The best Buddy Lester’s movies

Buddy Lester

Buddy Lester

16/01/1917- 04/10/2002
Today we present the best Buddy Lester’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 Buddy Lester’s movies.
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The Nutty Professor

The Nutty Professor
6.6/10
A timid, nearsighted chemistry teacher discovers a magical potion that can transform him into a suave and handsome Romeo. The Jekyll and Hyde game works well enough until the concoction starts to wear off at the most embarrassing times.

Ocean's Eleven

Ocean's Eleven
6.5/10
Danny Ocean and his gang attempt to rob the five biggest casinos in Las Vegas in one night.

The Party

The Party
7.4/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 04/04/1968
  • Character: Davey Kane
Hrundi V. Bakshi, an accident-prone actor from India, is accidentally put on the guest list for an upcoming party at the home of a Hollywood film producer. Unfortunately, from the moment he arrives, one thing after another goes wrong with compounding effect.

The Ladies Man

The Ladies Man
6.3/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 21/06/1961
  • Character: Willard C. Gainsborough
After his girl leaves him for someone else, Herbert gets really depressed and starts searching for a job. He finally finds one in a big house which is inhabited by many, many women. Can he live in the same home with all these females?

The Big Mouth

The Big Mouth
5.5/10
A fisherman crosses paths with a diamond-smuggling gangster–who is his doppelgänger—and inadvertently takes his place at a resort hotel where he meets a special girl.

The Patsy

The Patsy
6.2/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 24/06/1964
  • Character: Copa Café MC
When a star comedian dies, his comedy team decides to train a 'nobody' to play the Star in a big TV show (a Patsy). But the man chosen, bellboy Stanley Belt (Lewis), can't do anything right. The TV show is getting closer, and Stanley is getting worse.

Sergeants 3

Sergeants 3
5.9/10
  • Genre: ActionComedy
  • Release: 10/02/1962
  • Character: Willie Sharpknife
Mike, Chip, and Larry are three lusty, brawling U. S. Cavalry sergeants stationed in Indian Territory in 1870.

Poor Devil

Poor Devil
5.3/10
A young, down-on-his-luck resident of hell is given a chance to redeem himself by signing up a down-on-his-luck retail accountant to sell his soul to Lucifer.

Ellery Queen: Don't Look Behind You

Ellery Queen: Don't Look Behind You
5.4/10
Detective Ellery Queen has to solve a series of murders where the victims were killed in numerically descending ages, the male victims were strangled with blue cords and the female victims with pink ones.

Smorgasbord

Smorgasbord
5.8/10
Warren Nefron is a hopeless klutz who has some of the worst luck in the world: when he tries to end it all with a foolproof suicide plan, he still manages to mess it up. In desperation, he goes to a psychiatrist to see if there is some way for him to end his troubles.

Hardly Working

Hardly Working
4.7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 03/04/1981
  • Character: Claude Reed
In Jerry Lewis's first film in a decade, he plays Bo Hooper, an unemployed circus clown who can't seem to hold down a job. The film opens with a brief montage of clips from past Lewis movies. He then moves into a succession of jobs that he gets himself fired from including a gas station attendant and a mailman - all with disastrous results.

Fake-Out

Fake-Out
4.7/10
Gangster's girlfriend hangs out in a Las Vegas hotel with her cop protectors while she waits to testify.

The Man from Clover Grove

The Man from Clover Grove
5.6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 01/01/1975
  • Character: Ched Fields
A poor farmer, always inventing things. A lot don't work but the toys he makes brings joy to the children at the local orphanage.

The Gene Krupa Story

The Gene Krupa Story
6.7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 01/01/1959
  • Character: Himself
The story of legendary jazz drummer, Gene Krupa. Since his youth, all Gene ever wanted to do is play the drums and make music. This is something his parents would not approve of- they want him to be a priest. When Gene's father dies he promises to enter the priesthood. He soon realizes that he doesn't belong there and leaves to join his friend, Eddie's band. Ethel, Eddie's girlfriend, convinces Gene to go to New York and make it big. The 3 of them head to New York. Here Ethel and Gene soon fall in love and Gene makes a name for himself. Gene starts to live in the fast lane, with drugs, alcohol, women and parties. Ethel, unhappy with Gene's lifestyle, leaves him. Gene soon "hits rock bottom" where he has to face reality and choose where to take his life.

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