The best Ben Johnson’s comedy movies

Ben Johnson

Ben Johnson

13/06/1918- 08/04/1996
We present our ranking of the best Ben Johnson’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 Ben Johnson.
Available on:

Cherry 2000

Cherry 2000
5.5/10
When successful businessman Sam Treadwell finds that his android wife, Cherry model 2000 has blown a fuse, he hires sexy renegade tracker E. Johnson to find her exact duplicate. But as their journey to replace his perfect mate leads them into the treacherous and lawless region of 'The Zone', Treadwell learns the hard way that the perfect woman is made not of computer chips and diodes.

Angels in the Outfield

Angels in the Outfield
6.2/10
Roger is a foster child whose irresponsible father promises to get his act together when Roger's favourite baseball team, the California Angels, wins the pennant. The problem is that the Angels are in last place, so Roger prays for help to turn the team around. Sure enough, his prayers are answered in the form of angel Al.

Kid Blue

Kid Blue
6.2/10
  • Genre: ComedyWestern
  • Release: 31/01/1973
  • Character: Sheriff 'Mean John' Simpson
Bickford Waner, an apparently naive young man from Fort Worth, arrives in the tiny Texas town of Dime Box and takes on a variety of menial jobs. He's befriended by Reese Ford and his wife Molly, but before long Molly has seduced Bickford. Only with the arrival of Bickford's former girlfriend Janet Conforto is it revealed that Bickford is actually the notorious train robber Kid Blue. Humiliated by a scandal arising from his affair with his friend's wife, Bickford gives up on going straight and plots a crime.

The Evening Star

The Evening Star
5.9/10
Continuing the story of Aurora Greenway in her latter years. After the death of her daughter, Aurora struggled to keep her family together, but has one grandson in jail, a rebellious granddaughter, and another grandson living just above the poverty line.

Something Big

Something Big
5.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyWestern
  • Release: 19/11/1971
  • Character: Jesse Bookbinder
Joe Baker has a dream. He wants to do 'something big.' When he needs a Gatling gun to accomplish this, he seeks out a black marketeer. The price he wants for the gun? A woman! So Baker kidnaps a woman off of the stagecoach, only to find that she is the wife of the commandant of the local Cavalry detachment. Things get further complicated when a girl named Dover McBride shows up. She has come to force Baker to marry her and return east, as he promised to do four years earlier

The Naughty Nineties

The Naughty Nineties
7/10
In the gay '90s, cardsharps take over a Mississippi riverboat from a kindly captain. Their first act is to change the showboat into a floating gambling house. A ham actor and his bumbling sidekick try to devise a way to help the captain regain ownership of the vessel.

Slim Carter

Slim Carter
6.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyWestern
  • Release: 01/11/1957
  • Character: Montana Burriss
Hughie Mack, a not so nice western singer, is discovered by Clover Doyle as the next movie cowboy hero. His name is changed to Slim Carter and a promotional buildup begins. Leo Gallaher, an orphan boy wins the contest to spend a month with Slim. Leo is a good influence on his cowboy hero. Clover sees the good and more in Slim. Montana Burriss is Slim's double.

Soggy Bottom, U.S.A.

Soggy Bottom, U.S.A.
5.3/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 09/10/1981
  • Character: Isum Gorch
In a small Southern town, the local sheriff tries to keep everything peaceful and under control.

Always in My Heart

Always in My Heart
Another comedy movie starred by Dolphy.

Related actors