Chester W. Schaeffer

Nacimiento : 1902-09-09, New York City, New York, USA

Muerte : 1992-01-05

Películas

Carnaval de ladrones
Editor
Peter Churchman dejó de robar bancos hace mucho tiempo y ahora vive como un ciudadano rico y respetado en la costa mediterránea de ​​España. Pero entonces aparece su excompañera Ángela y lo chantajea para que la ayude a robar el Banco Nacional de Pamplona. Se rinde y desarrolla un plan brillante... ¿Será este el fin de su cómoda vida?.
A House Is Not a Home
Editor
Story follows the life of Polly Adler, who grew to become one of New York's most successful bordello madams of the 1920s.
The Balcony
Editor
Shelley Winters is the madam of a house where customers play out their erotic fantasies, oblivious to a revolution that is sweeping the country. When her old friend, the chief of police (Peter Falk), asks her to impersonate the missing queen in order to reassure the people and halt the revolution, she offers instead three of her customers to play the general, bishop, and chief justice, all of whom have died in the revolution.
1+1: Exploring The Kinsey Reports
Editor
A college professor lectures on the recently published Kinsey Report, as Americans are stunned by the shocking sexual truths revealed by the statistics. Five audience members reflect on their own sex lives, which flesh out the research with real life experience. A young couple ponder the repercussions of pre-marital sex. Returning home from overseas, a man learns that his neglected wife has been unfaithful. Anguish follows a divorcee's romantic fling. Having had sex with no one but his wife in his entire life, a man attempts to sow some belated wild oats. A young girl considering abortion is horrified by the filthy illegal back-door 'clinics' that are her only option.
La casa de las tres geishas
Editor
Andy Cyphers es un fotógrafo de la marina estadounidense, que acaba estableciéndose con sus hombres en la residencia de un grupo de geishas.
Que nadie escriba mi epitafio
Editor
Retrato con fondo social de la atormentada vida de un chico y su madre, cuyo padre y marido fue ejecutado en la silla eléctrica. Secuela de "Knock on Any Door" (1949).
Escalofrío
Editor
Un médico descubre que el cuerpo humano, al padecer una fuerte impresión, es capaz de crear una criatura que se extiende a lo largo de su columna vertebral. Su peor ocurrencia será pretender extraerla de un cuerpo.
Balas de contrabando
Editor
Sam Martin, un antiguo oficial de marina, se gana la vida en Key West (Florida) alquilando un barco de recreo a los turistas. Un traficante de armas americano le paga una enorme suma de dinero por dejarlo cerca de La Habana. En plena revolución castrista los viajes a Cuba estaban prohibidos.
Ariane
Editor
La inocente Ariane Chavasse (Audrey Hepburn) es seducida por un playboy millonario norteamericano llamado Frank Flannagan (Gary Cooper). Pero éste ignora que el padre de la chica es el detective privado Claude Chavasse (Chevalier).
El monstruo alado
Editor
Una erupción volcánica en el hemisferio sur provoca una reacción en el Polo Norte, cuya consecuencia es que un gigantesco iceberg quede libre en la superficie. Al descongelarse este, se liberará un ser que había sido atrapado allí desde los tiempos prehistóricos: una mantis religiosa gigante. El insecto ciclópeo siembra el caos por donde pasa, volando hacia el sur (Canadá y EE.UU.) y aniquilando todo lo que se cruza en su camino, algo que ni el Ejército ni los científicos saben cómo frenar; sin embargo, la misión de todos ellos será destruirla.
Davy Crockett, rey de la frontera
Editor
Leyendas (y mitos) de la vida del famoso hombre de la frontera estadounidense Davey Crockett se representan en esta película de largometraje editada a partir de episodios de televisión. Crockett y su amigo George Russell pelean en la Guerra de los Indios Creek. Luego Crockett es elegido para el Congreso y lleva sus rudos caminos a la Cámara de Representantes. Finalmente, Crockett y Russell viajan a Texas y la última parada en El Álamo.
Davy Crockett, Indian Fighter
Editor
Davy Crockett seeks a truce with his Indian foes.
Duffy of San Quentin
Supervising Editor
La biografía del alcaide de San Quintín, Clinton T. Duffy, y su relación con un preso irreductible al que logró cambiar.
Wicked Woman
Editor
A trashy blonde lures a saloon owner away from his wife.
Hannah Lee: An American Primitive
Editor
Professional killer Bus Crow is hired by cattlemen to eliminate squatters. When Marshal Sam Rochelle is sent to investigate, saloon owner Hallie has to be a reluctant witness.
El espía
Editor
Un físico nuclear está siendo vigilado por el FBI ya que se sospecha que es un espía al servicio de la Unión Soviética
The Well
Editor
In a racially mixed American town, a five-year-old black girl falls unnoticed into a hidden, forgotten well on her way to school. Having nothing better to go on, the police follow up a report that the child was seen with a white stranger, and rumors run wild. Before hapless, innocent Claude Packard is even found, popular hysteria has him tried and convicted. But is he guilty?
Heart to Heart
Editor
This Theatre of Life short focuses on heart disease, and how bad diet, lack of exercise, and the stress of fast-paced living contribute to the rising rates of heart disease and heart attacks.
The Columbia
Editor
Historic look at the Columbia River and its development. This film contains rare footage of Grand Coulee Dam construction, Indian fishing at Celilo Falls and the 1948 Vanport flood.
Give Us the Earth!
Editor
This "Theater of Life" documentary was produced in cooperation with the International Committee, YMCA. It focuses on the work of Dr. Spencer Hatch, as he shows residents of small Mexican villages how to make their land better able to grow food and make them more independent.
The Luckiest Guy in the World
Editor
In this MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short, a man destroys his life through gambling debts and stealing company funds.
A Really Important Person
Editor
A policeman's son searches for a suitable subject for an essay about an important person.
Two Smart People
Editor
Con woman Ricki Woodner and detective Bob Simms follow a prison-bound swindler Ace Connors on his five-day gourmet binge.
A Letter for Evie
Editor
Evie's co-workers at the uniform shirt factory, and her almost-fiancée's inability to kiss, inspire her to slip a letter into a size sixteen-and-a-half shirt for some anonymous soldier. It's received by "Wolf" Larson, who immediately throws it away, but his sensitive, dreaming--and short--buddy John McPherson snags it, and begins a correspondence with Evie, pretending to be Wolf. But things get complicated when Evie wants to meet her tall, handsome soldier. And even more complicated when Wolf sees Evie and likes what he sees.
Gentle Annie
Editor
The Goss family live on a farm they call the dust bowl where the wind blows during the day and the coyotes howl at night. When the train is robbed, everyone thinks that Cotton and Violet were the ones that did the job, but no one has any proof. US Marshal Lloyd Richland comes into town in disguise to find the truth and he finds that the sheriff is corrupt and that the Goss family is gosh darn nice. They take in Richland and a stranded woman named Mary without any questions. Cotton believes that Sheriff Tatum shot their pa in the back, and the sheriff is now trying to plug the boys. Richland is looking for the train robbers, and at the same time is keeping an eye on Tatum and the lovely young Mary.
El fantasma de Canterville
Editor
En 1644, el señor de Canterville condena a su hijo a ser emparedado por traicionar el honor de la familia. Desde entonces su fantasma vaga por el castillo. Trescientos años después, durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial (1939-1945), una compañía de infantería americana se aloja en el castillo y se dedica a hacer todo tipo de gamberradas al fantasma.
The Greatest Gift
Editor
Medieval French monks find a freezing, ill juggler and take him in. Upon recovering, the impoverished man wishes to illustrate his tremendous gratitude. He eventually finds a way to.
Cena a las ocho
Assistant Editor
Una mujer prepara una cena para unos amigos. Quiere animar a su marido, cuya salud está un poco resentida. No obstante, invita al responsable de las principales preocupaciones de su marido, un hombre de negocios que pretende hacerse con las acciones de la empresa que su marido tiene.