The cinematography of Jack Cardiff
Jack Cardiff began as a child actor but keen to continue in the film industry worked his way up from a runner to become one of the greatest cinematographers. Cardiff was camera operator on the first Technicolor film ever made in England, Wings of the Morning (1937) and continued to work almost exclusively in colour, using the cumbersome Technicolor camera with great skill and winning an Oscar for his beautifully atmospheric cinematography on Powell and Pressburger's Black Narcissus (1947) which included an oppressive jungle scene filmed in a Kent tropical garden. Other notable films include The African Queen and The Barefoot Contessa to which Cardiff's superb cinematography lends visual distinction.
Film Listing
Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, 1946
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A Matter of Life and Death
A World war II airman, shot down but accidentally missed by Death, falls in love ...
Charles Frend, 1948
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Scott Of The Antarctic
A film adaptation of the dangerous 1912 expedition to conquer the South Pole. Scott's intrepid te...
Leslie Arliss, 1945
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The Wicked Lady
Lockwood stars as the feisty aristocratic highway robber. The most commercially successful of all...
Pat Jackson, 1944
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Western Approaches
A documentary-drama depicting the hazards faced by the merchant seaman in the Second World War, t...
John Huston, 1951
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The African Queen (Special Restoration Edition)
Humphrey Bogart, captain of riverboat 'The African Queen', won an Oscar for his p...
Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, 1947
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Black Narcissus
Powell and Pressburger added to their run of daring and stylistic pictures with this melodrama ab...
Richard Fleischer, 1958
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The Vikings
The action story of two Viking half-brothers who quarrel over the throne of Northumbria.
John Boulting, 1951
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The Magic Box
Written by Eric Ambler as a cinematic tribute for the 1951 Festival of Britain, this is a tale ab...
Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, 1948
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The Red Shoes (Restoration Edition)
Ballet impresario Boris Lermontov (Anton Walbrook) hires up-and-coming ballerina ...
John Guillerman, 1978
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Death on the Nile
An adaptation of Agatha Christie's novel about murder on board the SS Karnak, a steamer travellin...
Alfred Hitchcock, 1949
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Under Capricorn
A costume drama from Hitchcock set in 1831, when Irishman Charles Adare travels to Australia to s...
Laurence Olivier, 1957
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The Prince and the Showgirl
A foreign prince, in London as a Coronation guest, takes a fancy to a young choru...
Gabriel Pascal, 1945
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Caesar And Cleopatra
Beauty and power collide in this witty, memorably cast and brilliantly designed adaptation of Geo...
Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1954
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The Barefoot Contessa
Starting with a rain-drenched funeral, this moves into flashback with the torrid and scandalous t...
Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, 1948
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The Red Shoes: Restoration Edition
Ballet impresario Boris Lermontov (Anton Walbrook) hires up-and-coming ballerina ...
Henry Hathaway, 1957
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Legend of the Lost
John Wayne and Sophia Loren star in this adventure film set in the Sahara Desert. Wayne plays Joe...
John Huston, 1951
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The African Queen (Special Restoration Edition)
Humphrey Bogart, captain of riverboat 'The African Queen', won an Oscar for his p...
George Pan Cosmatos, 1985
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Rambo: First Blood Part II
The hero of First Blood is back! His mission is to locate American POWs in Vietna...
