The best Barbara Murray’s comedy movies

Barbara Murray

Barbara Murray

27/09/1929- 20/05/2014
We present our ranking of the best Barbara Murray’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 Barbara Murray.

Passport to Pimlico

Passport to Pimlico
7.1/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 26/10/1949
  • Character: Shirley Pemberton
When an unexploded WWII bomb is accidentally detonated in Pimlico, it reveals a treasure trove and documents proving that the region is in fact part of Burgundy, France and thus foreign territory. The British government attempts to regain control by setting up border controls and cutting off services to the area.

Up Pompeii

Up Pompeii
6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 01/01/1971
  • Character: Ammonia
A funny thing happens to Lurcio (Frankie Howerd) on the way to the rent-a-vestal-virgin market stall. A mysterious scroll falls into his hands, listing the names of all the conspirators plotting to murder Emperor Nero. And when the upstart slave is elected to infiltrate the ringleader's den, the comical ups-and-downs lead to total uproar.

Doctor in Distress

Doctor in Distress
5.6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 30/07/1963
  • Character: Iris Merchant
"Doctor in Distress" is the fifth of the seven films in the "Doctor" series, and focuses on Sir Lancelot Spratt, Simon Sparrow's old teacher and sometimes nemesis. When the eternal bachelor Sir Lancelot injures his back and falls in love with his physiotherapist Iris Marchant, he becomes very distressed and turns to Simon for help. Simon, who now is a senior doctor at fictional Hampden Cross Hospital and hopelessly in love with aspiring actress Delia, sends him to a nature cure clinic in a vain attempt to help him lose weight, but Sir Lancelot can't get Iris off his mind and has her followed, first by a private investigator and eventually by himself. When he finally proposes, she rejects him and marries an old army major, which distresses Sir Lancelot even more.

Doctor at Large

Doctor at Large
6/10
The third of the "Doctor" films. Newly qualified doctor Simon Sparrow goes in search of a job. He applies for a surgery position at the hospital where he studied, but manages to insult the senior surgeon and one of the hospital's governors. So, instead he ends up as assistant to with a niggardly and rather scary GP with an amerous wife, followed by cushy but rather unmedical job with a Harley Street doctor, and then a job with a very nice GP whp is the opposite to the first one. But after getting the chance to rescue the hospital governor from a group of angry ladies at a resort in France, he finally lands a job at his beloved hosdpital.

Operation Bullshine

Operation Bullshine
5.6/10
  • Genre: ComedyWar
  • Release: 30/06/1959
  • Character: Pvt. Betty Brown
During World War II, a Royal Artillery officer is assigned to an anti-aircraft battery that is filled with female soldiers of the Auxiliary Territorial Service. His wife who has enlisted is mistakenly posted to the battery in violation of regulations of husbands and wives serving together in the same formation. She becomes jealous of what she perceives as him paying too much attention to the other Auxiliary Territorial Service women.

Meet Mr Lucifer

Meet Mr Lucifer
5.9/10
A T.V. set given as a retiremant present is sold on to different households causing misery each time. One of the Ealing comedies.

Poet's Pub

Poet's Pub
6.1/10
A loosely structured comedy allowing for a series of vignettes based around an ancient coaching inn. The story was adapted from the 1929 novel by Scottish writer Erik Linklater.

Don't Ever Leave Me

Don't Ever Leave Me
6.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 19/07/1949
  • Character: Joan Robbins
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.

The Punch and Judy Man

The Punch and Judy Man
6.2/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 01/01/1963
  • Character: Lady Jane Caterham
Walter Pinner is the titular Punch And Judy Man plying his trade in the seaside town of Piltdown. Unhappily married to his social climbing wife, who gets him to perform at the 60th Anniversary celebrations of the town in front of all the local dignitaries, his hatred of snobbery comes to a hilarious head.

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