The best Amy Veness’s comedy movies

Amy Veness

Amy Veness

26/02/1876- 22/09/1960
Today we present the best Amy Veness’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 Amy Veness’s movies.

This Happy Breed

This Happy Breed
7.3/10
In 1919, Frank Gibbons returns home from army duty and moves into a middle-class row house, bringing with him wife Ethel, carping mother-in-law Mrs. Flint, sister-in-law Sylvia and three children. Years pass, with the daily routine of family infighting and reconciliation occasionally broken by a strike or a festival.

Doctor in the House

Doctor in the House
6.6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 23/03/1954
  • Character: Grandma Cooper
The first of the seven "Doctor" films, based on Richard Gordon's novels and released between 1954 and 1970. Simon Sparrow is a newly arrived medical student at St Swithin's hospital in London. Falling in with three longer-serving hopefuls he is soon immersed in the wooing, imbibing and fast sports-car driving that constitute 1950s medical training. There is, however, always the looming and formidable figure of chief surgeon Sir Lancelot Spratt to remind them of their real purpose.

A Boy, a Girl and a Bike

A Boy, a Girl and a Bike
6.2/10
The lives of the members of a West Yorkshire cycling club are complicated by romantic entanglements and a series of bike thefts.

Just William

Just William
6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 20/07/1940
  • Character: Mrs. Bott
A rascal child recruits his friends as assistants to help his father to get elected to the city council. Sadly, the children accidentally helped two jewel thieves to escape. They feel sorry about this, and then, to redeem themselves, the kids begin investigating a rival candidates conspiracy. Their involvement causes the boy's father to win the elections.

Vote for Huggett

Vote for Huggett
6.1/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 01/02/1949
  • Character: Grandma
A firm of solicitors do battle with the head of the local council over a parcel of river front land, owned by the Huggett family, in order to build a lido/community center.

Don't Take It to Heart

Don't Take It to Heart
6.5/10
A stray World War Two bomb releases the ghost of the 3rd Earl of Chaunduyt after 400 years. A visiting professor, while wooing the beautiful Lady Mary, daughter of the present Earl, finds him an ally in his fight on behalf of the villagers to protect their ancient rights against a meddling newcomer.

The Huggetts Abroad

The Huggetts Abroad
5.7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 21/03/1949
  • Character: Grandma Huggett
Life is not going well for the Huggetts. Father has lost his job. Jimmy and his wife cannot get to South Africa where he has a new job. So the family decide that they should go to South Africa by truck. With their travelling companion they travel across the desert which includes a brush with the law.

Here Come the Huggetts

Here Come the Huggetts
6.2/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 02/12/1948
  • Character: Grandma Huggett
The Huggetts have their first telephone installed, sleep rough on The Mall whilst waiting for the Royal Wedding and deal with a fire at the 'Oatibix' factory.

Play Up the Band

Play Up the Band
5.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 01/11/1935
  • Character: Lady Heckdyke
A brass band goes to London to take part in a competition.

Windbag the Sailor

Windbag the Sailor
6.6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 01/12/1936
  • Character: Emma Harbottle
Will Hay plays a bragging sea captain whose maritime experience actually extends to navigating a coal barge down inland waterways. His tall tales catch him out when he is co-erced into commanding an unseaworthy ship by an unscrupulous shipping agent who means to have it wrecked. This was the first film to couple Will Hay with both Moore Marriott and Graham Moffatt.

Let Me Explain, Dear

Let Me Explain, Dear
5.5/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 01/01/1932
  • Character: Aunt Fanny
A husband flirts with a pretty girl after a taxi smash, but a delicate situation ensues when he has to explain the presence of her necklace in his pocket!

To-night's the Night - Pass It On

To-night's the Night - Pass It On
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 26/12/1931
  • Character: Emily Smithers
Slapstick comedy in which luckless slate club treasurer Bill Smithers is sent to prison for three years after being mistakenly accused of stealing funds.

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