John Alton Movies

A lawyer's wife walks out on him, then poses as a French nurse to spy on him.

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 famous singer in love with a woman takes the blame for a crime to save her. Luis Saslavsky's first film, considered lost.

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

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...

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

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...

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...

Four young performers form an act and get a job in a nightclub. Before long, one of them gets the idea that the act is all about him, and his changes...

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.

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...

The romance between Amalia Sáenz de Olabarrieta –a widow living in Buenos Aires– and the young Unitarian Eduardo Belgrano. Based...

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

The exploits of two recently arrived immigrants in Argentina.

A musical film with a performance by the group that was very fashionable at the time, El Cuarteto Aguilar. It was produced in 1936 but was never...

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...

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