Cinematography: Jack Asher
The best movies, series, and documentaries with cinematography by Jack Asher. Explore visually stunning titles that highlight an exceptional filmmaking.
Titles found: 41
Horror of Dracula
1958 · Movie · 82 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Terence Fisher
Cast Christopher Lee · Peter Cushing · Michael Gough · Melissa Stribling
Plot Posing as a librarian, erstwhile vampire hunter Jonathan Harker travels to Castle Dracula where he is welcomed by the courtly Count Dracula. Harker attempts to kill Dracula and eliminate the...
7.1
5K votes
7.1
5K votes
The Curse of Frankenstein
1957 · Movie · 82 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Terence Fisher
Cast Peter Cushing · Hazel Court · Robert Urquhart · Christopher Lee
Plot Baron Victor Frankenstein, in prison for murder and trying to evade the guillotine, tells a priest how he and his mentor, Paul Krempe, had performed many scientific experiments, eventually leading...
6.8
2K votes
6.8
2K votes
The Revenge of Frankenstein
1958 · Movie · 89 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Terence Fisher
Cast Peter Cushing · Francis Matthews · Michael Gwynne · Eunice Gayson
Plot With the help of Karl, the crippled dwarf hangman, whom he promises to give a new body, Frankenstein escapes the gallows and they hang the officiating priest instead. Under the...
6.7
725 votes
6.7
725 votes
Cast a Dark Shadow
1955 · Movie · 82 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Lewis Gilbert
Cast Dirk Bogarde · Margaret Lockwood · Kay Walsh · Kathleen Harrison
Plot A clever fortune-hunter with a penchant for murder does in his elderly, supposedly rich, wife and manages to get away with it. After an investigation results in a decision of...
6.7
47 votes
6.7
47 votes
The Hound of the Baskervilles
1959 · Movie · 87 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Terence Fisher
Cast Peter Cushing · André Morell · Christopher Lee · Marla Landi
Plot Sherlock Holmes gets the Gothic treatment in this mix of mystery and supernatural horror from Britain’s Hammer Films. Peter Cushing is perfectly cast as the great detective, the very embodiment...
6.6
4K votes
6.6
4K votes
Reach for the Sky
1956 · Movie · 135 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Lewis Gilbert
Cast Kenneth More · Muriel Pavlow · Lyndon Brook · Lee Patterson
Plot The true story of airman Douglas Bader who overcame the loss of both legs in a 1931 flying accident to become a successful fighter pilot and wing leader during World...
6.5
58 votes
6.5
58 votes
The Good Die Young
1954 · Movie · 100 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Lewis Gilbert
Cast Laurence Harvey · Gloria Grahame · Richard Basehart · Joan Collins
Plot Three good men - a broken boxer, an American veteran trying to win back his mother-dominated wife, and an air force sergeant married to a faithless actress - are corrupted...
6.4
67 votes
6.4
67 votes
The Snorkel
1958 · Movie · 90 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Guy Green
Cast Peter van Eyck · Betta St. John · Mandy Miller · Grégoire Aslan
Plot Although the police have termed her mother's death a suicide, a teenage girl believes her step-father murdered her.
6.4
123 votes
6.4
123 votes
The Man Who Could Cheat Death
1959 · Movie · 83 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Terence Fisher
Cast Anton Diffring · Hazel Court · Christopher Lee · arnold Marle
Plot Based on the play The Man in Half Moon Street by Barré Lyndon which had been previously filmed in 1945. Anton Diffring stars as a century-old artist who maintains a...
6.3
282 votes
6.3
282 votes
The Brides of Dracula
1960 · Movie · 85 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Terence Fisher
Cast Peter Cushing · Yvonne Monlaur · David Peel · Martita Hunt
Plot A young French woman unknowingly frees a vampire. He wreaks havoc, sucking blood and creating more of the undead to carry out his evil deeds. One of the better Hammer...
6.3
1K votes
6.3
1K votes
The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll (Jekyll's Inferno)
1960 · Movie · 88 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Terence Fisher
Cast Paul Massie · Dawn Addams · Christopher Lee · David Kossoff
Plot Dr. Henry Jekyll experiments with scientific means of revealing the hidden, dark side of man and releases a murderer from within himself.
6.2
417 votes
6.2
417 votes
The Mummy
1959 · Movie · 88 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Terence Fisher
Cast Peter Cushing · Christopher Lee · Yvonne Furneaux · Eddie Byrne
Plot Three British archeologists discover the grave of an important Egyptian female priest who has died about four millenia ago. But when they open it a bad curse falls on them...
6.2
2K votes
6.2
2K votes
Portrait from Life
1948 · Movie · 90 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Terence Fisher
Cast Mai Zetterling · Robert Beatty · Guy Rolfe · Herbert Lom
Plot A British army officer becomes fascinated by the portrait of a young woman. He travels to Germany to find her only to discover that she is suffering from amnesia.
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The Steel Bayonet
1957 · Movie · 85 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Michael Carreras
Cast Leo Genn · Kieron Moore · Michael Medwin · Robert Brown
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The Bulldog Breed
1960 · Movie · 97 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Robert Asher
Cast Norman Wisdom · Ian Hunter · David Lodge · Robert Urquhart
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Cosh Boy
1953 · Movie · 75 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Lewis Gilbert
Cast James Kenney · Joan Collins · Betty Ann Davies · Robert Ayres
Plot Amongst the bomb-sites and dark alleys of postwar London Roy Walsh and his gang of juvenile delinquents waylay and rob old ladies. Without parental control from his war-widowed doting mother,...
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The Lost People
1949 · Movie · 89 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Muriel Box · Bernard Knowles
Cast Dennis Price · Mai Zetterling · Richard Attenborough · Siobhan McKenna
Plot Set in a German theatre after the Second World War, two British soldiers are holding a disparate and hostile band of refugees (displaced persons) in this theatre, prior to returning...
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The Astonished Heart
1950 · Movie · 85 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Terence Fisher
Cast Noël Coward · Celia Johnson · Margaret Leighton · Joyce Carey
Plot The film begins with a scene in which Barbara rings Leonora to tell her that something has happened to Chris. At this point, we don't know who Chris is or...
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Grand National Night
1953 · Movie · 80 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Bob McNaught
Cast Nigel Patrick · Moira Lister · Beatrice Campbell · Betty Ann Davies
Plot After race horse trainer Gerald Coates' horse wins the Grand National, his wife come home drunk, and the two of them have a violent argument, and she is accidentally killed....
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Hell Is Sold Out
1951 · Movie · 85 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Michael Anderson
Cast Richard Attenborough · Mai Zetterling · Herbert Lom · Hermione Baddeley
Plot A book is sent to the publishers under the name of "Lom", a popular writer, long believed to be dead. The real "Lom" turns up & meets the new authoress...
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