John Alton Movies

The history of color photography in motion pictures, in particular the Technicolor company's work.

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 lawyer defends a migrant worker in a sensational murder trial.

A charismatic charlatan begins a business — and eventually romantic — relationship with a roadside evangelist to sell religion to 1920s...

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

In post-WWII Japan, an American captain is brought in to help build a school, but the locals want a teahouse instead.

A sensitive young man recalls his time in boarding school when the only person who seemed compassionate towards him was his housemaster's wife.

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...

Sierra Nevada Jones must fight a villainous rancher to regain the land that is rightfully hers.

A woman watches her own funeral, then sets out with her lawyer to learn who was in the casket.

The French Revolution, 1794. The Marquis de Lafayette asks Charles D'Aubigny to infiltrate the Jacobin Party to overthrow Maximilian Robespierre,...

A sportswriter who marries a fashion designer discovers that their mutual interests are few, although each has an intriguing past which makes the...

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,...

Pursued by the big-time gambler he robbed, John Muller assumes a new identity—with unfortunate results.

Dan Ballard, a respected citizen in the western town of Silver Lode, has his wedding interrupted by four men led by Ned McCarty, an old acquaintance...

The story follows Jaime Lara, a passenger whose ship makes a stop in Buenos Aires for one day. Lara elopes, leaving his wife on board, and walks...

An Irish cabby in the Bronx watches his wife go overboard planning their daughter's wedding.

A woman fights to convince the police that she witnessed a murder while looking out her bedroom window.

When a young woman's skeletal remains turn up on a Massachusetts beach, Barnstable cop Peter Moralas teams with Boston police and uses forensics,...