Category: John Alton
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Alton and Mann: A Partnership in Post-War Noir
Dennis O’Keefe, Marsha Hunt, Claire Trevor, “Raw Deal” (1948). They made only a handful of films together, but John Alton and Anthony Mann’s work threw a new light on film noir, police procedural dramas and documentary filmmaking Silhouettes, fog, great pools of inky blackness — that’s a king-sized portion of the visual drama in store…
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Three Films that Set a Noir Mood: How John Alton Helped Define the Light and Shadows of Film Noir
Lynn Bari, Cathy O’Donnell, “The Spiritualist” (1948). ‘It’s not what you light, it’s what you don’t light.’ — John Alton As legend has it, in the summer of 1923…