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Leo Tover, A.S.C. (December 6, 1902 – December 30, 1964) was an American cinematographer, twice nominated for Academy Awards for his work on The Heiress (1949) and Hold Back the Dawn (1941). Among his other credits are the original silent version of The Great Gatsby, The Day the Earth Stood Still and Payment on Demand, both released in 1951. He was born in New Haven, Connecticut and died in Los Angeles, California.
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15 August 1931
A salesman gets in trouble with a party girl and a debutante in Detroit.
13 November 1931
A tale of juvenile delinquency, about a high-school student neglecting his studies, partying hard, falling in with the wrong crowd and finally finding himself on trial for murder committed during a robbery.
06 October 1936
Carrie Snyder is a prostitute, who is forced out of the fictional southern town of Crebillon, after forming a friendship with a young boy named Paul, whose dying mother is unable to protest against her son visiting such a woman.
01 March 1955
When the great potato famine hits Ireland, the diaspora begins as thousands emigrate. Among those leaving the Emerald Isle is Katie O'Neill and her husband, who decide that the promised land is South Africa and make their way there.
12 March 1932
When World War I comes to an end, three pilots find themselves on hard times. They wind up in Hollywood, where they work as stunt fliers for a sadistic director.
20 April 1935
A young girl runs away from her carnival family to make it in New York and becomes involved with a young songwriter.
29 April 1932
A young doctor escapes the slums of New York City to make his fortune as a Park Avenue doctor. When a fatal mistake results in tragedy his resolve to continue working is severely tested.
04 May 1930
Mary Gray elopes to Atlantic City, NJ, but begins having second thoughts about the marriage. Then she becomes inexplicably locked in her hotel room, and a series of cops, robbers and kidnappers passes through.
15 April 1931
A New York playboy, Wayne Carter, dates wild women until he falls for a hard-working stenographer, Helene Andrews.
16 October 1932
A Lieutenant is wrongly accused of cowardice
12 February 1937
When a young woman named Barbara Clarke has an affair with adventurer Roger Coverman, it causes a scandal in the Puritanical town of Salem, Massachusetts.
23 January 1941
Henry Aldrich wants to win a trip to Alaska.
04 June 1961
Every year the Chincoteague fire department rounds up the wild ponies of Assateague Island and holds an auction to thin out the herd.
23 November 1934
The story deals with the college rivalry of a piccolo player and an All-American halfback on the football team who both love the same co-ed.
20 May 1932
Corrupt alcoholic attorney Tom Cardigan is one of the best lawyers around, commanding the courtroom like a stage and often winning his cases.
15 February 1950
Two sisters fall in love with the same man. After the wedding, the new husband realizes he may have married the wrong sister.
15 January 1932
A café dancer bluffs a Mexican landowner to save her lover.
16 September 1932
Thirteen women who were schoolmates ask a swami to cast their horoscopes. The news they receive is not good for any of them.
17 June 1932
William Poster writes a gossip column for the Morning Gazette. He will write about anyone and everyone as long as he gets the credit.
01 December 1939
A playwright has his career ruined when he is drunk on the first night. His wife dies having left him, and when his daughter triumphs in the revival of the play he dies contented.
06 January 1961
An anthropology professor and his professor wife have the perfect marriage--until a Swedish colleague's daughter comes to visit.
15 December 1959
An Edinburgh professor and assorted colleagues follow an explorer's trail down an extinct Icelandic volcano to the earth's center.
22 May 1951
A biographical film of Ben Hogan, from his start as a golf caddy to being considered one of golf's greatest players.
27 June 1936
After saving himself from hanging, Laramie Nelson saves Tracks Williams from the same fate. They then travel to Lindsay's ranch where they get jobs.
18 September 1951
An alien and a robot land on Earth after World War II and tell mankind to be peaceful or face destruction.
27 June 1931
When British mining engineer Robert Maury is sent to India on an extended business trip, his wife Elsie finds romance with a Spanish playboy.
01 December 1929
A zany musical about an amateur musician in search of work who impersonates a big band leader.
17 March 1939
A Chinese-American surgeon faces a moral dilemma after operating on the mob boss in charge of vice and protection rackets in her city's Chinatown.
15 June 1930
Johnny Quinlan is so desperate for a job that he takes a gig as a "bag man" for the mob. Meanwhile, his beleaguered wife has to deal with her bizarre, unemployed, wise-cracking brother and various neighbors while keeping house in their Brooklyn tenement.
01 December 1952
A single father falls in love with his son's schoolteacher.
01 December 1958
Two bunglers (Tom Ewell, Mickey Rooney) rob a bank and buy a racehorse, then try to rob another bank.
06 October 1933
Bold performer Tira works as dancing beauty and lion tamer at a fair. Out of an urgent financial need, she agrees to a risky new number: she'll put her head into the lion's mouth! With this attraction, the circus makes it to New York and Tira can pursue her dearest occupation — flirting with rich men and accepting expensive presents.
30 July 1959
Two naive high-school students must deal with the unexpected consequences after a night of passion.
05 November 1948
John Hoyt plays a high-ranking Nazi being prosecuted by an army tribunal in the aftermath of World War II.
09 January 1936
It is California in 1852 that only recently being surrendered by Mexico to the United States and admitted into the union.
01 July 1942
A policeman's family helps to exonerate him of murder charges in the death of a man he had under interrogation.
15 November 1956
At the end of the Civil War, a Confederate team is ordered to rob a Union payroll train but the war ends leaving these men with their Union loot, until the Feds come looking for it.
21 December 1940
A hermit's idyllic life on an island is disturbed by the arrival of a bunch of cutthroats.
21 February 1950
The wedding of Ellen and David is halted by a stranger who insists that the bride is already married to someone else.
05 July 1933
A college professor and the school's star football player are both rivals for the same beautiful coed.
30 March 1961
The admiral is coming, so a sailor and his buddy hide their girlfriend and pet turkey.
25 March 1938
American multi-millionaire Michael Brandon marries his eighth wife, Nicole, the daughter of a broke French Marquis.
29 March 1940
Broadway producer Nicksie North and press agent Scoop Trimble find an investor for their next show who insists that they cast his ex-girlfriend, Clarice Sheldon, in the lead role and rehearse out of town.
11 October 1956
Sam Gifford remembers : In prewar years he was an arrogant southern cotton plantation owner, married to the daughter of a colonel.
09 February 1965
After a hasty wedding, Carter and Toni find that they disagree on everything. They separate and seven years later, on the eve before their divorce, meet again and spend the night together.
02 August 1965
The long-lost father of a frigid, uptight Freudian psychologist contracts a wealthy American playboy who owes him a favor to woo his daughter.
22 September 1955
Two brothers discharged from the Confederate Army join a businessman for a cattle drive from Texas to Montana where they run into raiding Jayhawkers, angry Sioux, rough terrain and bad weather.
23 August 1957
A group of disillusioned American expatriate writers live a dissolute, hedonistic lifestyle in 1920's France and Spain.
02 February 1956
Mongol chief Temujin battles against Tartar armies and for the love of the Tartar princess Bortai. Temujin becomes the emperor Genghis Khan.
13 January 1933
A mother wishes for the return of her dead son, a wish that is granted by the severed paw of a dead monkey.
15 January 1931
The hapless king of a small European nation must put up with a domineering queen, a daughter who wants to elope with her boyfriend, a peasant revolt and a scheming general.
21 November 1926
Nick Carraway, a young Midwesterner now living on Long Island, finds himself fascinated by the mysterious past and lavish lifestyle of his neighbor, the nouveau riche Jay Gatsby.
06 October 1949
In 1840s New York, the uneventful and boring days of the daughter of a wealthy doctor come to an end when she meets a dashing poorer man — who may or may not be after her inheritance.
03 February 1951
David gives his wife, Joyce, an unexpected—and unpleasant—surprise when he suddenly demands a divorce.
03 October 1927
A lieutenant is branded a coward after saving a beleaguered fort for an amnesiac major.
13 November 1963
An innocent upstarter visits her airline pilot brother and meets a stranger she tries to seduce.
22 August 1931
Captain Orloff is sent to Bucharest to capture a Mata Hari type of spy, but many different women fit the bill and are attractive enough to make one question one's allegiance.
14 October 1938
The Arkansas Traveler, an itinerant printer, returns to a small town to help save The Daily Record, a newspaper started by Mr.
09 October 1952
When a man confesses to his wife that he has been unfaithful, she imagines all the different ways that historical figures such as Cleopatra and Joan of Arc might handle the situation.
08 December 1933
A Tennessee art school student wins a scholarship to paint in Paris. He is thrilled until he arrives and discovers that his style is hopelessly passe and is considered trashy.
