Lucien BallardFilmography

Born:: May 6, 1908 in Miami, OK
Occupation:: Cinematographer
Biography:: American cinematographer Lucien Ballard led a hectic existence in his early years; he briefly attended the University of Oklahoma and the University of Pennsylvania, then headed to China in search of newer adventures. Back in the States, Ballard went to work in the lumber business, sawing trees...Read More

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Rabbit Test

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Billy Crystal, Joan Prather, Alex Rocco, Doris Roberts

Synopsis: In this, Joan Rivers' first attempt at film direction, a young virgin male (Billy Crystal) is engaged to be married when he finds out he is pregnant! Using the film as a vehicle for her acerbic humor, director Rivers may as well be on stage, for interspersed throughout this questionable plot is an Read More

1978
Breakheart Pass

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Charles Bronson, Ben Johnson, Jill Ireland, Richard Crenna, Charles Durning

Synopsis: Posing as a fugitive from justice, frontier undercover agent John Deakin (Charles Bronson) boards a train to go after a ruthless gang of outlaws. Ingredients essential to the action include an anti-military conspiracy involving gunrunners and Indians, a phony epidemic, and a down-and-dirty Read More

1976
Mikey and Nicky

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Peter Falk, John Cassavetes, Ned Beatty, Rose Arrick, Carol Grace

Synopsis: Nickey (John Cassavetes) is a small-time Jewish gangster in trouble with the mob. He calls on his lifelong friend Mikey (Peter Falk) for help. During the night the two spend together, the power of their friendship is undermined by their mutual nastiness and pressing financial concerns. Elaine Read More

1976
From Noon Till Three

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Charles Bronson, Jill Ireland, Douglas Fowley, Stan Haze, Damon Douglas

Synopsis: Written and directed by Frank D. Gilroy, this Western casts Charles Bronson as Graham Dorsey, a two-bit Western outlaw who has a three-hour affair with lonely Amanda Starbuck (Jill Ireland). When Dorsey is reported killed, Starbuck capitalizes on her liaison by building up the "legend" of the Read More

1976
St. Ives

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Charles Bronson, John Houseman, Jacqueline Bisset, Maximilian Schell, Harry Guardino

Synopsis: Ex-crime reporter turned novelist Raymond St. Ives (Charles Bronson) is drawn back into the world of his former profession by wealthy Abner Procane (John Houseman). St. Ives is hired to locate a stolen set of ledgers that, if made public, could trigger an all-out mob war. Amazingly, St. Ives fails Read More

1976
Drum

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Warren Oates, Isela Vega, Ken Norton, Pam Grier, Yaphet Kotto

Synopsis: It is hard to get more deliriously fever-pitched than the ending of Mandingo -- in which a plantation master is shot and his main slave gets boiled in oil -- but Drum (Mandingo's mangy sequel) certainly tries. Hammond Maxwell (Warren Oates), the late slave-owner's son (from Mandingo), is trying to Read More

1976
Breakout

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Charles Bronson, Robert Duvall, Jill Ireland, John Huston, Randy Quaid, Sheree North

Synopsis: The star-director team of Charles Bronson and Tom Gries (Breakheart Pass) combine their efforts again on Breakout. Bronson plays Nick Colton, a reckless pilot who heads to an unnamed South American country, in hopes of rescuing imprisoned Jay Wagner (Robert Duvall). Villain Harris Wagner (John Huston Read More

1975
Thomasine and Bushrod

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Kip Allen, Tedi Altice, Paul Barby, Scott Britt, Max Cisneros, Bud Conlan, Harry Luck, Katy Martin, Leigh Potter, James Sargeant, Brad Woolley

Synopsis: Thomasine and Bushrod was intended as the African American counterpart to Bonnie and Clyde, the difference being that the story in this case is utterly fictional. Vonette McGee plays Thomasine, and Max Julien (who also wrote and coproduced the film) is Bushrod. They are a pair of thieves Read More

1974
Three the Hard Way

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Fred Cash, Angelyn Chester, Sam Gooden, Ralph Johnson, Pamela Serpe, Reggie Torian

Synopsis: The "three" alluded to in the title are played by Jim Brown, Fred Williamson and Jim Kelly. Letting their fists do all the talking, the hard-nosed trio takes on a neofascist organization. It is the avowed purpose of this all-white hate group to "cleanse" Los Angeles, Detroit and Washington DC of Read More

1974
Lady Ice

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Donald Sutherland, Jennifer O'Neill, Robert Duvall, Patrick Magee, Eric Braeden

Synopsis: In this stylish caper drama, Andy Hammond (Donald Sutherland) is a detective working with an insurance company who is investigating the theft of $3 million in diamonds. While Andy is initially eager to crack the case and bring the burglars to justice, his attitudes begin to shift when he meets Read More

1973
The Getaway

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Steve McQueen, Ali MacGraw, Ben Johnson, Sally Struthers, Al Lettieri

Synopsis: In Sam Peckinpah's version of Walter Hill's script, from Jim Thompson's novel, an ex-con and his wife go on the lam after a Texas bank heist. Denied parole after four well-behaved years, Doc McCoy (Steve McQueen) sends his wife Carol (Ali MacGraw) to dirty politician Jack Benyon (Ben Johnson) to Read More

1972
Junior Bonner

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Steve McQueen, Robert Preston, Ida Lupino, Ben Johnson, Joe Don Baker

Synopsis: Sam Peckinpah eschews his slow-motion bullet ballets for this quiet character study of ex-rodeo cowboy turned drifter Junior Bonner (Steve McQueen), who returns home to Arizona to reconcile with the family he hasn't seen in years. Bonner is shocked to see that the solid family he was hoping to Read More

1972
A Time for Dying

Crew: Cinematographer, Screenwriter

Synopsis: This unique western centers on an innocent farm boy with a talent for handling guns who decides to make it big. He begins as a bounty hunter. Later he encounters a crazed gunslinger and ends up fatally shot. Before the fateful encounter, the young man is visited by a number of mythical western Read More

1971
What's the Matter with Helen?

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Debbie Reynolds, Shelley Winters, Dennis Weaver, Agnes Moorehead, Michael MacLiammoir

Synopsis: Though it bears more than passing resemblance to his macabre hits Hush ... Hush, Sweet Charlotte and Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?, this lesser-known outing from screenwriter Henry Farrell takes a more satirical turn, skewering the eccentricities of the Hollywood studio system. The story opens Read More

1971
Arruza

Crew: Cinematographer

Synopsis: The lives of bullfighters, whether in Mexico or in Spain or elsewhere in Latin America, carry a weight of romance and tragedy not found in other lives, even when they die of old age in their beds. All too often, they are maimed or killed in the ring. As dealers with death, matadors offer the Read More

1971
The Ballad of Cable Hogue

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Jason Robards, Jr., Stella Stevens, David Warner, Strother Martin, Slim Pickens

Synopsis: After the intense bloodshed of The Wild Bunch (1969), this comic western fable took the opposite approach to director Sam Peckinpah's continuing examination of the end of the West. Left for dead by a couple of lizard-slaughtering desperados in the middle of the desert, prospector Cable Hogue (Jason Robards Read More

1970
The Hawaiians

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Charlton Heston, Geraldine Chaplin, John Phillip Law, Tina Chen, Alec McCowen

Synopsis: The Hawaiians is the sequel to 1969's Hawaii; both films were adapted from the same sprawling novel by James A. Michener. Charlton Heston is top-billed as a sailor who returns to his Hawaiian homestead, only to learn that his grandfather's fortune has been bestowed upon his hated cousin Alec McCowan Read More

1970
The Wild Bunch

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: William Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Robert Ryan, Edmond O'Brien, Warren Oates

Synopsis: "If they move, kill 'em!" Beginning and ending with two of the bloodiest battles in screen history, Sam Peckinpah's classic revisionist Western ruthlessly takes apart the myths of the West. Released in the late '60s discord over Vietnam, in the wake of the controversial Bonnie and Clyde (1967) and Read More

1969
True Grit

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: John Wayne, Glen Campbell, Kim Darby, Jeremy Slate, Robert Duvall

Synopsis: In fine Hollywood tradition, John Wayne had to play a "one-eyed fat man" before the Motion Picture Academy considered him worthy of an Oscar. In True Grit, Wayne plays grumpy, pot-bellied U.S. marshal "Rooster" Cogburn, hired by 14-year-old Mattie Ross (Kim Darby) to find Tom Chaney (Jeff Corey) Read More

1969
The Party

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Peter Sellers, Claudine Longet, Marge Champion, Steve Franken, Fay McKenzie, Gavin MacLeod

Synopsis: Peter Sellers plays a bumbling foreigner once again (but this time he's not from France) in this cult-favorite comedy. Hrundi V. Bakshi (Peter Sellers) is an accident-prone actor from India who has come to California, hoping to make a name for himself in Hollywood movies. However, Bakshi quickly Read More

1968
How Sweet It Is!

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: James Garner, Debbie Reynolds, Maurice Ronet, Paul Lynde, Marcel Dalio, Terry-Thomas

Synopsis: Two parents worry about the feelings of their love-struck teenage son in this engaging romantic comedy. Grif (James Garner) and wife Jenny (Debbie Reynolds) are concerned about their son Davey (Donald Losby). When his girlfriend is slated for a tour of Europe, the teenage boy is heartbroken. Grif Read More

1968
Hour of the Gun

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: James Garner, Jason Robards, Jr., Robert Ryan, Albert Salmi, Charles Aidman

Synopsis: John Sturges directed this sequel to his Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, which is more of a melancholy character study than an action Western. The Edward Anhalt screenplay (based on Douglas D. Martin's Tombstone's Epitaph) traces Wyatt Earp's (James Garner) moral decline from a lawman with high Read More

1967
Will Penny

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Charlton Heston, Joan Hackett, Donald Pleasence, Lee Majors, Bruce Dern

Synopsis: Rambling along at its own measured pace, Will Penny is a vivid western character study, completely dominated by the rapport between stars (Charlton Heston) and (Joan Hackett). Heston plays Will Penny, an aging and impoverished cowboy. With his cohorts Blue (Lee Majors) and Dutchy (Anthony Zerbe) Read More

1967
Nevada Smith

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Steve McQueen, Karl Malden, Brian Keith, Arthur Kennedy, Suzanne Pleshette

Synopsis: Henry Hathaway's film is based on a character from Harold Robbins' The Carpetbaggers, who, in turn, based it on cowboy actor Ken Maynard. Set in the West of the 1890s, the film opens with the torture and murder of the parents of Max Sand (Steve McQueen) by a trio of gunslingers seemingly motivated Read More

1966
An Eye for an Eye

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Robert Lansing, Slim Pickens, Gloria Talbott, Paul Fix

Synopsis: Talion is the alternate title for the blood-splattered western An Eye for an Eye. You know that the filmmakers aren't kidding around when, in the very first scene, outlaw Slim Pickens puts a bullet into a squalling baby! Robert Lansing plays Talion, a homesteader who, after his ranch is burned to Read More

1966
Dear Brigitte

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: James Stewart, Fabian, Glynis Johns, Cindy Carol, Bill Mumy

Synopsis: This family comedy stars James Stewart as Dr. Robert Leaf, a college professor who dislikes science and tries to instill in his children a love of art and music. So Robert and his wife Vina (Glynis Johns) are dismayed to discover that their eight-year-old son Erasmus (Billy Mumy) is tone-deaf and Read More

1965
The Sons of Katie Elder

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: John Wayne, Dean Martin, Martha Hyer, Michael Anderson, Jr., Earl Holliman

Synopsis: Henry Hathaway directs the 1965 psychological Western The Sons of Katie Elder. Four sons reunite in their Texas hometown to attend their mother's funeral. John (John Wayne) is the gunfighter, Tom (Dean Martin) is the gambler, Matt (Earl Holliman) is the quiet one, and Bud (Michael Anderson Jr.) is Read More

1965
Boeing Boeing

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Tony Curtis, Jerry Lewis, Dany Saval, Christiane Schmidtmer, Suzanna Leigh

Synopsis: Marc Camoletti's popular stage farce Boeing Boeing is watered down and realigned into a Tony Curtis/Jerry Lewis vehicle. Curtis plays an American journalist living in Paris; Lewis is his goonish (but surprisingly restrained) buddy. Partial to stewardesses, Curtis manages to juggle the affections Read More

1965
Roustabout

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Elvis Presley, Barbara Stanwyck, Joan Freeman, Leif Erickson, Sue Ane Langdon

Synopsis: Charlie Rogers (Elvis Presley) is a coffeehouse singer who joins a financially troubled carnival in Roustabout. He is hired by owner Maggie Morgan (Barbara Stanwyck) and soon catches the eye of his pretty female co-worker Cathy Lean (Joan Freeman). Cathy's irate father Joe (Leif Erickson) clashes Read More

1964
The New Interns

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Michael Callan, Dean Jones, Stefanie Powers, Barbara Eden, Telly Savalas

Synopsis: Two years after the success of The Interns (1962) came this follow-up tale of medical interns during their first year working in a hospital. Ranging from comedy to melodrama, three main stories are woven around the principal characters. Functioning as the group's advisor, Dr. Alec Considine spends Read More

1964
Wives and Lovers

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Janet Leigh, Van Johnson, Shelley Winters, Martha Hyer, Ray Walston

Synopsis: In this romantic comedy, Bill Austin (Van Johnson) is an unsuccessful writer who lives in a forlorn New York tenement while his wife Bertie (Janet Leigh) earns an income for both of them. Their lives change dramatically when Bill's first novel becomes a best-seller. Bill persuades Bertie to quit Read More

1963
Wall of Noise

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Suzanne Pleshette, Ty Hardin, Dorothy Provine, Simon Oakland

Synopsis: This film about characters who hang around a horseracing focuses on the darker side rather than the limelight of the winner's circle. Joey (Ty Hardin) is an ambitious horse trainer who is sleeping with the boss' wife Laura (Susan Pleshette). When husband Matt (Ralph Meeker) discovers the affair Read More

1963
Take Her, She's Mine

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: James Stewart, Sandra Dee, Audrey Meadows, Robert Morley, Philippe Forquet

Synopsis: In this generation gap movie of the early 1960s, Sandra Dee is Mollie Michaelson, a teenage rebel enamored with long-haired hippies and radical anti-nuclear political causes. Her involvement in such activities sends her ultra-conservative father Frank (James Stewart) into a tizzy. His reassuring Read More

1963
The Caretakers

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Robert Stack, Polly Bergen, Joan Crawford, Janis Paige, Diane McBain

Synopsis: A "bad movie" with a fervent fan following, The Caretakers is set in a bleak mental institution. Joan Crawford plays the hard-bitten head nurse (we first see her taking a karate lesson!) who is dead set against the progressive theories of new doctor Robert Stack. After a few minutes' exposure to Read More

1963
Ride the High Country

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Joel McCrea, Randolph Scott, Mariette Hartley, Ron Starr, James Drury

Synopsis: This Sam Peckinpah-directed feature outing was intended as the cinematic swan song for both Randolph Scott and Joel McCrea; while McCrea would unexpectedly emerge from retirement, this 1961 western serves as an excellent valedictory for both men. The time is the early 1900s, when the Old West was Read More

1962
Susan Slade

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Troy Donahue, Connie Stevens, Dorothy McGuire, Lloyd Nolan, Brian Aherne, Bert Convy

Synopsis: A complicated soap opera, Susan Slade features Connie Stevens as the title character, a naïve 17-year-old who is at a mountain resort in Alaska when she falls in love with a climber (Grant Williams). They have an affair, and she ends up pregnant, but her lover falls off Mount McKinley and dies. Read More

1961
The Swamp Fox: A Woman's Courage

Crew: Cinematographer

Synopsis: In the seventh episode of Walt Disney's eight-part miniseries The Swamp Fox, Revolutionary War hero Francis Marion (Leslie Nielsen) has rescued his sweetheart Mary Videaux (Barbara Eiler) from the clutches of British officer Col. Tarleton. In their efforts to escape the British-held port of Read More

1961
The Swamp Fox: Horses for Greene

Crew: Cinematographer

Synopsis: In the final episode of Walt Disney's eight-part miniseries The Swamp Fox, Revolutionary War patriot Francis Marion (Leslie Nielsen) and his fellow guerillas have placed themselves under the command of Continental Army officer Captain Richardson (James Seay). Intending to instill some discipline Read More

1961
Marines, Let's Go

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Tom Tryon, David Hedison, Tom Reese, William Tyler

Synopsis: This is a straightforward, unexceptional story about a platoon of Marines taken out of battle in Korea for some R & R in Tokyo, and then sent back to the front lines again. The four men are stereotypes found in many war stories: the simpatico country boy, the intellect though not overtly so, a Read More

1961
The Parent Trap

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Hayley Mills, Maureen O'Hara, Brian Keith, Charlie Ruggles, Una Merkel

Synopsis: We get a double dose of Hayley Mills in this Disney vehicle: she plays 13-year-old identical twins Susan and Sharon, who meet for the very first time in summer camp. They soon learn that they were separated at a very early age when their parents Mitch and Maggie (Brian Keith and Maureen O'Hara) Read More

1961
Desire in the Dust

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Raymond Burr, Martha Hyer, Joan Bennett, Ken Scott, Brett Halsey

Synopsis: Raymond Burr was already three years into Perry Mason when he decided to return to his movie-villain roots with Desire in the Dust. Burr, playing the patriarch of a Southern family, befriends the ex-convict (Ken Scott) who'd supposedly killed Burr's son in an auto accident. Actually the accident Read More

1960
The Bramble Bush

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Richard Burton, Barbara Rush, Jack Carson, Angie Dickinson, James Dunn

Synopsis: In this high-gloss soap opera (not dissimilar to the then-popular Peyton Place), Guy (Richard Burton) is a doctor who returns to the New England town where he grew up to help care for his good friend Larry (Tom Drake), who is dying of Hodgkins Disease. Guy gets to know Larry's wife Margaret (Barbara Rush Read More

1960
Elfego Baca: Friendly Enemies at Law

Crew: Cinematographer

Synopsis: In the ninth episode of Walt Disney's ten-part miniseries Elfego Baca, frontier lawyer Baca (Robert Loggia) accepts a stallion in payment for helping beleagured cattleman Frank Oxford (Ray Teal). It seems that Rauls Kettrick (Barton MacLane), the town boss of Taota, refuses to return 50 head of Read More

1960
Disneyland: Zorro: El Bandido

Crew: Cinematographer

Synopsis: In the first episode of a two-part Zorro adventure, dashing Mexican bandit leader El Cuchillo (Gilbert Roland) and his gang are diverted from robbing a stagecoach by alluring señorita Chulita (Rita Moreno). Changing his plans, El Cuchillo decides to hide out in the pueblo of Los Angeles to steal a Read More

1960
Elfego Baca: Gus Tomlin Is Dead

Crew: Cinematographer

Synopsis: In the final episode of Walt Disney's ten-part miniseries Elfego Baca, frontier lawyer Baca (Robert Loggia) embarks upon a mission to bring fugitive gunslinger Gus Tomlin to justice. Upon hearing that Tomlin is dead, Baca is all for giving up the search -- until a citizen of the small town of Read More

1960
The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Ray Danton, Karen Steele, Elaine Stewart, Jesse White, Simon Oakland

Synopsis: This effective gangster film on the notorious New York mobster Jack "Legs" Diamond is interspersed with moments of comic relief and was released just a few months after The Purple Gang shot their way across the silver screens in the U.S. Ironically, that gang and Diamond met their ends in the same Read More

1960
Disneyland: Zorro: Adios El Cuhillo

Crew: Cinematographer

Synopsis: In the concluding episode of a two-part Zorro adventure, bandit leader El Cuhillo (Gilbert Roland) has been thwarted in his plans to rob Los Angeles' warehouse by dashing masked do-gooder Zorro (Guy Williams). Somewhat playfully, Zorro's alter ego, Don Diego, keeps tabs on the incognito El Cuhillo Read More

1960
Pay or Die

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Ernest Borgnine, Zohra Lampert, Alan Austin, Renata Vanni

Synopsis: Based on real incidents in the life and death of Lt. Joseph Petrosino (Ernest Borgnine) of the New York police force, this tale set between 1906-1909 details the history of the lieutenant's fight to prove Sicilian Mafia involvement in crimes in his city. Lt. Petrosino has a series of dangerous Read More

1960
City of Fear

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Vince Edwards, John Archer, Steven Ritch, Patricia Blair, Kelly Thordsen

Synopsis: Fairly fast-paced, with only a lull here and there, this standard thriller by director Irving Lerner was one of his most successful films. It stars (Vince Edwards) as Vince, an escaped convict who grabs a metal vial from the prison's hospital before he makes his break. He thinks it is his ticket Read More

1959
Al Capone

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Rod Steiger, Fay Spain, James Gregory, Martin Balsam, Nehemiah Persoff

Synopsis: Rod Steiger is the screen's first "method mobster" in the title role of Al Capone. The film traces Big Al's progress from a torpedo in the hire of Chicago gangster Johnny Torrio (Nehemiah Persoff) to Capone's takeover of the Windy City's bootlegging operations, and his ultimate downfall at the Read More

1959
Elfego Baca: The Griswold Murder

Crew: Cinematographer

Synopsis: In the sixth episode of Walt Disney's ten-part miniseries Elfego Baca, the titular hero (Robert Loggia, a gunslinger-turned-lawyer) defends British-born rancher Cecil Cunningham (Patrick Knowles), who has been accused of murdering land baron Drew Griswold. According to witnesses, Griswold had been Read More

1959
Elfego Baca: Attorney at Law

Crew: Cinematographer

Synopsis: In the fifth episode of Walt Disney's ten-part miniseries Elfego Baca, gunslinger-turned-lawyer Baca (Robert Loggia) tackles his first big court case. Elfego must defend his old pal, reformed outlaw Fernando Bernal (Edward Colmans), who has been accused of robbing the Santa Fe bank. Former Read More

1959
Elfego Baca: Mustang Man, Mustang Maid

Crew: Cinematographer

Synopsis: In the eighth episode of Walt Disney's ten-part miniseries Elfego Baca, gunslinger-turned-lawyer Baca (Robert Loggia) has secured the legal rights of the Mustangers, a religious sect that has set up a homestead in the middle of cattle country. But though the Mustangers own their property fair and Read More

1959
Elfego Baca: Move Along, Mustangers

Crew: Cinematographer

Synopsis: In the seventh episode of Walt Disney's ten-part miniseries, Elfego Baca, gunslinger-turned-lawyer Baca (Robert Loggia) comes to the defense of the Mustangers, a nomad-like religious sect. Determined to establish a permanent homestead on a land recently opened up by the government, the Mustanger Read More

1959
Anna Lucasta

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Eartha Kitt, Sammy Davis, Jr., Frederick O'Neal, Henry Scott, Rex Ingram

Synopsis: Playwright Philip Yordan stirred up controversy with his 1944 Broadway production Anna Lucasta, the sexy saga of a family of avaricious African-Americans. Such was the notoriety of the play that Columbia Pictures couldn't resist optioning it for a film version. Since this was 1949, Columbia took Read More

1958
Buchanan Rides Alone

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Randolph Scott, Craig Stevens, Barry Kelley, Tol Avery, Peter Whitney, Manuel Rojas, L.Q. Jones

Synopsis: Buchanan (Randolph Scott) rides alone through Texas, en route to his future home of Mexico. He is sidetracked during a stopover in a lawless border town, where Mexican youth Juan (Manuel Rojas) sits in jail, awaiting trial for the killing of the local bully. It seems that the dead man had several Read More

1958
Murder by Contract

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Vince Edwards, Phillip Pine, Herschel Bernardi, Caprice Toriel, Michael Granger

Synopsis: Claude (Vince Edwards) is an educated, respectable young man with a goal in life -- to buy a house that he has his eye on; but to do that on the money he makes in his office job could take 25 years, so he chooses to embark on a new profession, as a hired assassin. A cold-blooded, thoroughly Read More

1958
The Unholy Wife

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Rod Steiger, Diana Dors, Tom Tryon, Marie Windsor

Synopsis: In this crime thriller a young woman marries a wealthy vintner. Soon afterward, she falls in love with a handsome rodeo rider whom she sees every time her husband is away. One night, her mother-in-law spots a burglar outside the house and reports it to the police. The conniving wife sees a window Read More

1957
Band of Angels

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Clark Gable, Yvonne De Carlo, Sidney Poitier, Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., Patric Knowles

Synopsis: Based on a novel by Robert Penn Warren, this Southern potboiler stars Yvonne DeCarlo as Amantha Starr, the daughter of a wealthy Louisiana plantation owner. When her father unexpectedly dies, Amantha discovers that her father was deep in debt and the family is penniless, and she is forced to drop Read More

1957
The King and Four Queens

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Clark Gable, Eleanor Parker, Jo Van Fleet, Jean Willes, Barbara Nichols

Synopsis: The King and Four Queens was the first (and last) project from Clark Gable's own production company, GABCO. Gable stars as Western fugitive Dan Kehoe, who hides out in a small ghost town. Here he whiles away his time with the town's only inhabitants: Ma MacDade (Jo Van Fleet), matriarch of the Read More

1956
The Killing

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Sterling Hayden, Coleen Gray, Marie Windsor, Elisha Cook, Jr., Vince Edwards, Jay C. Flippen

Synopsis: The Killing was director Stanley Kubrick's first major film effort -- though, like Kubrick's earlier films, it was economically produced with an inexpensive cast. In a variation of his Asphalt Jungle role, Sterling Hayden plays veteran criminal Johnny Clay, planning one last big heist before Read More

1956
A Kiss Before Dying

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Robert Wagner, Jeffrey Hunter, Joanne Woodward, Virginia Leith, Robert Quarry, Howard Petrie, Mary Astor, George Macready

Synopsis: Budd Corliss (Robert Wagner) is an ambitious, poor boy from the wrong-side-of-the-tracks who murders his girlfriend Dorothy (Joanne Woodward) -- making the death look like a suicide -- when her pregnancy eliminates his chances of being accepted by her wealthy family. Her sister Ellen (Virginia Leith Read More

1956
I Married a Woman

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: John Wayne, George Gobel, Diana Dors, Adolphe Menjou, Jesse Royce Landis, Nita Talbot

Synopsis: I Married a Woman was tailored by top comedy writer Goodman Ace to the peculiar, low-key talents of TV comedian George Gobel. Lonesome Gobel plays an advertising man whose successful "Miss Luxemburg Beer Beauty Contest" campaign yields a most unusual bonus: the contest's buxom winner Diana Dors Read More

1956
The Proud Ones

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Robert Ryan, Virginia Mayo, Jeffrey Hunter, Robert Middleton, Walter Brennan

Synopsis: A small Kansas town braces itself for the arrival of the first Texas trail herd. The marshal (Robert Ryan) expects trouble from the herd drivers, who'll be thirsty and lascivious after months on the trail. The town's saloon owner (Robert Middleton), anticipating a business boom, wants to remove Read More

1956
The Killer Is Loose

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Joseph Cotten, Rhonda Fleming, Wendell Corey, Alan Hale, Jr., Michael Pate

Synopsis: In this thriller, "Foggy" (Wendell Corey) is a bank teller who got his nickname for the thick spectacles he must wear. Foggy is also an inside man for a gang of thieves planning to rob his bank. Unfortunately, their plan goes awry and he is arrested. During the ensuing scuffle, his wife is Read More

1956
Seven Cities of Gold

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Richard Egan, Anthony Quinn, Michael Rennie, Jeffrey Hunter, Rita Moreno

Synopsis: Seven Cities of Gold is the story of Father Junipero Serra (Michael Rennie), the 18th century Jesuit priest who founded the first missions in California. Based on the novel by Isabelle Gibson Ziegler, the film adds a dash of intrigue and adventure to the story in the person of a Spanish military Read More

1955
White Feather

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Robert Wagner, John Lund, Debra Paget, Jeffrey Hunter, Eduard Franz

Synopsis: Unusual for its time, this 1955 film is a sympathetic treatment of the U.S. Army's resettlement of Native Americans in the Old West. The Cheyenne tribe agrees to leave its hunting grounds in Wyoming so that white settlers looking for gold can move in. Colonel Lindsay (John Lund) is in charge of Read More

1955
The Magnificent Matador

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Maureen O'Hara, Anthony Quinn, Richard Denning, Thomas Gomez, Lola Albright

Synopsis: The exciting, metaphorical world of bull-fighting provides the setting for this dramatic tale of an aging toreador faced with a difficult decision after his illustrious reputation is nearly destroyed when he introduces his young rival and protege and suddenly runs from the ring. The distraught old Read More

1955
Prince Valiant

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: James Mason, Janet Leigh, Robert Wagner, Debra Paget, Sterling Hayden

Synopsis: Hal Foster's Sunday-comics saga of a young Viking prince in the service of King Arthur is brought to the screen in CinemaScope and Technicolor in Prince Valiant. Despite the fact that he sports a dutch bob that makes him look like actress Phyllis Kirk, Robert Wagner is quite virile and convincing Read More

1954
The Raid

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Van Heflin, Anne Bancroft, Lee Marvin, Richard Boone, Tommy Rettig

Synopsis: Based on a true story from the Civil War, this drama follows a band of Confederate POWS who escape from a New England prison head for Canada and begin planning to distract Union forces by looting and pillaging a Vermont town. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1954
New Faces

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Ronny Graham, Eartha Kitt, Robert Clary, Alice Ghostley

Synopsis: Producer Leonard Sillman's 1952 edition of his popular Broadway revue New Faces was filmed just as it was staged, save for a wraparound fictional romantic story. The newly grafted plotline involves the efforts of director Ronny Graham to stave off an angry creditor long enough to open his show. We Read More

1954
The Desert Rats

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Richard Burton, Robert Newton, Robert Douglas, James Mason, Torin Thatcher, Chips Rafferty

Synopsis: The Desert Rats was a quickly assembled follow-up to 20th Century-Fox's successful war film The Desert Fox. Richard Burton plays an officer in the British Eighth Army, battling Rommel's forces in defense of Tobruk. Put in charge of an Australian unit, Burton rides his men ruthlessly, with Read More

1953
Inferno

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Robert Ryan, Rhonda Fleming, William Lundigan, Larry Keating, Henry Hull

Synopsis: Brief and very much to the point, Inferno is a grim, fascinating tale of survival. Breaking his leg on a vacation trip, millionaire Carson (Robert Ryan) is left in the middle of the desert by his wife Geraldine (Rhonda Fleming) and his business partner Joseph Duncan (William Lundigan). Ostensibly Read More

1953
The Glory Brigade

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Victor Mature, Alexander Scourby, Lee Marvin, Richard Egan, Nick Dennis

Synopsis: The Glory Brigade is a standard Korean War combat drama with a few interesting plot wrinkles. Victor Mature stars as Lt. Sam Prior, an American of Greek extraction. While trying to cross a bridge into Red territory, Prior loses most of his men, a fact he attributes to the seeming cowardice of the Read More

1953
Night without Sleep

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Linda Darnell, Gary Merrill, Hildegarde Neff, Joyce MacKenzie, June Vincent

Synopsis: Given to violent, unpredictable behavior, composer Richard Morton (Gary Merrill) is an accident waiting to happen. Attempting to drown his problems in drink, Morton awakens with a monumental hangover -- and the nagging belief that he has murdered a woman. Did this, in fact, happen? And was the Read More

1952
O. Henry's Full House

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Charles Laughton, Marilyn Monroe, David Wayne, Richard Widmark, Dale Robertson, Anne Baxter, Fred Allen

Synopsis: This anthology film assembles five respected directors and a top-notch cast to bring a handful of stories by the great American author O. Henry to the screen. In The Cop and the Anthem, a tramp named Soapy (Charles Laughton) tries to get arrested so that he can spend the winter in jail Read More

1952
Return of the Texan

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Dale Robertson, Joanne Dru, Walter Brennan, Richard Boone, Tom Tully

Synopsis: Dale Robertson stars as Sam Crockett, a widowed rancher trying to make a go of his small spread with his father (Walter Brennan) and his two small sons. Financially strapped, Crockett is forced to go to work for nasty neighboring rancher Rod (Richard Boone). When Rod's sister-in-law Ann (Joanne Dru Read More

1952
Don't Bother to Knock

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Richard Widmark, Marilyn Monroe, Anne Bancroft, Donna Corcoran, Jeanne Cagney

Synopsis: Sex symbol Marilyn Monroe went dramatic in 1952's Don't Bother to Knock. Monroe plays Nell Forbes, a beautiful but suicidal young woman, recently released from a mental institution. She doesn't mention this on her resumé when she takes a baby-sitting job in a posh hotel. Jed Towers (Richard Widmark Read More

1952
Diplomatic Courier

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Tyrone Power, Patricia Neal, Hildegarde Neff, Stephen McNally, Karl Malden

Synopsis: When undercover secret agent Tyrone Power is thwarted in his efforts to obtain a vital document with details of the Russian invasion of Yugoslavia by the death of the courier at the hands of two Russian agents, played by Mario Siletti and Charles Buchinski (aka Charles Bronson), it becomes his Read More

1952
Fixed Bayonets

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Richard Basehart, Gene Evans, Michael O'Shea, Richard Hylton, Craig Hill

Synopsis: To filmmaker and war veteran Samuel Fuller, war is about survival. You either kill or be killed. His combat films are not about politics, adventure, or home. They are about killing and staying alive. Fixed Bayonets, Fuller's second study of the Korean War, focuses on a neophyte corporal, Denno Read More

1951
The House on Telegraph Hill

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Richard Basehart, Valentina Cortese, William Lundigan, Fay Baker, Gordon Geberl, Steven Geray

Synopsis: After surviving the hell of a Nazi death camp, a refugee faces even greater dangers in America in this tale of murder, deceit, and assumed identities. Victoria Kopwelska (Valentina Cortese) is a Polish woman imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp near the end of World War II. Desperate to Read More

1951
Let's Make It Legal

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Claudette Colbert, MacDonald Carey, Zachary Scott, Barbara Bates, Robert Wagner

Synopsis: Let's Make It Legal begins at the end--the end of the long marriage between beautiful grandmother Miriam (Claudette Colbert) and her chronic-gambler husband Hugh (Macdonald Carey). Barbara (Barbara Bates), the daughter of the couple, hopes to bring her parents back together, which proves to be a Read More

1951
Berlin Express

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Merle Oberon, Robert Ryan, Charles Korvin, Paul Lukas, Robert Coote

Synopsis: On a trip from France to Allied-occupied Berlin, a group of travelers -- a mysterious and very secretive European woman (Merle Oberon), an American agricultural expert (Robert Ryan), a British educator (Robert Coote), a Soviet Army officer (Roman Toporow), and a French official (Charles Korvin) Read More

1948
Night Song

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Dana Andrews, Merle Oberon, Ethel Barrymore, Hoagy Carmichael, Jacqueline White

Synopsis: In this melodrama, a brilliant pianist is struck blind in an accident and stops working on his equally brilliant concerto. A wealthy woman pretends to be poor and blind to help him regain his confidence, and holds a contest with a large prize for the best musical composition. She, as the blind Read More

1947
Temptation

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Merle Oberon, George Brent, Charles Korvin, Paul Lukas, Lenore Ulric

Synopsis: Temptation is an appropriately moody romantic melodrama, providing a golden opportunity for some memorable histrionics by star Merle Oberon. Set in Egypt (courtesy of the Universal backlot), the film casts Oberon as Ruby, the new wife of wealthy archaeologist Nigel (George Brent). Unbeknownst to Read More

1946
This Love of Ours

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Merle Oberon, Charles Korvin, Claude Rains, Carl Esmond, Sue England

Synopsis: Doctor Charles Korvin walks out on his musician wife Merle Oberon when he suspects her of infidelity. Twelve years later their paths cross again; Oberon is now saddled with an abusive husband. Possessed of a protective instinct that he hadn't evinced in the first part of the film, Korvin rescues Read More

1945
Sweet and Lowdown

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Benny Goodman Orchestra, Linda Darnell, Lynn Bari, Jack Oakie, James B. Cardwell

Synopsis: In this musical, a youthful trombonist is thrilled when he is allowed to play with Benny Goodman's Orchestra. Afterward he becomes insufferably egotistical and tries to start his own swing band. It's his girl friend's idea, and unfortunately he fails. He then returns to his old mill job. Read More

1944
The Lodger

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Merle Oberon, George Sanders, Laird Cregar, Cedric Hardwicke, Sara Allgood

Synopsis: The Lodger was the third film version of Mrs. Marie Belloc-Lowndes' classic "Jack the Ripper" novel, and in many eyes it was the best (even allowing for the excellence of the 1925 Alfred Hitchcock adaptation). Laird Cregar stars as the title character, a mysterious, secretive young man who rents a Read More

1944
Tonight We Raid Calais

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Annabella, John Sutton, Lee J. Cobb, Beulah Bondi, Blanche Yurka

Synopsis: A timely film when first released in 1943, Tonight We Raid Calais survives as an entertaining adventure some fifty years later. John Sutton plays a British intelligence officer, sent into occupied France with a small unit to local a German munitions depot. While travelling under cover of darkness Read More

1943
Bomber's Moon

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: George Montgomery, Annabella, Kent Taylor, Walter Kingsford, Martin Kosleck

Synopsis: An American pilot swears to get revenge on the German ace who shot his brother in this war movie set in war-torn Europe. Montgomery is the pilot. After he sees his brother die while trying to parachute to safety, Montgomery's plane is shot down over Germany. He is placed in a POW camp. There he Read More

1943
Holy Matrimony

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Monty Woolley, Gracie Fields, Laird Cregar, Una O'Connor, Alan Mowbray

Synopsis: A man trying to leave his fame behind discovers the perils of choosing to be the wrong unknown person in this farcical British comedy. Priam Farli (Monty Woolley) is an eccentric but famous and well-respected artist who prefers to work in total seclusion -- so much so that he's spent the last 20 Read More

1943
Moontide

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Jean Gabin, Ida Lupino, Thomas Mitchell, Claude Rains, Jerome Cowan

Synopsis: Forced to flee Paris during the Occupation, the great French leading man Jean Gabin starred in a brace of Hollywood films, the best of which was the first, 20th Century-Fox's Moontide. Cast to type, Gabin plays Bobo, a brooding itinerant dock-worker who gets mixed up in a drunken brawl. Upon Read More

1942
Orchestra Wives

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: George Montgomery, Ann Rutherford, Glenn Miller, Cesar Romero, Lynn Bari, Jackie Gleason

Synopsis: In his last screen appearance, bandleader Glenn Miller plays--are you sitting down?--a bandleader. The film's main plot involves small-town girl Ann Rutherford, who impulsively marries George Montgomery, a trumpeter in the Miller band. Rutherford soon finds that she isn't particularly suited for Read More

1942
Whispering Ghosts

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Milton Berle, Brenda Joyce, John Shelton, Willie Best

Synopsis: The Milton Berle starrer Whispering Ghosts was clearly inspired by the Red Skelton comedy-mystery Whistling in the Dark (itself inspired by Bob Hope's The Ghost Breakers). Uncle Miltie is cast as H. H. Van Buren, a radio sleuth who delights in solving real-life mysteries ahead of the official Read More

1942
The Undying Monster

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: James Ellison, Heather Angel, John Howard, Bramwell Fletcher, Heather Thatcher

Synopsis: One of two 20th Century-Fox horror melodramas released in 1942 (Dr. Renault's Secret was the second), The Undying Monster is a well-crafted variation on Universal's "Wolf Man" series. Ever since the suicide of its patriarch, the Hammonds, an old and wealthy English family has seemingly lived under Read More

1942
Swamp Water

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Walter Brennan, Walter Huston, Anne Baxter, Dana Andrews, Virginia Gilmore

Synopsis: Noted French director Jean Renoir made his American debut with this 1941 film. Walter Brennan plays Tom Keefer, a man who is falsely convicted of a murder and sentenced to death by hanging. He has escaped from prison and is hiding out in Georgia's Okefenokee Swamp. Keefer is dedicated to finding Read More

1941
Wild Geese Calling

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Henry Fonda, Joan Bennett, Warren William, Ona Munson, Barton MacLane

Synopsis: Wild Geese Calling is one of those 20th Century-Fox star vehicles which used to pop up all the time on TV before the Carsons, Lenos and Lettermans rendered "The Late Late Show" obsolete. Set in Oregon and Alaska at the turn of the century (the last century, that is), the film stars Henry Fonda as Read More

1941
The Villain Still Pursued Her

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Anita Louise, Alan Mowbray, Buster Keaton, Joyce Compton, Richard Cromwell

Synopsis: Like Prohibition, Franklin-Blank Productions' The Villain Still Pursued Her is best regarded as a "noble experiment". Using the hoary old stage melodrama The Drunkard: or, the Fallen Saved as its inspiration, the film is a contemptous send-up of all such Victorian mellers, its "serious" moments Read More

10/11/40
Blind Alley

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Chester Morris, Ralph Bellamy, Ann Dvorak, Joan Perry, Melville Cooper

Synopsis: Blind Alley, directed by Charles Vidor is a chilling psychological drama in the film-noir tradition reminiscent of the fine melodrama The Desperate Hours. Hal Wilson (Chester Morris) is an escaped killer who hides out in the home of noted psychologist Dr. Shelby (Ralph Bellamy). While Wilson's Read More

1939
Let Us Live

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Maureen O'Sullivan, Henry Fonda, Ralph Bellamy, Alan Baxter, Stanley Ridges

Synopsis: Despite its comparatively upbeat ending, Let Us Live is one of the darkest and gloomiest films of the late 1930s. As working stiff Brick Tennant, Henry Fonda is once more cast as a misunderstood victim of society. Held up during a robbery-murder, Brick is himself convicted of the crime on the Read More

1939
Coast Guard

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Randolph Scott, Frances Dee, Ralph Bellamy, Walter Connolly, Warren Hymer

Synopsis: In this action film two Coast Guard pilots fall in love with the same woman. She chooses the more macho of the two, but soon tires of his hyper-masculine behavior. She leaves him. He tries to win her back by showing off in a Navy plane, but ends up crashing and losing his pilot's wings. When his Read More

1939
Texas Stampede

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Charles Starrett, Iris Meredith, Fred Kohler, Jr., Lee Prather

Synopsis: One of the more original aspects of the Charles Starrett western Texas Stampede is that perennial Starrett-series villain Dick Curtis isn't in the film. Another is its lack of overt violence; even nominal heavy Wayne Cameron (Fred Kohler Jr.) isn't such a bad fellow, and ends up shaking hands with Read More

1939
Outside These Walls

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Michael Whalen, Virginia Weidler, Don Beddoe, Selmar Jackson

Synopsis: In this drama, a the journalist and editor of a prison newspaper is good enough, that he even contributes to outside publications, but still encounters difficulty after he is released. With the help of a prison loan, he buys his own little printing press and begins attacking the crooked Read More

1939
Rio Grande

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Charles Starrett, Ann Doran, Bob Nolan, Dick Curtis, George Cheseboro

Synopsis: No relation to the 1950 John Ford classic of the same name, Rio Grande is yet another rubber-stamp Charles Starrett western from the Columbia assembly line. The hero is a fellow named Houston (Starrett), who comes to the rescue when land-grabbing Barker (Dick Curtis) sets his sights on the ranch Read More

1939
The Thundering West

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Charles Starrett, Iris Meredith, Hank Bell, Dick Curtis, Bob Nolan

Synopsis: Former outlaw Charles Starrett goes straight and becomes a sheriff. In this capacity, he tries to bring his old partners in crime to justice. They don't cotton to this, and thereby hang the conflict. Everything is solved in a climactic fistfight with all-around villain Dick Curtis. Iris Meredith Read More

1939
Flight to Fame

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Charles Farrell, Hugh Sothern, Alex D'Arcy, Jason Robards, Sr.

Synopsis: Once one of Hollywood's "top ten" screen attractions, Charles Farrell had slipped somewhat by the end of the 1930s, and obliging to accept roles in such B productions as Columbia's Flight to Fame. Farrell plays air force captain Lawrence, a Billy Mitchell type who finds himself constantly at odds Read More

1938
Penitentiary

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Walter Connolly, John Howard, Jean Parker, Robert H. Barrat, Marc Lawrence

Synopsis: Penitentiary was the first of two remakes of Howard Hawks' 1931 prison flick The Criminal Code (the second remake was 1950's Convicted). Sent to prison on a manslaughter charge, young William Jordan (John Howard) is befriended by the man who sent him up, Judge Mathews (Walter Connolly). The judge Read More

1938
Highway Patrol

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Robert Paige, Robert Middlemass, Arthur Loft, Al Bridge

Synopsis: It will do no good to look for Broderick Crawford in the cast of Highway Patrol; this is not the famed TV series of the 1950s, but instead a 1938 Columbia B-picture. Robert Paige heads the cast as motor patrolman William Rolph, dedicated to smashing up a deadly rivalry between two oil-refinery Read More

1938
The Lone Wolf in Paris

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Francis Lederer, Frances Drake, Walter Kingsford, Leona Maricle, Olaf Hytten

Synopsis: After a three-year absence, Columbia's "Lone Wolf" series resumed with the uneven The Lone Wolf in Paris. Francis Lederer stars as Louis Joseph Vance's thief-turned-detective Michael Lanyard, alias The Lone Wolf. While vacationing in Paris, Lanyard finds the gorgeous Princess Thania (Frances Read More

1938
Squadron of Honor

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Don Terry, Mary Russell, Thurston Hall, Arthur Loft, Robert Warwick

Synopsis: Squadron of Honor takes place during an American Legion convention, with newsreel shots of the genuine article interspersed among the reenacted scene. A murder is committed, and young legionnaire Blane (Don Terry) wants to find out who's responsible. The cops are convinced that pacifistic Read More

1938
The Shadow

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Rita Hayworth, Charles Quigley, Marc Lawrence

Synopsis: No relation to the radio program of the same name, The Shadow is a lightning-paced murder mystery with a Big Top background. Rita Hayworth plays Mary Gillespie, the young owner of a travelling circus in danger of losing financial control of her show to hissable bareback rider Peter Martinet (Donald Kirke Read More

1937
Girls Can Play

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Charles Quigley, Rita Hayworth, John Gallaudet, George McKay

Synopsis: In this crime drama, an evil ex-con makes his living selling cheap booze masked under expensive labels. He runs a drugstore as a front and also sponsors a girl's baseball team. The story is split between the gangster's illegal activities and the action on the baseball field where the lovely Read More

1937
Racketeers in Exile

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: George Bancroft, Evelyn Venable, Wynne Gibson, Marc Lawrence, John Gallaudet

Synopsis: In this gangster movie, a criminal king-pin and his gang hide out in his hometown where they witness a religious revival that inspires the man to begin billing himself as a "born-again" evangelist so he can cash in on the guilty consciences of local businessmen. At first he keeps it all for Read More

1937
Venus Makes Trouble

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: James Dunn, Patricia Ellis, Gene Morgan, Thurston Hall, Beatrice Curtis

Synopsis: James Dunn stars as Buzz Martin, a hot-air balloon ascensionist who's plenty full of hot air himself. Hired by the owners of the bank and movie theater in a tiny Pennsylvania town, Buzz stages an aerial stunt to draw customers, succeeding primarily in making a mess of things. Undaunted, our hero Read More

1937
Life Begins with Love

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Jean Parker, Douglass Montgomery, Edith Fellows, Leona Maricle, Lumsden Hare

Synopsis: In this drama, a millionaire heir finds himself in trouble deep after during a night of drunkenness he pledges his fortune to charity. To keep from having to honor his pledge--and to avoid the luscious golddigger that pursues him--the young lout disguises himself as janitor and begins working at a Read More

1937
Devil's Playground

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Richard Dix, Dolores Del Rio, Chester Morris, George McKay, John Gallaudet

Synopsis: A remake of Frank Capra's Submarine (1928), Devil's Playground is a snappy Columbia "B plus" picture starring Richard Dix and Chester Morris. Submarine officers Dorgan (Dix) and Mason (Morris) battle on land for the affections of dance-hall girl Carmen (Dolores del Rio). She marries Dorgan but Read More

1937
I Promise to Pay

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Chester Morris, Leo Carrillo, Helen Mack, Thomas Mitchell, Thurston Hall

Synopsis: Chester Morris plays a working stiff unable to provide for his family on his meager salary. He arranges a loan with the seemingly benign Leo Carrillo, but soon learns that he can't keep up with the usurious interest payments. Carrillo's loan company is actually a racket in league with the local Read More

1937
The King Steps Out

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Grace Moore, Franchot Tone, Walter Connolly, Raymond Walburn, Victor Jory

Synopsis: Josef Von Sternberg, past directorial master of movie exotica, came down to earth with The King Steps Out, a major studio musical. Set in 19th century Vienna, the plot concerns a sprightly young lady (opera star Grace Moore) who wishes to rescue her sister from marrying their cousin, the "wicked" Read More

1936
Craig's Wife

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Rosalind Russell, John Boles, Billie Burke, Jane Darwell, Dorothy Wilson

Synopsis: After several light comedy roles, Rosalind Russell proved her salt as a dramatic film actress in this 1936 adaptation of George Kelly's Pulitzer Prize-winning play Craig's Wife. Russell plays Harriet Craig, whose obsession with keeping her house and its furnishings spotless has driven away most of Read More

1936
The Final Hour

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Ralph Bellamy, Marguerite Churchill, John Gallaudet, George McKay, Elizabeth Risdon

Synopsis: Ralph Bellamy stars as John Vickery, a brilliant but alcoholic attorney. Vickery's opportunity for professional and personal redemption comes in the form of hat-check girl Flo Russell (Marguerite Churchill). An otherwise intelligent lass, Flo has a bad habit of being in the wrong place in the Read More

1936
Crime and Punishment

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Edward Arnold, Peter Lorre, Marian Marsh, Tala Birell, Elizabeth Risdon

Synopsis: The story goes that Peter Lorre wanted to star in a film version of Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment, but was certain that Columbia Pictures chieftain Harry Cohn would turn the project down flat. So Lorre hired a secretary to type up a synopsis of the story in words of one syllable then Read More

1935
The Devil Is a Woman

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Marlene Dietrich, Cesar Romero, Lionel Atwill, Edward Everett Horton, Alison Skipworth

Synopsis: Director Josef Von Sternberg and his greatest discovery, Marlene Dietrich, worked together for the last time on this historical melodrama, which was a notorious and controversial box-office flop in its day. Antonio Galvan (Cesar Romero), a young military officer, meets a mysterious and alluring Read More

1935
Morocco

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Gary Cooper, Marlene Dietrich, Adolphe Menjou, Ullrich Haupt, Sr., Eve Southern, Julie Compton

Synopsis: Like so many campaigners before him, Gary Cooper joins the Foreign Legion to "forget." At a smoky cabaret in Morocco, Cooper meets café entertainer Marlene Dietrich (making her American film debut). A woman with a very checkered past, Dietrich toys with the callow Cooper, but eventually falls Read More

1930

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