Robert Krasker Filmography

The Heroes of Telemark

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Kirk Douglas, Richard Harris, Ulla Jacobsson, Michael Redgrave, David Weston, Anton Diffring

Synopsis: In this tale of espionage and adventure set during World War II, Norway has fallen under Nazi occupation, and a factory is producing "heavy water" (a key ingredient in the manufacture of atomic weapons), under the order of the German military. Knut Straud (Richard Harris), a leading figure in the Read More

The Collector

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Terence Stamp, Samantha Eggar, Maurice Dallimore, Mona Washbourne, William Bickley

Synopsis: John Fowles's novel The Collector was written in the form of a dual diary, one kept by a kidnapper, the other by his victim. The film is told almost exclusively from the point of view of the former, a nerdish British bank clerk named Freddy Clegg (Terence Stamp). A neurotic recluse whose only Read More

The Fall of the Roman Empire

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Alec Guinness, Sophia Loren, Stephen Boyd, James Mason, Christopher Plummer

Synopsis: Though Fall of the Roman Empire is now infamous as the epic which destroyed the cinematic "empire" of producer Samuel Bronston, the film is actually an above-average historical drama, attempting to make sense of the political intrigues which resulted in the dissolution of the Glory That Was Rome. Read More

The Running Man

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Laurence Harvey, Lee Remick, Alan Bates, Felix Aylmer, Eleanor Summerfield

Synopsis: Based upon a novel by Shelley Smith, The Running Man opens at the memorial service for Rex Black (Laurence Harvey), the owner of a small air transport company who is believed to have drowned in a recent glider accident. It soon turns out, however, that Black is very much alive; he faked his death Read More

Billy Budd

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Robert Ryan, Peter Ustinov, Melvyn Douglas, Terence Stamp, Ronald Lewis, John Neville

Synopsis: Herman Melville's short novel Billy Budd is adapted for the screen, distinguished by Robert Krasker's expressive black-and-white cinematography and Peter Ustinov's crisp direction. Terence Stamp is Billy Budd, a seaman forced to serve in the British Navy during the war between England and France Read More

Guns of Darkness

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Leslie Caron, David Niven, James Robertson Justice, David Opatoshu, Eleanor Summerfield, Derek Godfrey

Synopsis: This drama by director Anthony Asquith, a noted lynchpin in British cinematic history, may wear too many hats to be identified as either an adventure, a treatise on non-violence, a psychological study, or whatever. It is all of these things as it starts out in the midst of a revolution in a Read More

El Cid

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Charlton Heston, Sophia Loren, Raf Vallone, Gary Raymond, Ralph Truman, John Fraser

Synopsis: When French playwright Pierre Corneille wrote El Cid, a fanciful version of the life of 11th-century Spanish hero Rodrigo Diaz de Bivar, aka "El Cid", an attempt was made to honor the "classic unities" and to compress the whole story into a single day! Be assured that the 1961 film version of El Read More

Romanoff and Juliet

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Peter Ustinov, Sandra Dee, John Gavin, Akim Tamiroff, Alix Talton, Suzanne Cloutier

Synopsis: Peter Ustinov went the auteur route as writer, director, producer, and star of this Cold War farce, based on his play and very similar to the equally well-regarded The Mouse That Roared (1959). Ustinov is "the general," leader of the tiny European nation Concordia, which is so small that it does Read More

The Criminal

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Stanley Baker, Sam Wanamaker, Gregoire Aslan, Margit Saad, Jill Bennett

Synopsis: Directed by American expatriate Joseph Losey, the British The Criminal is a gloom-wallow elevated by superb performances. Top crook Stanley Baker plans a clever bank robbery. It goes off hitchless, but the clerk responsible for "laundering" the stolen money insists upon a bigger percentage of the Read More

Libel

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Dirk Bogarde, Olivia de Havilland, Paul Massie, Robert Morley, Wilfrid Hyde-White

Synopsis: A man is forced to prove who he really is -- and discovers that it isn't as easy as one might think -- in this drama. Sir Mark Loddon (Dirk Bogarde) is a titled member of the British aristocracy who lives a life of wealth, privilege, and notoriety, until one day Jeffrey Buckenham (Paul Massie), a Read More

Behind the Mask

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Michael Redgrave, Tony Britton, Carl Möhner, Niall MacGinnis, Ian Bannen

Synopsis: Distinguished British actress Vanessa Redgrave makes her feature film debut in this hospital-set drama that chronicles the deadly rivalry between two head surgeons. She is one of the surgeons. She and her competitor have radically different ideas about how the hospital should be run. The film Read More

The Doctor's Dilemma

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Leslie Caron, Dirk Bogarde, Alastair Sim, Robert Morley, Felix Aylmer

Synopsis: This film adaptation of Bernard Shaw's 1903 comedy/drama stars Dirk Bogarde, which might have led some impressionable viewers to assume that Doctor's Dilemma was merely the latest installment in Bogarde's "Doctor in the House" series. Bogarde plays a rakish artist who falls victim to consumption. Leslie Caron Read More

The Quiet American

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Audie Murphy, Michael Redgrave, Claude Dauphin, Giorgia Moll, Kerima

Synopsis: The Quiet American was the first major American-financed film to touch upon the powder-keg situation in Vietnam (still referred to as Indochina in 1958). Audie Murphy plays an enigmatic American who comes to Saigon, ostensibly on an economic mission. He meets an embittered journalist (Michael Redgrave Read More

The Story of Esther Costello

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Joan Crawford, Rossano Brazzi, Heather Sears, Lee Patterson, Ron Randell

Synopsis: Story of Esther Costello is the cinematic equivalent of eating a whole box of potato chips; you may hate yourself, but you'll relish every bite in the meantime. Joan Crawford plays a well-meaning woman who throws herself whole-hog into every charitable cause that comes down the pike. She is Read More

The Rising of the Moon

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Noel Purcell, Cyril Cusack, Jimmy O'Dea, Denis O'Dea, Eileen Crowe

Synopsis: To make the Rising of the Moon, American filmmaker John Ford returned to his Irish roots. An obscure and highly personal film for Ford, it is comprised of three episodes--each offering insight into Irish culture and values. All are introduced by Tyrone Power. In "The Majesty of the Law," a police Read More

Trapeze

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis, Gina Lollobrigida, Katy Jurado, Thomas Gomez

Synopsis: Former circus aerialist Burt Lancaster was the logical choice to star in the Technicolor drama Trapeze. Lancaster plays a crippled acrobat, disabled after attempting to perform a dangerous triple mid-air somersault. Tony Curtis co-stars as an aspiring aerialist who coerces Lancaster into teaching Read More

Alexander the Great

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Richard Burton, Fredric March, Claire Bloom, Danielle Darrieux, Harry Andrews

Synopsis: The short life and quick death of Alexander the Great is recounted in this literate historical epic. Decked out in a blonde wig, Richard Burton stars as the Grecian warrior who conquered the known world while only in his twenties, then wept because there were no more worlds left to conquer. While Read More

That Lady

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Gilbert Roland, Paul Scofield, Françoise Rosay, Dennis Price

Synopsis: Based on a true event from 16th century Spain, this costume drama follows the tragic life of Ana de Mendoza, Princess of Eboli, (Olivia de Havilland) who is secretly loved by her good friend the King. Unfortunately for the monarch, she marries one of his ministers and bears his son. Her husband Read More

Senso

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Alida Valli, Farley Granger, Massimo Girotti, Heinz Moog, Rina Morelli

Synopsis: Italian director Luchino Visconti dishes up his usual blend of elegance and decadence in Senso. The international cast includes French film star Alida Valli as a Italian countess married to a Venetian nobleman, and English leading man Farley Granger as an Austrian military officer. The two are Read More

Romeo and Juliet

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: John Gielgud, Laurence Harvey, Susan Shentall, Flora Robson, Mervyn Johns, Bill Travers, Sebastian Cabot, Norman Wooland

Synopsis: Generally forgotten today, Romeo and Juliet is a satisfactory, if perfunctory, adaptation of Shakespeare's immortal tragedy. Cast as the "star cross'd lovers" this time out are Laurence Harvey, who's quite good, and Susan Shentall, who isn't. Whether or not Shentall would have improved with Read More

The Malta Story

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins, Anthony Steel, Muriel Pavlow, Flora Robson, Renée Ashershon

Synopsis: The Malta Story stars Alec Guinness as WW II camera reconnaissance pilot Peter Ross. Crash-landing in Malta, Ross presents his photographs to the resident air officer (Jack Hawkins). The photos reveal that the Italians are planning a major invasion of the island. Low on fuel and men, the officer Read More

Never Let Me Go

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Clark Gable, Gene Tierney, Bernard Miles, Theodore Bikel, Richard Haydn, Belita

Synopsis: Clark Gable's next-to-last MGM film was the Cold War melodrama Never Let Me Go. Filmed in England, the story finds American journalist Philip Sutherland (Gable) desperately trying to retrieve his Russian-ballerina bride Marva Lamarkins (Gene Tierney) from behind the Iron Curtain. Stymied by Read More

Cry the Beloved Country

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Canada Lee, Charles Carson, Sidney Poitier, Joyce Carey, Geoffrey Keen

Synopsis: This deliberately paced British film about a black rural priest and a white landowner whose paths cross in 1940s South Africa remains one of the most powerful cinematic statements on racism. Based on Alan Paton's landmark novel, Cry the Beloved Country is, in hindsight, naïve in its belief that Read More

Wonder Boy

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Bobby Henrey, Muriel Aked, Elwyn Brook-Jones

Synopsis: In this drama, a musically talented child prodigy ends up exploited by his greedy manager who wants to become the lad's legal guardian. Fortunately, the boy's governess learns of his scheme and has the boy removed for a time. Things go a little crazy and the boy ends up held for ransom. The whole Read More

Another Man's Poison

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Bette Davis, Gary Merrill, Emlyn Williams, Anthony Steel, Barbara Murray

Synopsis: Bette Davis co-stars with her then-new husband Gary Merrill in the British melodrama Another Man's Poison. Adapted from Leslie Sands' novel Deadlock, the story concerns one Janet Frobisher (Davis), a successful writer of suspense novels. Janet's life is thrown into turmoil when her disreputable Read More

The Angel with the Trumpet

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Eileen Herlie, Basil Sydney, Norman Wooland, Anthony Bushell, Maria Schell

Synopsis: Eileen Herlie, a German girl of Jewish heritage, is in love with Norman Wooland, but at her family's insistence marries Basil Sydney. Wooland's reaction is swift and decisive: he commits suicide. Years later, Hitler comes to power. Once more, Herlie's fate is in the hands of others. This time Read More

The Wonder Kid

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Bobby Henrey, Oskar Werner, Robert Shackleton, Muriel Aked

Synopsis: The old one about the much-exploited child prodigy is given a new coat of paint in the English-Austrian Entfuhrag ins Gluck (Wonder Child). Bobby Henrey, the amazing juvenile star of The Fallen Idol, is here cast as 7-year-old musical genius Sebastian Giro. Mistreated by his avaricious adult Read More

The Third Man

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Orson Welles, Trevor Howard, Bernard Lee, Paul Hoerbiger

Synopsis: In this Cold War spy classic, Holly Martins (Joseph Cotten), a third-rate American pulp novelist, arrives in postwar Vienna, where he has been promised a job by his old friend Harry Lime (Orson Welles). Upon his arrival, Martins discovers that Lime has been killed in a traffic accident, and that Read More

The Great Manhunt

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Glynis Johns, Olga Lowe, Jack Hawkins

Synopsis: It isn't surprising that The Great Manhunt invokes fond memories of Alfred Hitchcock; the film was scripted by Frank Launder and Sidney Gilliat, the two former Hitchcock collaborators responsible for the screenplay of The Master's The Lady Vanishes (38). Gilliat also directed this fast-paced Read More

Bonnie Prince Charlie

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: David Niven, Margaret Leighton, Morland Graham, John Laurie, Judy Campbell

Synopsis: In one of his rare visits to his home turf, British actor David Niven essayed the title role in Bonnie Prince Charlie. The film's principal challenge was to transform 18th-century Scottish Prince Charles into a sympathetic character, which, patriotism aside, he most decidedly was not in real life. Read More

The Inheritance

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Derek Bond, Frederick Burtwell, O.B. Clarence, George Curzon, Derrick de Marney

Synopsis: An evil guardian plots the murder of his young heiress niece in this Victorian melodrama, also known as Uncle Silas. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Odd Man Out

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: James Mason, Fay Compton, Robert Newton, Robert Beatty, Kathleen Ryan, Maureen Delaney, W.G. Fay, F.J. McCormick, Cyril Cusack

Synopsis: Carol Reed's taut character study (disguised as a suspense melodrama) was adapted from the novel by F.L. Green and stars James Mason in his star-making role as I.R.A. operative Johnny McQueen. Breaking out of jail, Johnny takes it on the lam, but idealism forces him out of hiding in order to raise Read More

Brief Encounter

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Celia Johnson, Trevor Howard, Stanley Holloway, Joyce Carey, Cyril Raymond

Synopsis: Based on Noël Coward's play "Still Life," Brief Encounter is a romantic, bittersweet drama about two married people who meet by chance in a London railway station and carry on an intense love affair. Sentimental yet down-to-earth and set in pre-World War II England, the film follows British Read More

Caesar and Cleopatra

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Vivien Leigh, Claude Rains, Stewart Granger, Flora Robson, Francis L. Sullivan

Synopsis: George Bernard Shaw adapted his own play for the screen in this blithe film version of the romance between Caesar (Claude Rains) and Cleopatra (Vivien Leigh). Shaw's Caesar and Cleopatra are merely Henry Higgins and Eliza Doolittle cast back into ancient times with Caesar doting with admiration Read More

Henry V

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Laurence Olivier, Robert Newton, Renée Ashershon, Esmond Knight, Leslie Banks, Leo Genn, Felix Aylmer, Janet Burnell

Synopsis: Laurence Olivier's adaptation of Henry V is one of the finest Shakespeare films ever made, full of rousing action, beautiful colors and passionate performances. Henry V is the story of the newly crowned king of England who fights the French for possession of Normandy. Olivier's direction is Read More

The Saint Meets the Tiger

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Hugh Sinclair, Jean Gillie, Gordon McLeod, Clifford Evans, Wylie Watson

Synopsis: In this episode of the mystery adventure series, Simon "The Saint" Templar finds a dead man on his doorstep. Soon the ace investigator finds himself mired in more murder, smuggling and a South American mine. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Lamp Still Burns

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Rosamund John, Godfrey Tearle, Stewart Granger, Sophie Stewart, Margaret Vyner

Synopsis: Monica Dickens' novel One Pair of Feet was the source of the sociological drama The Lamp Still Burns. Like the original novel, the film is a plea for better conditions in English hospitals-and, more specifically, for better treatment of England's selfless nurses. Rosamund John is a tower of Read More

The Gentle Sex

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Joan Gates, Joan Greenwood, Jean Gillie, Joyce Howard, Rosamund John, Lilli Palmer

Synopsis: Whenever one sees a title like The Gentle Sex, one braces oneself for an ironic switcharound. The supposedly gentle girls of the title--seven in all--are actually determined young British moderns who go into military service during World War II. In true "Army bomber crew" fashion, the film Read More

Rose of Tralee

Crew: Cinematographer

Synopsis: In this drama, an Irish singer heads for the US to make it big. He leaves his wife and child in Britain. In the States he earns plenty of money, but upon his return home, he finds that his family has disappeared because of the newly erupted WWII. The singer then joins the Royal Air Force; Read More

One of Our Aircraft Is Missing

Crew: Camera Operator

Actors: Godfrey Tearle, Eric Portman, Hugh Williams, Bernard Miles, Pamela Brown, Hugh Burden

Synopsis: This subtle, unadorned British war drama was the second collaboration between "The Archers," Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. Six British bomber crewmen are obliged to bail out over Holland. To escape detection from the Nazis, the crewmen accept the hospitality of several Hollanders, all Read More

The Thief of Bagdad

Crew: Camera Operator

Actors: Conrad Veidt, Sabu, June Duprez, John Justin, Rex Ingram

Synopsis: In ancient Bagdad, the young prince Ahmad (John Justin) is betrayed, deposed, and imprisoned by his vizier Jaffar (Conrad Veidt), an evil and calculating man who is also a master of the Black Arts. But Ahmad is saved from prison, and certain execution, by Abu (Sabu), a young thief who has made his Read More

Over the Moon

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Merle Oberon, Rex Harrison, Ursula Jeans, Robert Douglas, Louis Borell

Synopsis: In this romantic comedy, a humble country girl lives her life in the ramshackle mansion of her aged uncle. Feeling sorry for her "poor" relation and selflessly keeping him company until he dies, she is later shocked to learn that he has left her an enormous fortune. One might think such a windfall Read More

The Drum

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Sabu, Raymond Massey, Roger Livesey, Valerie Hobson, David Tree

Synopsis: The Drum is an opulent Technicolor "British India" epic, based on a story by A.E.W. Mason (of Four Feathers fame). Teenaged actor Sabu stars as a young East Indian prince educated in England. By rights, his loyalties should lie with his countrymen, but in typical "Sun Never Sets" fashion most of Read More

Men Are Not Gods

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Miriam Hopkins, Gertrude Lawrence, Sebastian Shaw, Rex Harrison, A.E. Matthews

Synopsis: Something of a precursor to 1947's A Double Life, Men Are Not Gods takes its title from a line in Othello -- aptly so, as that play figures prominently in the film. Actress Barbara Halford (Gertrude Lawrence) is married to Edmond Davey (Sebastian Shaw), a classical actor whose new production of Read More