The best Cliff Nazarro’s movies

Cliff Nazarro

Cliff Nazarro

31/01/1904- 18/02/1961
We present our ranking of the best Cliff Nazarro’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 Cliff Nazarro.
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Dive Bomber

Dive Bomber
6.5/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 31/08/1941
  • Character: Corps Man
A military surgeon teams with a ranking navy flyer to develop a high-altitude suit which will protect pilots from blacking out when they go into a steep dive.

Arise, My Love

Arise, My Love
6.8/10
In 1939, American Tom Martin, who fought in the Spanish Civil War, awaits execution at the hands of the Fascist victors when reporter Augusta 'Gusto' Nash, for a scoop, aids him in an audacious escape. Of course, Tom tries to romance Gusto; but though she likes him, her career comes first, and Tom himself prefers freedom-fighting to settling down. Comedy becomes drama as their mixed feelings lead them on a circuitous path through the deepening chaos and catastrophe of the early days of World War II.

Blue Skies

Blue Skies
6.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 15/10/1946
  • Character: Cliff - Piano Player (uncredited)
Jed Potter looks back on a love triangle conducted over the course of years and between musical numbers. Dancer Jed loves showgirl Mary, who loves compulsive nightclub-opener Johnny, who can't stay committed to anything in life for very long.

Farm Frolics

Farm Frolics
6.3/10
A series of wacky vignettes involving farm animals.

You'll Never Get Rich

You'll Never Get Rich
6.7/10
A Broadway choreographer gets drafted and coincidentally ends up in the same army base as his object of affection’s boyfriend.

New York Town

New York Town
6.3/10
Victor Ballard, a happy-go-lucky albeit impoverished sidewalk photographer, shares a New York City studio apartment with Polish immigrant painter Stefan Janowski. The big city doles out joy and misery indiscriminately: In the apartment below Victor and Steve, Gus Nelson learns that his wife has given birth to quintuplets, while the lonely tenant in the apartment below Gus has given up on life and committed suicide.

Trocadero

Trocadero
5.6/10
  • Release: 24/04/1944
  • Character: Himself
A newspaper columnist and host of his own national network radio program, interviewing more film personalities on his show than any other commentator, is searching for a story for a Sunday column carried by newspaper from coast to coast. Hanging out in Hollywood's famed Trocadero restaurant and night-spot, he gets his story when "Troc" owner and band-leader Eddie LeBaron, relates to him the sage of the famed screenland nitery. And hears plenty of music furnished by four of the top name-bands in the land, including that of Bob Chester, who formed his own swing band in 1935 after being top saxophonist with the bands of Ben Pollack and Ben Bernie. Singer Ida James and the Chester band led off with "Shoo Shoo Baby" in their screen debut.

In Old Colorado

In Old Colorado
6.5/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 14/03/1941
  • Character: Nosey Haskins
Joe Weller has instigated a conflict over water rights between two ranchers. The idea is to have the ranchers do each other in then move in and take over. Hoppy and the good guys won't let this happen.

Shantytown

Shantytown
6.7/10
  • Genre: CrimeMusic
  • Release: 20/04/1943
  • Character: Shortcake
Liz lives with her mother and stepfather in a boarding house on the "wrong side of the tracks"

Stablemates

Stablemates
6.8/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 07/10/1938
  • Character: Cliff
A boozy former veterinarian and a teenage orphan team together with dreams of entering a broken-down horse in the big race.

Blondie Goes to College

Blondie Goes to College
6.1/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 15/01/1942
  • Character: Professor Mixwell
Number 10 in the Blondie series, Blondie Goes to College is predicated on the notion that Dagwood Bumstead (Arthur Lake) must receive a college diploma or lose his job with the Dithers Construction Company. Not wishing to be separated from her husband, Blondie (Penny Singleton) enrolls in college as well. But Leighton College rules stipulate "No Married Couples", forcing Blondie and Dagwood to pretend that they're not married. This causes quite a dilemma when coed Laura Wadsworth (Janet Blair) begins flirting with Dagwood and Rusty Bryant (Larry Parks) does same with Blondie. And Blondie's discovery of a very pleasant secret threatens to expose her and Dagwood's marital status too. The student body at this particular seat of learning is comprised of quite a few familiar faces, including Lloyd Bridges, Sid Melton, and Adele Mara.

'Neath Canadian Skies

'Neath Canadian Skies
6.1/10
  • Genre: CrimeWestern
  • Release: 15/10/1946
  • Character: Wilbur Wiggins
Canadian Mountie investigates a murder posing as a criminal.

Rookies on Parade

Rookies on Parade
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 16/04/1941
  • Character: Joe Martin
The story details the misadventures of two itinerant songwriters named Duke (Crosby) and Cliff (Foy) as they try to survive Army boot camp. Intending to boost the morale of their fellow draftees, our heroes stage a big musical show, which they eventually hope will graduate to Broadway.

Ding Dong Williams

Ding Dong Williams
5.3/10
Ding Dong Williams, a clarinet player who can neither read nor write music is employed at a motion picture studio. The studio plans to use him and his six-piece band but his musical deficiencies are discovered and the plan scrapped. But the secretary of the head of the music department intercedes on his behalf and he is given a chance in the film.

Porky's Preview

Porky's Preview
6.7/10
The audience enters Porky's movie theater, with a collection of quick gags: A firefly acting as usher, a kangaroo taking tickets and putting the stubs in her pouch, a chicken buying child tickets for her eggs. A skunk tries to buy a ticket, costing a nickel, but he only has one scent. He looks for a way to sneak in. Meanwhile, Porky introduces the show: a collection of cartoons, drawn as stick figures. At the end, the audience is all gone because the skunk managed to sneak in. Porky's cartoons include: Circus Parade, Choo-Choo Train, Soldiers (Marchin), Horse Race, and Dances (hula, Mexican hat, and ballet). All accompanied by a self-parody musical score.

Call of the Canyon

Call of the Canyon
6.5/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 17/08/1942
  • Character: Pete Murphy
A radio saleswoman (Ruth Terry) helps a singing cattleman (Gene Autry) trap a shady meat buyer with a bogus broadcast.

Swing Hostess

Swing Hostess
5.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 08/09/1944
  • Character: Bobo
Swing Hostess is a 1944 American musical comedy film directed by Sam Newfield for Producers Releasing Corporation and starring Martha Tilton, Iris Adrian, Charles Collins, Betty Brodel, Cliff Nazarro and Harry Holman.

King of the Turf

King of the Turf
5.4/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 17/02/1939
  • Character: 1st Tout
Mason is a former race-horse owner who gave up everything and started to drink after the death of one of his jockeys. One day he meets Goldie who has run away from home, hoping to find a job around horses; his biggest hobby. When he finds out the real identity of Mason, Goldie takes care of him. The two find an occasion to buy a horse for only two dollars, and start entering competitions. Goldie is an instant celebrity, but his mom reads the newspapers and tracks him down. Mason is very surprised to see her, his ex-wife, and even more astonished to hear that Goldie is his own son. However, Goldie must go back to school and so they decide to keep the secret. Since Goldie does not want to leave Mason behind, he goes to the bookies and fixes the next race, hoping to disappoint Goldie by asking him to lose on purpose.

I'm from Arkansas

I'm from Arkansas
5.3/10
A town in Arkansas makes national headlines when a local sow gives birth to 18 piglets.

Pardon My Stripes

Pardon My Stripes
7.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 26/01/1942
  • Character: Nutsy
Football player Henry Platt (William Henry)mistakes a helmet for the football in his zeal to make a touchdown during a critical game, his error earns him the accolade of "Dope of the Year" award. Gambler Big George Kilraine (Harold Huber) hires him to take the $107,000 winnings of the gambler's syndicate on the game to Chicago. On the way the money bag falls out of the airplane and lands in the state penitentiary. Herry now has to figure out how to get into the prison and get the money out of the prison.

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