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Robert Burks, A.S.C. (July 4, 1909 – May 11, 1968) was an American cinematographer known for being proficient in virtually every genre and equally at home with black-and-white or color.
Burks began his career as a special effects technician in the late 1930s before becoming a director of photography in the mid-1940s. His first credit in this field was Jammin' the Blues (1944), a short film featuring leading jazz musicians of the day.
Burks collaborated with Alfred Hitchcock on twelve of the director's films. Beginning with Strangers on a Train in 1951 (which secured him an Oscar nomination) through Marnie in 1964, he shot every Hitchcock film except Psycho in 1960. Additional credits include The Fountainhead, Beyond the Forest, The Glass Menagerie, The Spirit of St. Louis, The Music Man, and A Patch of Blue.
Burks and his wife died in a house fire in 1968 in Huntington Harbor, California.
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Total trailers found: 57
07 August 1941
A young woman marries a man who turns out to be a bank robber.
01 August 1954
A wheelchair-bound photographer spies on his neighbors from his apartment window and becomes convinced one of them has committed murder.
06 August 1959
Advertising man Roger Thornhill is mistaken for a spy, triggering a deadly cross-country chase.
09 May 1958
A retired San Francisco detective suffering from acrophobia investigates the strange activities of an old friend's wife, all the while becoming dangerously obsessed with her.
28 March 1963
Thousands of birds flock into a seaside town and terrorize the residents in a series of deadly attacks.
27 June 1951
A charming psychopath tries to coerce a tennis star into his theory that two strangers can commit the perfect crime by exchanging murders—each killing the other’s most-hated person.
03 May 1949
Brothers who rode with a notorious outlaw gang led by Frank and Jesse James decide to go straight and try to get pardons so they can return to a law-abiding life.
12 February 1953
When a priest hears a murderer’s confession, he becomes bound by his vow of silence—even as circumstantial evidence turns suspicion toward him.
17 July 1964
Marnie is a beautiful but emotionally withdrawn thief, stealing from employers before disappearing under new identities.
29 May 1954
When her American lover visits London, a wealthy woman’s jealous husband hatches a plan to murder her and inherit her fortune.
10 June 1944
Walter and Vivian live in the country and have a difficult time keeping servants. Walter then hires a private detective who has been fired for arresting the District Attorney.
23 December 1960
Fictionalized account of Ferdinand Waldo Demara Jr., who stole or created fictional identities and worked in a variety of occupations, most quite successfully.
19 June 1962
Traveling con artist Harold Hill targets the naïve residents of a small town in 1910s Iowa by posing as a boys' bandleader to raise money before he can skip town.
03 August 1955
When a string of jewel robberies hits the French Riviera, suspicion falls on retired thief John “The Cat” Robie.
16 May 1956
An American doctor and his wife, a former singing star, witness a murder while vacationing in Morocco, and are drawn into a twisting plot of international intrigue when their young son is kidnapped.
03 October 1955
In a quiet Vermont village, a corpse creates unexpected chaos as several townspeople each believe they may be to blame.
13 October 1945
Nick, a motel owner who has lost faith in more than just the humanity of mankind, is visited by a kindly stranger on Christmas Eve.
05 May 1944
In this short film, prominent jazz musicians of the 1940s gather for a rare filming of a jam session.
22 December 1956
In 1953, an innocent man named Christopher Emmanuel "Manny" Balestrero is arrested after being mistaken for an armed robber.
16 April 1953
A sculptor opens a wax museum to showcase the likenesses of famous historical figures, but quickly runs into trouble when his business partner demands the exhibits become more extreme in order to increase profits.
16 July 1948
A hurricane swells outside, but it's nothing compared to the storm within the hotel at Key Largo. There, sadistic mobster Johnny Rocco holes up - and holds at gunpoint hotel owner James Temple, his widowed daughter-in-law Nora, and ex-GI Frank McCloud.
01 September 1944
Mortimer Brewster, a newspaper drama critic, playwright, and author known for his diatribes against marriage, suddenly falls in love and gets married; but when he makes a quick trip home to tell his two maiden aunts, he finds out his aunts' hobby - killing lonely old men and burying them in the cellar!
19 August 1959
Out of hit ideas and seemingly in the twilight of his career, Broadway producer Russ Ward decides to give up the game.
25 June 1949
An uncompromising, visionary architect struggles to maintain his integrity and individualism despite personal, professional and economic pressures to conform to popular standards.
26 November 1953
Army despatch rider Hondo Lane discovers a woman and her son living in the midst of warring Apaches, and he becomes their protector.
10 January 1952
Anne and "Poppy" Rose have three quirky kids. Anne has a generous heart and the belief in the innocence of children.
10 April 1937
In the underworld of Manhattan, a woman dares to stand up to one of the city's most powerful gangsters.
30 August 1949
After learning the finer points of carrier aviation in the 1920s, career officer Jonathan Scott and his pals spend the next two decades promoting the superiority of naval air power.
02 February 1942
Five young adults in a small American town face the revelations of secrets that threaten to ruin their hopes and dreams.
10 December 1965
A blind, uneducated white girl is befriended by a black man, who becomes determined to help her escape her impoverished and abusive home life.
24 October 1951
Alcoholic newspaperman Lew Marsh hits bottom, loses his job and is rehabilitated by Charley Dolan. After six years on the wagon he gets his job back and devotes himself to other recovering alcoholics.
10 October 1967
After a professional gambler kills a Confederate soldier, he finds a map pinpointing the location in the desert where stolen army gold bullion is buried.
28 August 1956
Louis XI of France drafts Paris's popular "king" of criminals as Provost Marshal in his fight against usurper Charles of Burgundy and the traitorous nobles who rally around him.
01 April 1957
In 1927, Charles Lindbergh struggles to finance and design an airplane that will make his New York to Paris flight the first solo transatlantic crossing.
12 February 1959
An aging widower fights family disapproval when he falls in love with a gangster's widow.
08 May 1942
An unhappy, self-centered woman runs off with her sister's husband, wreaking havoc and ruining the lives of those around her.
01 October 1951
A journalist's wife insists on adopting an abandoned child.
26 October 1948
An American serviceman remains in France after WWII and becomes a black marketeer.
25 March 1949
Eric Phillips's manager buys him a building with tenants, one of whom catches his eye.
01 July 1947
Christine Hunter kills an intruder and tells her husband and lawyer that it was an act of self-defense.
05 April 1941
After a newlywed's husband apparently dies in a plane crash, she discovers that her rival for his affections is pregnant with his child.
10 July 1960
An aspiring musician arrives in New York in search of fame and fortune. He soon meets a taxi dancer, moves in with her, and before too long a romance develops.
24 February 1951
After years of investigation, Assistant District Attorney Martin Ferguson has managed to build a solid case against an elusive gangster whose top lieutenant is about to testify.
24 April 1965
Ex-convict Eddie and his wife, Kristine, attempt to build a new life for themselves and their daughter Kathy in San Francisco, but police officer Mike Vido is determined to send Eddie back to prison.
19 August 1947
A woman uncovers deadly secrets when she visits her late husband's family.
29 May 1947
After being found wandering the streets of Los Angeles, a severely catatonic woman tells a doctor the complex story of how she wound up there.
04 March 1947
Struggling artist Geoffrey Carroll meets Sally while on holiday in the country. A romance develops, but he doesn't tell her he's already married.
11 October 1947
The secretary of an affably suave radio mystery host mysteriously commits suicide after his wealthy young niece disappears.
21 October 1949
Rosa, the self-serving wife of a small-town doctor, gets a better offer when a wealthy big-city man insists she get a divorce and marry him instead.
20 August 1952
In 1917, three shepherd children living just outside Fatima, Portugal have visions of a lovely lady in a cloud.
24 August 1945
Marine hero Al Schmid is blinded in battle and returns home to be rehabilitated. He readjusts to his civilian life with the help of his soon to be wife.
23 April 1952
An American salvage diver plunges into dangerous intrigue around a sunken treasure in the Philippines.
28 September 1950
An aging Southern Belle complicates life for her ambitious son and crippled daughter because of her own warped views of what life should be.
01 June 1961
Biddeford "Pogo" Poole, an urbane charmer, has been absent for most of the life of his daughter, Jessica, but he pops up again as she prepares to marry a California rancher.
08 August 1951
A man who spent his formative years in prison for murder is released, and struggles to adjust to the outside world and escape his lurid past.
23 February 1940
True story of the doctor who considered it was not immoral to search for a drug that would cure syphilis.
30 May 1953
Shiek Yousseff, poses as a friend of the French while secretly plotting to overthrow them. Apposing Yousseff are the Riffs, whose secret leader, The Red Shadow, is Paul Bonnard, a professor who is studying the desert, and whose attacks on the supply trains intended for Yousseff keep the Riff villages in food.
