The best Buster Crabbe’s comedy movies

Buster Crabbe

Buster Crabbe

07/02/1908- 23/04/1983
We present our ranking of the best Buster Crabbe’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 Buster Crabbe.
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Swim Team

Swim Team
4.2/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 02/05/1979
  • Character: Rock Sands
A new swimming coach is hired to break a team's seven-year losing streak.

Captive Girl

Captive Girl
5.2/10
Jungle Jim is out to save Joan from an evil witch doctor whilst simultaneously fighting evil treasure hunter Barton.

Good News

Good News
6.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 22/08/1930
  • Character: Student
A college football star falls for his mousy French tutor.

You're Telling Me!

You're Telling Me!
7.4/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 18/03/1934
  • Character: Bob Murchison (as Larry 'Buster' Crabbe)
Sam Bisbee is an inventor whose works (e.g., a keyhole finder for drunks) have brought him only poverty. His daughter is in love with the son of the town snob. Events conspire to ruin his bullet-proof tire just as success seems near. Another of his inventions prohibits him from committing suicide, so Sam decides to go on living.

The Arizona Raiders

The Arizona Raiders
5.3/10
After saving himself from hanging, Laramie Nelson saves Tracks Williams from the same fate. They then travel to Lindsay's ranch where they get jobs. There they run into Adams who they learn is planning to rustle Lindsay's horses.

Search for Beauty

Search for Beauty
6.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 02/02/1934
  • Character: Don Jackson (as Larry 'Buster' Crabbe)
Three con artists dupe two Olympians into serving as editors of a new health and beauty magazine which is only a front for salacious stories and pictures.

Sailor's Lady

Sailor's Lady
5.4/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 05/07/1940
  • Character: Rodney (as Larry Crabbe)
Sailor (Hall) is going to marry his girlfriend (Kelly) when he returns, but she becomes foster mother to baby whose parents are accidentally killed. The baby is accidentally left on board a visiting battleship.

Rose Bowl

Rose Bowl
5.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 30/11/1936
  • Character: Ossie Merrill (as Larry Crabbe)
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...

We're Rich Again

We're Rich Again
6.3/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 13/07/1934
  • Character: Erasmus Rockwell 'Erp' Pennington (as Larry 'Buster' Crabbe)
A polo-playing grandmother (Edna May Oliver) and her broke brood get back in the money with a Wall Street bet.

Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch

Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch
7.3/10
A Western-genre narrative, loosely woven from old clips from B-Western features.

Thrill of a Lifetime

Thrill of a Lifetime
5.7/10
"Howdy" Nelson believes there is no such think as real love and that romance can be cooked up between any eligible persons (of the opposite sex.) He is so imbued with the idea that he has established a summer camp for that reason,and has written a play on the subject. The Yacht Club Boys visit the camp, misrepresenting themselves as Broadway producers, and the talented guest of the camp put on Nelson's play...which all ends up with a lot of marriage mating; Judy and Skipper, Betty Jane and Stanley and...Gwen and "Howdy,' the guy who was positive there was no such thing as true love.

The Comeback Trail

The Comeback Trail
6.2/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 01/03/1982
  • Character: Duke Montana
Sketchy producers hire an ailing movie star, hoping to cash in on the insurance when he dies.

The Sweetheart of Sigma Chi

The Sweetheart of Sigma Chi
6.5/10
A campus flirt who has been "pinned" by most of the boys of Sigma Chi fraternity falls for a no-nonsense athlete who doesn't have time for such diversions as women.

Hold 'Em Yale

Hold 'Em Yale
6.2/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 27/04/1935
  • Character: Hector Wilmot
A pretty young socialite falls for a charming but shady hustler, who abandons her when he finds that she has been disowned by her wealthy father. Three of the hustler's partners, who have also been left high and dry by heir former associate, come up with a plan to get her to the annual Yale-Harvard football game to reunite with her former sweetheart, an honest but nerdy bookworm.

Lady Be Careful

Lady Be Careful
6.1/10
Previously filmed in 1930 as True to the Navy, Kenyon Nicholson's old stage farce Sailor Beware returned to the screen in 1936 as Lady Be Careful. The plot remains substantially the same, as an amorous sailor named Dynamite (Lew Ayres) bets his pals that he can "thaw" icy beauty-contest winner Billie (Mary Carlisle). What follows is a series of misunderstandings, arguments and reconciliations, all wrapped up in a happy-ever-after conclusion.

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