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Joseph MacDonald

Born December 15, 1906

Died May 26, 1968 · aged 61

No biography available.

Known For

My Darling Clementine · 1946

My Darling Clementine

★ 7.51946

MovieWestern

Three brothers stop off for a night in the town of Tombstone. The next morning they find one of their brothers dead and their cattle stolen. They decide to take revenge on the culprits.

Mackenna's Gold · 1969

Mackenna's Gold

★ 6.61969

MovieAdventureAction

A bandit kidnaps a Marshal who has seen a map showing a gold vein on Indian lands, but other groups are looking for it too, while the Apache try to keep the secret location undisturbed.

A band of murderous cowboys has imposed a reign of terror on the town of Warlock. With the sheriff humiliatingly run out of town, the residents hire the services of Clay Blaisedell as de facto town marshal. He arrives along with his friend, Tom Morgan, and sets about restoring law and order on his own terms whilst also overseeing the establishment of a gambling house and saloon.

How to Marry a Millionaire · 1953

How to Marry a Millionaire

★ 6.91953

MovieComedyRomance

Three women set out to find eligible millionaires to marry, but find true love in the process.

Unhappily married, Julia Sturges decides to go to America with her two children on the Titanic. Her husband, Richard also arranges passage on the luxury liner so as to have custody of their two children. All this fades to insignificance once the ship hits an iceberg.

Rose Loomis and her older, gloomier husband, George, are vacationing at a cabin in Niagara Falls. The couple befriend Polly and Ray Cutler, who are honeymooning in the area. Polly begins to suspect that something is amiss between Rose and George, and her suspicions grow when she sees Rose in the arms of another man. While Ray initially thinks Polly is overreacting, things between George and Rose soon take a shockingly dark turn.

The Young Lions · 1958

The Young Lions

★ 6.81958

MovieWarDrama

The lives of three young men, a German and two Americans, during WWII.

Pickup on South Street · 1953

Pickup on South Street

★ 7.41953

MovieThrillerCrime

In New York City, an insolent pickpocket, Skip McCoy, inadvertently sets off a chain of events when he targets ex-prostitute Candy and steals her wallet. Unaware that she has been making deliveries of highly classified information to the communists, Candy, who has been trailed by FBI agents for months in hopes of nabbing the spy ringleader, is sent by her ex-boyfriend, Joey, to find Skip and retrieve the valuable microfilm he now holds.

Filmography

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My Darling Clementine · 1946

My Darling Clementine

★ 7.51946

MovieWestern

Three brothers stop off for a night in the town of Tombstone. The next morning they find one of their brothers dead and their cattle stolen. They decide to take revenge on the culprits.

Director of Photography

Mackenna's Gold · 1969

Mackenna's Gold

★ 6.61969

MovieAdventureAction

A bandit kidnaps a Marshal who has seen a map showing a gold vein on Indian lands, but other groups are looking for it too, while the Apache try to keep the secret location undisturbed.

Director of Photography

Director of Photography

How to Marry a Millionaire · 1953

How to Marry a Millionaire

★ 6.91953

MovieComedyRomance

Three women set out to find eligible millionaires to marry, but find true love in the process.

Director of Photography

Director of Photography

Director of Photography

The Young Lions · 1958

The Young Lions

★ 6.81958

MovieWarDrama

The lives of three young men, a German and two Americans, during WWII.

Director of Photography

Pickup on South Street · 1953

Pickup on South Street

★ 7.41953

MovieThrillerCrime

Director of Photography

The Sand Pebbles · 1966

The Sand Pebbles

★ 7.21966

MovieDramaWar

Engineer Jake Holman arrives aboard the gunboat USS San Pablo, assigned to patrol a tributary of the Yangtze in the middle of exploited and revolution-torn 1926 China. His iconoclasm and cynical nature soon clash with the 'rice-bowl' system which runs the ship and the uneasy symbiosis between Chinese and foreigner on the river. Hostility towards the gunboat's presence reaches a climax when the boat must crash through a river-boom and rescue missionaries upriver at China Light Mission.

Director of Photography

Call Northside 777 · 1948

Call Northside 777

★ 6.71948

MovieCrimeDrama

In 1932, a cop is killed and Frank Wiecek sentenced to life. Eleven years later, a newspaper ad by Frank's mother leads Chicago reporter P.J. McNeal to look into the case. For some time, McNeal continues to believe Frank guilty. But when he starts to change his mind, he meets increased resistance from authorities unwilling to be proved wrong.

Director of Photography

Bigger Than Life · 1956

Bigger Than Life

★ 7.21956

MovieDrama

A friendly, successful suburban teacher and father grows dangerously addicted to cortisone, resulting in his transformation into a household despot.

Director of Photography

The story of Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata, who led a rebellion against the corrupt, oppressive dictatorship of president Porfirio Díaz in the early 20th century.

Director of Photography

Taras Bulba · 1962

Taras Bulba

★ 6.31962

MovieAdventureRomance

Ukraine, 16th century. While the Poles dominate the Cossack steppes, Andrei, son of Taras Bulba, a Cossack leader, must choose between his love for his family and his folk and his passion for a Polish woman.

Director of Photography

After a blackout in his office building, accountant David Stillwell emerges outside to find out a man he did not know either jumped or was pushed out a window to his death — and that he can't remember the past two years of his life. Enlisting the help of a rookie private eye and a reluctant old flame, Stillwell uncovers the mystery detail by unexpected detail.

Director of Photography

Fourteen Hours · 1951

Fourteen Hours

★ 7.31951

MovieDramaThriller

A young man, morally destroyed by his parents not loving him and by the fear of being not capable to make his girlfriend happy, rises on the ledge of a building with the intention of committing suicide. A policeman makes every effort to argue him out of it.

Director of Photography

In 1867, a gang robs a bank and flees into the desert. Out of water, the outlaws encounter a ghost town called Yellow Sky and its only residents, a hostile young woman and her grandfather.

Director of Photography

O. Henry's Full House · 1952

O. Henry's Full House

★ 6.91952

MovieComedyDrama

Five O. Henry stories, each separate. The primary one from the critics' acclaim was "The Cop and the Anthem". Soapy tells fellow bum Horace that he is going to get arrested so he can spend the winter in a nice jail cell. He fails. He can't even accost a woman; she turns out to be a streetwalker. The other stories are "The Clarion Call", "The Last Leaf", "The Ransom of Red Chief", and "The Gift of the Magi".

Director of Photography

A Guide for the Married Man · 1967

A Guide for the Married Man

★ 5.91967

MovieComedyRomance

A man gives his friend a series of lessons on how to cheat on one's wife without being caught.

Director of Photography

Hell and High Water · 1954

Hell and High Water

★ 6.01954

MovieAdventureDrama

A privately-financed scientist and his colleagues hire an ex-Navy officer to conduct an Alaskan submarine expedition in order to prevent a Red Chinese anti-American plot that may lead to World War III. Mixes deviously plotted schoolboy fiction with submarine spectacle and cold war heroics.

Director of Photography

Kings of the Sun · 1963

Kings of the Sun

★ 6.01963

MovieHistoryAdventure

In order to flee from powerful enemies, young Mayan king Balam leads his people north across the Gulf of Mexico to the coast of what will become the United States. They build a home in the new land but come into conflict with a tribe of Native Americans led by their chief, Black Eagle, while both Balam and Black Eagle fall in love the beautiful Mayan princess Ixchel.

Director of Photography

Pinky, a light skinned black woman, returns to her grandmother's house in the South after graduating from a Northern nursing school. Pinky tells her grandmother that she has been "passing" for white while at school in the North. In addition, she has fallen in love with a young white doctor, who knows nothing about her black heritage.

Director of Photography

Tensions erupt within an Arizona cattle baron's household when his three sons vie for control of the ranch.

Director of Photography

Panic in the Streets · 1950

Panic in the Streets

★ 6.91950

MovieThrillerCrime

A medical examiner discovers that an innocent shooting victim in a robbery died of bubonic plague. With only 48 hours to find the killer, who is now a ticking time bomb threatening the entire city, a grisly manhunt through the seamy underworld of the New Orleans Waterfront is underway.

Director of Photography

House of Bamboo · 1955

House of Bamboo

★ 6.21955

MovieCrimeDrama

Eddie Kenner is given a special assignment by the Army to get the inside story on Sandy Dawson, a former GI who has formed a gang of fellow servicemen and Japanese locals.

Director of Photography