John Alton Movies

Burdened by a family secret, Adam White lands a job as a newspaper advice columnist. Little does he realize that it's all part of a nasty desire by...

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

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

A millionaire's brain is preserved after his death by a scientist and his two assistants, only to create a telepathic monster.

Kleptomaniac Dorothy Lyons is paroled from prison into the custody of her sister June, secretary to "reform" politician Frank Jansen. Ben Grace,...

Two beachcombers with a yacht join woman-with-a-past Rita on a quest for black pearls on a secret island. Arrived, they find another white man has...

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

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

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.

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

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...

Story of an investment agent who embezzles a large sum from an estate, hoping to cover his crime by marrying the estate's heiress. The girl is...

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 lawyer defends a migrant worker in a sensational murder trial.

The citizens of the small town of Midburg are thrilled when one of their native sons, Dan Flannery, becomes a war hero while serving in the Merchant...

An orphan helps a doctor fight an epidemic in a small western town, in one of Allan Dwan’s closely observed studies in Americana.

The members of a Buenos Aires family have three hobbies — "berretines" in Buenos Aires slang — that keep them apart of their duties....