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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The Sailor Takes a Wife
1945 · Movie · 92 min. · United States
Direction Richard Whorf
Cast Robert Walker · June Allyson · Hume Cronyn · Audrey Totter
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