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John Alton A.S.C. (October 5, 1901 – June 2, 1996), born Johann Altmann, in Sopron/Ödenburg, Kingdom of Hungary, Austria-Hungary, was an American cinematographer. Alton won an Academy Award for the cinematography of An American in Paris (1951), becoming the first Hungarian-born person to do so. He photographed some of the most famous film noirs of the classic period. He started out in Los Angeles as a lab technician in the 1920s, later becoming a cameraman within four years. He moved to France with Ernst Lubitsch to film backgrounds for The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg (1927) and ended up staying for one year heading the camera department of Paramount Pictures's Joinville Studios. In 1932 he moved to Argentina where he shot many Spanish-language films and designed the country's first sound film studio for Lumiton and Argentina Sono Film.
He returned to Hollywood in the late 1930s, with two dozen film credits, and became one of the most sought after cinematographers in American cinema.
Alton was known for unconventional camera angles—especially low camera shots. His style is most notable in the film noirs: He Walked by Night, The Big Combo, The Amazing Mr. X, T-Men, and Raw Deal.
Alton also photographed many color movies including Slightly Scarlet (a color film noir).
Most Popular John Alton Trailers
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16 December 1943
A sultan's lovely daughter finds herself courted by a handsome American.
23 October 1933
Film directed and scripted by John Dalton at the beginning of his stay in Argentina. Alton decided to make an independent project under the name of Alton Films, and summoned Luis Sandrini to star it.
29 February 1956
Kleptomaniac Dorothy Lyons is paroled from prison into the custody of her sister June, secretary to "reform" politician Frank Jansen.
12 January 1951
Opera singer Ina Massine tries to win back former husband Dr. Lincoln I. Bartlett.
02 February 1950
The title character, played by John Payne, is a ship's captain whose embittered behavior after losing his lady love seemingly leads to tragedy.
05 August 1940
A conman arrives in town trying to sell his miracle methods of weight loss to the ladies. It's left to the good Dr.
07 November 1946
A serviceman returns home at the end of WWII to discover his wife has become the head of her own very successful advertising agency.
01 December 1954
Drama set in San Quentin prison.
01 June 1995
One of the first film noir documentaries, made for British Channel Four, and including interviews with Paul Schrader, Robert Wise, John Dahl, Bryan Singer, Edward Dmytryk, Dennis Hopper, John Alton.
16 September 2008
This recently produced behind-the-scenes documentary digs into Gershwin's original work, the genesis of the cinematic adaptation, casting, the shoot, and the eventual reception of the film.
10 November 1941
A former Navy man attempts to redeem his honor by exposing a shipping tycoon's dealings with the enemy.
25 September 1952
An outlaw murders several Apaches and flees to a stagecoach way station with the tribe in hot pursuit.
31 December 1942
As sixteen year old Ann Winters begins a relationship with an older actor to further her career, lookalike fan Penelope Ryan is recruited by a group of former child stars to perform in a USO show.
26 September 1951
Jerry Mulligan is an exuberant American expatriate in Paris trying to make a reputation as a painter.
01 February 1939
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.
04 July 1962
After killing a prison guard, convict Robert Stroud faces life imprisonment in solitary confinement. Driven nearly mad by loneliness and despair, Stroud's life gains new meaning when he happens upon a helpless baby sparrow in the exercise yard and nurses it back to health.
20 February 1958
Ryevsk, Russia, 1870. Tensions abound in the Karamazov family. Fyodor is a wealthy libertine who holds his purse strings tightly.
15 December 1947
Two T-men, U.S. Treasury agents, go undercover in Detroit, and then Los Angeles, in an attempt to break a U.
07 July 1960
A charismatic charlatan begins a business — and eventually romantic — relationship with a roadside evangelist to sell religion to 1920s America.
13 May 1936
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.
16 October 1944
A nightclub star helps trap an enemy agent on the trail of an American newsman.
23 June 1950
When a young woman's skeletal remains turn up on a Massachusetts beach, Barnstable cop Peter Moralas teams with Boston police and uses forensics, with the help of a Harvard professor, to determine the woman's identity, how she died, and who killed her.
21 May 1948
Joe Sullivan is itching to get out of prison. He's taken the rap for his accomplice Rick, a sadistic mobster who owes him $50,000 from the job they pulled.
06 February 1949
Roy Martin aka Roy Morgan is a burglar and former war-time Radio & Electronics Engineer who listens in to radio police calls, allowing him to stay one step ahead of the cops.
28 October 1949
The story concerns two agents, one Mexican (PJF) and one American, who are tasked to stop the smuggling of Mexican migrant workers across the border to California.
29 November 1940
A small town doctor suspects the stranger in town is promoting an oil swindle. The fourth entry in the "Dr.
18 August 1948
Pursued by the big-time gambler he robbed, John Muller assumes a new identity—with unfortunate results.
15 September 1947
An orphan helps a doctor fight an epidemic in a small western town, in one of Allan Dwan’s closely observed studies in Americana.
06 October 1954
In old Spanish California, dashing cattleman Juan Obregon returns to the rancho of his friend Gaspar Melo, to find he's fathered a son on Rosa, one of Gaspar's identical twin daughters.
04 April 1940
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.
07 December 1998
The history of color photography in motion pictures, in particular the Technicolor company's work.
01 September 1951
A defense attorney jeopardizes his career to save his client.
08 August 1947
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 genuine ghost during a seance.
27 January 1946
A playboy is reformed by his daughter and fiancee.
18 August 1950
A Native American Civil War hero returns home to fight for his people.
11 August 1947
Story of an investment agent who embezzles a large sum from an estate, hoping to cover his crime by marrying the estate's heiress.
17 April 1944
A millionaire's brain is preserved after his death by a scientist and his two assistants, only to create a telepathic monster.
22 April 1949
A war veteran suffering from amnesia, returns to Los Angeles from a San Francisco veterans hospital hoping to learn who he is and discovers his criminal past.
18 July 2006
Film Noir burrows into the mind; it's disorienting, intriguing and enthralling. Noir brings us into a gritty underworld of lush morbidity, providing intimate peeks at its tough, scheming dames, mischievous misfits and flawed men - all caught in the wicked web of a twisted fate.
20 September 1939
A young woman travels with her uncle to the city, there she works with a singer who she will have to replace.
16 May 1957
A sportswriter who marries a fashion designer discovers that their mutual interests are few, although each has an intriguing past which makes the other jealous.
18 May 1950
Proud father Stanley Banks remembers the day his daughter, Kay, got married. Starting when she announces her engagement through to the wedding itself, we learn of all the surprises and disasters along the way.
15 April 1954
A woman fights to convince the police that she witnessed a murder while looking out her bedroom window.
19 June 1941
Dr. Christian takes an interest in a young boy, a violin prodigy, whose mother is a divorced music teacher.
22 March 1947
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 to the act, to reflect his own ego, causes the quartet to get fired.
16 February 1946
This drama is an updated version of Ulmer's 1944 film Bluebeard. It is set in New York and follows the exploits of an eccentric Parisian painter who has come to New York to escape a controversy surrounding his work.
17 April 1936
The exploits of two recently arrived immigrants in Argentina.
15 September 1945
A lawyer's wife walks out on him, then poses as a French nurse to spy on him.
27 September 1956
A sensitive young man recalls his time in boarding school when the only person who seemed compassionate towards him was his housemaster's wife.
24 June 1954
Dan Ballard, a respected citizen in the western town of Silver Lode, has his wedding interrupted by four men led by Ned McCarty, an old acquaintance who, as a US Marshal, arrests Ballard for the murder of his brother and the theft of $20,000.
08 June 1946
The citizens of the small town of Midburg are thrilled when one of their native sons, Dan Flannery, becomes a war hero while serving in the Merchant Marines.
18 November 1954
Sierra Nevada Jones must fight a villainous rancher to regain the land that is rightfully hers.
04 June 1941
The story concentrated on a group of test pilots, busily experimenting with a revolutionary all-plastic airplane.
03 March 1937
A rural businessman is robbed by a corrupt partner and his cadet son and good student aspires to run the business.
04 March 1959
Burdened by a family secret, Adam White lands a job as a newspaper advice columnist. Little does he realize that it's all part of a nasty desire by cynical editor William Shrike to crush the souls of his underlings.
29 July 1948
On the beach one night, Christine Faber, two years a widow, thinks she hears her late husband Paul calling out of the surf.
30 June 1948
Prisoners battle each other -- and the police -- when they escape the Colorado State Penitentiary.
14 August 1953
After his best friend and war buddy is mysteriously gunned down, Mike Hammer will stop at nothing to settle the score for the man who sacrificed a limb to save his own life during combat.
14 January 1957
In post-WWII Japan, an American captain is brought in to help build a school, but the locals want a teahouse instead.
