Chester Morris
The Great White Hope (1970)
The Great White Hope is a 1970 American biographical romantic drama film written and adapted from the 1967 Howard Sackler play of the same name.
Starring: Marla English•Madge Evans•Wallace Beery
The She-Creature (1956)
The She-Creature, or The She Creature, is a 1956 American black-and-white science fiction horror film, released by American International Pictures from a script by Lou Rusoff. It was produced by Alex Gordon, directed by Edward L. Cahn, and stars Chester Morris, Marla English and Tom Conway, and casting Frieda Inescort and El Brendel in smaller role...
Starring: Marla English•Ann Dvorak
Boston Blackie's Chinese Venture (1949)
Boston Blackie's Chinese Venture is a 1949 mystery film directed by Seymour Friedman, starring Chester Morris. This was the last of Columbia's 14 Boston Blackie pictures (1941–49). Richard Lane, as long-suffering Inspector Farraday, was the only other character who appeared in all of the Boston Blackie films. George E. Stone, playing Blackie's side...
Starring: Marla English•Betty Compson
Blind Spot (1947)
Blind Spot is a 1947 American mystery thriller film noir directed by Robert Gordon and starring Chester Morris, Constance Dowling, and Steven Geray.
Starring: Marla English•Fred Kohler
Boston Blackie and the Law (1946)
Boston Blackie and the Law is the twelfth of fourteen Columbia Pictures films starring Chester Morris as reformed crook Boston Blackie.
Starring: Marla English•Billie Dove•Fred Kohler
A Close Call for Boston Blackie (1946)
A Close Call for Boston Blackie (1946) is the tenth of fourteen Columbia Pictures crime films directed by Lew Landers starring Chester Morris as Boston Blackie.
Starring: Marla English•Fay Wray
One Way to Love (1946)
One Way to Love is a 1946 American comedy film starring Willard Parker and Chester Morris. It was directed by Ray Enright.
Starring: Marla English•Marian Nixon•Charles Bickford
The Phantom Thief (1946)
The Phantom Thief is a 1946 American crime film directed by D. Ross Lederman. The film follows detective Boston Blackie as he tries to track down a blackmailer-murderer. As the investigation goes on, a supernatural element becomes clear.
Starring: Marla English•Dolores Costello
Boston Blackie Booked on Suspicion (1945)
Boston Blackie Booked on Suspicion is the eighth of 14 Columbia Pictures B movies starring Chester Morris as reformed thief Boston Blackie.
Starring: Marla English•Fay Wray
Boston Blackie's Rendezvous (1945)
Boston Blackie's Rendezvous is a 1945 American crime film directed by Arthur Dreifuss. The working title of this film was Surprise in the Night.
Starring: Marla English•Alice White
Rough, Tough and Ready (1945)
Rough, Tough and Ready is a 1945 American war comedy drama film directed by Del Lord and starring Chester Morris, Victor McLaglen and Jean Rogers. It aimed to replicate the success of the series of buddy films that McLaglen had previously starred in with Edmund Lowe.
Starring: Walter Brennan•Marla English•Sally Eilers•Chester Morris
Double Exposure (1944)
Double Exposure is a 1944 American crime comedy film directed by William Berke, and starring Chester Morris and Nancy Kelly.
Starring: Marla English•Allen Jenkins
Gambler's Choice (1944)
Gambler's Choice is a 1944 film directed by Frank McDonald and starring Chester Morris and Nancy Kelly.
Starring: Marla English•Allen Jenkins
One Mysterious Night (1944)
One Mysterious Night is a 1944 crime film, the seventh in a Columbia Pictures series of fourteen starring Chester Morris as reformed crook Boston Blackie. It was preceded by The Chance of a Lifetime and followed by Boston Blackie Booked on Suspicion. Blackie is called upon to recover a stolen diamond.
Starring: Marla English•Charles Bickford
Secret Command (1944)
Secret Command is a 1944 American drama war film directed by A. Edward Sutherland and starring Pat O'Brien and Carole Landis. It was nominated for the Oscar for Best Effects in 1945.
Starring: Marla English•Robert Montgomery•Chance Ward
Aerial Gunner (1943)
Aerial Gunner is a 1943 American black-and-white World War II propaganda film produced by William C. Thomas and William H. Pine, who also directed. The film stars Chester Morris, Richard Arlen, and Jimmy Lydon. This was the first feature film directed by Pine, who produced other films through his company, Pine-Thomas Productions. Aerial Gunner was ...
Starring: Frank McHugh•Marla English
After Midnight with Boston Blackie (1943)
After Midnight with Boston Blackie is a 1943 crime film directed by Lew Landers. It is the fifth of a series of 14 Columbia Pictures films starring Chester Morris as Boston Blackie. When a recently paroled friend of Boston Blackie is killed, he finds himself once again the prime suspect of Police Inspector Farraday.
Starring: Marla English•Winnie Lightner
The Chance of a Lifetime (1943)
The Chance of a Lifetime is a 1943 crime drama starring Chester Morris, Erik Rolf and Jeanne Bates. It is one of 14 films made by Columbia Pictures involving detective Boston Blackie, a criminal-turned-crime solver. This was the sixth in the series and one of three that did not have his name in the title. The film is also William Castle's directori...
Starring: Marla English•Sylvia Sidney•Rochelle Hudson
High Explosive (1943)
High Explosive is a 1943 American drama film directed by Frank McDonald and written by Maxwell Shane and Howard J. Green for Pine-Thomas Productions. The film stars Chester Morris, Jean Parker, Barry Sullivan, Ralph Sanford, Rand Brooks and Dick Purcell. The film was released on March 27, 1943, by Paramount Pictures.
Starring: Marla English•Dick Purcell
Tornado (1943)
Tornado is a 1943 film directed by William A. Berke and starring Chester Morris and Nancy Kelly.
Starring: Marla English•Allen Jenkins
Alias Boston Blackie (1942)
Alias Boston Blackie (1942) is the third in a series of fourteen Columbia Pictures "B" movies starring Chester Morris as Boston Blackie. It was preceded by Meet Boston Blackie, Confessions of Boston Blackie and followed by Boston Blackie Goes Hollywood. Once again, Blackie is suspected of committing a crime, in this instance of helping a prisoner e...
Starring: Charles Boyer•Marla English•Helen Mack
Boston Blackie Goes Hollywood (1942)
Boston Blackie Goes Hollywood is a 1942 American crime film, fourth of the fourteen Boston Blackie films of the 1940s Columbia's series of B pictures based on Jack Boyle's pulp-fiction character.
Starring: Marla English•Irene Hervey
Canal Zone (1942)
Canal Zone is a 1942 American aviation adventure film starring Chester Morris and Forrest Tucker. The action takes place in the Panama Canal Zone and revolves around aviators in an out-of-the-way air base flying U.S. Army bombers.
Starring: Marla English•Jane Wyatt•Douglass Dumbrille
I Live on Danger (1942)
I Live on Danger is a 1942 film noir thriller film directed by Sam White and starring Chester Morris and Jean Parker.
Starring: Marla English•Dick Purcell
Confessions of Boston Blackie (1941)
Confessions of Boston Blackie is a 1941 American crime film directed by Edward Dmytryk and starring Chester Morris and Harriet Hilliard. A woman consigns a family heirloom to a pair of unscrupulous art dealers in order to raise money to help her sick brother. This film is the second in the series of 14 Columbia Pictures Boston Blackie films, all st...
Starring: Marla English•Raymond Walburn
Meet Boston Blackie (1941)
Meet Boston Blackie is a 1941 crime film starring Chester Morris as Boston Blackie, a notorious, but honorable jewel thief. Although the character had been the hero of a number of silent films, this was the first talking picture. It proved popular enough for Columbia Pictures to produce a total of 14 B movies, all starring Morris.
Starring: Marla English•George McKay
No Hands on the Clock (1941)
No Hands on the Clock is a 1941 American comedy mystery film directed by Frank McDonald starring Chester Morris as detective Humphrey Campbell. The cast also included Jean Parker and Rose Hobart. It was produced by Pine-Thomas Productions and released by Paramount Pictures.
Starring: Marla English•Dick Purcell•Jean Rogers
Girl from God's Country (1940)
Girl from God's Country is a 1940 American drama film directed by Sidney Salkow and written by Malcolm Stuart Boylan, Robert Lee Johnson and Elizabeth Meehan. The film stars Chester Morris, Jane Wyatt, Charles Bickford, Ray Mala, Kate Drain Lawson and John Bleifer. The film was released on July 30, 1940, by Republic Pictures.
Starring: Marla English•Van Heflin•Virginia Grey
The Marines Fly High (1940)
The Marines Fly High is a 1940 action film, starring Richard Dix, Chester Morris and Lucille Ball and directed by George Nicholls, Jr. and Benjamin Stoloff from a story by A.C. Edington.
Starring: Constance Worth•Marla English•Harriet Nelson
Wagons Westward (1940)
Wagons Westward is a 1940 American Western film directed by Lew Landers, written by Joseph Moncure March and Harrison Jacobs and starring Chester Morris, Anita Louise, Buck Jones, Ona Munson, George "Gabby" Hayes and Guinn "Big Boy" Williams. It was released on June 19, 1940 by Republic Pictures.
Starring: Marla English•Veda Ann Borg•Nancy Kelly
Blind Alley (1939)
Blind Alley is a 1939 American film noir crime film directed by Charles Vidor and stars Chester Morris, Ralph Bellamy and Ann Dvorak. The film was adapted from the Broadway play of the same name by James Warwick.
Starring: Carole Landis•Marla English•Lynn Merrick
Five Came Back (1939)
Five Came Back is a 1939 American black-and-white melodrama from RKO Radio Pictures produced by Robert Sisk, directed by John Farrow, written by Jerry Cady, Dalton Trumbo, and Nathanael West, and starring Chester Morris and Lucille Ball. The film was photographed by cinematographer Nicholas Musuraca. Although considered a B movie, the positive noti...
Starring: Marla English•Adele Mara•Harriet Nelson
Thunder Afloat (1939)
Thunder Afloat is a 1939 World War I naval film starring Wallace Beery and Chester Morris. The movie was directed by George B. Seitz.
Starring: Janis Carter•Marla English•Erik Rolf•Jeanne Bates
Law of the Underworld (1938)
Law of the Underworld is a 1938 American drama film directed by Lew Landers and written by Bert Granet and Edmund L. Hartmann. The film stars Chester Morris, Anne Shirley, Eduardo Ciannelli, Walter Abel and Richard Bond. The film was released on May 6, 1938, by RKO Pictures.
Starring: Trudy Marshall•Marla English•Nina Foch
Smashing the Rackets (1938)
Smashing the Rackets is a 1938 American drama film directed by Lew Landers, written by Lionel Houser, and starring Chester Morris, Frances Mercer, Rita Johnson, Bruce Cabot and Edward Pawley. It was released on August 19, 1938, by RKO Pictures.
Starring: Marla English•Maylia Fong
Flight from Glory (1937)
Flight from Glory is an American B movie about a run-down air cargo company in the Andes. It was directed by Lew Landers, and starred Chester Morris, Whitney Bourne, Onslow Stevens and Van Heflin. When released on August 20, 1937, Flight from Glory was considered one of the films that broke new ground in "pioneering airline sagas", comparing favora...
Starring: Marla English•James Earl Jones•Jane Alexander
I Promise to Pay (1937)
I Promise to Pay is a 1937 American drama film directed by D. Ross Lederman.
Starring: Marla English•Theodore von Eltz•Madge Evans
Counterfeit (1936)
Counterfeit is a 1936 American crime film directed by Erle C. Kenton and starring Chester Morris, Marian Marsh, Margot Grahame and Lloyd Nolan. A treasury department agent goes undercover to infiltrate a gang who have kidnapped an employee of the department and are forcing him to produce counterfeit notes.
Starring: Marla English•Evelyn Brent•Maude Eburne
Frankie and Johnny (1936)
Frankie and Johnny is a 1936 American film.
Starring: Marla English•Betty Compson•Mae Busch
Moonlight Murder (1936)
Moonlight Murder is a 1936 American crime film directed by Edwin L. Marin and written by Florence Ryerson and Edgar Allan Woolf. The film stars Chester Morris, Madge Evans, Leo Carrillo, Frank McHugh, Benita Hume, Grant Mitchell, Katharine Alexander and J. Carrol Naish. The film was released on March 27, 1936, by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
Starring: Norma Shearer•Marla English•Billie Dove
They Met in a Taxi (1936)
They Met in a Taxi is a 1936 American comedy film directed by Alfred E. Green and starring Chester Morris, Fay Wray and Raymond Walburn. It was produced and distributed by Columbia Pictures.
Starring: Fred Kohler•Marla English•Carole Lombard
Three Godfathers (1936)
Three Godfathers is a 1936 American Western film directed by Richard Boleslawski and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer starring Chester Morris, Lewis Stone, Walter Brennan, and Irene Hervey. It was adapted from the novel of the same name by Peter B. Kyne. Three bank robbers find a newborn baby and his dying mother in the desert.
Starring: Vivienne Osborne•Marla English•Marian Nixon
I've Been Around (1935)
I've Been Around is a 1935 American drama film directed by Philip Cahn and starring Chester Morris, Rochelle Hudson and G. P. Huntley. On their wedding night, a woman tells her husband that she loves another man.
Starring: Marla English•George McKay
Princess O'Hara (1935)
Princess O'Hara is a 1935 American comedy film directed by David Burton and starring Jean Parker, Chester Morris and Leon Errol. The story was re-used for the 1943 Abbott and Costello film It Ain't Hay.
Starring: Marla English•Dick Purcell•Genevieve Tobin
Pursuit (1935)
Pursuit is a 1935 American action film directed by Edwin L. Marin and written by Wells Root. The film stars Chester Morris, Sally Eilers, Scotty Beckett, Henry Travers, C. Henry Gordon and Dorothy Peterson. The film was released on August 9, 1935, by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
Starring: Dolores Costello•Marla English
Embarrassing Moments (1934)
Embarrassing Moments is a 1934 American comedy film directed by Edward Laemmle and written by Charles Logue, Dickson Morgan and Gladys Buchanan Unger. The film stars Chester Morris, Marian Nixon, Walter Woolf King, Alan Mowbray, George E. Stone and John Wray. The film was released on September 1, 1934, by Universal Pictures.
Starring: Thelma Todd•Marla English
The Gay Bride (1934)
The Gay Bride is a 1934 black-and-white gangster screwball comedy starring Carole Lombard as a wisecracking gold-digger and Chester Morris as the poor man she despises. It was directed by Jack Conway and written by the husband-and-wife team of Sam and Bella Spewak, based on the story "Repeal" by Charles Francis Coe.
Starring: Allen Jenkins•Marla English•Alice White
Let's Talk It Over (1934)
Let's Talk It Over is a 1934 American pre-Code comedy-drama film directed by Kurt Neumann and starring Chester Morris, Mae Clarke and Frank Craven.
Starring: Marla English•Frank McHugh
Blondie Johnson (1933)
Blondie Johnson is a 1933 American pre-Code gangster film directed by Ray Enright and starring Joan Blondell and Chester Morris. It was produced by Warner Bros.
Starring: Marla English•Sally Eilers•Helen Morgan
Infernal Machine (1933)
Infernal Machine is a 1933 American pre-Code thriller film directed by Marcel Varnel and starring Chester Morris, Genevieve Tobin and Victor Jory. The film was based on a novel by Karl Sloboda. Released by Fox Film Corporation, the title is sometimes written as The Infernal Machine. After finishing the film Varnel moved to Britain where he became a...
Starring: Mae Clarke•Marla English
King for a Night (1933)
King for a Night is a 1933 American pre-Code crime film directed by Kurt Neumann starring Chester Morris and Helen Twelvetrees.
Starring: Ralph Remley•Marla English•Helen Twelvetrees
Tomorrow at Seven (1933)
Tomorrow at Seven is a 1933 American pre-Code mystery comedy film directed by Ray Enright and written by Ralph Spence. The plot sees a group of people gathered in an old mansion being menaced by a killer known as "The Black Ace".
Starring: Leo Carrillo•Marla English•Robert Montgomery
Breach of Promise (1932)
Breach of Promise is a 1932 American pre-Code drama film directed by Paul L. Stein and starring Chester Morris, Mae Clarke and Mary Doran.
Starring: Chance Ward•Marla English•Frank McHugh
Cock of the Air (1932)
Cock of the Air is a 1932 American pre-Code aviation comedy film directed by Tom Buckingham and written by Charles Lederer and Robert E. Sherwood. The film stars Chester Morris, Billie Dove, Matt Moore, Walter Catlett and Luis Alberni. Cock of the Air was released on January 23, 1932, by United Artists.
Starring: Jean Harlow•Marla English•Winnie Lightner
The Miracle Man (1932)
The Miracle Man is a 1932 American pre-Code drama film directed by Norman Z. McLeod, starring Sylvia Sidney and Chester Morris, and featuring Boris Karloff. It is a remake of the 1919 film of the same name starring Lon Chaney. The film was originally supposed to star Tyrone Power Sr., as the Preacher/Patriarch, but he died before major filming got ...
Starring: Marla English•Joan Blondell
Red-Headed Woman (1932)
Red-Headed Woman is a 1932 American pre-Code romantic comedy film, produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, based on the 1931 novel of the same name by Katharine Brush, and a screenplay by Anita Loos. It was directed by Jack Conway and stars Jean Harlow as a woman who uses sex to advance her social position. During the course of the film, Harlow's characte...
Starring: Marla English•Sylvia Sidney•Walter Catlett
Sinners in the Sun (1932)
Sinners in the Sun is a 1932 American pre-Code romantic drama film directed by Alexander Hall, and starring Carole Lombard, Chester Morris, Adrienne Ames, and Alison Skipworth. It was produced and distributed by Paramount Pictures.
Starring: Allen Jenkins•Marla English
Corsair (1931)
Corsair is a 1931 American pre-Code crime drama written, produced and directed by Roland West. The film is based on the 1931 novel Corsair, a Pirate in White Flannels by Walton Green and takes place in and was shot during the era of Prohibition in the United States. The film stars Chester Morris and Thelma Todd.
Starring: Charles Boyer•Benita Hume•Marla English
The Bat Whispers (1930)
The Bat Whispers is a 1930 American pre-Code mystery film directed by Roland West, produced by Joseph M. Schenck, and released by United Artists. The film is based on the 1920 mystery play The Bat, written by Mary Roberts Rinehart and Avery Hopwood, and is the second film version by the same director, previously adapted in 1926. An early talkie and...
Starring: Helen Mack•Marla English•Irene Hervey
The Case of Sergeant Grischa (1930)
The Case of Sergeant Grischa is a 1930 American pre-Code drama film directed by Herbert Brenon, based on the German novel of the same name by Arnold Zweig. John Tribby was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Sound Recording. No known copy of this film exists and is considered lost, the only sound film to have been nominated for an Oscar and sub...
Starring: Zazu Pitts•Marla English
The Divorcee (1930)
The Divorcee is a 1930 American pre-Code drama film written by Nick Grindé, John Meehan, and Zelda Sears, based on the 1929 novel Ex-Wife by Ursula Parrott. It was directed by Robert Z. Leonard, who was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director. The film was also nominated for Best Picture, and won Best Actress for its star Norma Shearer.
Starring: Lloyd Nolan•Marla English•Raymond Walburn
Playing Around (1930)
Playing Around is a 1930 American pre-Code drama film with songs, starring Alice White, Chester Morris and William Bakewell. It was adapted from the story "Sheba", written by Viña Delmar. The film was produced and distributed by First National Pictures, a subsidiary of Warner Bros.
Starring: Ralph Remley•Marla English
Second Choice (1930)
Second Choice is a 1930 American Pre-Code black-and-white film released by Warner Bros. and starring Dolores Costello and Chester Morris. The film is notable as being the first in which Dolores Costello sang. It is a lost film. The film was based on the story by Elizabeth Alexander and was adapted for the screen by Joseph Jackson.
Starring: George McKay•Marla English
She Couldn't Say No (1930)
She Couldn't Say No is a 1930 American Pre-Code drama which stars Winnie Lightner, fresh from her success in Gold Diggers of Broadway (1929). It was adapted from a play by Benjamin M. Kaye. An aspiring singer ends up in a love triangle with a gangster and a socialite.
Starring: Marla English•Walter Kingsford
Alibi (1929)
Alibi is a 1929 American pre-Code crime film directed by Roland West. The screenplay was written by West and C. Gardner Sullivan, who adapted the 1927 Broadway stage play, Nightstick, written by Elaine Sterne Carrington, J.C. Nugent, Elliott Nugent, and John Wray.
Starring: Evelyn Brent•Marla English
Woman Trap (1929)
Woman Trap is a 1929 American drama film directed by William A. Wellman and starring Evelyn Brent. The film is focused in a four cornered love between captain Hal Skelly, Kitty Evans and his good for nothing brother Ray Malone. It was adapted from the play, "Brothers," by Edwin J. Burke.
Starring: Mae Busch•Marla English•Hal Skelly