https://shotonwhat.com/distributed-aspect-ratio/1-371 The Source for Motion Picture & Television Technical Information Tue, 13 Aug 2024 15:35:05 -0800 en-US hourly 1 https://shotonwhat.com/the-39-steps-1935 Fri, 14 Mar 2025 15:38:36 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-39-steps-1935
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Cinematographer: Bernard Knowles
A man in London tries to help a counter-espionage agent, but when the agent is killed and the man stands accused, he must go on the run to save himself and stop a spy ring that is trying to steal top-secret information. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/strangers-on-a-train-1951 Fri, 14 Mar 2025 14:53:03 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/strangers-on-a-train-1951
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Cinematographer: Robert Burks
A psychopath tries to forcibly persuade a tennis star to agree to his theory that two strangers can get away with murder by submitting to his plan to kill the other's most-hated person. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/touch-of-evil-1958 Fri, 30 Aug 2024 14:41:57 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/touch-of-evil-1958
Director: Orson Welles
Cinematographer: Russell Metty
A stark, perverse story of murder, kidnapping and police corruption in a Mexican border town. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/othello-1951 Fri, 30 Aug 2024 14:39:25 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/othello-1951
Director: Orson Welles
Cinematographer: G.R. Aldo, Anchise Brizzi, George Fanto, Alberto Fusi, Oberdan Troiani
The Moorish General Othello is manipulated into thinking that his new wife Desdemona has been carrying on an affair with his Lieutenant Michael Cassio when in reality, it is all part of the scheme of a bitter Ensign named Iago. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/citizen-kane-1941 Fri, 30 Aug 2024 11:58:30 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/citizen-kane-1941
Director: Orson Welles
Cinematographer: Gregg Toland
Following the death of a publishing tycoon, news reporters scramble to discover the meaning of his final utterance. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/confidential-report-1955 Thu, 29 Aug 2024 15:27:22 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/confidential-report-1955
Director: Orson Welles
Cinematographer: Jean Bourgoin
An elusive billionaire hires an American smuggler to investigate his past, leading to a dizzying descent into a cold-war European landscape. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/macbeth-1948 Wed, 28 Aug 2024 14:38:43 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/macbeth-1948
Director: Orson Welles
Cinematographer: John L. Russell
Macbeth, the Thane of Glamis, receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth murders his king and takes the throne for himself. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/following-1998 Wed, 28 Aug 2024 14:27:45 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/following-1998
Director: Christopher Nolan
Cinematographer: Christopher Nolan
]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-magnificent-ambersons-1942 Wed, 28 Aug 2024 14:18:21 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-magnificent-ambersons-1942
Director: Orson Welles, Fred Fleck, Robert Wise
Cinematographer: Stanley Cortez, Jack MacKenzie, Orson Welles
The spoiled young heir to the decaying Amberson fortune comes between his widowed mother and the man she has always loved. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-stranger-3-1946 Tue, 27 Aug 2024 23:46:34 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-stranger-3-1946
Director: Orson Welles
Cinematographer: Russell Metty
An investigator from the War Crimes Commission travels to Connecticut to find an infamous Nazi. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-irishman-2019 Tue, 27 Aug 2024 22:03:37 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-irishman-2019
Director: Martin Scorsese
Cinematographer: Rodrigo Prieto
An old man recalls his time painting houses for his friend, Jimmy Hoffa, through the 1950-70s. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/verwaant-2023 Tue, 13 Aug 2024 15:35:05 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/verwaant-2023
Director: Syb Faes
Cinematographer: Bregje Pontzen
Charlie wants to escape her world in the middle of her teenage years and looks for a new life with an elderly man with dementia and his grumpy brother Franciscus. Life is good, but will that stay her ideal place in the future as w... ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-celebration-1998 Wed, 17 Jul 2024 17:18:57 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-celebration-1998
Director: Thomas Vinterberg
Cinematographer: Anthony Dod Mantle
At Helge's 60th birthday party, some unpleasant family truths are revealed. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/she-wore-a-yellow-ribbon-1949 Tue, 16 Jul 2024 18:24:17 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/she-wore-a-yellow-ribbon-1949
Director: John Ford
Cinematographer: Winton C. Hoch
Captain Nathan Brittles, on the eve of retirement, takes out a last patrol to stop an impending massive Indian attack. Encumbered by women who must be evacuated, Brittles finds his mission imperiled. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/phantom-of-the-opera-1943 Mon, 15 Jul 2024 15:13:19 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/phantom-of-the-opera-1943
Director: Arthur Lubin
Cinematographer: W. Howard Greene, Hal Mohr
An acid-scarred composer rises from the Paris sewers to boost his favorite opera understudy's career. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-great-waltz-1938 Mon, 15 Jul 2024 01:31:37 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-great-waltz-1938
Director: Julien Duvivier, Victor Fleming, Josef von Sternberg
Cinematographer: Joseph Ruttenberg
In 1845 Vienna, Johann Strauss II (Fernand Gravey) - 'Jonahi' to his friends - would rather write and perform waltzes than anything else, this at a time when a waltz is not considered proper society music. After he is fired from h... ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-awful-truth-1937 Sat, 13 Jul 2024 12:34:51 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-awful-truth-1937
Director: Leo McCarey
Cinematographer: Joseph Walker
A married couple file an amicable divorce, but find it harder to let go of each other than they initially thought. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/mr-deeds-goes-to-town-1936 Sat, 13 Jul 2024 10:28:56 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/mr-deeds-goes-to-town-1936
Director: Frank Capra
Cinematographer: Joseph Walker
A unassuming greeting card poet from a small town in Vermont heads to New York City upon inheriting a massive fortune and is immediately hounded by those who wish to take advantage of him. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/anthony-adverse-1936 Fri, 12 Jul 2024 13:29:46 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/anthony-adverse-1936
Director: Mervyn LeRoy, Michael Curtiz
Cinematographer: Tony Gaudio
In 18th-century Italy, an orphan's debt to the man who raised him threatens to separate him forever from the woman he loves. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-good-earth-1937 Wed, 10 Jul 2024 19:04:09 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-good-earth-1937
Director: Sidney Franklin, Victor Fleming, Gustav Machatý, Sam Wood
Cinematographer: Karl Freund
Although married Chinese farmers Wang and O-Lan initially experience success, their lives are complicated by declining fortunes and lean times, as well as the arrival of the beautiful young Lotus. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/a-midsummer-nights-dream-2-1935 Wed, 10 Jul 2024 19:01:43 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/a-midsummer-nights-dream-2-1935
Director: William Dieterle, Max Reinhardt
Cinematographer: Hal Mohr
Two couples and a troupe of actors have an encounter with some mischievous fairies in the forest. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-yearling-1946 Mon, 08 Jul 2024 12:57:49 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-yearling-1946
Director: Clarence Brown
Cinematographer: Arthur E. Arling, Charles Rosher, Leonard Smith
A boy persuades his parents to allow him to adopt a young deer, but what will happen if the deer misbehaves? ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-informer-1935 Sat, 06 Jul 2024 16:00:13 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-informer-1935
Director: John Ford
Cinematographer: Joseph H. August
In 1922, an Irish rebel informs on his friend, then feels doom closing in. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/blood-and-sand-1941 Wed, 03 Jul 2024 23:42:07 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/blood-and-sand-1941
Director: Rouben Mamoulian
Cinematographer: Ernest Palmer, Ray Rennahan
Illiterate peasant Juan Gallardo rises meteorically to fame and fortune in the bullfight arena only to sow the seeds of his own fall. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/joan-of-arc-1948 Wed, 03 Jul 2024 23:15:34 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/joan-of-arc-1948
Director: Victor Fleming
Cinematographer: Winton C. Hoch, William V. Skall, Joseph A. Valentine
The abbreviated life of the 15th-century French heroine. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/shane-1953 Mon, 01 Jul 2024 17:36:18 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/shane-1953
Director: George Stevens
Cinematographer: Loyal Griggs
A weary gunfighter in 1880s Wyoming begins to envision a quieter life after befriending a homestead family with a young son who idolizes him, but a smoldering range war forces him to act. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/shanghai-express-1932 Mon, 01 Jul 2024 14:48:06 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/shanghai-express-1932
Director: Josef von Sternberg
Cinematographer: Lee Garmes, James Wong Howe
A notorious woman rides a train through a dangerous situation with a British captain she loved. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/king-solomons-mines-1950 Wed, 29 May 2024 15:23:16 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/king-solomons-mines-1950
Director: Compton Bennett, Andrew Marton
Cinematographer: Robert Surtees
Adventurer Allan Quartermain leads an expedition into uncharted African territory in an attempt to locate an explorer who went missing during his search for the fabled diamond mines of King Solomon. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-wizard-of-oz-1939 Mon, 27 May 2024 17:44:32 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-wizard-of-oz-1939
Director: Victor Fleming, George Cukor, Mervyn LeRoy, Norman Taurog, Richard Thorpe, King Vidor
Cinematographer: Harold Rosson
Dorothy Gale is swept away from a farm in Kansas to a magical land of Oz in a tornado and embarks on a quest with her new friends to see the Wizard who can help her return home to Kansas and help her friends as well. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/wilson-1944 Mon, 27 May 2024 17:24:00 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/wilson-1944
Director: Henry King
Cinematographer: Leon Shamroy, Ernest Palmer
A chronicle of the political career of US President Woodrow Wilson. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/leave-her-to-heaven-1945 Sun, 26 May 2024 02:59:17 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/leave-her-to-heaven-1945
Director: John M. Stahl
Cinematographer: Leon Shamroy
A writer falls in love with a young socialite and they're soon married. But her obsessive love for him threatens to be the undoing of them both, and everyone else around them. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/a-farewell-to-arms-1932 Sun, 26 May 2024 02:52:38 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/a-farewell-to-arms-1932
Director: Frank Borzage
Cinematographer: Charles Lang
An American ambulance driver and an English nurse fall in love in Italy during World War I. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-thief-of-bagdad-1940 Sat, 25 May 2024 20:10:04 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-thief-of-bagdad-1940
Director: Ludwig Berger, Michael Powell, Tim Whelan, Alexander Korda, Zoltan Korda, William Cameron Menzies
After being tricked and cast out of Bagdad by the evil Jaffar, King Ahmad joins forces with a thief named Abu to reclaim his throne, the city, and the Princess he loves. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/cleopatra-2-1934 Tue, 21 May 2024 18:05:32 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/cleopatra-2-1934
Director: Cecil B. DeMille
Cinematographer: Victor Milner
The man-hungry Queen of Egypt leads Julius Caesar and Marc Antony astray, amid scenes of DeMillean splendor. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-treasure-of-the-sierra-madre-1948 Sun, 19 May 2024 22:01:52 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-treasure-of-the-sierra-madre-1948
Director: John Huston
Cinematographer: Ted D. McCord
Two down-on-their-luck Americans searching for work in 1920s Mexico convince an old prospector to help them mine for gold in the Sierra Madre Mountains. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-quiet-man-1952 Sun, 19 May 2024 20:44:56 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-quiet-man-1952
Director: John Ford
Cinematographer: Winton C. Hoch
A retired American boxer returns to the village of his birth in Ireland, where he finds love. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/a-place-in-the-sun-1951 Sun, 19 May 2024 20:21:37 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/a-place-in-the-sun-1951
Director: George Stevens
Cinematographer: William C. Mellor
A poor boy gets a job working for his rich uncle and ends up falling in love with two women. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-grapes-of-wrath-1940 Sun, 19 May 2024 19:56:32 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-grapes-of-wrath-1940
Director: John Ford
Cinematographer: Gregg Toland
A poor Midwest family is forced off their land. They travel to California, suffering the misfortunes of the homeless in the Great Depression. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-black-swan-1942 Fri, 17 May 2024 16:38:59 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-black-swan-1942
Director: Henry King
Cinematographer: Leon Shamroy
An ex-pirate contends with rowdy buccaneers and a love/hate relationship with an aristocratic woman who's tougher than she seems. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/black-narcissus-1947 Thu, 16 May 2024 17:05:24 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/black-narcissus-1947
Director: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Cinematographer: Jack Cardiff
A group of nuns struggle to establish a convent in the Himalayas, while isolation, extreme weather, altitude, and culture clashes all conspire to drive the well-intentioned missionaries mad. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-big-sleep-2-1946 Thu, 16 May 2024 02:14:06 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-big-sleep-2-1946
Director: Howard Hawks
Cinematographer: Sidney Hickox
Private detective Philip Marlowe is hired by a wealthy family. Before the complex case is over, he's seen murder, blackmail and what might be love. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/all-about-eve-1950 Wed, 15 May 2024 17:06:54 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/all-about-eve-1950
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Cinematographer: Milton R. Krasner
A seemingly timid but secretly ruthless ingénue insinuates herself into the lives of an aging Broadway star and her circle of theater friends. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/around-the-world-in-eighty-days-1956 Tue, 14 May 2024 03:42:55 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/around-the-world-in-eighty-days-1956
Director: Michael Anderson, John Farrow
Cinematographer: Lionel Lindon
A Victorian Englishman bets that with the new steamships and railways he can circumnavigate the globe in eighty days. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/angie-lemaire-2019 Wed, 08 May 2024 20:31:47 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/angie-lemaire-2019
Director: Sidney Berthier
Cinematographer: Danielius Gedvilas
In her mid-20s, Angie is interviewed as she tries to understand how and why her brother David committed dark and terrible deeds, which led to him being sectioned. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/fish-tank-2009 Thu, 25 Apr 2024 01:57:09 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/fish-tank-2009
Director: Andrea Arnold
Cinematographer: Robbie Ryan
Everything changes for 15-year-old Mia when her mum brings home a new boyfriend. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/double-indemnity-1944 Thu, 18 Apr 2024 22:34:41 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/double-indemnity-1944
Director: Billy Wilder
Cinematographer: John F. Seitz
A Los Angeles insurance representative lets an alluring housewife seduce him into a scheme of insurance fraud and murder that arouses the suspicion of his colleague, an insurance investigator. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-maltese-falcon-1941 Wed, 17 Apr 2024 18:27:04 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-maltese-falcon-1941
Director: John Huston
Cinematographer: Arthur Edeson
San Francisco private detective Sam Spade takes on a case that involves him with three eccentric criminals, a gorgeous liar and their quest for a priceless statuette, with the stakes rising after his partner is murdered. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-quiet-girl-2022 Mon, 15 Apr 2024 15:12:39 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-quiet-girl-2022
Director: Colm Bairéad
Cinematographer: Kate McCullough
In rural Ireland, a quiet, neglected girl is sent away from her dysfunctional family to live with relatives for the summer where she blossoms and learns what it is to be loved. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-grand-budapest-hotel-2014 Thu, 21 Dec 2023 09:27:06 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-grand-budapest-hotel-2014
Director: Wes Anderson
Cinematographer: Robert D. Yeoman
A writer encounters the owner of an aging high-class hotel, who tells him of his early years serving as a lobby boy in the hotel's glorious years under an exceptional concierge. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/cold-war-2018 Tue, 14 Nov 2023 06:36:25 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/cold-war-2018
Director: Pawel Pawlikowski
Cinematographer: Lukasz Zal
In the 1950s, a music director falls in love with a singer and tries to persuade her to flee communist Poland for France. ]]>