Claude L. McDonnell

Movies

The Chinese Bungalow
Director of Photography
A young British woman marries a Chinese mandarin then falls in love with an Englishman. The mandarin plots his revenge.
The Squeaker
Cinematography
A detective poses as an ex-convict to expose the head of a benevolent society as a fence.
The Crooked Billet
Camera Operator
'International spy seeks documents hidden in old inn.' (British Film Catalogue)
The City of Play
Director of Photography
A British drama film directed by Denison Clift
Easy Virtue
Cinematography
Larita Filton is named as correspondent in a scandalous divorce case. She escapes to France to rebuild her life where she meets John Whittaker. They are later married, but John's well-to-do family finds out Larita's secret.
Downhill
Director of Photography
Roddy, first son of the rich Berwick family, is expelled from school when he takes the blame for his friend Tim's charge. His family sends him away and all of his friends leave him alone. Through many life choices that don't work out in his favor, Roddy begins to find his life slowly spiraling out of his control.
The White Shadow
Cinematography
The White Shadow is a British drama film directed by Graham Cutts based on the novel "Children of Chance" by Michael Morton. Alfred Hitchcock worked on it as assistant director and also handled the writing, editing, and art direction. The film was long thought to be lost. In August 2011, it was announced that the first three reels of the six-reel picture had been found in a garden shed and donated to the NFPF. The film cans were mislabled Two Sisters and Unidentified American Film and only later identified. The film was restored by Park Road Studios and is now in the New Zealand Film Archive.
Woman to Woman
Cinematography
David Compton leaves his expecting French girl-friend Louise Boucher, a dancer at the Moulin Rouge, for the war where he looses his memory. Building a new life from scratch after the war, he gets married in London. Louise, now a mother, thinks him dead. She becomes a famous dancer under the name Deloryse but falls gravely ill. One night, as David is in the audience of her show, he recovers his memory. When she learns that David is married to another woman, Louise turns her son in the care of David's new wife and accepting a dancing job at a party, she dies there of exhaustion and sorrow.
The Bonnie Brier Bush
Cinematography
A Lord's son is engaged to his rich ward, but prefers a peasant.