title: Al Liguori
text: # Al Liguori
  
  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. 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)
  