John Alton Movies

A former Navy man attempts to redeem his honor by exposing a shipping tycoon's dealings with the enemy.

A lawyer's wife walks out on him, then poses as a French nurse to spy on him.

A criminal tries to scam a horse racing fan using a seductive woman.

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

Aka Passport to Heaven. In Prussia shoemaker Voight needs a residence permit to get a job, but can only get a job if he already has a permit. He...

Horse story with Dynamite, The Red Stallion...

Young artist Monte Crandell is being sued for an unauthorized caricature. To escape arrest, he disguises himself as a mystic, only to conjure up a...

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

A famous singer in love with a woman takes the blame for a crime to save her. Luis Saslavsky's first film, considered lost.

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

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

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...

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 film follows a group of young girls in a boarding school.

A gaucho unjustly accused of murder becomes a dangerous nomad.

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...

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

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.

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

A young woman travels with her uncle to the city, there she works with a singer who she will have to replace. Later, she goes blind.