Harold Wenstrom

Nacimiento : 1893-01-04, Brooklyn, New York, USA

Muerte : 1944-04-26

Historia

Harold Wenstrom was a director of photography in a large number of feature films .

Películas

Annie Oakley
Director of Photography
Annie Oakley, una modesta pueblerina, es aficionada a cazar codornices, que luego vende en el pueblo. Un día tiene la ocasión de medir su puntería con el rifle desafiando en una apuesta a Toby Walker, el tirador más diestro del Oeste, que acaba de ser fichado para el espectáculo itinerante del célebre Búfalo Bill. Aunque Annie pierde voluntariamente la apuesta, sus habilidades llaman la atención del manager de Búfalo Bill, que también contrata a la chica. Empiezan las circenses exhibiciones y la rivalidad entre Annie y Toby, que en realidad no será tal, pues ambos se han enamorado. (FILMAFFINITY)
The Arizonian
Director of Photography
Clay Tallant comes to Silver City, Arizona in the 1880s and encounters wide-spread lawlessness and disorder, unscrupulous politicians, outlaws galore and brow-beaten citizens. He accepts the position of town marshal and, with his brother and a reformed outlaw , Tex Randolph, who comes over to his side, sets out to bring law-and-order where none exists. He also wins the hand of the singer appearing at the Opera House.
Red Morning
Director of Photography
A captain's daughter become marooned on an island after the ship is taken over by a mutinous crew.
Wednesday's Child
Director of Photography
A 10-year-old's happy life is shattered when his parents are divorced.
Gift of Gab
Director of Photography
Conceited radio announcer irritates everyone else at the station.
Their Big Moment
Director of Photography
Early '30s comedy-mystery involving magicians, fake psychics and murder.
Keep 'Em Rolling
Director of Photography
World War I drama about a soldier and the wild horse he befriends.
La patrulla perdida
Director of Photography
Durante la Primera Guerra Mundial (1914-1918), un grupo de soldados británicos se encuentra perdido en medio del desierto de Mesopotamia. Su comandante, que era el único que conocía el destino de la misión, resulta asesinado por un disparo de unos bandidos.
Fast Life
Director of Photography
Two sailors (William Haines and Cliff Edwards) are leaving the US Navy after 10 years. In their spare time, one of them (Haines) invents a carburetor that should increase the speed that powered boats will run, but all they succeed in doing is sinking the Admiral's barge. After discharge, broke and out of work, they find work with a boat builder who wants the fastest race boat in the world. They design the boat, carburetor and the engine but lack of money and the foreclosure of the business hinders their efforts to prove the new design.
Piernas de perfil
Director of Photography
El intelectual e ingenuo profesor Post hereda una enorme cantidad de dinero y decide que es hora de salir y disfrutar de la vida. Se enamora de una bailarina de una mediocre función de teatro y decide comprar el espectáculo con su herencia para llevarlo a Broadway. (FILMAFFINITY)
Juventud triunfante
Director of Photography
El hijo de unos inmigrantes italianos consigue una beca y va a estudiar a Yale. Durante cuatro años aprenderá sobre fútbol, amor y prejuicios clasistas.
Titanes del cielo
Director of Photography
Historia de la rivalidad entre dos aviadores, tanto estando de servicio como no.
Los seis misteriosos
Director of Photography
El contrabandista y propietario de un club nocturno, Johnny Franks, recluta a un joven hombre llamado Louis Scorpio para unirse a su banda, que está liderada por el deshonesto abogado Richard Newton. Scorpio finalmente se hace cargo de la administración de Franks, vence a una banda rival, se vuelve rico y domina la ciudad por varios años, hasta que un grupo secreto de seis empresarios enmascarados lo procesan y lo envían a la silla eléctrica con la ayuda de su rival, el periodista Carl Luckner y Hank Rogers. La camarera Anne Courtland se debate entre su amor por el honesto periodista Rogers y su dependencia financiera de su generoso jefe, Scorpio.
Fruta amarga
Director of Photography
Mins es la propietaria de un hotel costero donde vive Bill, el capitán de un barco costero. También vive y trabaja en el hotel Nancy, una joven que Min recogió años atrás cuando era una niña abandonada. (FILMAFFINITY)
El presidio
Director of Photography
Kent Marlowe, bajo la influencia del alcohol, atropella y mata accidentalmente a dos personas. Recibe cargos criminales y termina en una prisión cumpliendo 10 años al lado de criminales de diverso pasado; Butch Smith es un avezado criminal, con varias reincidencias, y es quien manda en el bloque de celdas. John Morgan (un individuo agradable que comparte la celda con Kent) es un falsificador que aparentemente se ha regenerado y desea rehacer su vida. Pero no es lo que otros desean para Morgan. Kent es forzado a plantar una navaja entre las pertenencias de John y éste pierde la posibilidad de salir de prisión bajo palabra. Desesperado, John huye de prisión... (FILMAFFINITY)
Into Her Kingdom
Director of Photography
In Czarist Russia, a young peasant boy is sent to Siberia for insulting the Grand Duchess. Released years later, he joins the fighting to overthrow the royal family. The entire royal family is condemned to death when fighting ceases.
Zander the Great
Director of Photography
Mamie, an orphan girl who was abused in the orphanage, is taken in by Mrs. Caldwell, a kindly woman with a young son named Alexander. Mamie hits it off with the lad, and nicknames him "Zander". When Mrs. Caldwell dies, the authorities decree that the boy must be placed in the same orphanage where Mamie was mistreated. Horrified, Mamie determines to see to it that the boy will be spared the same treatment that she had to suffer.
Under the Red Robe
Director of Photography
Under the Red Robe is a 1923 silent historical drama directed by Alan Crosland based upon the Stanley Weyman novel Under the Red Robe. The film marks the last motion picture appearance by stage actor Robert B. Mantell who plays Cardinal Richelieu and the only silent screen performance of opera singer John Charles Thomas.
Adam and Eva
Director of Photography
An extravagant girl reforms when her father goes bust.
When Knighthood Was in Flower
Director of Photography
Mary Tudor falls in love with a new arrival to court, Charles Brandon. She convinces her brother King Henry VIII to make him his Captain of the Guard. Meanwhile, Henry is determined to marry her off to the aging King Louis XII of France as part of a peace agreement.
The Beauty Shop
Director of Photography
Dr. Budd is a New York physician specializing in "beauty". His business is successful but he is still plagued by money problems. One day he gets an idea--he obtains the coat-of-arms of a long-forgotten Italian noble family, the Bolognias, and uses it as his logo on his line of beauty products.
Salome
Director of Photography
Herodias, spurned by Egyptian prince who is in love with Salome, has him secretly thrown in dungeon next to the Baptist. Herodias threatens to kill her lover if Salome does not ask for death of the Baptist. Salome does so, later rescues the prince and flees with him into the desert.
Pasión y boda de Pamplinas
Director of Photography
Adaptación de una popular obra teatral de la época, sobre un tarambana de la alta sociedad neoyorquina. Fue la película que le dió crédito a Buster Keaton dentro de Hollywood y el principio de su brillante carrera como actor y director. (FILMAFFINIT)