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Chester Morris (born John Chester Brooks Morris; February 16, 1901 – September 11, 1970) was an American stage, film, television, and radio actor. He had some prestigious film roles early in his career, and was nominated for an Academy Award. Chester Morris is best remembered today for portraying Boston Blackie, a criminal-turned-detective, in the modestly budgeted Boston Blackie film series of the 1940s.
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08 August 1938
Jim 'Socker' Conway, former boxer and FBI hero, is maneuvered for political reasons into a do-nothing job in the district attorney's office.
18 December 1944
In New York City, a newly hired photographer becomes embroiled in a scandal when her photo is mistaken for evidence of a murder and she must try to prove her own innocence.
24 January 1937
A remake of Frank Capra's Submarine (1928), Devil's Playground is a snappy Columbia "B plus" picture starring Richard Dix and Chester Morris.
02 May 1946
Boston Blackie, in the 11th film of the Columbia series, indulges in some wit-trading with a squirmy spiritualist who deals in blackmail, murder and the occult.
28 November 1931
A stock market broker plans to liven up his boring life by taking up piracy on the high seas.
01 August 1956
A mysterious hypnotist reverts his beautiful assistant back into the form of a prehistoric sea monster that she was in a past life.
23 February 1930
This film earned an Oscar nomination for Sound Recording. It is the only film nominated in this category that is among the lost.
14 June 1930
Convicted of manslaughter for a drunken driving accident, Kent Marlowe is sent to prison, where he meets vicious incarcerated figures who are planning an escape from the brutal conditions.
11 October 1970
A black champion boxer and his white female companion struggle to survive while the white boxing establishment looks for ways to knock him down.
10 January 1930
New York girl has a dull boyfriend and seems destined for a dull marriage when she meets a rich playboy who has money to burn and places to go.
01 December 1941
A wise-cracking private detective's honeymoon is interrupted by a kidnapping case.
20 April 1929
Chick Williams, a prohibition gangster, rejoins his mob soon after being released from prison. When a policeman is murdered during a robbery, he falls under suspicion.
09 August 1943
The owner of an Illinois coal mine struggles to keep his business in operation, all the while unaware that among his employees is a saboteur planning destruction and chaos.
09 August 1935
"Mitch" Mitchell is an aviator who has been hired to take a child in a guardianship suit out of California into Mexico.
21 October 1944
After a rare gem is stolen from an exhibition at a posh hotel, Inspector Farraday decides to recruit former thief Boston Blackie to find the stone.
10 January 1972
A documentary about the glorious history of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios and its decline leading to the sale of its back lot and props.
15 September 1939
A tugboat captain serves under his rival as a U-boat chaser in World War I.
25 February 1933
A Depression-downtrodden waif uses her brains instead of her body to rise from tyro con artist to crime boss.
01 June 1933
People in an old, dark mansion are menaced by a maniac called "The Black Ace".
20 March 1943
Old rivals are pitted against each other in basic training and fight for the same woman.
06 May 2003
Looks at the stereotype-breaking films of the period from 1929, when movies entered the sound era, until 1934 when the Hays Code virtually neutered film content.
25 August 1955
This fact-based prison drama tells the tale of a band of prisoners living in the innovative 2,600-acre prison at Chino, California.
20 November 1935
Various Hollywood performers put on a pirate-themed variety show on Catalina Island, with a number of amiable stars in the audience.
23 June 1939
Twelve people are aboard Coast Airline's flagship the Silver Queen enroute to South America when the airplane encounters a storm and is blown off course.
27 March 1936
An escaped lunatic, a mysterious swami, and various lovers all have designs on a famous opera singer.
14 December 1934
Mary wants to marry a gangster because that is where the money is. Unfortunately, the life expectancy and finances of a gangster are unstable.
06 March 1936
In a town called New Jerusalem, three bandits hold up a bank. After a gun battle with the townspeople, the three robbers retreat into the scorching Arizona desert.
20 February 1941
When a murder occurs on an ocean liner docked in New York, the trail leads to Coney Island and a spy ring.
11 May 1939
A gangster takes a doctor and his family hostage.
23 January 1932
An opera diva sets her sights on a womanizing army officer.
06 May 1938
A respected citizen with secret ties to the local mob is faced with revealing his criminal connection
31 May 1935
G-Man Jeff Crane poses as a crook to infiltrate the notorious Purple Gang, a band of hoodlums which preys upon other hoodlums.
06 February 1947
A mystery writer becomes the prime suspect in a murder investigation when a publisher he last saw is found dead.
28 May 1939
An MGM short showing how materials are shipped by boat 'From the Ends of the Earth' to Hollywood. Featuring footage from the MGM films being made at the time.
20 August 1937
Director Lew Landers' 1937 B-film, about a crew of misfit pilots working for an Argentinian air service, stars Chester Morris, Van Heflin, Whitney Bourne, Onslow Stevens, Richard Lane, Douglas Walton, Paul Guilfoyle, Solly Ward, Walter Miller and Rita LaRoy.
15 February 1930
A night club singer falls for a gangster.
08 January 1946
A Chicago team of radio scriptwriters must split up when he takes a job with his bride-to-be's father, and the other must write commercial jingles.
21 April 1937
A man goes to a loan shark to finance his family's vacation.
16 June 1942
A cocky radio reporter sets out to prove an ex-convict is innocent in the murder of a mob boss.
21 November 1929
Now hear this. The studio that gave the cinema its voice offered 1929 audiences a chance to see and hear multiple silent-screen favorites for the first time in a gaudy, grandiose music-comedy-novelty revue that also included Talkie stars, Broadway luminaries and of course, Rin-Tin-Tin.
04 March 1940
Marine lieutenants Dan and Jim fight bandits in the South American jungle, while competing for the attention of beautiful Joan Grant.
02 September 1964
Film clips highlight the funniest scenes and brightest comic stars in MGM's history.
01 September 1934
Jerry Randolph is an inveterate and obnoxious practical joker. Things take a serious turn when it looks as though Jerry's latest prank has resulted in the death of his best friend.
19 April 1930
When a woman discovers that her husband has been unfaithful, she decides to pay him back in kind.
13 November 1930
Infamous burglar "The Bat" commits a daring jewelry theft despite heavy police presence. Soon after, a bank theft occurs, which may be the work of the criminal as well.
01 June 1934
A young sailor saves a woman from drowning. The woman turns out to be a rich heiress; unfortunately for the sailor, she was only pretending to be drowning so that another young man she had her eye on would save her.
05 November 1942
Blackie receives a call from a friend who asks him to retrieve some money from his apartment and deliver it to him in California.
19 June 1940
David Cook and twin brother Tom are poles apart in disposition and traits. When their father dies, Tom goes to New Mexico to live with his Uncle Hardtack while David remains behind to care for their mother.
10 May 1945
Blackie is implicated in a murder when he accidently sells a phony Charles Dickens first edition at an auction.
25 January 1935
Two surgeons (Chester Morris, Robert Taylor) in love with a nurse (Virginia Bruce) end their rivalry in the operating room.
04 October 1934
A parade highlights the Screen Actors Guild's Film Stars Frolic, hosted by Walter Winchell as Master of Ceremonies.
02 September 1939
Two starstruck visitors to Hollywood sneak into the famous nightclub and end up in a Conga contest and get more than they expected.
30 July 1940
Jim Holden, a young doctor practicing in Alaska, eagerly awaits the arrival of his new nurse, Anne Webster.
01 September 1934
Conceited radio announcer irritates everyone else at the station.
30 July 1944
Sam Gallagher returns home to Los Angeles as an undercover spy for the Navy, getting a job at the shipyards where his brother, Jeff, is a foreman.
09 December 1933
A prizefighter is convicted of a murder that was actually committed by his sister.
13 May 1948
Blackie is the natural suspect when an expensive pearl necklace is stolen while he is supposed to be guarding it.
22 July 1938
Given the job of training young pilots for important post-war cargo flights, hard-boiled Col. Stockton forces ex-officer Stag Cahill back into the military to be his aide at the academy.
01 April 1932
A gang of crooks evade the police by moving their operations to a small town. There the gang's leader, John Madison, encounters a faith healer and uses him to scam the gullible public of funds for a supposed chapel.
