John Alton Movies

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

Like the first entry, this one is played mostly for laughs, with Radio's Mister District Attorney. James Ellison replacing Dennis O'Keefe as feckless...

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

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

A nightclub star helps trap an enemy agent on the trail of an American newsman.

Small ranchers battle against a land baron trying to take their spreads.

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...

A small town doctor suspects the stranger in town is promoting an oil swindle. The fourth entry in the "Dr. Christian" series of six films.

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

Dr. Christian takes an interest in a young boy, a violin prodigy, whose mother is a divorced music teacher. His interest isn't just in the boy's...

In 1915, Atlantic City is a sleepy seaside resort, but Brad Taylor, son of a small hotel and vaudeville house proprietor, has big plans: he thinks it...

Juan Pérez is a waiter in a luxurious place where the bachelor party of a man who is going to get married for convenience is done. When a...

A reporter (Patricia Neal) suspects the "nice guy" image of a respected Congressman (Van Johnson) is all a facade and sets out to uncover the truth.

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

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

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

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...

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

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.