$1000 a Touchdown 1939  N/R, 71 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: James P. Hogan
Cast: Joe E. Brown, Martha Raye, Eric Blore, Susan Hayward, John Hartley, Joyce Mathews, Syd Saylor, George McKay, Tom Dugan, Matt McHugh, Edward Gargan, Jimmy Conlan, William Haade, Dewey Robinson, Charles Middleton
Two popular comedians of the time, Joe E. Brown and Martha Raye, play a struggling showbiz couple who takes off to run a poor school that she inherits. In order to get money to help the school, it is decided to build up the school's football team. Funny at times.
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Alibi Ike 1935   N/R, 73 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Ray Enright
Cast: Joe E. Brown, Olivia de Havilland, William Frawley, Ruth Donnelly, Roscoe Karns, Joe King, Paul Harvey, Spencer Charters, Joseph Crehan, Eddie Shubert
This Ring Lardner comedy is about a baseball pitcher (Joe E. Brown) who is the center of many events that go wrong as he continues to persevere. 2 User Reviews
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| | 07/28/2007 | | I HAVE BEEN A PHILLIES FAN FOR 47 YEARS AND I TRULY LOVE THIS MOVIE. IT SHOULD BE PRODUCED ON DVD!!!!!!! |
| | 07/28/2007 | GREAT MOVIE!!!!!!! THIS IS A LONG FORGOTTEN CLASSIC BUT I TAPED IT OFF MY SATELLITE DISH THIS MORNING. I WOULD ALSO LIKE TO SEE ELMER THE GREAT AND FIREMAN SAVE MY CHILD!!!!!! GOD BLESS JOE E. BROWN!!!!!!!
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The Comedy of Terrors 1964 N/R, 86 min.
Genre: Horror / Comedy / Thriller
Director: Jacques Tourneur
Cast: Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Boris Karloff, Joyce Jameson, Joe E. Brown, Beverly Powers, Basil Rathbone, Alan DeWitt, Douglas Williams, Buddy Mason, Linda Rogers, Luree Holmes, Orangey, Paul Barselou
Waldo Trumbull (Vincent Price) runs the funeral parlor that his senile father-in-law Amos Hinchley (Boris Karloff) owns. The funeral parlor needs more customers if it is going to stay in business. Waldo's solution is to kill a few people whose services will then help pay the rent. Now, Waldo and his inept assistant Felix Gillie (Peter Lorre) start sneaking into homes at night and killing people. The plan works–but when they try, again and again, to poison Waldo's father-in-law, he just will not stay dead.
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Earthworm Tractors 1936  N/R, 65 min.
Genre: Comedy
aka: Natural Born Salesman
Director: Ray Enright
Cast: Joe E. Brown, June Travis, Guy Kibbee, Dick Foran, Carol Hughes, Gene Lockhart, Olin Howland, Joseph Crehan, Irving Bacon, Sarah Edwards, Charles C. Wilson, William B. Davidson
This Depression Era film provides plenty of laughs when natural born salesman Alexander Botts (Joe E. Brown) plies his trade selling Earthworm tractors. Botts works on Sam Johnson (Guy Kibbee) to sell him tractors, and after a series of near disasters Botts makes a deal with Johnson that includes not only tractors but the affections of Johnson's daughter, Mabel (June Travis), as well.
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Fit for a King 1937 N/R, 73 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Edward Sedgwick
Cast: Joe E. Brown, Helen Mack, Paul Kelly, Harry Davenport, Halliwell Hobbes, John Qualen, Donald Briggs, Frank Reicher, Russell Hicks, Charles Trowbridge, Robert Warwick, Charles(1) Lane
Cub reporter Virgil Jones (Joe E. Brown) is assigned to write a story about Archduke Julio (Harry Davenport) and, in the process, falls in love with a princess (Helen Mack). In a comedy of errors, Virgil uncovers a plot to kill the archduke and princess, foils the plot, and wins the heart of the princess who is now a queen.
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 A Midsummer Night's Dream 1935 N/R, 132 min.
Genre: Comedy / Fantasy / Romance
Director: William Dieterle, Max Reinhardt
Cast: James Cagney, Joe E. Brown, Hugh Herbert, Victor Jory, Frank McHugh, Olivia de Havilland, Dick Powell, Mickey Rooney, Arthur Treacher, Ian Hunter, Verree Teasdale, Hobart Cavanaugh, Ross Alexander, Jean Muir, Grant Mitchell
In a well-known screen adaptation of this fantasy, Warner Brothers' big-name stars showed up for very good performances. Enhanced by Hal Mohr's Oscar-winning cinematography, this fairy tale follows the misadventures of a group of mythical mischief-makers. James Cagney as Bottom and the music of Mendelssohn are especially good. This was the film debut of Olivia de Havilland in her role as Hermia. Mohr's Oscar was the only write-in ever. An Oscar was also awarded for Best Film Editing, and a nomination was received for Best Picture.
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Pin Up Girl 1944 N/R, 83 min.
Genre: Musical / Comedy
aka: Pin-Up Girl
Director: H. Bruce Humberstone
Cast: Betty Grable, John Harvey, Martha Raye, Joe E. Brown, Eugene Pallette, Dorothea Kent, Dave Willock, Condos Brothers, Charlie Spivak, Robert Homans, Skating Vanities, Marcel Dalio
In this World War II musical comedy, Lorry Jones (Betty Grable) falls in love with Naval hero Tommy Dooley (John Harvey) and finds that work as a USO entertainer enables her to follow Tommy and to become a star as well.
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 Show Boat 1951 N/R, 107 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: George Sidney
Cast: Kathryn Grayson, Ava Gardner, Howard Keel, Joe E. Brown, Marge Champion, Gower Champion, Agnes Moorehead, Robert Sterling, William Warfield, Adele Jergens, Lief Erickson, Norman Leavitt, Fuzzy Knight, Emory Parnell, Regis Toomey
This remake of the Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein Broadway musical features Kathryn Grayson in the role of Magnolia, the daughter of the Mississippi riverboat's Captain Andy Hawk (Joe E. Brown). Magnolia takes over the riverboat show's starring role when Julie (Ava Gardner) is forced to leave after local police learn that she is not White but is married to White man Steve (Robert Sterling), and interracial marriages are forbidden. Gambler Gaylord Ravenal (Howard Keel) takes the role of Magnolia's leading man, and they fall in love and marry. But, Gaylord's gambling will prove to be a big problem–until he cleans up his act and returns to Magnolia and their baby daughter. Song standards, such as "Old Man River" (sung beautifully by William Warfield), "Bill," and "Make Believe" make this an enjoyable film.
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Shut My Big Mouth 1942 N/R, 71 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Charles Barton
Cast: Joe E. Brown, Adele Mara, Victor Jory, Fritz Feld, Will Wright, Lloyd Bridges, Forrest Tucker, Pedro de Cordoba, Don Beddoe, Russell Simpson
Wellington Holmes (Joe E. Brown) leaves the city and heads to a frontier town where he ends up face-to-face with outlaws.
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 Some Like It Hot 1959   N/R, 120 min.
Genre: Comedy / Romance / Musical
Director: Billy Wilder
Cast: Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, George Raft, Joe E. Brown, Joan Shawlee, Pat O'Brien, Nehemiah Persoff, George E. Stone, Billy Gray, Dave(1) Barry, Mike Mazurki, Harry Wilson, Beverly Wills, Tom Kennedy
Two out-of-work musicians (Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon) witness the St. Valentine's Day Massacre and must escape from Chicago. Their vehicle is an all-girl band, which they join disguised as women. The fun begins as they hop on a train with their fellow band members and must keep up the disguise. Marilyn Monroe: "I always get the fuzzy end of the lollipop." The film won an Oscar for Best Costume Design and was nominated for five others, including Best Actor (Lemmon) and Director. 1 User Review
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| | Curtis & Lemmon really make the movie entertaining | Anonymous 10/15/2007 | | |
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| 1. $1000 a Touchdown (1939)
2. Alibi Ike (1935)
3. Broadminded (1931)
4. The Comedy of Terrors (1964)
5. Earthworm Tractors (1936)
aka: Natural Born Salesman
6. Fit for a King (1937)
7. A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935)
8. Pin Up Girl (1944)
aka: Pin-Up Girl
9. Show Boat (1951)
10. Shut My Big Mouth (1942)
11. Some Like It Hot (1959)
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