Chester Morris Movies

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...

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...

A remake of Frank Capra's Submarine (1928), Devil's Playground is a snappy Columbia "B plus" picture starring Richard Dix and Chester Morris....

A murder is committed during the auction of a valuable statue. The prime suspect is Boston Blackie, whose reputation for living on the edge of the...

This fact-based prison drama tells the tale of a band of prisoners living in the innovative 2,600-acre prison at Chino, California. The place takes a...

Blackie runs into a woman he formally loved who now is married with a kid. When her husband gets out of prison he's killed in Blackie's apartment and...

Film clips highlight the funniest scenes and brightest comic stars in MGM's history.

"Mitch" Mitchell is an aviator who has been hired to take a child in a guardianship suit out of California into Mexico. He is accompanied by Maxine...

A New York fashion model finds herself being pursued by a poor but honest garage mechanic and a rich philanderer.

Blackie performs in a magic show at a women's prison, which gives an inmate an opportunity to escape.

A Depression-downtrodden waif uses her brains instead of her body to rise from tyro con artist to crime boss.

A pre-Code drama.

People in an old, dark mansion are menaced by a maniac called "The Black Ace".

A wise-cracking private detective's honeymoon is interrupted by a kidnapping case.

A tugboat captain serves under his rival as a U-boat chaser in World War I.

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...

Mike Douglas (Barry Sullivan), owner of a nitroglycerin concern hires his old friend "Buzz" Mitchell (Chester Morris), a race-driver of midget-auto...

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...

Blackie receives a call from a friend who asks him to retrieve some money from his apartment and deliver it to him in California. Performing this...

A night club singer falls for a gangster.