John Alton Movies

A lawyer's wife walks out on him, then poses as a French nurse to spy on him.

A film star enjoys a romance with the daughter of a puppeteer, but his criminal past threatens to ruin it.

Aka Passport to Heaven. In Prussia shoemaker Voight needs a residence permit to get a job, but can only get a job if he already has a permit. He...

Two business partners, John Bennett, Sr. and Robert Forrester, are starting to get nervous when the birthday of Victoria, Forrester's daughter,...

A gaucho unjustly accused of murder becomes a dangerous nomad.

A young woman travels with her uncle to the city, there she works with a singer who she will have to replace. Later, she goes blind.

Based on Scènes de la vie de bohème by Henri Murger, and the Giacomo Puccini opera. The young, tubercular seamstress, Mimi, falls in...

Juan Pérez is a waiter in a luxurious place where the bachelor party of a man who is going to get married for convenience is done. When a...

An Irish cabby in the Bronx watches his wife go overboard planning their daughter's wedding.

The romance between Amalia Sáenz de Olabarrieta –a widow living in Buenos Aires– and the young Unitarian Eduardo Belgrano. Based...

A rural businessman is robbed by a corrupt partner and his cadet son and good student aspires to run the business.

Nina Miranda leaves jail after spending 20 years imprisoned for a murder that she insists she did not commit and recalls the time of her youth.

A warehouse employee travels to Buenos Aires with the purpose of rescuing the young woman he is in love with from a gang of criminals.

The story follows Jaime Lara, a passenger whose ship makes a stop in Buenos Aires for one day. Lara elopes, leaving his wife on board, and walks...

Film directed and scripted by John Dalton at the beginning of his stay in Argentina. Alton decided to make an independent project under the name of...

A famous singer in love with a woman takes the blame for a crime to save her.

A musical film with a performance by the group that was very fashionable at the time, El Cuarteto Aguilar. It was produced in 1936 but was never...