The best Billy Gilbert’s war movies

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.

The Great Dictator

The Great Dictator
8.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyWar
  • Release: 23/10/1940
  • Character: Field Marshal Herring
Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecution from Hynkel's regime.

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.

Block-Heads

Block-Heads
7.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyWar
  • Release: 19/08/1938
  • Character: Mr. Gilbert
It's 1938, but Stan doesn't know the war is over; he's still patrolling the trenches in France, and shoots down a French aviator. Oliver sees his old chum's picture in the paper and goes to visit Stan who has now been returned to the States and invites him back to his home.

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.

The Toast of New York

The Toast of New York
6.3/10
After the American Civil War, Jim Fisk, a former peddler and cotton smuggler, arrives in New York, along with his partners Nick and Luke, where he struggles to make his way through the treacherous world of Wall Street's financial markets.

Wing and a Prayer

Wing and a Prayer
6.6/10
  • Genre: ActionDramaWar
  • Release: 01/01/1944
  • Character: (archive footage)
An aircraft carrier is sent on a decoy mission around the Pacific, with orders to avoid combat, thus lulling Japanese alertness before the battle of Midway.

Women in War

Women in War
5.8/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 05/06/1940
  • Character: Pierre, the Cobbler
A "good-time girl", raised by her somewhat lax divorced father, finds herself involved in an accidental death, and the only way she's able to get out of it is to volunteer--albeit reluctantly--to be a nurse in the war effort. She travels to England and is assigned to a hospital under a very strict matron. What the girl doesn't know is that the matron is the mother she has never seen.

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