The best Ben Astar’s comedy movies

Ben Astar

Ben Astar

15/06/1909- 20/10/1988
Today we present the best Ben Astar’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 Ben Astar’s movies.
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On the Double

On the Double
6.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyWar
  • Release: 19/05/1961
  • Character: General Zlinkov
American GI Ernie Williams, admittedly weak-kneed, has an uncanny resemblance to British Colonel MacKenzie. Williams, also a master of imitation and disguise, is asked to impersonate the Colonel, ostensibly to allow the Colonel to make a secret trip East. What Williams is not told is that the Colonel has recently been a target of assassins. After the Colonel's plane goes down, the plan changes and Williams maintains the disguise to confuse the Nazis about D-Day.

Bye Bye Birdie

Bye Bye Birdie
6.6/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 04/04/1963
  • Character: Ballet Manager
A singer goes to a small town for a performance before he is drafted.

Walk Don't Run

Walk Don't Run
6.6/10
During the '64 Olympics in Tokyo, Sir William "Bill" Rutland is visiting strictly for business but has no place to stay after his hotel reservation is screwed up. Everything's booked solid because of the Olympics. He sees a note posted in English, "Roommate wanted." He answers the ad, and finds a tiny two-room traditional Japanese apartment (sliding screens, tatami mats) inhabited by a British woman, an embassy worker. She gives him a cold reception because she wanted a woman roommate, but he persuades her to let him stay just a little while--and soon he's invited another man, an Olympic athlete, to share the tiny two-room sliding-screen apartment, too.

The Honeymoon Machine

The Honeymoon Machine
6.1/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 16/08/1961
  • Character: Russian consul
Lieutenant Fergie Howard, Ensign Beau Gilliam and navy scientist Jason Elderidge use their ships computer, designed to calculate missile trajectories, to calculate a roulette ball's trajectory and hit the Venice Casino. Things get complex when Admiral Fitch arrives at the same Casino.

Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round

Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round
6/10
A sophisticated con man mounts an intricate plan to rob an airport bank while the Soviet premier is due to arrive.

The Man Who Understood Women

The Man Who Understood Women
4.4/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 02/10/1959
  • Character: French Doctor
A film director turns his actress wife into a star, leading to marital problems.

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