Al Liguori (June 3, 1885 - May 8, 1951) was an Italian born cinematographer mainly of the silent era. His style of photography was a precursor to what became known as film noir. His best known surviving film is the all-black Scar of Shame (1927). He came to America as a child and his family settled in Brooklyn New York where he was educated. GoogleBooks Cinema News: "Art and the Movies" by Lewis W. Physioc; New York April 1, 1917; culled from archived Cinema News, Volumes 1-2 (PAGE 49) He was born in Salerno Italy and died in Pennsylvania in 1951.
Selected filmography The Innocent Lie (1916) The Smugglers (1916) Marie, Ltd. (1919) Redhead (1919) The Teeth of the Tiger (1919) The World and His Wife (1920) The Passionate Pilgrim (1921) Straight Is the Way (1921) The Woman God Changed (1921) Boomerang Bill (1922) Timothy's Quest (1922) Salome of the Tenements (1925) The Scar of Shame (1927)
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Cinema News April 1, 1917; "Art and the Movies" by Lewis W. Physioc Picture in Cinema News