John Alton Movies

A famous singer in love with a woman takes the blame for a crime to save her.

Two business partners, John Bennett, Sr. and Robert Forrester, are starting to get nervous when the birthday of Victoria, Forrester's daughter,...

Four young performers form an act and get a job in a nightclub. Before long, one of them gets the idea that the act is all about him, and his changes...

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

The story follows Jaime Lara, a passenger whose ship makes a stop in Buenos Aires for one day. Lara elopes, leaving his wife on board, and walks...

A gaucho unjustly accused of murder becomes a dangerous nomad.

This recently produced behind-the-scenes documentary digs into Gershwin's original work, the genesis of the cinematic adaptation, casting, the shoot,...

A warehouse employee travels to Buenos Aires with the purpose of rescuing the young woman he is in love with from a gang of criminals.

On a peaceful, pre-war winter in Czechoslovakia, the genial godfather, Jaroslav Haschek, of Vera Hascheck, presents the young girl with her first...

When the wealthy Mrs. Cooper passes away, she divides her estate between her sons, Henry and Wayne, and her only daughter, the tomboyish Geraldine.

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.

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

The romance between Amalia Sáenz de Olabarrieta –a widow living in Buenos Aires– and the young Unitarian Eduardo Belgrano. Based...

A musical film with a performance by the group that was very fashionable at the time, El Cuarteto Aguilar. It was produced in 1936 but was never...

A rural businessman is robbed by a corrupt partner and his cadet son and good student aspires to run the business.

The exploits of two recently arrived immigrants in Argentina.

Based on Scènes de la vie de bohème by Henri Murger, and the Giacomo Puccini opera. The young, tubercular seamstress, Mimi, falls in...