The best Chester Gan’s comedy movies

Chester Gan

Chester Gan

04/07/1908- 29/06/1959
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Chester Gan’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about Chester Gan.

My Little Chickadee

My Little Chickadee
6.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyWestern
  • Release: 09/02/1940
  • Character: Chinese Train Passenger (uncredited)
While on her way by stagecoach to visit relatives out west, Flower Belle Lee is held up by a masked bandit who also takes the coach's shipment of gold. When he abducts Flower Belle and they arrive in town, Flower Belle is suspected of being in collusion with the bandit.

Small Town Girl

Small Town Girl
6.6/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 10/04/1936
  • Character: Wing (uncredited)
Kay is a girl living in a small rural town whose life is just too dull and repetitious to bear. One night, she meets young, handsome, and rich Bob Dakin, who asks her for directions while drunk and then proceeds to take her out on a night on the town. Kay likes the stranger, and when the drunken Bob decides that they should get married, Kay hesitates little before consenting. The morning after the affair, Bob, once sober, regrets his mistake. His strict and upright parents, however, insist that the young couple pretend marriage for 6 months before divorcing, in order to avoid bad publicity. Bob resents Kay for standing in the way of him and his fiancée, Priscilla, but Kay still hopes that he'd have a change of heart.

Torchy Runs for Mayor

Torchy Runs for Mayor
6.3/10
Torchy conducts a one woman campaign against a corrupt mayor and crime boss, and when the reform candidate is murdered, she takes up the banner.

The Red Rider

The Red Rider
6.9/10
"Red" Davison(Buck Jones), the sheriff of Sun Dog, sacrifices his job and his good name to save his best friend, "Silent" Slade from the hangman's noose, following a framed-up court decision which sentences Slade to hang for the murder of "Scotty McKee (J.P. McGowan). Davidson allows Slade to escape from jail and follows him to aid him in proving his innocence.

Love Is a Headache

Love Is a Headache
6/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 14/01/1938
  • Character: Louie, Peter's Butler (uncredited)
A press agent for a Broadway actress whose career is going downhill, attempts to get her some publicity by having her adopt two orphans, without her knowledge.

Blackwell's Island

Blackwell's Island
6/10
A reporter gets himself sent to prison to expose a mobster.

Nancy Drew... Reporter

Nancy Drew... Reporter
6.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrimeMystery
  • Release: 18/02/1939
  • Character: Mandarin Cafe Headwaiter (uncredited)
While participating in a contest at a local newspaper in which school children are asked to submit a news story, local attorney Carson Drew's daughter Nancy intercepts a real story assignment. She "covers" the inquest of the death of a woman who was poisoned. Nancy doesn't think the young woman accused of the crime is guilty and corrals her neighbor Ted into searching for a vital piece of evidence and stumbles onto the identity of the real killer.

Meet the Baron

Meet the Baron
5.5/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 20/10/1933
  • Character: Chinese Man (uncredited)
A charlatan posing as Baron Munchhausen is invited to be guest speaker at a girls' school.

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