The best Alan Carney’s comedy movies

Alan Carney

Alan Carney

22/12/1909- 02/05/1973
Today we present the best Alan Carney’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Alan Carney’s movies.
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Herbie Rides Again

Herbie Rides Again
5.7/10
The living Volkswagen Beetle helps an old lady protect her home from a corrupt developer.

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
7.5/10
A group of strangers come across a man dying after a car crash who proceeds to tell them about the $350,000 he buried in California. What follows is the madcap adventures of those strangers as each attempts to claim the prize for himself.

The Absent-Minded Professor

The Absent-Minded Professor
6.7/10
Bumbling professor Ned Brainard accidentally invents flying rubber, or "Flubber", an incredible material that gains energy every time it strikes a hard surface. It allows for the invention of shoes that can allow jumps of amazing heights and enables a modified Model-T to fly. Unfortunately, no one is interested in the material except for Alonzo Hawk, a corrupt businessman who wants to steal the material for himself.

Blackbeard's Ghost

Blackbeard's Ghost
6.8/10
Peter Ustinov stars as the eponymous wraith, who returns to Earth to aid his descendant, elderly Elsa Lanchester (Stowecroft). The villains want to kick Lanchester and her friends out of their group home so that they can build a crooked casino. Good guy Steve Walker (Jones) gets caught in the middle of the squabble after evoking Blackbeard's ghost.

North to Alaska

North to Alaska
6.9/10
Sam and George strike gold in Alaska. George sends Sam to Seattle to bring George's fiancé back to Alaska. Sam finds she is already married, and returns instead with Angel. Sam, after trying to get George and Angel together, finally romances Angel, who, in the meantime, is busy fighting off the advances of George's younger brother, Billy.

Monkeys, Go Home!

Monkeys, Go Home!
5.7/10
Henry Dussard, a young American, inherits a picturesque but badly neglected olive farm in southern France and is determined to make it operational again despite cautionary advice from the local priest and a pretty villager. Desperate for laborers, the inventive Dussard turns to the zaniest crew of olive pickers ever recruited - four mischievous monkeys! As former members of an Air Force space team, these intelligent chimps quickly pick up on their new responsibilities - but prove to have a turbulent effect on the local townspeople.

The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin

The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin
6.4/10
To restore his family's lost wealth, a young Boston lad stows away on a ship bound for the California Gold Rush. When their very proper butler gives chase, all roads lead to nonstop adventure, wild and woolly characters, and a lucky punch that leads to a bonanza of belly laughs!

Mr. Lucky

Mr. Lucky
7.1/10
A conman poses as a war relief fundraiser, but when he falls for a charity worker, his conscience begins to trouble him.

Girl Rush

Girl Rush
4.9/10
During the California Gold Rush, two down-on-their-luck vaudevillians attempt to become wealthy by bringing a girlie show to an all-male western mining town.

Zombies on Broadway

Zombies on Broadway
5.2/10
  • Genre: ComedyHorror
  • Release: 01/05/1945
  • Character: Mike Streger
Hiring real zombies for a broadway show proves difficult.

Rally 'Round the Flag, Boys!

Rally 'Round the Flag, Boys!
5.9/10
Harry Bannerman, a Connecticut suburbanite, becomes involved in various shenanigans when his wife Grace leads a protest movement against a secret army plan to set up a missile base in their community.

Around the World

Around the World
5.6/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 27/11/1943
  • Character: Joe Gimpus
Bandleader Kay Kyser takes his troupe of nutty musicians, goofball comics and pretty girl singers on a tour around the world to entertain the troops during World War II.

Li'l Abner

Li'l Abner
6.7/10
A comedy musical based on the comic strip charcters created by Al Capp. When residents of Dogpatch, USA are notified by the government that they must evacuate because of atomic bomb testing, they try to persuade the government that their town is worth saving. Meanwhile, Earthquake McGoon wants to marry Daisy Mae; Daisy Mae wants to marry Li'l Abner, and Li'l Abner just wants to go fishing.

Swingin' Along

Swingin' Along
4.7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 16/04/1961
An amateur tunesmith and a con man pool their resources in order to win first prize in a songwriting contest.

Seven Days Ashore

Seven Days Ashore
5.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 25/04/1944
  • Character: Orval 'Handsome' Martin
Circumstances force a womanizing playboy on leave from the Merchant Marine to ask two shipmates to help him by dating two surplus girlfriends.

Vacation in Reno

Vacation in Reno
5.3/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 10/12/1946
  • Character: Angel
A hapless husband searches for buried treasure at a dude ranch; meanwhile, his wife wants a divorce and bank robbers want him dead.

Mexican Spitfire's Blessed Event

Mexican Spitfire's Blessed Event
6/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 14/07/1943
  • Character: Navajo Room Bartender
Dennis mistakenly believes Carmelita is going to have a baby. Little does he know that the blessed event is her cat's new kittens.

Genius at Work

Genius at Work
5.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 20/10/1946
  • Character: Mike Strager
Two actors who play detectives on the radio find themselves investigating a real crime masterminded by an arch-criminal named the Cobra.

The Adventures of a Rookie

The Adventures of a Rookie
4.4/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 19/08/1943
  • Character: Mike Strager
Two bumbling GIs manage to get themselves invited to a dinner party at a boarding house "for women only". When the cook comes down with scarlet fever, the authorities quarantine the house and the pair find themselves locked up in a house full of attractive women.

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