Movies starring Chester

Tango Tangles (1914)

12 mins     Comedy      

Charlie Chaplin once said that in the early days they didn't have scripts just ideas and would go somewhere with just a couple of people and make a movie. That along with the fact the movie industry was a very different beast...

Lassie Come Home (1943)

89 mins     Adventure , Drama, Family      

There have been many movies over the years which focus on man's best friend, some more notable than others but very few are a patch on the Lassie movies, in particular the first of them "Lassie Come Home" from 1943. Adapted f...

Two Weeks to Live (1943)

76 mins     Comedy      

Two Weeks to Live (1943) Chester Lauck, Norris Goff, Franklin Pangborn, Kay Linaker...

Tornado (1943)

83 mins     Drama      

Movie Review - Tornado (1943) Chester Morris stars as a hard working miner who finds himself marrying a social climbing wife who is constantly pushing him to do more,...

Gambler's Choice (1944)

66 mins     Crime, Drama      

The chances are that if you are going to watch "Gambler's Choice" you are a fan of old movies and as such there is a reasonable chance you will have already seen the likes of "Angels with Dirty Faces" and "Manhattan Melodrama...

The Spiral Staircase (1945)

83 mins     Mystery, Thriller      

"The Spiral Staircase", a lady in distress thriller, is a movie which I both love and hate, because for all that is good there is something which is bad. So whilst director Robert Siodmak creates moments of sublime atmosphere...

The Inspector General (1949)

102 mins     Comedy, Musical, Romance      

"The Inspector General" sounds right up my street; it's a comedy musical about mistaken identity and stars Danny Kaye. Sadly the experience certainly does not live up to expectations because it is a dull story, which is padde...

Bell, Book and Candle (1958)

106 mins     Comedy, Romance      

6 years before Elizabeth Montgomery gave us Samantha Stephens the loveable witch in the TV series "Bewitched", Kim Novak gave us another loveable witch in "Bell Book and Candle". Based upon John Van Druten's play, "Bell Book ...

That Darn Cat! (1965)

112 mins     Comedy, Family, Thriller      

I'll be honest I had never heard of Disney's "That Darn Cat!" until I spotted the 1997 remake on TV and was made aware of the original which not only featured Hayley Mills making her final Disney movie but also Dean Jones in ...

Without Honor (1968)

75 mins     TV Movie, Western      

22nd out of 23 episodes that is what "Without Honor" is, it is the 22nd episode of "Cimarron Strip" and even as the series wended its way to what would be just a single series run the quality was high. Now I have said before ...

Columbo: Lovely But Lethal (1973)

73 mins     Crime, Drama, Mystery, TV Movie      

I'm slowly working my way through old episodes of "Columbo" as many of them get shown as individual TV movie here in the UK. Now it doesn't take long to realise that the majority of "Columbo" was built around a handful of for...

Class of '63 (1973)

74 mins     Drama, TV Movie      

As reunion movies go "Class of '63" certainly is a little different as this isn't about those who achieved their dreams and so on but a little guy who has a chip on his shoulder...

Murder by Death (1976)

94 mins     Comedy, Mystery, Thriller      

I don't think it is technically possible not to enjoy "Murder by Death" as it spoofs just about ever renowned detective going be it Miss Marple to Charlie Chan. Yes and on the mention of Charlie Chan I will get the elephant i...

A Little Princess (1995)

97 mins     Drama, Family, Fantasy      

It should come as no surprise that I have never read Frances Hodgson Burnett's story "A Little Princess" and my only knowledge of it comes from having previously watched the 1939 movie adaptation "The Little Princess" starrin...

Peter Pan (2003)

113 mins     Adventure , Family, Fantasy      

Peter Pan: The Darlings find themselves on a marvellous adventure with Peter Pan and Tink in Neverland...

Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (2006)

84 mins     Comedy      

So the joke is we have Sacha Baron Cohen playing a fake foreign reporter fooling everyone he meets in America that he is Borat and seeing how much foolish behaviour he can get away with at the expense of himself but also thos...

A Walk in My Shoes (2010)

95 mins     Drama, TV Movie      

In "Freaky Friday" Jodie Foster got to switch places with Barbara Harris and see in a comical way that being a mum is not easy. In "The Family Man" Nicolas Cage had an encounter with Don Cheadle who shows him an alternative v...