the 89 FILMS of JOHN ALTON, Cinematographer (10-5-1901 to 6-2-96)
God smiled and danced on this date when John was born in 1901 in Hungary. He began his Hollywood career in 1924 as a lab technician. John then became a cameraman for Paramount Pictures.
I deleted 12 movies from Alton's list because they did not have an IMDb rating.
This 88 film sample has the following IMDb rating summary:
mean = 6.2
median = 6.2
mode = 5.7 (7)
8.4 highest IMDb rating - Amalia (1936)
2.8 lowest IMDb rating - 12 to the Moon (1960)
Alton won an Oscar in 1952 for his Cinematography on American in Paris.
His portfolio includes: 50 dramas; 17 film noir; 21 comedies; 26 crime dramas; 18 romances; 10 mysteries and 22 action/adventure movies.
I deleted 12 movies from Alton's list because they did not have an IMDb rating.
This 88 film sample has the following IMDb rating summary:
mean = 6.2
median = 6.2
mode = 5.7 (7)
8.4 highest IMDb rating - Amalia (1936)
2.8 lowest IMDb rating - 12 to the Moon (1960)
Alton won an Oscar in 1952 for his Cinematography on American in Paris.
His portfolio includes: 50 dramas; 17 film noir; 21 comedies; 26 crime dramas; 18 romances; 10 mysteries and 22 action/adventure movies.
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- DirectorJohn AltonCésar José GuerricoLadislao KishStarsLuis ArataLuis SandriniLuisa VehilThe members of a Buenos Aires family have three hobbies -'berretines' in Buenos Aires slang- that keep them apart of their duties. Because of that, the family business is going down, and the only one who is concerned is the father, who hopes for his fourth son, an architect, to save the situation.
- DirectorLuis Moglia BarthStarsHerminia FrancoFloren DelbeneMiguel Gómez BaoThe romance between Amalia Sáenz -a widow living in Buenos Aires- and the young Unitarian Eduardo Belgrano.
- DirectorLuis César AmadoriStarsPepe AriasAlicia VignoliJosé GolaJuan Pérez is a waiter in a luxurious place where the bachelor party is performed by the character played by José Gola, who will marry for convenience with a rich heiress (Alicia Barrié) urged by his uncle and administrator starring Orestes Caviglia. When a dancer and singer incarnated by Alicia Vignola, with whom she was entangled, she pursues him, uses Perez to get her off but this one to help her take her home and there, trying to hide falls through a window and breaks a leg. Later on Perez puts a restaurant in partnership with a friend, hires the girl and turns money making him believe that he was sent by Gola from Europe until he returns and everything is discovered.
- DirectorLuis Moglia BarthStarsAmanda LedesmaFloren DelbeneMarcos CaplánA bank robber meets a girl after having achieved a coup and while trying to flee from the police, this meeting will represent the possibility of changing his destiny.
- DirectorLuis César AmadoriStarsLibertad LamarqueHugo del CarrilMalisa ZiniA film star enjoys a romance with the daughter of a puppeteer, but his criminal past threatens to ruin it.
- DirectorJohn AltonLuis SaslavskyStarsLibertad LamarqueAngelina PaganoAgustín IrustaNina Miranda leaves after spending 20 years imprisoned for a murder that she insists she did not commit and recalls the time of her youth. He remembers the boyfriend who chose his love despite the threat of his millionaire aunts to disinherit him if he married the artist. Her brother Vividor, pressed her to continue acting but her boyfriend was strict: the theater or me, and she agrees to leave his profession. Already married, Nina thinks she is abandoned because of a misunderstanding caused by her brother and returns to the theater, where she sings the tango, La morocha, even though she knows she can provoke a scandal. There is a fight between her husband and brother during which the latter wields a revolver and she accidentally kills her husband and is doomed because they do not believe his version. Already free, when a criminal shoots his son, who ignores that it is his mother, to steal it, she interposes and receives the shot. His son holds up his arms and orders that the door of the family mansion that has always been closed be opened and there dies happy.
- DirectorLuis César AmadoriStarsLibertad LamarqueRoberto AiraldiMiguel Gómez BaoA young woman travels with her uncle to the city, where she works with a singer whom she must replace. She later goes blind.
- DirectorBernard VorhausStarsJean HersholtDorothy LovettRobert BaldwinA pleasant down-home entry which casts Hersholt as the title doctor in the mythical town of River's End, Minnesota.
- DirectorBernard VorhausStarsJean HersholtDorothy LovettRobert BaldwinA doctor fights an epidemic that breaks out in the poor section of town and tries to get the rest of the town to help out.
- DirectorBernard VorhausStarsJohn WayneSigrid GurieCharles CoburnAustrian refugees Dr Braun and his daughter Leni join the town's plan to relocate to Oregon. The town leader falls for Leni, but she is betrothed to the man who helped them escape from the Third Reich.
- DirectorWilliam C. McGannStarsJean HersholtDorothy LovettEdgar KennedyA "professor" hits Dr. Christian's town, promising the local women dramatic weight loss in a very short time if they follow his regimen of strict diet and a particular type of diet pill.
- DirectorErle C. KentonStarsJean HersholtDorothy LovettEdgar KennedyA college friend of the local soda-jerk comes to town and lets it be known that he's looking for property on which to build a resort. When he buys some land and suddenly "discovers" there's oil underneath it--and generously offers to sell the townspeople shares in his newly found oil reserves--Dr. Christian suspects a swindle and sets out to prove it.
- DirectorErle C. KentonStarsJean HersholtFay WrayWalter Woolf KingDr. Christian takes an interest in a young boy, a violin prodigy, whose mother is a divorced music teacher. His interest isn't just in the boy's music career.
- DirectorJames P. HoganStarsRichard ArlenJean ParkerHelen MackBradley Farrell, an ace test pilot for McMasters Aviation Corp., breaks his leg when a new airplane crashes because it is too heavy to get off the ground. When Brad's younger brother Douglas, who just graduated with a degree in aeronautical engineering, flies in, Brad argues that flying is too dangerous for his brother. Brad arranges for Doug to be hired as a design engineer for McMasters. One afternoon, Doug runs into Carol Blake, who is looking for Brad to interest him in her father's design for a plastic plane. Doug pretends to be Brad because he is attracted to the pretty Carol, but his ruse is revealed later at The Flyers' Roost, a nightclub hangout for local pilots. Brad takes Carol out flying to impress her, but her only interest is in getting him to meet her father. Finally, she brings her blind father, Professor Blake, to The Flyers' Roost, and Brad becomes immersed in Blake's plane designs. That same evening, Brad's friend, Johnny Coles, loses his life test flying his own design for a plastic plane and leaves behind his wife and child. Despite Johnny's death, Brad convinces McMasters to build Blake's plane, and Doug is put in charge of the project. Trouble mounts between the brothers when Doug, just returning from a business trip, sees Carol kiss Brad before he takes off for a cross-country flight and does not realize the kiss was only a setup for a newspaper photograph. Brad sets a new cross-country speed record, and when he returns, he proposes to Carol. Carol gently rejects him because she is in love with Doug. Unaware of Carol's decision, Doug picks a fight with Brad and in a rage quits his job, but a talk with Professor Blake changes his mind. The construction on the plastic "geodetic" plane is completed, and Army officials, interested in the plane as a trainer, arrive for the test flight. An arrogant Brad balks at all the test equipment Doug has installed in the plane and also protests having his inexperienced brother fly with him as a test pilot. Once in the air, Doug orders Brad to execute a 9-G power dive, which causes Doug to pass out. His equipment breaks off and slides under the rudder, and Brad is unable to maneuver the plane. He forces Doug to parachute to safety, and then cuts the rudder wires and wraps them around his hands. Although his hands bleed profusely, Brad manually lands the plane safely. Relations between the brothers heal, Doug and Carol marry, and Brad finally gives up the hazards of being a test pilot to take a desk job as vice-president of McMasters Aviation.
- DirectorGordon WilesStarsRichard ArlenEva GaborJ. Carrol NaishOn faraway Mosaque, an American pilot finds that he is in a desperate struggle with a military officer intent on sabotaging a local fort.
- DirectorJohn H. AuerStarsJ. Edward BrombergOsa MassenWilliam WrightChris Waring (William Wright) is a government investigator trying to gather the necessary evidence to convict a shipping magnate, DeBrock (J.Edward Bromberg), of selling his ships to the United States but is suspected of holding up and preventing their delivery because of bribes from foreign powers. DeBrock's conscience, nor his flirty wife, Valerie DeBrock (Osa Massen), give him any peace of mind.
- DirectorBernard VorhausStarsJames EllisonVirginia GilmoreFranklin PangbornAssistant District Attorney P. Cadwallader Jones (James Ellison) and his sweetheart Terry Parker (Virginia Gilmore), a newspaper reporter, are about to be married when news comes that newspaper publisher Elliott Carter (Bradley Page) has been murdered. The marriage is postponed, and Jones is assigned to the case by his superior, District Attorney Winton (Paul Harvey) and obtains a conviction in court against Andrew Belmont (John Eldredge). Terry, however, discovers further evidence and Jones agrees to re-open the case.
- DirectorJohn H. AuerStarsWilliam HenrySheila RyanEdgar KennedyFootball player Henry Platt (William Henry)mistakes a helmet for the football in his zeal to make a touchdown during a critical game, his error earns him the accolade of "Dope of the Year" award. Gambler Big George Kilraine (Harold Huber) hires him to take the $107,000 winnings of the gambler's syndicate on the game to Chicago. On the way the money bag falls out of the airplane and lands in the state penitentiary. Herry now has to figure out how to get into the prison and get the money out of the prison.
- DirectorBernard VorhausStarsDennis O'KeefeRuth TerryGloria DicksonTo boost listener ratings, radio personality Mike Jason (Dennis O'Keefe) encourages sponsors, of his murder mystery radio show, to offer a reward to anyone who can locate safe cracker Jimmy Valentine, who is reportedly retired. Jason and co worker Cleo Arden, not Eve, ( played by Gloria Dickson) lead the hunt . which takes them to a small and previously quiet town. There is little tough guy Mousey (George Stone, who else ?), who becomes over zealous over the possibility of winning the reward. There is Bonnie (Ruth Terry), Mike's teen girlfriend , who adds further mayhem. The original film was cut to 54 minutes due to its' B movie billing and later television. At times. scenes may seem unconnected, for that reason.
- DirectorBernard VorhausStarsEllen DrewRichard DenningJerry ColonnaPromoter Ann Porter (Ellen Drew) decides to start her own ice show despite the efforts of ex-racketeer Duke Baldwin (Harold Huber) who owns a rival show. Jeff Stewart (Richard Denning), a rich, suave young Broadwayite, falls in love with Ann and aids her in her fight against Baldwin.
- DirectorJohn H. AuerStarsJane WithersHenry WilcoxonJack BoyleAn arrogant young actress doesn't want to play "young" parts anymore, and runs off. The studio replaces her with the president of her fan club, who just happens to be a lookalike. Meanwhile, some other former child actors, trying to put on a show for the GIs, will be able to do it only if they can get the young actress to be in it, so they set out to persuade her to be in their show--not knowing that she's isn't who they think she is.
- DirectorArthur DreifussStarsAnn CorioCharles ButterworthTim RyanPatra, the Sultan's daughter, has inherited all the oil lands of Araband following the death of her mother. The Sultan wants to sign them over to Rata and Ludwig, German agents, but Patra says she will only sign them to Americans. Kuda, the Sultan's right-hand man, actually in league with Rata and Ludwig, wishes to marry Patra, but she refuses. Patra and her best friend and teacher, an American named Irene, visit the city incognito, and there meet Americans Jimmy and Tim. Kuda hires them to talk Patra into signing over the oil leases to him and they, not knowing he is working for the Germans, agree to try.
- DirectorGeorge ShermanStarsVera RalstonErich von StroheimRichard ArlenA millionaire's brain is preserved after his death, and telepathically begins to take control of those around him.
- DirectorRay McCareyStarsConstance MooreStanley BrownCharley GrapewinVaudeville acts are re-created in the story of how Atlantic City became a famous resort.