The best Alan Hale’s comedy movies

Alan Hale

Alan Hale

10/02/1892- 22/01/1950
We present our ranking of the best Alan Hale’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 Alan Hale.
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It Happened One Night

It Happened One Night
8.1/10
A renegade reporter and a crazy young heiress meet on a bus heading for New York, and end up stuck with each other when the bus leaves them behind at one of the stops.

Gentleman Jim

Gentleman Jim
7.6/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 14/11/1942
  • Character: Pat Corbett
As bareknuckled boxing enters the modern era, brash extrovert Jim Corbett uses new rules and dazzlingly innovative footwork to rise to the top of the top of the boxing world.

Our Relations

Our Relations
7.3/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 15/09/1936
  • Character: Joe Grogan
Two sailors get caught in a mountain of mix-ups when they meet their long-lost twins. Laurel and Hardy play themselves and their twins.

Hollywood Canteen

Hollywood Canteen
7/10
Two soldiers on leave spend three nights at a club offering free of charge food, dancing, and entertainment for servicemen on their way overseas. Club founders Bette Davis and John Garfield give talks on the history of the place.

This Is the Army

This Is the Army
5.8/10
In WW I dancer Jerry Jones stages an all-soldier show on Broadway, called Yip Yip Yaphank. Wounded in the War, he becomes a producer. In WW II his son Johnny Jones, who was before his fathers assistant, gets the order to stage a knew all-soldier show, called THIS IS THE ARMY. But in his pesonal life he has problems, because he refuses to marry his fiancée until the war is over.

Union Depot

Union Depot
7/10
Among the travelers of varied backgrounds that meet and interact on one night at Union Depot, a metropolitan train station, are Chick and his friend Scrap Iron, both newly released from prison after serving time for vagrancy. Hungry and desperate for a break, Chick fortuitously comes across across a valise abandoned by a drunken traveler. In it he finds a shaving kit and a suit of clothes with a bankroll, which help transform the affable tramp into a dashing gent. After buying himself a meal, Chick seeks some female companionship among the many hustlers who walk the station. He propositions Ruth Collins, a stranded, out-of-work showgirl and takes her to the station's hotel.

The Inspector General

The Inspector General
6.7/10
An illiterate stooge in a traveling medicine show wanders into a strange town and is picked up on a vagrancy charge. The town's corrupt officials mistake him for the inspector general whom they think is traveling in disguise. Fearing he will discover they've been pocketing tax money, they make several bungled attempts to kill him.

Listen, Darling

Listen, Darling
6.5/10
To stop Pinkie's widowed, struggling mother Dottie from marrying a well-off older man they know she doesn't love, teenager Pinkie and her best friend Buzz kidnap her in the family travel trailer to live a carefree life on the open road. They then get the idea to find Dottie a financially secure husband whom both she and Pinkie would like.

The Good Fairy

The Good Fairy
7.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 18/02/1935
  • Character: Maurice Schlapkohl
In 1930s Budapest, naïve orphan Luisa Ginglebuscher becomes an usherette at the local movie house, determined to succeed in her first job by doing good deeds for others and maintaining her purity. Luisa's well-meaning lies get her caught between a lecherous businessman, Konrad, and a decent but confused doctor, Max Sporum. When Luisa convinces Konrad that she's married to Max, Konrad tries everything he can to get rid of the baffled doctor.

The Strawberry Blonde

The Strawberry Blonde
7.2/10
Biff Grimes is desperately in love with Virginia, but his best friend Hugo marries her and manipulates Biff into becoming involved in his somewhat nefarious businesses. Hugo appears to have stolen Biff's dreams, and Biff has to deal with the realisation that having what he wants and wanting what another has can be very different things.

Thank Your Lucky Stars

Thank Your Lucky Stars
6.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 25/09/1943
  • Character: Himself
An Eddie Cantor look-alike organizes an all-star show to help the war effort.

Janie

Janie
5.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 02/09/1944
  • Character: rof. Matthew Q. Reardon
Teenage Janie (Joyce Reynolds) falls in love with a private (Robert Hutton) from an Army base opposed by her editor father (Edward Arnold).

Footsteps in the Dark

Footsteps in the Dark
6.7/10
A high-society gent has a secret life - he writes murder mysteries and hangs out with the police attempting to solve crimes. This causes him no end of problems when his wife wants to know about his little disappearances and exceptionally late nights out.

Thin Ice

Thin Ice
6.3/10
Swiss hotel ski instructor (Henie) falls in love with a man (Power) who goes skiing every morning.

Broadway Bill

Broadway Bill
6.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 30/11/1934
  • Character: Orchestra Leader (uncredited)
Tycoon J.L. Higgins controls his whole family, but one of his sons- in-law, Dan Brooks and his daughter Alice are fed up with that. Brooks quits his job as manager of J.L.'s paper box factory and devotes his life to his racing horse Broadway Bill, but his bank- roll is thin and the luck is against him, he is arrested because of $150 he owes somebody for horse food, but suddenly a planed fraud by somebody else seems to offer him a chance...

Music for Madame

Music for Madame
5.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 08/10/1937
  • Character: Detective Flugelman
An Italian immigrant singer, Nino, hoping to succeed in Hollywood, falls in with a gang of crooks who use his talent to distract everyone at a party while they steal the jewels.

Make Your Own Bed

Make Your Own Bed
5.5/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 10/06/1944
  • Character: Walter Whirtle
Walter and Vivian live in the country and have a difficult time keeping servants. Walter then hires a private detective who has been fired for arresting the District Attorney. They only way that Walter can get Jerry to work for him is to tell Jerry that his life is in danger; the neighbor is trying to take his wife; and that Nazi spies are everywhere. Jerry needs a cook for his 'cover' so he gets his fiancée Susan to work with him. To keep Jerry working, Walter sends the threatening letters to himself and hires actors to play the spies but when a real group of spies disguised as a troupe of radio actors appears on the scene, events quickly spiral out of control.

Red Hot Rhythm

Red Hot Rhythm
6.3/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 23/11/1929
  • Character: Walter
A 1929 film by Leo McCarey.

That Way With Women

That Way With Women
6.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 29/03/1947
  • Character: Herman Brinker
A bored millionaire (Sydney Greenstreet) matches his daughter (Martha Vickers) with his partner (Dane Clark) in a gas station.

Oh Kay!

Oh Kay!
6.3/10
A silent film version of the famed Gershwin musical.

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