The best Arthur Hambling’s comedy movies

Arthur Hambling

Arthur Hambling

14/03/1888- 04/12/1952
Today we present the best Arthur Hambling’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 Arthur Hambling’s movies.
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The Lavender Hill Mob

The Lavender Hill Mob
7.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 28/06/1951
  • Character: Wallis
A meek bank clerk who oversees the shipments of bullion joins with an eccentric neighbor to steal gold bars and smuggle them out of the country.

Johnny Frenchman

Johnny Frenchman
6.2/10
The fisherman from a Cornish village have a friendly rivalry with the fishermen (and one formidable woman) from a French port. Then war comes and they must all rethink their petty differences.

Trottie True

Trottie True
5.7/10
Tottie True is a gay-90s British music-hall performer who has her sights set on moving from rags to riches, who loses her heart to the pure-and-true blue balloonist, Sid Skinner, but continues her upward search on improving her social status. She finally settles for Lord Landon Digby who has lots of assets and a very-stiff upper lip. She gets a lot of the latter and very little of the former, and decides Sid might have been a better choice.

Vote for Huggett

Vote for Huggett
6.1/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 01/02/1949
  • Character: Newspaperman (uncredited)
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.

Time Flies

Time Flies
5.5/10
The Professor (Felix Aylmer) is showing Susie (Evelyn Dall) around his time machine when it accidently takes off with Tommy (Tommy Handley) and Bill (George Moon) also on board. They are transported to Elizabethan England where they come across Walter Raleigh, William Shakespeare, Queen Elizabeth 1, Captain John Smith and Pocohontas. Will our time travellers return?

Cottage to Let

Cottage to Let
6.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyDramaThriller
  • Release: 06/09/1941
  • Character: Scotland Yard Inspector (uncredited)
Allied spies and Nazi Agents insinuate themselves at a Scottish cottage (converted to a wartime hospital) with interests on an inventor's nearly perfected bomb sight.

Don't Take It to Heart

Don't Take It to Heart
6.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 13/11/1944
  • Character: Railway Porter
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 Girl in the Taxi

The Girl in the Taxi
5.2/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 02/09/1937
  • Character: Senior Police Officer (uncredited)
In this British musical, set in Paris, an apparently upstanding husband and father spends his nights fooling around with wild women. His son, wanting to be just like his dad, begins dating a seductive widow--the same widow his father has been seeing. Trouble ensues when the father refuses to let his daughter marry her true love. When the fiancée learns of the father-son shenanigans, he begins blackmailing them into letting him marry the daughter.

I See Ice

I See Ice
6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 10/02/1938
  • Character: Prison Warder (uncredited)
George Bright is a props man in an ice ballet company, and a keen amateur photographer who accidentally snaps crooks at work. Comic complications ensue....

Old Bill and Son

Old Bill and Son
5.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyWar
  • Release: 01/03/1941
  • Character: Shelter Delivery Man
Old Bill has grumbled his way through the trenches of the First World War. Now it is the Second and, envious of his son, Young Bill, he decides to enlist. He finally enters the Pioneer Corps, which is based near his son. When Young Bill goes missing during a raid, Old Bill shows that there's still life in the old dog yet!

It's Not Cricket

It's Not Cricket
5.9/10
Kicked out of Army Intelligence, a pair of upper class twits set up as private detectives. The result is refined English chaos. " This is the regettable story of two Drones who didn't even know their own Zones. It starts in Germany, gets nowhere and stops at nothing." Radford and Wayne, cashiered from the army when they let a captured Nazi escape, become private detectives who later get involved with the same German and a missing diamond ...

Don't Ever Leave Me

Don't Ever Leave Me
6.5/10
Elderly crook Harry Denton, when challenged to prove he is "not past it," decides to kidnap Sheila Farlane, the 16 year old daughter of a famous actor. When Harry loses his nerve, Sheila won't let him give up.

Demobbed

Demobbed
4.2/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 19/06/1944
  • Character: Curtis
Demobbed from the army Nat, Norman and Dan get new jobs, solve a crime and stage a concert party.

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