Chester M. Franklin Movies

A story within a story, including a passage from Hansel and Gretel.

Jody convinces his parents to allow him to adopt a young deer, but what will happen if the deer misbehaves?

Adopted by the Kellys from an orphanage, Nancy is reared in dreadful surroundings and mistreated as the household drudge. She accidentally makes the...

Lois, a stenographer at a luxury hotel, is being pursued by the hotel's house detective and a bellhop. When some valuable jewels are stolen, the...

A 1916 film directed by Chester M. Franklin.

In early 19th century England, ambitious and ruthless orphan Rebecca Sharp advances from the position of governess to the heights of British society.

The Baron is an aging, cynical lady's man. He has a key-chain with about 50 keys to different women' apartments in Paris. He selects one at random to...

After years of prospecting, Jonathan finally strikes gold. He returns to town only to discover that his partner has since died and left Tommy...

The Japanese emperor's son, Hanki Pan (Francis Carpenter) is in love with beautiful Fan Fan (Virginia Lee Corbin) and is determined to marry her,...

In this MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short, a young man graduates from the police academy at the top of his class. He then teams up with some local...

An unhappy child, accompanied by his dog, runs away from home and is befriended by a gangster on the lam.

A wilderness girl raises a deer and a mountain lion to be friends.

A detective goes in search for the villain responsible for several burglaries and a murder.

The Song of Love is a silent film of 1923 directed by Chester M. Franklin and Frances Marion. The film was produced and starred Norma Talmadge.

When a stack of valuable bonds go missing from the Grant household, suspicion falls on little Carmen Grant's playmate Georgie, whose father is a poor...

A young Chinese woman saves an American man washed up onto the shore and the two fall in love, only for him to have second thoughts.

A woman is stuck with an unfaithful husband until he is killed robbing a bank.

A man whose wife has deserted him winds up saving a beautiful girl from the clutches of a murderous bandit on a Nicaraguan coffee plantation.

Living in Cuba with her parents and grandmother, Inez Hastings, does not care for Lavendera, her persistent suitor. Contrary to her father's wishes,...