States

Direction William Witney · Franklin Adreon

Cast Jim Davis · Mary Castle · Kristine Miller · Pat Hogan

Plot Railroad detective Matt Clark roams the west, tracking down outlaws and bandits who are preying on the railroad.

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The Jack Benny Program (TV Series)

1950 · Series · 30 min. · United States

Direction Frederick de Cordova · Ralph Levy · Norman Abbott · Seymour Berns

Cast Jack Benny · Mary Livingstone · Eddie "Rochester" Anderson · Phil Harris

Plot The Jack Benny Program evolved from a variety show blending sketch comedy and musical interludes into the situation comedy form we know even now, crafting particular situations and scenarios from...

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Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Cheap Is Cheap (TV)

1959 · Movie · 30 min. · United States

Direction Bretaigne Windust

Cast Alfred Hitchcock · Dennis Day · Alice Backes · Fred Essler

Plot Alexander Gifford has to be the cheapest skinflint on the planet. He chides his wife for leaving a light turned on and he reads his neighbors newspaper rather than buy...

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Alfred Hitchcock Presents: The Kind Waitress (TV)

1959 · Movie · 30 min. · United States

Direction Paul Henreid

Cast Alfred Hitchcock · Rick Jason · Olive Deering · Celia Lovsky

Plot Thelma Tompkins is a waitress in a hotel restaurant. She's a good waitress and has always been kind to old Mrs. Mannerheim who eats in the restaurant every evening. Thelma...

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The Golden Gloves Story

1950 · Movie · 76 min. · United States

Direction Felix E. Feist

Cast James Dunn · Dewey Martin · Gregg Sherwood · Kenny O'Morrison

Plot Joe Riley is a boxing referee whose life-code is the same as the sporting rules of the prizefight ring. Two Golden Glove (a tournament for amateur prizefighters) contestants Nick Martel,...

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Champ for a Day

1953 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction William A. Seiter

Cast Alex Nicol · Audrey Totter · Charles Winninger · Hope Emerson

Plot An up-and-coming heavyweight fighter, George Wilson, arrives in Vulcan City, a small mid-western town over-run by racketeers, to fight a heavily-favored Frankie Sebastian. George arrives but his manager Dolan is...

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Alfred Hitchcock presents: The Crooked Road (TV)

1958 · Movie · 25 min. · United States

Direction Paul Henreid

Cast Alfred Hitchcock · Richard Kiley · Walter Matthau · Patricia Breslin

Plot Harry Adams and his wife are driving cross-country through a rural Deep South town when a local speed trap ensnares the young couple. The corrupt redneck police officer, Chandler, arrests...

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Alfred Hitchcock presents: The Cure (TV)

1960 · Movie · 30 min. · United States

Direction Herschel Daugherty

Cast Nehemiah Persoff · Peter Mark Richman · Cara Williams · Leonard Strong

Plot Living in the remote tropics are two oil explorers, one of whom is married to a very attractive woman. One night, she tries to stab her husband and he is...

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Alfred Hitchcock presents: The $2,000,000 Defense (TV)

1958 · Movie · 25 min. · United States

Direction Norman Lloyd

Cast Barry Sullivan · Leslie Nielsen · Wendell Holmes · Lori March

Plot The fate of accused killer Lloyd Ashley depends on whether or not his lawyer Mark Robeson can prove that a gun can fire accidentally, even with the safety catch on.

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The Range Rider (TV Series)

1951 · Series · 30 min. · United States

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The Tall Man (TV Series)

1960 · Series · 30 min. · United States

Direction Franklin Adreon · Tay Garnett · Sidney Lanfield · Lesley Selander

Cast Clu Gulager · Barry Sullivan · Mark Tapscott · Jack Tornek

Plot Fictionalized stories about Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid set in New Mexico in the 1870s.

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General Electric Theater (TV Series)

1953 · Series · 30 min. · United States

Direction Herschel Daugherty · Don Medford · John Brahm · James Neilson

Cast Ronald Reagan · Edgar Buchanan · Lee Marvin · Harry Townes

Plot TV Series (1953-1962). 10 seasons. 300 episodes. General Electric Theater featured a mix of romance, comedy, adventure, tragedy, fantasy and varitey music. Occupying the Sunday evening spot on CBS following...

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Hell's Crossroads

1957 · Movie · 73 min. · United States

Direction Franklin Adreon

Cast Stephen McNally · Robert Vaughn · Peggie Castle · Barton MacLane

Plot An imprisoned gunfighter is offered parole on one condition--that he track down and bring in Jesse James.

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Lay That Rifle Down

1955 · Movie · 71 min. · United States

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Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Invitation to an Accident (TV)

1959 · Movie · 30 min. · United States

Direction Don Taylor

Cast Alfred Hitchcock · Gary Merrill · Joanna Moore · Alan Hewitt

Plot A scaffold falls on a new bride, after her husband accuses her of rendezvousing with an old flame. Another former suitor suspects the husband faked the accident, and urges her...

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Guilty of Treason

1950 · Movie · 86 min. · United States

Direction Felix E. Feist

Cast Charles Bickford · Bonita Granville · Paul Kelly · Richard Derr

Plot The story of Cardinal József Mindszenty, a Roman Catholic cardinal from Hungary who spoke out against both the Nazi occupation of his country during World War II and the Communist...

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