John Alton Movies

San Quentin's new warden crusades for reform and for a framed inmate who loves a nurse.

This drama is an updated version of Ulmer's 1944 film Bluebeard. It is set in New York and follows the exploits of an eccentric Parisian painter who...

A New York radio personality travels to the small town of Fernville to oversee a contest to identify retired safecracker Jimmy Valentine, believed to...

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...

A playboy is reformed by his daughter and fiancee.

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.

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...

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...

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

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...

This recently produced behind-the-scenes documentary digs into Gershwin's original work, the genesis of the cinematic adaptation, casting, the shoot,...

Horse story with Dynamite, The Red Stallion...

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

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

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

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...

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

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