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...

Landed on the moon, Capt. John Anderson and his fellow astronauts quickly find their mission threatened – first by the disappearance of two...

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

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

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

A playboy is reformed by his daughter and fiancee.

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...

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 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...

Viennese surgeon Dr. Braun and his daughter Leni come to a small town in North Dakota as refugees from Hitler. When the winds of the Dust Bowl...

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...

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

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.

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

A serviceman returns home at the end of WWII to discover his wife has become the head of her own very successful advertising agency. Comedy.

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...

The title character, played by John Payne, is a ship's captain whose embittered behavior after losing his lady love seemingly leads to tragedy....

Aka Passport to Heaven. In Prussia shoemaker Voight needs a residence permit to get a job, but can only get a job if he already has a permit. He...

Horse story with Dynamite, The Red Stallion...