MenuFLIXANO
Start Your Free Trial
Search
William Cameron Menzies

William Cameron Menzies

William Cameron Menzies (July 29, 1896 – March 5, 1957) was an Academy Award-winning American film production designer (a job title he invented) and art director who also worked as a director, producer, and screenwriter during a career spanning five decades. He earned acclaim for his work in silent movies, and later pioneered the use of color in film for dramatic effect.

Sign up to watch Free William Cameron Menzies Movies

Movies Made By William Cameron Menzies (42)

Sunshine (1999)

The fate of a Hungarian Jewish family throughout the 20th century. ...

Watch Now

Around the World in 80 Days (1956)

Based on the famous book by Jules Verne the movie follows Phileas Fogg on his journey around the world. Which has to be completed within 80 days, a very short period for those days. ...

Watch Now

Autumn in Rome (1954)

A lonely young woman sings two melancholy ballads in her Manhattan high rise apartment. ...

Watch Now

The Maze (1953)

A Scotsman abruptly breaks off his engagement to pretty Kitty and moves to his uncle's castle in the Scottish highlands. Kitty and her aunt follow Gerald a few weeks later, and discover he has suddenly aged. Some mysterious things happen in a maze made fro ...

Watch Now

Invaders from Mars (1953)

A boy tries to stop aliens that have taken over his town and are brainwashing its inhabitants. ...

Watch Now

Androcles and the Lion (1952)

George Bernard Shaw's breezy, delightful dramatization of this classic fable—about a Christian slave who pulls a thorn from a lion's paw and is spared from death in the Colosseum as a result of his kind act—was written as a meditation on modern Christi ...

Watch Now

The Queen of Sheba (1952)

The Queen of Sheba falls in love with the King of Israel. The King of Israel, however, is in love with someone else. ...

Watch Now

The Narrow Margin (1952)

A tough cop meets his match when he has to guard a gangster's widow on a train journey from Chicago to Los Angeles. ...

Watch Now

The Whip Hand (1951)

A small-town reporter investigates a mysterious group holed up in a country lodge. ...

Watch Now

Drums in the Deep South (1951)

Two old friends find themselves on opposite sides during the Civil War in a desperate battle atop an impregnable mountain. ...

Watch Now

Reign of Terror (1949)

The French Revolution, 1794. The Marquis de Lafayette asks Charles D'Aubigny to infiltrate the Jacobin Party to overthrow Maximilian Robespierre, who, after gaining supreme power and establishing a reign of terror ruled by death, now intends to become the ...

Watch Now

Ivy (1947)

When Ivy, an Edwardian belle, begins to like Miles, a wealthy gentleman, she is unsure of what to do with her husband, Jervis, or her lover, Dr. Roger. She then hatches a plan to get rid of them both. ...

Watch Now

Duel in the Sun (1946)

Beautiful half-breed Pearl Chavez becomes the ward of her dead father's first love and finds herself torn between her sons, one good and the other bad. ...

Watch Now

It's a Wonderful Life (1946)

George Bailey has spent his entire life giving to the people of Bedford Falls. All that prevents rich skinflint Mr. Potter from taking over the entire town is George's modest building and loan company. But on Christmas Eve the business's $8,000 is lost a ...

Watch Now

Deadline at Dawn (1946)

A young Navy sailor has one night to find out why a woman was killed and he ended up with a bag of money after a drinking blackout. ...

Watch Now

Address Unknown (1944)

When a German art dealer living in the US returns to his native country he finds himself attracted to Nazi propaganda. ...

Watch Now

For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943)

Spain in the 1930s is the place to be for a man of action like Robert Jordan. There is a civil war going on and Jordan—who has joined up on the side that appeals most to idealists of that era—has been given a high-risk assignment up in the mountains. H ...

Watch Now

Mr. Lucky (1943)

A conman poses as a war relief fundraiser, but when he falls for a charity worker, his conscience begins to trouble him. ...

Watch Now

The Pride of the Yankees (1942)

The story of the life and career of the baseball hall of famer, Lou Gehrig. ...

Watch Now

Kings Row (1942)

Five young adults in a small American town face the revelations of secrets that threaten to ruin their hopes and dreams. ...

Watch Now

The Devil and Miss Jones (1941)

The wealthiest man in the world, John P. Merrick, is a private person who likes to stay anonymous. One of his many assets is Neeley's Department Store. There is labor unrest at the store, and the employees' anger is directed at him, who they hang in effigy ...

Watch Now

So Ends Our Night (1941)

An anti-Nazi refugee on the run and a young Jewish couple race across Europe trying to escape Hitler's ever powerful influence. ...

Watch Now

Foreign Correspondent (1940)

American crime reporter John Jones is reassigned to Europe as a foreign correspondent to cover the imminent war. When he walks into the middle of an assassination and stumbles on a spy ring, he seeks help from a beautiful politician's daughter and an urban ...

Watch Now

Our Town (1940)

Change comes slowly to a small New Hampshire town in the early 20th century. We see birth, life and death in this small community. ...

Watch Now

The Thief of Bagdad (1940)

When Prince Ahmad is blinded and cast out of Bagdad by the nefarious Jaffar, he joins forces with the scrappy thief Abu to win back his royal place, as well as the heart of a beautiful princess. ...

Watch Now

Gone with the Wind (1939)

The spoiled daughter of a Georgia plantation owner conducts a tumultuous romance with a cynical profiteer during the American Civil War and Reconstruction Era. ...

Watch Now

Made for Each Other (1939)

A couple struggle to find happiness after a whirlwind courtship. ...

Watch Now

The Young in Heart (1938)

A family of confidence tricksters sets their sights on a very rich, very lonely old lady named Miss Fortune. ...

Watch Now

The Green Cockatoo (1937)

A young girl is travelling to London to find work. Arriving at the station, she meets a man who has been stabbed by a member of a gang of crooks involved with greyhound racing. She becomes a suspect, but flees the scene in order to deliver a message to the ...

Watch Now

Nothing Sacred (1937)

When a small-town girl is incorrectly diagnosed with a rare, deadly disease, an unknowing newspaper columnist turns her into a national heroine. ...

Watch Now

Things to Come (1936)

The story of a century: a decades-long second World War leaves plague and anarchy, then a rational state rebuilds civilization and attempts space travel. ...

Watch Now

Cleopatra (1934)

The queen of Egypt barges the Nile and flirts with Mark Antony and Julius Caesar. ...

Watch Now

The Notorious Sophie Lang (1934)

After an extended stay in England, Sophie Lang returns to America. She is beautiful, sophisticated--and a notorious jewel thief. A New York police detective who's been trying to nail her finally comes up with what seems a foolproof scheme--to catch her off ...

Watch Now

Wharf Angel (1934)

On the wharfs of San Francisco, saloon girl Toy, also known as Mary, lives over Mother Bright's bar. When Como Murphy, a fugitive from the law, hides in her room, she falls in love with him. He explains that after he spoke out about the rights of man to a ...

Watch Now

Alice in Wonderland (1933)

In Victorian England, a bored young girl dreams that she has entered a fantasy world called Wonderland, populated by even more fantastic characters. ...

Watch Now

I Loved You Wednesday (1933)

Vicki Meredith, an American ballet student in Paris, falls in love with Randall Williams, another American studying architecture in Paree, and they set up some light housekeeping together until she learns that Randall has forgotten to mention that he has a ...

Watch Now

Cavalcade (1933)

A cavalcade of English life from New Year's Eve 1899 until 1933 is seen through the eyes of well-to-do Londoners Jane and Robert Marryot. Amongst events touching their family are the Boer War, the death of Queen Victoria, the sinking of the Titanic, and th ...

Watch Now

Chandu the Magician (1932)

When delusional madman Roxor kidnaps a scientist in hopes of using his death ray to achieve world dominance, he is opposed by Chandu, a powerful hypnotist and yogi. ...

Watch Now

Almost Married (1932)

Russian beauty Anita Mellikovna, traveling by train with a forged passport and carrying jewels, finds the police on her tail. ...

Watch Now

The Conquest of the Air (1931)

This early docudrama uses dramatic reenactment, working models of early flying machines, and archival footage to trace man's attempts to fly from ancient times through the 1930s. ...

Watch Now

The Spider (1931)

Lowe plays Chatrand the Great, a magician with great hypnotic and magical powers. During his evening performance at an upscale theater, a murder occurs. A hand wearing a sinister spider ring raises a revolver, the lights go out, and a shot rings out! When ...

Watch Now

Always Goodbye (1931)

Stranded and broke after her erstwhile boyfriend leaves her, A onetime London heiress joins a con man to bilk a millionaire at his Italian villa. Little do they realize that he knows full well who they are after being tipped off by Scotland Yard. ...

Watch Now

Movies Starring William Cameron Menzies (2)

Empire (2010)

Empire is a movie about having fun riding your bike New York City. In the tradition of BMX and skate movies, Empire follows New York's best fixed gear riders and a few special out-of-town guests in and out of traffic all over New York City. Inspired by MA ...

Watch Now

Cavalcade of the Academy Awards (1940)

This 1940 presentation features highlights of earlier (1928 onward) Oscar ceremonies including Shirley Temple and Walt Disney, plus acceptance speeches for films released in 1939 with recipients and presenters including Vivien Leigh, Judy Garland, Hattie M ...

Watch Now