The best Benny Baker’s comedy movies

Benny Baker

Benny Baker

05/05/1907- 20/09/1994
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Benny Baker’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about Benny Baker.
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Paint Your Wagon

Paint Your Wagon
6.6/10
A Michigan farmer and a prospector form a partnership in the California gold country. Their adventures include buying and sharing a wife, hijacking a stage, kidnapping six prostitutes, and turning their mining camp into a boom town. Along the way there is plenty of drinking, gambling, and singing. They even find time to do some creative gold mining.

The Inspector General

The Inspector General
6.7/10
An illiterate stooge in a traveling medicine show wanders into a strange town and is picked up on a vagrancy charge. The town's corrupt officials mistake him for the inspector general whom they think is traveling in disguise. Fearing he will discover they've been pocketing tax money, they make several bungled attempts to kill him.

Stage Door Canteen

Stage Door Canteen
6.2/10
A young soldier on a pass in New York City visits the famed Stage Door Canteen, where famous stars of the theater and films appear and host a recreational center for servicemen during the war. The soldier meets a pretty young hostess and they enjoy the many entertainers and a growing romance

The Sting II

The Sting II
4.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 18/02/1983
  • Character: Pyle
Hooker and Gondorf pull a con on Macalinski, an especially nasty mob boss with the help of Veronica, a new grifter. They convince this new victim that Hooker is a somewhat dull boxer who is tired of taking dives for Gondorf. There is a ringer. Lonigan, their victim from the first movie, is setting them up to take the fall.

Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number!

Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number!
5.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 08/06/1966
  • Character: Lt. Schwartz
The divine Didi, a European actress known more for her bubble bath scenes than for her acting, decides she has had enough with bubble baths and wants to be taken seriously as an actress. So much so that she runs away during the middle of a scene while filming in Hollywood and winds up in Oregon. While she is staying in a hotel, the operator accidentally connects her with a real estate agent named Tom Meade. She asks Tom to bring her some food and when he does he suggests that she go to his cabin in the woods. She also asks him not to tell anyone where she is because she doesn't want to go back to Hollywood. Now Tom must keep the secret, especially from his wife and from his suspicious housekeeper Lily.

The Jerk, Too

The Jerk, Too
2.7/10
In this sequel to "The Jerk," Navin Johnson heads to Los Angeles to attend the wedding of his pen pal, Marie. On the way, he runs across a gang of hobos whose leader, Diesel, takes him to Las Vegas after learning of his skills at poker.

For Those Who Think Young

For Those Who Think Young
5.2/10
A wealthy young man tries to woo a university student, while her two uncles work to popularize a local club.

Young Man with Ideas

Young Man with Ideas
6/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 02/05/1952
  • Character: Bill Collector (uncredited)
A Montana lawyer (Glenn Ford) gets distracted after moving to California with his wife (Ruth Roman) and children.

Blonde Trouble

Blonde Trouble
6.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 06/08/1937
  • Character: Maxie Schwartz
Fred Stevens is an aspiring songwriter from Schenectady who journeys to New York City, hoping to make a name for himself. On the train he meets dental assistant Edna Baker, and the two embark upon a friendship that evolves into her falling for him. While struggling in Tin Pan Alley, Fred falls in with his composer partner's gold-digging sister-in-law Eileen. Eileen really becomes interested when she finds out Fred is carrying his life savings.

Mind Your Own Business

Mind Your Own Business
6.3/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 18/12/1936
  • Character: Sparrow
Nature reporter Orville Shanks retreats to the woods for material for his "Our Wild Friends" column and to volunteer for his favorite cause, the Boy Scouts. When Orville's editor, Crane, orders him to spice up his column, Orville's wife Melba writes a gossip column using animals as metaphors for people. Crane loves Melba's article and gives Orville a raise, and the column becomes a hit.

Up in Arms

Up in Arms
6.2/10
Hypochondriac Danny Weems gets drafted and accidentally smuggles his girlfriend aboard his Pacific-bound troopship.

Double or Nothing

Double or Nothing
6.4/10
A philanthropist's will dictates that four people receive $5,000 apiece, with the stipulation that the first one who can double the amount -- without dishonesty-- will win a cool million. Hindering the four are the avaricious relatives of the late millionaire.

Rose Bowl

Rose Bowl
5.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 30/11/1936
  • Character: 'Dutch' Schultz
Paddy O'Riley and Ossie Merrill, Bellport high school football heroes, enroll in distant colleges; Paddy at a small school in the East, where he is barely a substitute, and Ossie at a powerhouse-football school, where he is an instant star and all-American candidate. They leave behind Cheers Reynolds, who is fond of Paddy, who works in her family's drugstore, but she loves Ossie almost as much as he loves himself. Paddy makes friends with team fullback Dutch Schultz, who accompanies him on vacation, and they arrive back in Bellport just as Ossie is also coming home on break. Florence Taylor is also in town on a film junket. Unknown to any of the others, Paddy and Florence had gone to high school together. Back at school and three years later, Paddy and Dutch learn that their football team could get invited to the coveted Rose Bowl to play against Ossie's team, if it could get enough publicity (pre-BCS days) that would attract a large crowd...

Thanks a Million

Thanks a Million
6.3/10
A show troupe is engaged by Judge Culliman, who is running for Governor, to enhance his political campaign. When the inebriated Judge has to be replaced in doing his campaign speech by the troupe crooner, Eric Land, his political backers decide that they want him to run for Governor in the Judge's place. Romance, music, political corruption and the election results follow.

Champagne Waltz

Champagne Waltz
6.2/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 05/02/1937
  • Character: Flip
n Vienna, a new jazz club featuring American trumpeter Buzzy Bellew threatens the existence of its neighbor, the Waltz Palace, run by Franz Strauss and featuring his granddaughter, singer Elsa. Smitten by Elsa, Buzzy hides his identity and association with the club -- whose owner intends to buy out the Palace property. When Elsa accidentally learns who Buzzy really is, it appears he may have to return to America alone.

Feudin' Fools

Feudin' Fools
6.1/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 21/09/1952
  • Character: Corky
Sach discovers that he is heir to a farm in rural hillbilly country. He and the boys go to the farm to check it out, and find themselves mixed up with feuding hillbillies and a gang of bank robbers.

The Wicked Dreams of Paula Schultz

The Wicked Dreams of Paula Schultz
4.4/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 03/01/1968
  • Character: Cab Driver
A beautiful East German Olympic hopeful pole-vaults over the Berlin Wall to freedom.

Belle of the Nineties

Belle of the Nineties
6.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 21/09/1934
  • Character: Blackie
Cabaret entertainer Ruby Carter shifts her operations to New Orleans and becomes exceedingly popular with the local men.

Some Kind of a Nut

Some Kind of a Nut
4.3/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 14/09/1969
  • Character: Cab Driver
A New York City bank teller becomes a media celebrity when he refuses to comply with his employer's demands that he shave his beard.

Jinx Money

Jinx Money
6.1/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 27/06/1948
  • Character: Augie Pollack
A man wins $50,000 in a card game with gamblers, but is soon found dead and the money missing. Slip and Sach find the money near where the body was discovered, and soon find themselves the target of both the police and the gamblers.

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