John Alton Movies

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...

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

On faraway Mosaque, an American pilot finds that he is in a desperate struggle with a military officer intent on sabotaging a local fort.

A lawyer's wife walks out on him, then poses as a French nurse to spy on him.

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,...

Prisoners battle each other -- and the police -- when they escape the Colorado State Penitentiary.

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...

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...

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

Stevie Carson, a newspaper reporter, and Danny Butler, the "morgue" manager on the same newspaper, set out to track down the killer of a colleague, a...

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.

Small-town gossips rage over the arrival of a mysterious stranger.

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

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

A playboy is reformed by his daughter and fiancee.

A former Navy man attempts to redeem his honor by exposing a shipping tycoon's dealings with the enemy.

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.

A conman arrives in town trying to sell his miracle methods of weight loss to the ladies. It's left to the good Dr. Christian to expose this fake and...

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

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.