John Alton Movies

The title character, played by John Payne, is a ship's captain whose embittered behavior after losing his lady love seemingly leads to tragedy....

In 1915, Atlantic City is a sleepy seaside resort, but Brad Taylor, son of a small hotel and vaudeville house proprietor, has big plans: he thinks it...

A fugitive in British Burma hides on a tea plantation, thanks to a mutual attraction with owner Gwen Moore.

Drama set in San Quentin prison.

The story concentrated on a group of test pilots, busily experimenting with a revolutionary all-plastic airplane. Ace flyboy Brad Farrell (Richard...

A millionaire's brain is preserved after his death by a scientist and his two assistants, only to create a telepathic monster.

The members of a Buenos Aires family have three hobbies — "berretines" in Buenos Aires slang — that keep them apart of their duties....

Story of an investment agent who embezzles a large sum from an estate, hoping to cover his crime by marrying the estate's heiress. The girl is...

A woman watches her own funeral, then sets out with her lawyer to learn who was in the casket.

An outlaw murders several Apaches and flees to a stagecoach way station with the tribe in hot pursuit. A stagecoach and its passengers have just...

A sultan's lovely daughter finds herself courted by a handsome American.

Small ranchers battle against a land baron trying to take their spreads.

Presents testimony from Patricia King Hanson and Richard Schickel and archival input from cinematographer John Alton.

Small-town gossips rage over the arrival of a mysterious stranger.

A New York radio personality travels to the small town of Fernville to oversee a contest to identify retired safecracker Jimmy Valentine, believed to...

The history of color photography in motion pictures, in particular the Technicolor company's work.

Horse story with Dynamite, The Red Stallion...

Nina Miranda leaves jail after spending 20 years imprisoned for a murder that she insists she did not commit and recalls the time of her youth.

Stevie Carson, a newspaper reporter, and Danny Butler, the "morgue" manager on the same newspaper, set out to track down the killer of a colleague, a...

A 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.