John Alton Movies

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

A thief, after robbing a bank, meets by accident an aristocratic woman who asks for money to help an elderly asylum. They fall in love despite...

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.

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

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

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

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

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,...

Drama set in San Quentin prison.

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...

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

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

The exploits of two recently arrived immigrants in Argentina.

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

After his best friend and war buddy is mysteriously gunned down, Mike Hammer will stop at nothing to settle the score for the man who sacrificed a...

Joe Sullivan is itching to get out of prison. He's taken the rap for his accomplice Rick, a sadistic mobster who owes him $50,000 from the job they...

Sgt. Thorne Ryan, who once fought bravely in Korea, now serves as a hard-nosed drill instructor to new Army recruits at Fort Bliss, Texas. But is he...