The best Dave O'Brien’s comedy movies
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Dave O'Brien’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about Dave O'Brien.
Kiss Me Kate
7/10
Fred and Lilli are a divorced pair of actors who are brought together by Cole Porter who has written a musical version of The Taming of the Shrew. Of course, the couple seem to act a great deal like the characters they play. A fight on the opening night threatens the production, as well as two thugs who have the mistaken idea that Fred owes their boss money and insist on staying next to him all night.
Doubting Thomas
6.4/10
A husband makes fun of his wife's theatrical aspirations when she agrees to appear in a local production. When she begins to neglect him, he decides to retaliate by also going on stage.
Bowery at Midnight
5.3/10
Soup kitchen operator and criminologist Bela Lugosi operates a soup kitchen as a front for a criminal gang who commit a series of robberies and murders.
Flying Wild
5.4/10
A group of young men who work at an aviation factory begin to suspect that a doctor who runs an air ambulance service is secretly a spy transporting secret information from the plant to enemy agents.
Flying High
5.6/10
An inventor and his lanky girlfriend set an altitude record in his winged contraption.
Woman Wanted
6.5/10
Ann Grey is wrongly convicted of murder. On her way to prison a car accident gives her the opportunity to escape. She is helped by young lawyer Tony Baxter. He hides her from the police, as well as his fiancée, with the help of his butler Peedles. Ann is also wanted by the mobsters who really committed the murder as they think she knows where $250,000 worth of bonds are hidden. When the mobsters find and abduct her, Tony enlists the help of the D.A. and the police to try to get her back.
The Big Parade of Comedy
5.8/10
Film clips highlight the funniest scenes and brightest comic stars in MGM's history.
College Humor
5.9/10
A college professor and the school's star football player are both rivals for the same beautiful coed.
On Your Toes
5.6/10
A Russian dance company agrees to stage the new ballet written by a vaudeville hoofer.
Search for Beauty
6.1/10
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.
Movie Pests
6.6/10
This Pete Smith Specialty short takes a humorous look at the inconsiderate pests whose annoying habits make enjoying a movie impossible.
The Kettles in the Ozarks
6.4/10
Ma and the kids head out to help Pa's brother Sedgewick with the his farm in Mournful Hollow, Arkansas. Things get tighter when a couple of bootleggers rent Sedge's barn to manufacture moonshine. With Ma and the kids, the bootleggers get their pay.
That Gang of Mine
5.8/10
A street kid has dreams of becoming a jockey. He gets his chance when he and his gang discover a poor old man who has a championship race horse. The man agrees to let the boy ride his horse in a race, but first the gang must get enough money to pay for the race's entry fees.
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.
No More Ladies
6/10
A society girl tries to reform her playboy husband by making him jealous.
'Neath Brooklyn Bridge
5.9/10
The East Side Kids find a young girl in the apartment of a man who has just been murdered. Believing her to be innocent, they hide her in their clubhouse while they try to find the real killer. The killer, however, used a baseball bat as his murder weapon, and the bat has the fingerprints of one of the gang on it.
Spooks Run Wild
5.3/10
A group of delinquents on their way to summer camp get stuck in a haunted house.
East Side Kids
5.5/10
After living all his chilhood in the street, a young boy notices rapidly that crime doesn't pay and that´s why he decides to become a policeman. One day, one of his best friends go in prison for a murder he didn't commit. Immediately the policeman tries his best to release him and prove his innocence.
Good News
6.3/10
A college football star falls for his mousy French tutor.
The Girl on the Front Page
6.1/10
The heiress to a powerful newspaper owner gets a job at the paper under an assumed name and helps break up a blackmail racket.
