The best George Chesebro’s drama movies

George Chesebro

George Chesebro

29/07/1888- 28/05/1959
We present our ranking of the best George Chesebro’s movies. Do you love cinema? Or are you looking for a movie of your favorite actor to watch tonight? Surely you have some to see or that you did not know yet about George Chesebro.
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Virginia City

Virginia City
6.8/10
Union officer Kerry Bradford escapes from a Confederate prison and races to intercept $5 million in gold destined for Confederate coffers. A Confederate sympathizer and a Mexican bandit, each with their own stake in the loot, stand in his way.

Millie

Millie
6.2/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 08/02/1931
  • Character: Juror (uncredited)
Millie Blake is very careful about picking her husband, but that is no guarantee that a marriage will turn out well, nor that she will.

Billy the Kid

Billy the Kid
5.7/10
  • Genre: DramaWestern
  • Release: 30/05/1941
  • Character: Hickey Gang Member (uncredited)
Billy Bonney is a hot-headed gunslinger who narrowly skirts a life of crime by being befriended and hired by a peaceful rancher, Eric Keating. When Keating is killed, Billy seeks revenge on the men who killed him, even if it means opposing his friend, Marshal Jim Sherwood.

Wolf Blood

Wolf Blood
5.4/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 16/12/1925
  • Character: Dick Bannister
Dick Bannister is the new field boss of the Ford Logging Company, a Canadian logging-crew during a time when conflicts with the powerful Consolidated Lumber Company, a bitter rival company, have turned bloody, like a private war. His boss, Miss Edith Ford, comes to inspect the lumberjack camp, bringing her doctor fiancé with her. Dick is attacked by his rivals and left for dead. His loss of blood is so great that he needs a transfusion, but no human will volunteer, so the surgeon uses a wolf as a source of the blood. Afterwards, Dick begins having dreams where he runs with a pack of phantom wolves, and the rival loggers get killed by wolves. Soon, these facts have spread through the camp. (via YouTube)

Daughters Courageous

Daughters Courageous
6.6/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 23/06/1939
  • Character: Mike (uncredited)
Nan Masters, a single mother living with her four marriageable daughters, plans to marry Sam Sloane, businessman. Out of the blue her 1st husband Jim returns after deserting the family 20 years earlier. The worldly wanderer Jim gets a cool family reception at first but his warm personality gradually wins the affections of his four daughters. In fact, youngest daughter Buff, who has her eye on a maverick of her own in Gabriel Lopez, is pleased when Jim grants his stamp of approval on her relationship. Buff plans to elope with Gabriel on her mother's wedding day, but 'unpredictable' is Gabriel's middle name.

Let Us Live

Let Us Live
6.7/10
  • Genre: CrimeDramaThriller
  • Release: 29/03/1939
  • Character: Prison Visitor's Room Guard (uncredited)
In Springdale, a small town near New York, taxi driver Brick Tennant and his friend Joe Linden are unjustly accused of a hideous crime and blindly convicted by those who are only interested in feeding the voracious machinery of an inhumane justice system.

It Happened in Hollywood

It Happened in Hollywood
6.2/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 07/09/1937
  • Character: Bank Robber
A silent Western star has trouble adjusting to the coming of sound.

Juvenile Court

Juvenile Court
5.7/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 10/09/1938
  • Character: Cop in Chase Car (uncredited)
Public Defender Gary Franklin, frustrated by being unable to save criminal Dutch Adams from a death sentence by blaming the slums environment as the cause of Dutch's crimes, enlists the aid of Dutch's sister, Marcia Adams, to get the slum dwellers at appeal for public monies to provide recreational places for the slum kids.

Broadway Arizona

Broadway Arizona
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 30/09/1917
  • Character: John Keys
While on vacation in New York, millionaire cattle rancher John Keyes falls in love with musical comedy star Fritzi Carlyle. Recognizing the opportunity for a great story, Fritzi's press agent encourages her to accept the Westerner's proposal of marriage, only to deny it the next day in a wave of newspaper publicity. Disheartened, Keyes returns to Arizona and Fritzi continues performing until she suffers a nervous breakdown. Reading of Fritzi's misfortune, Keyes returns East, kidnaps Fritzi and takes her to Arizona. There, the change of climate performs wonders and she recovers quickly. Meanwhile, her stage manager sends detectives after her, and when they arrive in Arizona ready to arrest Keyes for kidnapping, Fritzi explains that the whole adventure was an elaborate publicity stunt and announces that she and her Arizona cowboy are going to be married.

Show Boat

Show Boat
6.1/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 27/07/1929
  • Character: Steve Baker
This film sticks very closely to the Edna Ferber novel, rather than the musical based on the novel. There are only two major changes from Ferber's book : *Julie in this version is a white woman, not a racially mixed one; therefore she and her husband are not unlawfully married. * Ravenal returns at the end, instead of dying as in the novel

Smashing the Money Ring

Smashing the Money Ring
5.6/10
T-Man Brass Bancroft goes undercover in a prison which has a secret counterfeit operation set up in the print shop.

The Sky Spider

The Sky Spider
3.1/10
The three Morgan brothers, Glenn, Jim and Buddy are all air mail pilots. The plane flown by Jim is shot down by Hugh Jeffries for the money it carries. Another flight is made by Buddy followed by Jeffries intending to shoot him down also...

Mr. Opp

Mr. Opp
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 20/08/1917
Optimistic in the face of failure, Daniel Webster Opp finally attains success as a traveling salesman for a shoe firm, but just when his prospects are best, he receives word that his stepfather is dead. He leaves at once to meet his brother Ben at Cove Junction, where they settle the estate according to Ben's demands. Ben takes the money, while Mr. Opp is given the homestead and custody of Kippy, his feebleminded half-sister. Sacrificing all to remain with his sister, Mr. Opp founds a newspaper, the Opp Eagle, and begins to promote the town.

Brothers

Brothers
5.9/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 18/05/1931
  • Character: Randy
Young orphaned brothers Tom and Bob are separated when Bob is taken to an orphan asylum by the authorities and Tom escapes. As time goes by Tom takes to a life of crime, but uses the proceeds to contribute to Bob's education. Years later the brothers meet again when Tom tries to involve Bob in a con game--and neither one knows that the other is his brother. Complications ensue.

Law of the Wolf

Law of the Wolf
4/10
  • Genre: DramaWestern
  • Release: 15/06/1939
  • Character: Duke Williams
When a man is wrongly accused of murder, a dog helps clear his name.

A Failure at Fifty

A Failure at Fifty
5.8/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 01/07/1940
  • Character: Creditor (uncredited)
The story of Abraham Lincoln's 30-year struggle of persistence-through-failure is told to an unemployed 50 year old man.

Hearts and Spangles

Hearts and Spangles
Steve Carris, a medical student, is expelled from college, disowned by his father and joins a circus.

Soul of the Slums

Soul of the Slums
6.3/10
A young man, framed and sent to prison for a crime he didn't commit, is released after serving his stretch and vows to find those responsible for framing him. Meanwhile he sets up a mission in the slums he came from, and falls in love with a girl he meets there.

Riders of the Night

Riders of the Night
7.8/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 15/10/1918

The County Fair

The County Fair
7.2/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 31/03/1932
  • Character: Gunner
A Kentucky horse owner hires an ex-jockey, who is now working as a waiter, to train his thoroughbred race horse for an upcoming race. However, a gambling ring that doesn't want the horse entering the race has other plans.

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