Screenplay: Chester Erskine

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Chester Erskine. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


Angel Face

1952 · Movie · 91 min. · United States

Direction Otto Preminger

Cast Robert Mitchum · Jean Simmons · Mona Freeman · Herbert Marshall

Plot Jean Simmons' fascinating interpretation of an uncharacteristic role is the main drawing card of Otto Preminger's Angel Face. The daughter of Charles Treymayne, who remarried a wealthy woman, Diane Treymayne's...

7.7

7K votes

7.7

7K votes

All My Sons

1948 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction Irving Reis

Cast Edward G. Robinson · Burt Lancaster · Mady Christians · Louisa Horton

Plot All My Sons tells the story of Joe Keller, a successful, middle-aged, self-made man who has done a terrible and tragic thing: during World War II, rushing to meet an...

6.8

231 votes

6.8

231 votes

Split Second

1953 · Movie · 85 min. · United States

Direction Dick Powell

Cast Stephen McNally · Alexis Smith · Jan Sterling · Keith Andes

Plot Sam Hurley, "Nation's No. 1 killer" with a cold contempt for "heroes," escapes prison with two companions and takes a mixed bag of hostages to Nevada ghost town Lost Hope...

6.5

34 votes

6.5

34 votes

Witness to Murder

1954 · Movie · 83 min. · United States

Direction Roy Rowland

Cast Barbara Stanwyck · George Sanders · Gary Merrill · Jesse White

Plot Cheryl Draper (Barbara Stanwyck) sees a murder through her bedroom window, but no one will believe her. She is stalked by the suave killer ('George Sanders'), who first takes steps...

6.3

294 votes

6.3

294 votes

The Belle of New York

1952 · Movie · 82 min. · United States

Direction Charles Walters

Cast Fred Astaire · Vera-Ellen · Keenan Wynn · Marjorie Main

Plot In turn of the century New York, pretty temperance worker Angela Collins, who is a member of the Daughters of Right, is hailed as the "Belle of New York" by...

6.2

30 votes

6.2

30 votes

The Egg and I

1947 · Movie · 108 min. · United States

Direction Chester Erskine

Cast Claudette Colbert · Fred MacMurray · Marjorie Main · Louise Allbritton

Plot Based on the true-life adventures of best-selling humorist Betty MacDonald. A young urban bride agrees to help her new husband realize his life-long dream of owning a chicken farm. A...

6.1

102 votes

6.1

102 votes

Take One False Step

1949 · Movie · 94 min. · United States

Direction Chester Erskine

Cast William Powell · Shelley Winters · Marsha Hunt · Dorothy Hart

Plot Prof. Andrew Gentling, in Los Angeles to help found a new college, is inveigled by old flame Catherine Sykes into a midnight drive. Next day Catherine is missing, believed killed;...

6.0

24 votes

6.0

24 votes

A Girl in Every Port

1952 · Movie · 86 min. · United States

Direction Chester Erskine

Cast Groucho Marx · Marie Wilson · William Bendix · Don DeFore

Plot After two sailors are conned into buying a lame race-horse, they go ashore to sort out the problem, but when they realise that the horse is one of a pair...

5.7

53 votes

5.7

53 votes

Midnight

1934 · Movie · 76 min. · United States

Direction Chester Erskine

Cast Sidney Fox · O.P. Heggie · Henry Hull · Margaret Wycherly

Plot Jury foreman Edward Weldon's questioning leads to the death sentence for Ethel Saxon. His daughter Stella claims to have killed her lover, the gangster Gar Boni, just as Saxon was...

5.5

428 votes

5.5

428 votes

Androcles and the Lion

1952 · Movie · 98 min. · United States

Direction Chester Erskine

Cast Alan Young · Jean Simmons · Victor Mature · Robert Newton

Plot Androcles is a Christian who follows that religion's teachings even as they apply to the treatment of animals. Seeing a lion in pain, he removes a huge thorn from the...

5.4

190 votes

5.4

190 votes

The Invincible Six

1970 · Movie · 103 min. · United States

Direction Jean Negulesco

Cast Stuart Whitman · Elke Sommer · Curd Jürgens · Ian Ogilvy

Plot Based on the story "The Heroes of Yucca," The Invincible Six features a ragtag group of jewel thieves who become the unofficial guardians of a small Iranian village. When bandits...

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Master of Men

1933 · Movie · 65 min. · United States

Direction Lambert Hillyer

Cast Jack Holt · Fay Wray · Walter Connolly · Berton Churchill

Plot A steel-mill worker, Buck Garrett (Jack Holt) betters himself and becomes involved in the New York stock market. He marries Kay Walling (Fay Wray), who disapproves his market schemes and...

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Not rated

The Sailor Takes a Wife

1945 · Movie · 92 min. · United States

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