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Nicholas Musuraca is a Scriptwriter, Director of Photography and Cinematography Italien born on 25 october 1892 at Riace (Italie)
Nicholas Musuraca, A.S.C. (October 25, 1892, Riace, Italy – September 3, 1975, Los Angeles) was a motion-picture cinematographer who began his film career as the chauffeur for silent film producer J. Stuart Blackton. He worked behind the scenes on numerous silent and B-movie action films before becoming one of RKO Radio Pictures prime directors of photography in the 1930s.
While working regularly at RKO, he was nominated for a 1947 Academy Award for his work on I Remember Mama. After working briefly at Warner Bros. in the late 1950s, Musuraca joined Desilu, where he spent his last active years in TV work including the television series F Troop. He collaborated with director Jacques Tourneur on Cat People (1942) and Out of the Past (1947).
According to Eric Schaefer:
Nicholas Musuraca's name remains unjustly obscure among the ranks of cinematographers from Hollywood's golden age. In his prime years at RKO during the 1940s, Musuraca shuttled back and forth between A- and B-films, prestige pictures, and genre potboilers. For this reason, and because many of the motion pictures photographed by Musuraca have attained a classic or landmark status only recently, he remains a neglected master.
Along with Gregg Toland's work on Citizen Kane (1941), Musuraca's cinematography for Stranger on the Third Floor (1940) defined the visual conventions for the film noir and codified the RKO look for the 1940s. Musuraca's photography begins and ends with shadows, owing a major debt to German Expressionism, and can be seen as the leading factor in the resurrection of the style in Hollywood in the 1940s. The dominant tone in his work is black, a stylistic bias that lent itself to the film noir and the moody horror films of Val Lewton.
But even within the confines of the studio system Musuraca succeeded in transposing his style to other genres. The western Blood on the Moon (1948) and George Stevens's nostalgic family drama I Remember Mama (1948) are both infused with the same shadowy visuals that Musuraca brought to the horror film in Cat People (1942) and the film noir in The Locket (1946). Through the conventions of varying genres and the differing requirements of numerous directors, Musuraca maintained a uniform personal aesthetic".
(1947)
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(1954)
(Director of Photography)
(1948)
(Director of Photography)
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Nationality Italie
Birth 25 october 1892 at Riace (Italie)
Death 3 september 1975 (at 82 years) at Los Angeles (USA)
Birth 25 october 1892 at Riace (Italie)
Death 3 september 1975 (at 82 years) at Los Angeles (USA)
While working regularly at RKO, he was nominated for a 1947 Academy Award for his work on I Remember Mama. After working briefly at Warner Bros. in the late 1950s, Musuraca joined Desilu, where he spent his last active years in TV work including the television series F Troop. He collaborated with director Jacques Tourneur on Cat People (1942) and Out of the Past (1947).
According to Eric Schaefer:
Nicholas Musuraca's name remains unjustly obscure among the ranks of cinematographers from Hollywood's golden age. In his prime years at RKO during the 1940s, Musuraca shuttled back and forth between A- and B-films, prestige pictures, and genre potboilers. For this reason, and because many of the motion pictures photographed by Musuraca have attained a classic or landmark status only recently, he remains a neglected master.
Along with Gregg Toland's work on Citizen Kane (1941), Musuraca's cinematography for Stranger on the Third Floor (1940) defined the visual conventions for the film noir and codified the RKO look for the 1940s. Musuraca's photography begins and ends with shadows, owing a major debt to German Expressionism, and can be seen as the leading factor in the resurrection of the style in Hollywood in the 1940s. The dominant tone in his work is black, a stylistic bias that lent itself to the film noir and the moody horror films of Val Lewton.
But even within the confines of the studio system Musuraca succeeded in transposing his style to other genres. The western Blood on the Moon (1948) and George Stevens's nostalgic family drama I Remember Mama (1948) are both infused with the same shadowy visuals that Musuraca brought to the horror film in Cat People (1942) and the film noir in The Locket (1946). Through the conventions of varying genres and the differing requirements of numerous directors, Musuraca maintained a uniform personal aesthetic".
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The Glorious Adventure (1922)
, 1h10Directed by James Stuart Blackton
Genres Drama, Adventure
Actors Victor McLaglen, Lady Diana Cooper, Cecil Humphreys, Haidee Wright, John Marlborough East, Ralph Forbes
Rating67%
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The Lawbreakers (1961)
, 1h19Directed by Joseph M. Newman
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Jack Warden, Vera Miles, William Smith, Robert Douglas, Arch Johnson, Noreen Corcoran
Roles Director of Photography
Rating68%
Allen Bardeman (Robert Douglas) is a prominent, married lawyer who collects money from the numbers racket for the syndicate. His legal secretary, Angela Walsh (Vera Miles), is also his mistress, and he provides her with a house of her own, where Sam Henry (Robert Bailey) – a corrupt New York City administrator who acts as a "bag man" for the syndicate – makes a weekly visit to pick up money from Bardeman. Bardeman 's lavish lifestyle and tax problems have placed him deeply in debt. Angela urges him to solve his money problems by staging a robbery of the syndicate 's money, using a man he knows will do it for him. She then visits Ed Rackin (Ken Lynch), a nightclub owner who looks out for the syndicate 's local interests and who Henry also visits to collect syndicate numbers proceeds. Their conversation reveals that Bardeman is unaware that they know one another, and that Angela is scheming with Rackin to make off with Bardeman 's money after the staged robbery and run off together.
Too Much, Too Soon (1958)
, 2h1Directed by Art Napoleon
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography
Themes Films about alcoholism, Films about films, Medical-themed films, Films about drugs, Films about television
Actors Dorothy Malone, Errol Flynn, Efrem Zimbalist II, Martin Milner, Neva Patterson, Ray Danton
Roles Director of Photography
Rating63%
Fourteen-year-old Diana Barrymore is being raised by her domineering mother, a poet. Her father, the famed actor John Barrymore, has not laid eyes on Diana for 10 years, but they share an evening on his boat before John abandons her again.
The Story of Mankind (1957)
, 1h40Directed by Irwin Allen, Don Alvarado
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Fantasy
Themes Films about religion
Actors Ronald Colman, Vincent Price, Hedy Lamarr, Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx
Roles Director of Photography
Rating48%
Scientists have developed a weapon, called the "Super H-bomb", which if detonated will wipe out the human race entirely. A "High Tribunal" in "The Great Court of Outer Space" is called upon to decide whether divine intervention should be allowed to stop the bomb's detonation. The devil (Vincent Price), who goes by the name of Mr. Scratch, prosecutes Mankind while the Spirit of Man (Ronald Colman) defends it.
Man on the Prowl (1957)
, 1h26Directed by Art Napoleon
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Mala Powers, James Best, Ted de Corsia, Jerry Paris, Vivi Janiss, Peggy Maley
Roles Director of Photography
Rating57%
This script must be run from the command line
Susan Slept Here (1954)
, 1h38Directed by Frank Tashlin
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films about writers, Christmas films, Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Dick Powell, Debbie Reynolds, Anne Francis, Glenda Farrell, Alvy Moore, Les Tremayne
Roles Director of Photography
Rating63%
Mark Christopher (Powell) is a successful thirty-five-year-old Hollywood screenwriter who has suffered from partial writer's block since winning an Academy Award and has been unable to produce a decent script. One Christmas Eve, he receives an unexpected and very unwanted surprise present.
Split Second (1953)
, 1h25Directed by Dick Powell, Fred Fleck
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actors Stephen McNally, Alexis Smith, Jan Sterling, Keith Andes, Arthur Hunnicutt, Paul Kelly
Roles Director of Photography
Rating67%
Sam Hurley (Stephen McNally) and Bart Moore (Paul Kelly) escape from prison, although Moore is seriously wounded in the breakout. They meet up with a confederate, a mute named "Dummy" (Frank de Kova), and hide out in a ghost town. Along the way, they pick up several hostages, Kay Garven (Alexis Smith) and her lover Arthur Ashton (Robert Paige), reporter Larry Fleming (Keith Andes), dancer "Dottie" Vale (Jan Sterling), and the town's sole resident, Asa Tremaine (Arthur Hunnicutt).
The Hitch-Hiker (1953)
, 1h11Directed by Ida Lupino
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror, Noir, Crime
Themes Transport films, Films about automobiles, Road movies
Actors Edmond O'Brien, Frank Lovejoy, William Talman, José Torvay, Natividad Vácio, Collier Young
Roles Director of Photography
Rating68%
Two men (Edmond O'Brien and Frank Lovejoy) from El Centro, California are driving toward a planned fishing trip at the Mexican town of San Felipe on the Gulf of California. Just south of Mexicali, they pick up a hitchhiker named Emmett Myers (William Talman), whose stolen car has apparently run out of gas. Myers turns out to be a psychopath who has committed multiple murders while hitch-hiking between Illinois and Southern California, and has managed to slip into Mexico at Mexicali. In order to evade the pursuing authorities, Myers forces the two men at gunpoint to journey deep into the heart of the Baja California Peninsula, toward the town of Santa Rosalía, where he plans to take a ferry across the Gulf of California.
Devil's Canyon (1953)
, 1h32Directed by Alfred L. Werker
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Crime, Western
Actors Virginia Mayo, Dale Robertson, Arthur Hunnicutt, Stephen McNally, Robert Keith, Jay C. Flippen
Roles Director of Photography
Rating54%
Arizona, 1897: A female outlaw, Abby Nixon, warns a lawman, Billy Reynolds, that her accomplices Bud and Cole Gorman are nearby. Reynolds manages to kill both in a gunfight, but finds himself arrested for murder, convicted and sentenced to a desert prison known as Devil's Canyon.
The Blue Gardenia (1953)
, 1h30Directed by Fritz Lang
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir, Crime
Themes Films about writers, Films about journalists
Actors Anne Baxter, Richard Conte, Ann Sothern, Raymond Burr, Jeff Donnell, George Reeves
Roles Director of Photography
Rating68%
In Los Angeles, California, Norah Larkin (Anne Baxter) is a single woman who works as a switchboard operator along with her roommates, Crystal Carpenter (Ann Sothern) and Sally Ellis (Jeff Donnell). On her birthday, she decides to celebrate by dining alone at home, with the picture of her fiancé, a soldier serving in the Korean War. At the candlelight dinner table, she opens the latest letter from him and learns to her shock that he instead plans to marry a nurse he met in Tokyo.
Clash by Night (1952)
, 1h45Directed by Fritz Lang
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Noir, Romance
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Barbara Stanwyck, Paul Douglas, Robert Ryan, Marilyn Monroe, Keith Andes, J. Carrol Naish
Roles Director of Photography
Rating69%
Mae Doyle (Barbara Stanwyck) returns to her home town, the fishing village of Monterey, California after ten years "back East." Her fisherman brother Joe (Keith Andes) is not particularly pleased to see her, but accepts her back into the family home. His girlfriend Peggy (Marilyn Monroe) is more welcoming. When Joe asks Mae about the rich man she was seeing, she explains he was a married politician. He died and left her some money, but his wife and relatives took her to court and won.
A Girl in Every Port (1952)
, 1h26Directed by Chester Erskine
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Groucho Marx, Marie Wilson, William Bendix, Don DeFore, Gene Lockhart, Dee Hartford
Roles Director of Photography
Rating52%
Deux marins achètent un cheval de course qui s'avère être un tocard. Ils prennent une permission pour résoudre le problème mais le cheval a un jumeau qui lui est un champion. Ils décident d'établir un plan pour prendre leur revanche.
Trail Guide (1952)
Directed by Lesley Selander
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Tim Holt, Frank Wilcox, John M. Pickard, Kenneth MacDonald, Patricia Wright, Roscoe Ates
Roles Director of Photography
Rating57%
The Company She Keeps (1951)
Directed by John Cromwell
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Lizabeth Scott, Jeff Bridges, Jane Greer, Dorothy Bridges, Dennis O'Keefe, John Hoyt
Roles Director of Photography
Rating62%
Released from prison after serving two years on a check-forging charge, Mildred Lynch changes her name to Diane Stuart and moves to Los Angeles.
The Whip Hand (1951)
, 1h22Directed by William Cameron Menzies
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Adventure, Crime
Themes Political films
Actors Elliott Reid, Carla Balenda, Edgar Barrier, Raymond Burr, Lurene Tuttle, Otto Waldis
Roles Director of Photography
Rating59%
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