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William V. Skall is a Other, Assistant Director of Photography and Cinematography American born on 5 october 1897 at Chicago (USA)
Among those, 9 have good markets following the box office.
Here are the best films classified by number of entries :
Directed by Mervyn LeRoy, Anthony Mann
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Historical, Peplum, Romance
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about religion
Actors Robert Taylor, Deborah Kerr, Peter Ustinov, Leo Genn, Patricia Laffan, Finlay Currie
Roles Director of Photography
Rating70%
The action takes place in ancient Rome from AD 64–68, a period after Emperor Claudius' illustrious and powerful reign, during which the new corrupt and destructive Emperor Nero ascends to power and eventually threatens to destroy Rome's previous peaceful order. The main subject is the conflict between Christianity and the corruption of the Roman Empire, especially in the last period of the Julio-Claudian line. The characters and events depicted are a mixture of actual historical figures and situations and fictionalized ones.
Directed by Richard Rosson, Victor Fleming
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Historical
Themes Films about religion, Jeanne d'Arc, Political films, Films based on plays, Histoire de France
Actors Ingrid Bergman, José Ferrer, Francis L. Sullivan, J. Carrol Naish, George Coulouris, Gene Lockhart
Roles Director of Photography
Rating63%
Unlike the play Joan of Lorraine, which is a drama that shows how the story of Joan affects a group of actors who are performing it, the film is a straightforward recounting of the life of the French heroine. It begins with an obviously painted shot of the inside of a basilica with a shaft of light, possibly descending from heaven, shining down from the ceiling, and a solemn off-screen voice pronouncing the canonization of the Maid of Orleans. Then, the opening page of what appears to be a church manuscript recounting Joan's life in Latin is shown on the screen, while some uncredited voiceover narration by actor Shepperd Strudwick sets up the tale. The actual story of Joan then begins, from the time she becomes convinced that she has been divinely called to save France to her being burnt at the stake at the hands of the English and the Burgundians.
Directed by Victor Saville
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Adventure
Themes Spy films
Actors Errol Flynn, Dean Stockwell, Paul Lukas, Robert Douglas, Thomas Gomez, Cecil Kellaway
Roles Director of Photography
Rating64%
Kim (Dean Stockwell), an orphan boy in 1885 India during the British Raj, works at times for his friend Mahbub Ali (Errol Flynn), a roguish horse trader who is also a secret agent for the British. Mahbub Ali becomes aware of a Russian-backed plot to instigate a rebellion.
Directed by Cecil B. DeMille, Arthur Rosson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Ray Milland, John Wayne, Paulette Goddard, Robert Preston, Susan Hayward, Charles Bickford
Roles Director of Photography
Rating65%
Au milieu du XIX siècle, seuls les grands voiliers ont la possibilité, avant l'arrivée du chemin de fer, d'assurer la liaison entre le Nord-Est des États-Unis et la vallée du Mississippi. Mais il faut tenir compte des récifs de Floride, où s'échouent les navires. Pilleurs d'épaves et sauveteurs s'affrontent...
Directed by David Butler, Raoul Walsh, Robert Florey
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Musical theatre, Action, Adventure, Romance, Western
Actors Errol Flynn, Alexis Smith, Victor Francen, Paul Kelly, S.Z. Sakall, John Litel
Roles Director of Photography
Rating62%
Rustlers are running rampant in Texas, but at least one rancher, Charlie Bell, isn't pulling up stakes yet, particularly with the news that old friend Clay Hardin is en route from Mexico back home to San Antonio.
Directed by John Rawlins, Ford Beebe
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Action, Adventure, Romance
Themes Circus films, Children's films
Actors Sabu, Jon Hall, María Montez, Leif Erickson, Billy Gilbert, Turhan Bey
Roles Other
Rating60%
The story starts at a harem (which strangely has the Taj Mahal in sight, even though it is supposed to be located in Persia), where the elderly overseer bids his young charges to read the story of Haroun al-Rashid (Hall) and his wife Scheherazade (Montez), unfolding the film's plot in the process.
Directed by Henry King
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Musical, Romance
Themes Musical films, Films based on plays, Children's films
Actors Janet Gaynor, Will Rogers, Lew Ayres, Sally Eilers, Louise Dresser, Norman Foster
Roles Camera Operator
Rating66%
Un fermier de l'Iowa et sa famille se rendent à la foire annuelle de Des Moines, la capitale de l'Iowa. Ses enfants y trouveront l'amour, avec plus ou moins de bonheur.
Directed by Walter Reisch
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Adventure, Musical
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about music and musicians, Films about classical music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Yvonne De Carlo, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Eve Arden, Brian Donlevy, Terry Kilburn, William Ching
Roles Director of Photography
Rating63%
Rimsky-Korsakov, a midshipman in the Imperial Russian Navy, secretly yearns to be a composer, but naval regulations prevent him from doing so. He uses a stopover in Tangiers to work on his next composition, Scheherazade (which is actually a symphonic suite but in the film is a ballet), with the tacit support of his captain. There he meets Cara de Talavera and her mother, and romantic events and complications ensue. He has to leave to return home to Russia, where his ballet is staged, but Cara unexpectedly turns up as one of the dancers, and they are reunited.
Directed by Lloyd Corrigan
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Adventure, Musical
Themes Dance films, Seafaring films, Films about music and musicians, Transport films, Pirate films, Musical films
Actors Frank Morgan, Steffi Duna, Charles Collins, Victor Varconi, Luis Alberni, Marjorie Reynolds
Roles Director of Photography
Rating51%
Set in Boston the in 1820s, the film tells of dancing teacher Jonathan Pride, shanghaied by pirates and forced to be a slave aboard his own ship. Jonathan is able to join a provisioning party that lands on the coast of California, then a part of the Spanish Empire where he makes his escape; his only possessions being his umbrella and music box that he uses for his dancing lessons.
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Among those, 9 have good markets following the box office.
Here are the best films classified by number of entries :
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Add to a movie listQuo Vadis (1951)
, 2h51Directed by Mervyn LeRoy, Anthony Mann
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Historical, Peplum, Romance
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about religion
Actors Robert Taylor, Deborah Kerr, Peter Ustinov, Leo Genn, Patricia Laffan, Finlay Currie
Roles Director of Photography
Rating70%
The action takes place in ancient Rome from AD 64–68, a period after Emperor Claudius' illustrious and powerful reign, during which the new corrupt and destructive Emperor Nero ascends to power and eventually threatens to destroy Rome's previous peaceful order. The main subject is the conflict between Christianity and the corruption of the Roman Empire, especially in the last period of the Julio-Claudian line. The characters and events depicted are a mixture of actual historical figures and situations and fictionalized ones.
Joan of Arc (1948)
, 2h25Directed by Richard Rosson, Victor Fleming
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Historical
Themes Films about religion, Jeanne d'Arc, Political films, Films based on plays, Histoire de France
Actors Ingrid Bergman, José Ferrer, Francis L. Sullivan, J. Carrol Naish, George Coulouris, Gene Lockhart
Roles Director of Photography
Rating63%
Unlike the play Joan of Lorraine, which is a drama that shows how the story of Joan affects a group of actors who are performing it, the film is a straightforward recounting of the life of the French heroine. It begins with an obviously painted shot of the inside of a basilica with a shaft of light, possibly descending from heaven, shining down from the ceiling, and a solemn off-screen voice pronouncing the canonization of the Maid of Orleans. Then, the opening page of what appears to be a church manuscript recounting Joan's life in Latin is shown on the screen, while some uncredited voiceover narration by actor Shepperd Strudwick sets up the tale. The actual story of Joan then begins, from the time she becomes convinced that she has been divinely called to save France to her being burnt at the stake at the hands of the English and the Burgundians.
Kim (1950)
, 1h53Directed by Victor Saville
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Adventure
Themes Spy films
Actors Errol Flynn, Dean Stockwell, Paul Lukas, Robert Douglas, Thomas Gomez, Cecil Kellaway
Roles Director of Photography
Rating64%
Kim (Dean Stockwell), an orphan boy in 1885 India during the British Raj, works at times for his friend Mahbub Ali (Errol Flynn), a roguish horse trader who is also a secret agent for the British. Mahbub Ali becomes aware of a Russian-backed plot to instigate a rebellion.
Reap the Wild Wind (1942)
, 2h3Directed by Cecil B. DeMille, Arthur Rosson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Ray Milland, John Wayne, Paulette Goddard, Robert Preston, Susan Hayward, Charles Bickford
Roles Director of Photography
Rating65%
Au milieu du XIX siècle, seuls les grands voiliers ont la possibilité, avant l'arrivée du chemin de fer, d'assurer la liaison entre le Nord-Est des États-Unis et la vallée du Mississippi. Mais il faut tenir compte des récifs de Floride, où s'échouent les navires. Pilleurs d'épaves et sauveteurs s'affrontent...
San Antonio (1945)
, 1h49Directed by David Butler, Raoul Walsh, Robert Florey
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Musical theatre, Action, Adventure, Romance, Western
Actors Errol Flynn, Alexis Smith, Victor Francen, Paul Kelly, S.Z. Sakall, John Litel
Roles Director of Photography
Rating62%
Rustlers are running rampant in Texas, but at least one rancher, Charlie Bell, isn't pulling up stakes yet, particularly with the news that old friend Clay Hardin is en route from Mexico back home to San Antonio.
Arabian Nights (1942)
, 1h26Directed by John Rawlins, Ford Beebe
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Action, Adventure, Romance
Themes Circus films, Children's films
Actors Sabu, Jon Hall, María Montez, Leif Erickson, Billy Gilbert, Turhan Bey
Roles Other
Rating60%
The story starts at a harem (which strangely has the Taj Mahal in sight, even though it is supposed to be located in Persia), where the elderly overseer bids his young charges to read the story of Haroun al-Rashid (Hall) and his wife Scheherazade (Montez), unfolding the film's plot in the process.
State Fair (1933)
, 1h40Directed by Henry King
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Musical, Romance
Themes Musical films, Films based on plays, Children's films
Actors Janet Gaynor, Will Rogers, Lew Ayres, Sally Eilers, Louise Dresser, Norman Foster
Roles Camera Operator
Rating66%
Un fermier de l'Iowa et sa famille se rendent à la foire annuelle de Des Moines, la capitale de l'Iowa. Ses enfants y trouveront l'amour, avec plus ou moins de bonheur.
Song of Scheherazade (1947)
, 1h45Directed by Walter Reisch
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Adventure, Musical
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about music and musicians, Films about classical music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Yvonne De Carlo, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Eve Arden, Brian Donlevy, Terry Kilburn, William Ching
Roles Director of Photography
Rating63%
Rimsky-Korsakov, a midshipman in the Imperial Russian Navy, secretly yearns to be a composer, but naval regulations prevent him from doing so. He uses a stopover in Tangiers to work on his next composition, Scheherazade (which is actually a symphonic suite but in the film is a ballet), with the tacit support of his captain. There he meets Cara de Talavera and her mother, and romantic events and complications ensue. He has to leave to return home to Russia, where his ballet is staged, but Cara unexpectedly turns up as one of the dancers, and they are reunited.
Dancing Pirate (1936)
, 1h23Directed by Lloyd Corrigan
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Adventure, Musical
Themes Dance films, Seafaring films, Films about music and musicians, Transport films, Pirate films, Musical films
Actors Frank Morgan, Steffi Duna, Charles Collins, Victor Varconi, Luis Alberni, Marjorie Reynolds
Roles Director of Photography
Rating51%
Set in Boston the in 1820s, the film tells of dancing teacher Jonathan Pride, shanghaied by pirates and forced to be a slave aboard his own ship. Jonathan is able to join a provisioning party that lands on the coast of California, then a part of the Spanish Empire where he makes his escape; his only possessions being his umbrella and music box that he uses for his dancing lessons.