The best Billy Gilbert’s comedy movies on YouTube

Billy Gilbert

Billy Gilbert

12/09/1894- 23/09/1971
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Billy Gilbert’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 Billy Gilbert.

Anchors Aweigh

Anchors Aweigh
7/10
Two sailors, Joe and Clarence have four days shore leave in spend their shore leave trying to get a girl for Clarence. Clarence has his eye on a girl with musical aspirations, and before Joe can stop him, promises to get her an audition with José Iturbi. But the trouble really starts when Joe realizes he's falling for his buddy's girl.

His Girl Friday

His Girl Friday
7.8/10
Hildy, the journalist former wife of newspaper editor Walter Burns, visits his office to inform him that she's engaged and will be getting remarried the next day. Walter can't let that happen and frames the fiancé, Bruce Baldwin, for one thing after another, to keep him temporarily held in prison, while trying to steer Hildy into returning to her old job as his employee.

A Night at the Opera

A Night at the Opera
7.8/10
The Marx Brothers take on high society and the opera world to bring two lovers together. A sly business manager and two wacky friends of two opera singers help them achieve success while humiliating their stuffy and snobbish enemies.

Sons of the Desert

Sons of the Desert
7.5/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 29/12/1933
  • Character: Mr. Ruttledge (voice) (uncredited)
Ollie and Stan deceive their wives into thinking they are taking a medically necessary cruise when they are really going to a lodge convention.

Destry Rides Again

Destry Rides Again
7.6/10
When a tough western town needs taming, the mild-mannered son of a hard-nosed sheriff gets the job.

Pack Up Your Troubles

Pack Up Your Troubles
7.2/10
  • Genre: ComedyWar
  • Release: 16/09/1932
  • Character: Mr. Hathaway
The story begins in 1917 with Stan and Ollie being drafted into the U.S. Army to fight in World War I. While in the Army, the pair befriend a man named Eddie Smith, who is killed by the enemy during a battle. After the war is over, Stan and Ollie venture to New York City, where they begin a quest to reunite Eddie's little daughter with her rightful family. The task proves both monumental and problematic as the boys discover just how many people in New York have the last name Smith.

Towed in a Hole

Towed in a Hole
7.6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 31/12/1932
  • Character: Joe - Junkyard Owner
Although they are successful fishmongers, Stan convinces Ollie that they should become fishermen too, but making a boat seaworthy isn't an easy task.

County Hospital

County Hospital
7.3/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 25/06/1932
  • Character: The Doctor
Ollie is in the hospital with a broken leg. When Stan comes to visit him, total chaos ensues.

Five Weeks in a Balloon

Five Weeks in a Balloon
5.7/10
Professor Fergusson plans to make aviation history by making his way across Africa by balloon. He plans to claim uncharted territories in West Africa as proof of his inventions worth.

The Kissing Bandit

The Kissing Bandit
5.3/10
Ricardo, the milquetoast son of a Mexican bandit, would rather lead a quiet life in Boston. But the family would rather that he follow in his father's footsteps and become "The Kissing Bandit".

The Music Box

The Music Box
7.9/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 16/04/1932
  • Character: Professor von Schwarzenhoffen (uncredited)
The Laurel & Hardy Moving Co. have a challenging job on their hands (and backs): hauling a player piano up a monumental flight of stairs to Prof. von Schwarzenhoffen's house. Their task is complicated by a sassy nursemaid and, unbeknownst to them, the impatient Prof. von Schwarzenhoffen himself. But the biggest problem is the force of gravity, which repeatedly pulls the piano back down to the bottom of the stairs.

Love on a Bet

Love on a Bet
6.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 06/03/1936
  • Character: New York Policeman
Aspiring Producer Michael McCreigh convinces Uncle Carlton to finance a play on the condition that he lives the play's ridiculous plot. If Michael fails, he must work in Carlton's meat packing plant.

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