The best Clive Morton’s comedy movies

Clive Morton

Clive Morton

16/03/1904- 24/09/1975
Today we present the best Clive Morton’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 Clive Morton’s movies.

Kind Hearts and Coronets

Kind Hearts and Coronets
8/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 21/06/1949
  • Character: The Prison Governor
When his mother eloped with an Italian opera singer, Louis Mazzini was cut off from her aristocratic family. After the family refuses to let her be buried in the family mausoleum, Louis avenges his mother's death by attempting to murder every family member who stands between himself and the family fortune. But when he finds himself torn between his longtime love and the widow of one of his victims, his plans go awry.

The Lavender Hill Mob

The Lavender Hill Mob
7.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 28/06/1951
  • Character: Station Sergeant
A meek bank clerk who oversees the shipments of bullion joins with an eccentric neighbor to steal gold bars and smuggle them out of the country.

The Alphabet Murders

The Alphabet Murders
5.3/10
The Belgian detective Hercule Poirot investigates a series of murders in London in which the victims are killed according to their initials.

The Pure Hell of St. Trinian's

The Pure Hell of St. Trinian's
6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 22/12/1960
  • Character: V.I.P.
The fourth form monsters' latest trick is their best ever – they have burned down St Trinian’s school! As the girls stand trial, the police breathe a sigh of relief, but miraculously the judge's infatuation with a student means the school is freed. For the authorities, it means a new reign of terror as the girls of St Trinian’s regroup with gleeful anticipation.

11 Harrowhouse

11 Harrowhouse
6.2/10
A small time diamond merchant jumps at the chance to supervise the purchase and cutting of a large first class diamond. But when the diamond is stolen from him, he is blackmailed into pulling off a major heist at the Diamond Exchange, located at 11 Harrowhouse.

Lucky Jim

Lucky Jim
6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 17/09/1957
  • Character: Sir Hector Gore-Urquhart
Jim Dixon feels anything but lucky. At the university he has to do the bidding of absent-minded and boring Professor Welch to have any hope of keeping his job. Worse, he has managed to get entangled with unexciting but neurotic Margaret Peel, a friend of the Professor's. All-in-all, the pub is the only friendly place to be. His misery is completed at a dreadful weekend gathering of the Welch clan by the arrival of son Bertrand. Not so much that Betrand is loud-mouthed and boorish - which he is - but that he has as companion Christine Callaghan, the sort of marvellous and unattainable woman Jim can only dream about.

Vote for Huggett

Vote for Huggett
6.1/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 01/02/1949
  • Character: Mr. Campbell
A firm of solicitors do battle with the head of the local council over a parcel of river front land, owned by the Huggett family, in order to build a lido/community center.

His Excellency

His Excellency
5.5/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 22/01/1952
  • Character: G.O.C.
A trade union official becomes governor of a British island colony

Here Come the Huggetts

Here Come the Huggetts
6.2/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 02/12/1948
  • Character: Mr. G.H. Campbell
The Huggetts have their first telephone installed, sleep rough on The Mall whilst waiting for the Royal Wedding and deal with a fire at the 'Oatibix' factory.

The Duke Wore Jeans

The Duke Wore Jeans
5.2/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 30/03/1958
  • Character: Lord Edward Whitecliffe
A cockney lad pretends to be a Lord in order to woo a South American princess

While the Sun Shines

While the Sun Shines
6/10
Lady Elisabeth Randall is an English Air Force corporal during World War II. She is on her way to marry her fiancé when she finds herself being romanced by two different men.

The Navy Lark

The Navy Lark
5.9/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 01/01/1959
  • Character: Rear Admiral
An Inshore Minesweeping Unit has been forgotten by the Navy after World War II on the peaceful island of Boonsley and they have adapted to their circumstances. The men still wear uniforms and the proper reports are filed, although the reports of hundreds of mines are exaggerated. The captain spends his time fishing, the Number One is busy romancing the only Wren on the island and The Chief Boatswain runs a wine smuggling business. Unfortunately the Navy start to get suspicious.

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