The best Andy Devine’s music movies

Andy Devine

Andy Devine

07/10/1905- 18/02/1977
We present our ranking of the best Andy Devine’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 Andy Devine.

You're a Sweetheart

You're a Sweetheart
5.4/10
  • Genre: MusicRomance
  • Release: 26/12/1937
  • Character: Daisy Day
A Broadway producer is in a quandary when he discovers that the opening of his newest big production coincides with that of a major charity event. He despairs that the show will close after opening night until an ingenious writer suggests that he simply give the production snob-appeal by making the tickets nearly impossible to get by fabricating a story that they were all purchased by a flamboyant Texas oil baron who is totally besotted by the show's star.

La Fiesta de Santa Barbara

La Fiesta de Santa Barbara
5.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 07/12/1935
  • Character: Himself - Toreador
Hollywood stars participate in a Mexican-themed revue and festival in Santa Barbara. Andy Devine, the "World's Greatest Matador", engages in a bullfight with a dubious bovine supplied by Señor Keaton, and musical numbers are provided by Joe Morrison and the Garland Sisters.

Bells of San Angelo

Bells of San Angelo
5.6/10
Gridley is mining silver from an old Mexican mine and bringing it into the USA thru a passage into his worthless mine. Border guard Rogers suspects Gridley and finally finds the secret entrance to the Mexican mine. He sends Lee Madison for help only to have her captured by Gridley. Trigger brings help that takes care of Gridley's men and now Roy has to rescue Madison.

Crazy House

Crazy House
6.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 08/10/1943
  • Character: Andy Devine
Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson are Broadway stars who return to Universal Studios to make another movie. The mere mention of Olsen and Johnson's names evacuates the studio and terrorizes the management and personnel. Undaunted, the comedians hire an assistant director and unknown talent, and set out to make their own movie.

Under California Stars

Under California Stars
5.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusicWestern
  • Release: 30/04/1948
  • Character: Cookie Bullfincher / Alf Bullfincher
When Roy and Trigger arrive at his ranch he finds Cookie has hired his relatives. Caroline, the only relative that doesn't have a strong resemblance to Cookie, is the horse trainer. Bob Tells Roy a gang of men are hunting range horses. Roy puts a stop to hunting on his land. Pop decides there's money in kidnapping Trigger and demands a $100,000 ransom. McFarland's stepson, Ted, and his dog Tramp, run away and is found hiding in Roy's barn. A trap is set to catch the kidnappers ranch.

Ghost Catchers

Ghost Catchers
5.5/10
Two zanies get mixed up with a Southern colonel, his beautiful daughters, a nightclub and a haunted mansion.

Gift of Gab

Gift of Gab
4.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 01/09/1934
  • Character: John P. McDougal - the Waiter
Conceited radio announcer irritates everyone else at the station.

Pete Kelly's Blues

Pete Kelly's Blues
6.3/10
In 1927, a Kansas City, Missouri cornet player and his band perform nightly at a seedy speakeasy until a racketeer tries to extort them in exchange for protection.

Night Time in Nevada

Night Time in Nevada
6.5/10
Twenty years earlier Farrell killed his mining partner Andrews. Now Andrews daughter arrives to get her father's trust fund. Farrell having rustled Roy's cattle now takes her money from her Lawyer and lets her overhear false information of their next rustling job. With the posse at the wrong location, his men attack the cattle train and Roy on board find himself greatly outnumbered.

Rhythm of the Islands

Rhythm of the Islands
5.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 16/04/1943
  • Character: Eddie Dolan
Rhythm of the Islands is set in the South Seas, presumably far away from the shooting war. The nonsensical plotline finds hero Tommy (Allan Jones) posing as a native chief. Joan Holton (Jane Frazee), daughter of a millionaire (Ernest Truex), falls in love with Tommy, unaware that he's a charlatan.

Doctor Rhythm

Doctor Rhythm
5.9/10
Dr. Bill Remsen pretends to be a policeman, and ends up being assigned to guard Judy Marlowe. Amazingly, he falls in love with her.

The Vigilantes Return

The Vigilantes Return
5.7/10
Marshal Johnnie Taggart (Jon Hall) , posing as an outlaw named "Ace" Braddock, comes to Bannack, Montana to restore law and order. But he is recognized by Kitty, co-owner with Clay Curtwright of the infamous Bull Whip saloon. But "bad-girl" Kitty keeps her mouth shut. When Johnnie's pal Andy reports a stage holdup, Curtwright's henchman, Ben Borden, talks the sheriff and Judge Holden into suspecting Johnnie. Johnnie reveals himself to Judge Holden as a government marshal, and the judge voices his opinion that Curtwright is the leader of the road agents, but voices it in the presence of his granddaughter, Louise Holden. The Judge doesn't know that Louise is in love with Curtwright, and she tips him off as to Johnnie's real identity. Curtwright frames Johnnie for a murder and arranges for the crooked sheriff to promote a lynching and Andy and Kitty help Johnnie escape jail. Johnnie rounds up vigilantes and heads for a showdown at the Bull Whip saloon

Swing That Cheer

Swing That Cheer
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 13/10/1938
  • Character: Doc Saunders
Undeniably talented on the gridiron, Bob Potter is equally undeniably an arrogant pain in the posterior. So swell-headed does Potter become that he can never admit to himself that his blocking-back teammate Larry Royal is equally responsible for Bob's success. To teach his pal a lesson, Larry feigns an injury and pulls out of the Big Game, forcing Bob to have a go at it alone.

Babes on Swing Street

Babes on Swing Street
6.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 27/10/1944
  • Character: Joe Costello
The president of a settlement-house group puts on a benefit variety show.

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