John Alton Movies

One of the first film noir documentaries, made for British Channel Four, and including interviews with Paul Schrader, Robert Wise, John Dahl, Bryan...

An outlaw murders several Apaches and flees to a stagecoach way station with the tribe in hot pursuit. A stagecoach and its passengers have just...

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

Promoter Ann Porter decides to start her own Ice Show despite the efforts of ex-racketeer Duke Baldwin who owns a rival show. Jeff Stewart, a rich,...

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

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...

A film star enjoys a romance with the daughter of a puppeteer, but his criminal past threatens to ruin it.

Opera singer Ina Massine tries to win back former husband Dr. Lincoln I. Bartlett.

A women's prison provides the setting for this drama that centers around a naive small-town woman framed by a man whom she met in a nightclub in the...

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

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

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...

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.

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

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.

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

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...

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...

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