The best Charles Sellon’s comedy movies

Charles Sellon

Charles Sellon

24/08/1870- 26/06/1937
Today we present the best Charles Sellon’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 Charles Sellon’s movies.
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Central Park

Central Park
6.2/10
  • Genre: ComedyDramaRomance
  • Release: 10/12/1932
  • Character: Luke, the Lion Keeper (uncredited)
Two destitute New Yorkers meet cute in Central Park and then separate and independently get tangled up with some gangsters only to be reunited again in the end.

It's a Gift

It's a Gift
7.1/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 30/11/1934
  • Character: Mr. Muckle
After he inherits some money, Harold Bissonette ("pronounced bis-on-ay") decides to give up the grocery business, move to California and run an orange grove. Despite his family's objections and the news that the land he bought is worthless, Bissonette packs up and drives out to California with his nagging wife Amelia and children.

The Devil Is a Woman

The Devil Is a Woman
6.9/10
In the carnival in Spain in the beginning of the Twentieth Century, the exiled republican Antonio Galvan comes from Paris masquerade to enjoy the party and visit his friend Capt. Don Pasqual 'Pasqualito' Costelar. However, he flirts with the mysterious Concha Perez and they schedule to meet each other later. When Antonio meets Pasqualito, his old friend discloses his frustrated relationship with the promiscuous Concha and her greedy mother and how his life was ruined by his obsession for the beautiful demimondaine. Pasqualito makes Antonio promise that he would not see Concha. However, when Antonio meets Concha, she seduces him and the long friendship between Antonio and Pasqualito is disrupted

Borrowed Wives

Borrowed Wives
5.3/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 20/08/1930
  • Character: Uncle Henry
Peter has to be married by midnight or else his inheritance goes to his uncle... Who happens to live in a "haunted house".

Welcome Home

Welcome Home
7.1/10
A con artist attends a reunion in his hometown and discovers that his former classmates are trying to trick an old millionaire into returning to build a factory.

The Monster

The Monster
6.2/10
A general store clerk and aspiring detective investigates a mysterious disappearance that took place quite close to an empty insane asylum.

Tom Sawyer

Tom Sawyer
6.2/10
The classic Mark Twain tale of a young boy and his friends on the Mississippi River. Tom and his pals Huckleberry Finn and Joe Harper have numerous adventures, including running away to be pirates and, being believed drowned, attending their own funeral. The boys also witness a murder and Tom and his friend Becky Thatcher are pursued by the vengeful murderer.

Feel My Pulse

Feel My Pulse
6.9/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 26/02/1928
  • Character: Her Sanitarium's Caretaker
A rich but hypochondriac heiress inherits a sanitarium. What she doesn't know is that it is a front for bootleggers, and a hideout for criminals on the run from the law.

Let's Go Native

Let's Go Native
5.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 15/08/1930
  • Character: Wallace Wendell Sr.
Dress designer Joan Wood, who's heavily in debt, has created costumes for a Broadway show that is exported to Argentina. With the money she wants to pay her debts, but there was a mistake: she is receiving the money in Buenos Aires, not in New York. Her friend Wally Wendell, whose grandfather does not approve of his relationship with her, wants him to marry a girl he hasn't seen for some years named Constance Cook, whose grandfather is the owner of a ship traveling to Buenos Aires and Constance

Make Me a Star

Make Me a Star
6.5/10
A grocery clerk, longing to become a cowboy actor, goes to Hollywood in search of fame and fortune. Unfortunately, his acting ability is non-existent.

The Dark Horse

The Dark Horse
6.7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 16/06/1932
  • Character: Mr. Green
The Progressive Party convention is deadlocked for governor, so both sides nominate the dark horse Zachary Hicks. Kay Russell suggests they hire Hal Blake as campaign manager; but first they have to get him out of jail for not paying alimony. Blake organizes the office and coaches Hicks to answer every question by pausing and then saying, "Well yes, but then again no." Blake will sell Hicks as dumb but honest. Russell refuses to marry Blake, while Joe keeps people away from Blake's office. Blake teaches Hicks a speech by Lincoln. At the debate when the conservative candidate Underwood recites the same speech, Blake exposes him as a plagiarist. Hicks is presented for photo opportunities and gives his yes-and-no answer to any question, including whether he expects to win.

Big News

Big News
5.4/10
A reporter's marriage is jeopardized by his drinking and he finds himself accused of a murder he didn't commit.

The Chief

The Chief
4.7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 03/11/1933
  • Character: Fire Chief at Statue Unveiling
The dim-witted son of a heroic fire chief tries to follow in his late father's footsteps, only to become the unknowing pawn of corrupt politicians.

Penrod and Sam

Penrod and Sam
6.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 03/10/1931
  • Character: Mr. Bitts
Best pals Penrod and Sam are leaders of a super-secret neighborhood society, the In-Or-In Boys Club. Troubles arise when a pompous prig tries to join the club and when the boys lose their clubhouse in a land sale. But there’s also plenty of time to play pranks, put on a carnival, experience the pangs of first love, and romp with Duke, the world’s best dog.

Sweetie

Sweetie
6.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 25/10/1929
  • Character: Dr Oglethorpe
Chorus girl Barbara Pell (Nancy Carroll) inherits a school for boys, and uses her position to sabotage the football career of the boy who jilted her.

Sea Legs

Sea Legs
5.6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 02/12/1930
  • Character: Adm. O'Brien
Searchlight Doyle, lightweight boxing champion of the United States Navy, is shanghaied into the fleet of Sainte Cassette, an island republic, as a replacement for a wealthy slacker who must serve his country to receive a $2 million inheritance, a scheme concocted by attorney Gabriel Grabowski. All his shipmates, except Hyacinth Nitouche, assume that he is indeed the wastrel he purports to be. Doyle falls in love with Adrienne, the most beautiful of the captain's daughters, and wins her affections by treating his comrades in her teashop. Admiral O'Brien, grandfather of the man Doyle is impersonating, comes to visit, and mistaking him for a civilian, Doyle throws him overboard and to everybody's surprise is complimented on his vigilance. But his real identity is exposed by some American sailors, and he is suspected of killing young O'Brien; he is cleared of suspicion, however, and is reinstated by the admiral, thereby gaining Adrienne's love.

Bureau of Missing Persons

Bureau of Missing Persons
6.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrimeDrama
  • Release: 16/09/1933
  • Character: Undertaker (uncredited)
Butch Saunders has been transferred to Missing Persons because he was too brutal in other police work...

The Saturday Night Kid

The Saturday Night Kid
5.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 25/10/1929
  • Character: Lem Woodruff
Mayme and sister Janie are salesgirls in Ginsberg's Department Store. Mayme is in love with store clerk Bill, but Janie tries to steal him from her. Hazel, another salesgirl, is Jean Harlow's first credited role.

Laugh and Get Rich

Laugh and Get Rich
5.5/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 27/03/1931
  • Character: Biddle
An inept inventor and his stoic wife believe an oil well investment has paid off and that they've become wealthy overnight.

In Old Kentucky

In Old Kentucky
6.4/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 28/11/1935
  • Character: Ezra Martingale
Horse trainer Steve Tapley is caught between the feuding Martingale and Shattuck families. He sides with young Nancy Martingale and her grandfather Ezra, and the feud is to be resolved by a horse race between the favorites of each family. Unfortunately, the Martingale's horse, Greyboy, only runs well in mud. And it hasn't rained in a long time.

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