Chester M. Franklin Movies

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

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

A young Chinese woman saves an American man washed up onto the shore and the two fall in love, but he resolutely returns to his life, and wife, in...

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

Gretchen Van Houck is just arriving in the USA, on a ship from Holland. She joins her father, who has already spent several years in America, where...

Jim Hawkins and his widowed mother run the Admiral Ben Bow Inn, but when they are threatened by a pirate attack, they stay with friend, the squire,...

The wealthy owner of an iron foundry dies, and his greedy heirs are outraged when they find out that he left his entire estate not to them but to the...

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...

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.

The wife of sculptor Roger Heath is killed by a maniac because of Roger's madly jealous admirer Olivia Larkin. To care for his home and son Peter,...

A man and his wife both have criminal pasts, but have quit crime and are now respectable citizens. One day a member of their old gang shows up and...

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

Bebe Daniels is charming in this light comedy, based on a Saturday Evening Post story by Grace Lovell Bryan.

Spanish version of the MGM romance, His Glorious Night: in the old Austro-Hungarian empire, a princess rejects her arranged marriage and loves,...

An ambitious and ruthless young woman advances from the position of governess to the heights of British society.

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

In Bagdad, Princess Badr al-Budur, the daughter of the Sultan, falls in love with Aladdin, the son of a poor tailor, and rejects the suit of evil...

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

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

A young woman and her five little brothers and sisters are left orphans by the murder of their father over gold found on his ranch. Together the...