John Alton Movies

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 lawyer defends a migrant worker in a sensational murder trial.

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

Young artist Monte Crandell is being sued for an unauthorized caricature. To escape arrest, he disguises himself as a mystic, only to conjure up a...

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...

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

Film Noir burrows into the mind; it's disorienting, intriguing and enthralling. Noir brings us into a gritty underworld of lush morbidity, providing...

A tough, womanizing high-stakes gambler known only as Tennessee has an uneasy relationship with Duchess, madam of a thinly-disguised bordello, and no...

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

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

Small-town gossips rage over the arrival of a mysterious stranger.

Stevie Carson, a newspaper reporter, and Danny Butler, the "morgue" manager on the same newspaper, set out to track down the killer of a colleague, a...

When the wealthy Mrs. Cooper passes away, she divides her estate between her sons, Henry and Wayne, and her only daughter, the tomboyish Geraldine.

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...

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

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

Film directed and scripted by John Dalton at the beginning of his stay in Argentina. Alton decided to make an independent project under the name of...

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

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.

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...