Chester M. Franklin

Рождение : 1890-09-01, San Francisco, California, USA

Смерть : 1954-03-12

Фильмы

The Painted Hills
Producer
After years of prospecting, Jonathan finally strikes gold. He returns to town only to discover that his partner has since died and left Tommy fatherless. He decides to leave Shep (played by Lassie) with Tommy to cheer him up. Meanwhile, Jonathan's new partner, Lin, isn't interested in sharing the gold, and lures Jonathan to his death. Lassie immediately deduces what's happened, so Lin poisons Lassie. Lassie barely pulls through and pursues Lin to a climactic confrontation where, due to an off-screen accident with some liquid nitrogen, Lin's gun jams.
Оленёнок
Second Unit Director
После гражданской войны Севера и Юга, первопроходец Пенни Бакстер строит небольшой дом вместе с женой Орри и одиннадцатилетним сыном Джоди на плодородных почвах Флориды. Джоди - любознательный мальчик, он целые дни проводит в лесу, наблюдая за незнакомым ему животным миром. Каждый день, возвращаясь с прогулки, ребёнок просит отца и мать разрешить ему завести домашнего питомца: енота или медвежонка, опоссума или малышку пантеру. Мать отказывает мальчику в его просьбах, она недавно схоронила трех детей, и новое живое существо не приемлет её душа. Однажды, во время охоты, Пенни был укушен гремучей змеей и для прекращения действия яда он вынужден был убить самку оленя, вырезать её печень и приложить к укусу. Действие яда ослаблено, но в лесу остался маленький оленёнок, который обязательно погибнет без матери и Джоди просит родителей позволить оставить ему питомца. Родители соглашаются, мальчик счастлив, но, пройдёт всего один год, и он поймет, что приручить дикое животное невозможно...
A Gun in His Hand
Producer
In this MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short, a young man graduates from the police academy at the top of his class. He then teams up with some local thieves and uses his knowledge of police procedures to pursue a career of undetected crime.
Крепкий парень
Director
Американский фильм «Крепкий парень» был основан на идее, что в каждом человеке есть что-то хорошее — просто нужно разбудить это — даже в гангстере, который хладнокровно стреляет в полицейского после ограбления банка. Находясь в бегах, он был вынужден похитить мальчика, который стремится домой из-за любви к собаке.
Sequoia
Director
A wilderness girl raises a deer and a mountain lion to be friends.
The Iron Master
Director
The wealthy owner of an iron foundry dies, and his greedy heirs are outraged when they find out that he left his entire estate not to them but to the foreman of his foundry.
File 113
Director
Based on a novel by Émile Gaboriau.
A Parisian Romance
Director
The Baron is an aging, cynical lady's man. He has a key-chain with about 50 keys to different women' apartments in Paris. He selects one at random to see who he will sleep with at night. His adversary is a young Parisian artist (the next Picasso), Victor. Victor believes in love and he's going to marry his girlfriend Claudette as soon as he sells his first painting. The Baron seduces Claudette, seemingly to teach Victor a lesson. However, as might be predicted, he soon falls in love with Claudette himself.
The Stoker
Director
A man whose wife has deserted him winds up saving a beautiful girl from the clutches of a murderous bandit on a Nicaraguan coffee plantation.
Ярмарка тщеславия
Producer
An ambitious and ruthless young woman advances from the position of governess to the heights of British society.
Ярмарка тщеславия
Director
An ambitious and ruthless young woman advances from the position of governess to the heights of British society.
Le Père célibataire
Director
Olimpia
Director
Spanish version of the MGM romance, His Glorious Night: in the old Austro-Hungarian empire, a princess rejects her arranged marriage and loves, instead, a dashing cavalry captain.
Detectives
Story
Lois, a stenographer at a luxury hotel, is being pursued by the hotel's house detective and a bellhop. When some valuable jewels are stolen, the bellhop--who has always dreamed of being a detective--sees his chance to both solve the jewel robbery and impress the woman he loves. The house detective, however, has other ideas.
Detectives
Screenplay
Lois, a stenographer at a luxury hotel, is being pursued by the hotel's house detective and a bellhop. When some valuable jewels are stolen, the bellhop--who has always dreamed of being a detective--sees his chance to both solve the jewel robbery and impress the woman he loves. The house detective, however, has other ideas.
Detectives
Director
Lois, a stenographer at a luxury hotel, is being pursued by the hotel's house detective and a bellhop. When some valuable jewels are stolen, the bellhop--who has always dreamed of being a detective--sees his chance to both solve the jewel robbery and impress the woman he loves. The house detective, however, has other ideas.
The Thirteenth Hour
Story
A detective goes in search for the villain responsible for several burglaries and a murder.
The Thirteenth Hour
Screenplay
A detective goes in search for the villain responsible for several burglaries and a murder.
The Thirteenth Hour
Director
A detective goes in search for the villain responsible for several burglaries and a murder.
Wild Justice
Director
A young woman takes refuge in a cabin during a blizzard with a villianous man. Meanwhile, coming to her rescue are the handsome hero and his trusted dog. A sub Rin-Tin-Tin canine named Peter the Great.
The Silent Accuser
Director
A Dog Picture That'll Claw Your Emotions
The Song of Love
Director
The Song of Love is a silent film of 1923 directed by Chester M. Franklin and Frances Marion. The film was produced and starred Norma Talmadge.
Where the North Begins
Director
Action adventure set in the wilds of Alaska
The Toll of the Sea
Director
While visiting China, an American man falls in love with a young Chinese woman, but he then has second thoughts about the relationship. The plot is a variation of the Madame Butterfly story, set in China instead of Japan. The Toll of the Sea was one of the first and most successful Technicolor feature films.
A Game Chicken
Director
Living in Cuba with her parents and grandmother, Inez Hastings, does not care for Lavendera, her persistent suitor. Contrary to her father's wishes, she attends a cockfight and makes the acquaintance of Rush Thompson, a United States revenue officer assigned to track down Cuban bootleggers. Their romance awakens the jealousy of Lavendera, who attempts to kill Rush.
Nancy from Nowhere
Director
Adopted by the Kellys from an orphanage, Nancy is reared in dreadful surroundings and mistreated as the household drudge. She accidentally makes the acquaintance of Jack Halliday, son of a wealthy city family who is fishing near her home. When Mrs. Kelly beats Nancy for accepting the attentions of her husband, the girl escapes into the woods and conceals herself in the rear of Jack's car as he drives into the city.
The Case of Becky
Director
Itinerant magician Balzamo arrives in the town where Dr. Emerson and his pretty young wife live. Smitten with Mrs. Emerson, Balzamo places her under a hypnotic spell and takes her away with him. Many years later, as she lies near death, she warns her daughter Dorothy to flee from the evil Balzamo.
A Private Scandal
Director
A French orphan girl is adopted into the home of wealthy Americans. There she becomes romantically involved with a farm worker and at the same time entangled in the deteriorating marriage of the American couple who rescued her.
All Souls' Eve
Director
The wife of sculptor Roger Heath is killed by a maniac because of Roger's madly jealous admirer Olivia Larkin. To care for his home and son Peter, Roger hires Irish immigrant Nora O'Hallahan as a nursemaid whom he realizes is possessed by the soul of his departed wife.
You Never Can Tell
Director
Bebe Daniels is charming in this light comedy, based on a Saturday Evening Post story by Grace Lovell Bryan.
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
Director
The Babes in the Woods
Director
A story within a story, including a passage from Hansel and Gretel.
Treasure Island
Director
Jim Hawkins and his widowed mother run the Admiral Ben Bow Inn, but when they are threatened by a pirate attack, they stay with friend, the squire, for the night. He is given something from Mrs. Hawkins. The squire discovers it's a map showing the location of the treasure buried by someone named Flint. Jim overhears how the squire is planning to retrieve the treasure and feels inspired by it ...
Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp
Director
In Bagdad, Princess Badr al-Budur, the daughter of the Sultan, falls in love with Aladdin, the son of a poor tailor, and rejects the suit of evil alchemist al-Talib, her father's choice. Al-Talib consults his Evil Spirit, who advises him to find the magic lamp hidden in an underground cave. Unable to get it himself, al-Talib hires Aladdin, who secures the lamp but keeps it when he realizes al-Talib's wickedness. With wealth obtained through wishes, Aladdin courts the princess. After the lamp changes hands between al-Talib and Aladdin, al-Talib steals it and abducts the princess to the desert. Aladdin follows with only a gourd of water. Suffering from thirst and exhaustion, Aladdin nearly succumbs, but the horsemen of the Sultan, who learned of his daughter's abduction, ride up and rescue Aladdin.
Jack and the Beanstalk
Scenario Writer
Jack exchanges his cow for some magic beans. The beans grow overnight into a beanstalk, which Jack climbs, arriving at a castle that is his. Jack sets a deal with the giant in exchange for their fortune.
Jack and the Beanstalk
Director
Jack exchanges his cow for some magic beans. The beans grow overnight into a beanstalk, which Jack climbs, arriving at a castle that is his. Jack sets a deal with the giant in exchange for their fortune.
A Sister of Six
Director
A young woman and her five little brothers and sisters are left orphans by the murder of their father over gold found on his ranch. Together the seven offspring fight against their greedy neighbors to keep what is rightfully theirs.
Gretchen the Greenhorn
Director
Gretchen Van Houck is just arriving in the USA, on a ship from Holland. She joins her father, who has already spent several years in America, where he owns an engraving business. In the tenement community where the Van Houcks live, there are residents of many nationalities. Gretchen soon becomes close friends with Pietro, a popular resident, and she also takes an interest in the widow Garrity and her children. Another resident, Rogers, is more mysterious. One day Rogers tells Mr. Van Houck that he could help him get a job printing money for the government. Van Houck eagerly agrees to try, but when he finds out what Rogers is really doing, he is placed in a painful dilemma.
Going Straight
Director
A man and his wife both have criminal pasts, but have quit crime and are now respectable citizens. One day a member of their old gang shows up and threatens to expose them if they don't help him pull a heist.
The Children in the House
Director
A woman is stuck with an unfaithful husband until he is killed robbing a bank.
Martha's Vindication
Director
A 1916 film directed by Chester M. Franklin.
The Doll-House Mystery
Director
When a stack of valuable bonds go missing from the Grant household, suspicion falls on little Carmen Grant's playmate Georgie, whose father is a poor ex-convict trying to go straight.
For Love of Mary Ellen
Director
Pirates Bold
Director
Waldo and the baby went on an outing to the beach with the nurse, but it mattered little to Waldo, who consumed much learning from his book, wherever he went or wandered. Nurse went off with the auto driver and left the studious one in charge of the baby. That gave Bob and Tilly a chance to make their innings. Bob was a pirate chief and his crew was Tilly and two black slaves, Rastus and Dave, thrown in. Waldo would not think of playing pirates, but he became part of the game all right. They bound him in their pirate cave and sailed away for the sea with the baby. But the pirate brig was a leaky motor boat that ran away out to sea. Bold pirates became frightened ones when the runaway boat also began to leak, but when the nurse returned and found what her neglect had led to, assistance was soon sent to the pirates.
On His Wedding Day
Wedding Guest
When some pranksters pour red pepper on a new groom's bouquet, the wedding becomes a hijinks factory.
A Deaf Burglar
A Neighbor (as Chester Franklin)
The misfortunes of a deaf burglar.
The Rural Third Degree
Cop (as Chester Franklin)
Si marries a guileless country maid, and receives among his wedding presents a bottle of liquor. The bride samples it in Si's absence, and being unaccustomed to drink, is overcome and falls on the table in a stupor. Si discovers her just as a party of neighbors are coming to congratulate the young couple and hides her in the yard, laying her on a bench. An inquisitive visitor finds her and reports to the constables that Si has killed his wife, and he is apprehended.