https://shotonwhat.com/sound-systems/mono-sound-systems The Source for Motion Picture & Television Technical Information Mon, 20 May 2024 13:44:26 -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/the-terminator-1984 Thu, 26 Sep 2024 11:16:55 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-terminator-1984
Director: James Cameron
Cinematographer: Adam Greenberg
A seemingly indestructible robot is sent from 2029 to 1984 to assassinate a young waitress, whose unborn son will lead humanity in a war against sentient machines, while a human soldier from the same war is sent to protect her at all costs. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/1941-1979 Sun, 15 Sep 2024 12:28:41 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/1941-1979
Director: Steven Spielberg
Cinematographer: William A. Fraker
Hysterical Californians prepare for a Japanese invasion in the days after Pearl Harbor. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/jaws-1975 Sun, 15 Sep 2024 09:48:10 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/jaws-1975
Director: Steven Spielberg
Cinematographer: Bill Butler
When a killer shark unleashes chaos on a beach community, it's up to a local sheriff, a marine biologist, and an old seafarer to hunt the beast down. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-sugarland-express-1974 Sat, 07 Sep 2024 13:21:38 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-sugarland-express-1974
Director: Steven Spielberg
Cinematographer: Vilmos Zsigmond
A woman attempts to reunite her family by helping her husband escape prison and together kidnapping their son. But things don't go as planned when they are forced to take a police hostage on the road. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly-1966 Thu, 05 Sep 2024 17:29:03 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly-1966
Director: Sergio Leone
Cinematographer: Tonino Delli Colli
A bounty hunting scam joins two men in an uneasy alliance against a third in a race to find a fortune in gold buried in a remote cemetery. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/i-love-lucy-1957 Sat, 31 Aug 2024 20:16:49 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/i-love-lucy-1957
Director: William Asher, James V. Kern, Marc Daniels, Ralph Levy
Cinematographer: Karl Freund, Sidney Hickox, Robert De Grasse
A daffy woman constantly strives to become a star along with her bandleader husband and gets herself in the strangest situations. ]]> 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/filming-othello-1978 Fri, 30 Aug 2024 14:39:55 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/filming-othello-1978
Director: Orson Welles
Cinematographer: Gary Graver
Essay film shot for TV including Orson Welles reflections on Othello close to the Moviola, a chat with Hilton Edwards and Micheál MacLiammóir and fragments of a conversation with the audience in Boston after a screening of the film. ]]> 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/the-trial-1962 Fri, 30 Aug 2024 10:51:51 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-trial-1962
Director: Orson Welles
Cinematographer: Edmond Richard
An unassuming office worker is arrested and stands trial, but he is never made aware of his charges. ]]> 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/f-for-fake-1973 Thu, 29 Aug 2024 12:46:15 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/f-for-fake-1973
Director: Orson Welles, Gary Graver, Oja Kodar, François Reichenbach
Cinematographer: François Reichenbach
A documentary about fraud and fakery. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-immortal-story-1968 Wed, 28 Aug 2024 14:40:03 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-immortal-story-1968
Director: Orson Welles
Cinematographer: Willy Kurant
In Macao, a wealthy merchant named Charles Clay hires two people to recreate a story of a sailor who is paid to impregnate a man's wife. ]]> 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/chimes-at-midnight-1965 Wed, 28 Aug 2024 13:46:25 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/chimes-at-midnight-1965
Director: Orson Welles
Cinematographer: Edmond Richard
When King Henry IV ascends to the throne, his heir, the Prince of Wales, is befriended by Sir John Falstaff, an old, overweight, fun-loving habitual liar. Through Falstaff's eyes we see the reign of King Henry IV and the rise of H... ]]> 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/gyani-maiya-2019 Fri, 23 Aug 2024 14:56:35 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/gyani-maiya-2019
Director: Subhashish Panigrahi
Cinematographer: Subhashish Panigrahi
No community can express the pain of losing an elder, especially when she was the last fluent speaker of their language. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/ordinary-people-1980 Sun, 18 Aug 2024 13:51:51 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/ordinary-people-1980
Director: Robert Redford
Cinematographer: John Bailey
The accidental death of the older son of an affluent family deeply strains the relationships among the bitter mother, the good-natured father, and the guilt-ridden younger son. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-formula-1980 Sun, 11 Aug 2024 15:54:26 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-formula-1980
Director: John G. Avildsen
Cinematographer: James Crabe
The synthetic fuel production formula, invented by the Nazis at the end of World War II, is sought after by some who aim to sell it, and by others who wish to destroy it. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/julies-confession-2021 Sun, 11 Aug 2024 12:16:55 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/julies-confession-2021
Director: Franklin Genao
Cinematographer: Franklin Genao
A confessional story centered around friendship and honesty. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/fanny-and-alexander-2-1983 Tue, 23 Jul 2024 00:57:35 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/fanny-and-alexander-2-1983
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Cinematographer: Sven Nykvist
Through the eyes of ten-year-old Alexander, we witness the delights and conflicts of the Ekdahl family, a sprawling bourgeois clan in turn-of-the-twentieth-century Sweden. ]]> 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/romeo-and-juliet-1968 Mon, 15 Jul 2024 19:54:51 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/romeo-and-juliet-1968
Director: Franco Zeffirelli
Cinematographer: Pasqualino De Santis
When two young members of feuding families meet, forbidden love ensues. ]]> 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/with-byrd-at-the-south-pole-1930 Mon, 15 Jul 2024 14:37:00 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/with-byrd-at-the-south-pole-1930
Cinematographer: Joseph T. Rucker, Willard Van der Veer
Account of Admiral Byrd's 1928 expedition to the South Pole. Academy award winning cinematography. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/white-shadows-in-the-south-seas-1928 Mon, 15 Jul 2024 01:41:58 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/white-shadows-in-the-south-seas-1928
Director: W.S. Van Dyke, Robert J. Flaherty
Cinematographer: Clyde De Vinna, George Gordon Nogle, Bob Roberts
An alcoholic doctor on a Polynesian island, disgusted by white exploitation of the natives, finds himself marooned on a pristinely beautiful island. ]]> 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-divine-lady-1928 Fri, 12 Jul 2024 12:28:33 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-divine-lady-1928
Director: Frank Lloyd
Cinematographer: John F. Seitz
The story of the romance between Emma, Lady Hamilton, and British war hero Admiral Horatio Nelson. ]]> 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/from-russia-with-love-1963 Sat, 06 Jul 2024 15:55:04 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/from-russia-with-love-1963
Director: Terence Young
Cinematographer: Ted Moore
James Bond willingly falls into an assassination plot involving a naive Russian beauty in order to retrieve a Soviet encryption device that was stolen by the organization Spectre. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/goldfinger-1964 Sat, 06 Jul 2024 15:54:09 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/goldfinger-1964
Director: Guy Hamilton
Cinematographer: Ted Moore
While investigating a gold magnate's smuggling, James Bond uncovers a plot to contaminate the Fort Knox gold reserve. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/thunderball-1965 Sat, 06 Jul 2024 15:52:39 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/thunderball-1965
Director: Terence Young
Cinematographer: Ted Moore
James Bond heads to the Bahamas to recover two nuclear warheads stolen by S.P.E.C.T.R.E. Agent Emilio Largo in an international extortion scheme. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/you-only-live-twice-1967 Sat, 06 Jul 2024 15:48:34 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/you-only-live-twice-1967
Director: Lewis Gilbert
Cinematographer: Freddie Young
James Bond and the Japanese Secret Service must find and stop the true culprit of a series of space hijackings, before war is provoked between Russia and the United States. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-man-with-the-golden-gun-1974 Sat, 06 Jul 2024 15:45:20 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-man-with-the-golden-gun-1974
Director: Guy Hamilton
Cinematographer: Ted Moore, Oswald Morris
James Bond is led to believe that he is targeted by the world's most expensive assassin while he attempts to recover sensitive solar cell technology that is being sold to the highest bidder. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-spy-who-loved-me-1977 Sat, 06 Jul 2024 15:43:58 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-spy-who-loved-me-1977
Director: Lewis Gilbert
Cinematographer: Claude Renoir
James Bond investigates the hijacking of British and Russian submarines carrying nuclear warheads, with the help of a K.G.B. agent whose lover he killed. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/diamonds-are-forever-1971 Sat, 06 Jul 2024 15:21:26 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/diamonds-are-forever-1971
Director: Guy Hamilton
Cinematographer: Ted Moore
A diamond smuggling investigation leads James Bond to Las Vegas, where he uncovers an evil plot involving a rich business tycoon. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/casino-royale-2-1967 Sat, 06 Jul 2024 15:15:01 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/casino-royale-2-1967
Director: Val Guest, Ken Hughes, John Huston, Joseph McGrath, Robert Parrish, Richard Talmadge
Cinematographer: Jack Hildyard
In an early spy spoof, aging Sir James Bond comes out of retirement to take on SMERSH. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/dr-no-1962 Sat, 06 Jul 2024 15:03:58 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/dr-no-1962
Director: Terence Young
Cinematographer: Ted Moore
A resourceful British government agent seeks answers in a case involving the disappearance of a colleague and the disruption of the American space program. ]]> 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. ]]>