The best David Bruce’s comedy movies

David Bruce

David Bruce

06/01/1916- 03/05/1976
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best David Bruce’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 David Bruce.

Lady on a Train

Lady on a Train
6.7/10
While on a train, Nikki Collins witnesses a murder as they pass a building. When she tells the police, they think she's crazy since she can't tell exactly where the crime happened. She then enlists a popular mystery writer to help with her sleuthing.

South of Dixie

South of Dixie
7.1/10
To save their music publishing firm from bankruptcy, Bill "Brains' Watson creates a colorful life-story about his partner, Danny Lee, representing him as a descendant of Louisiana's famous Josh Lee family and rightful poet laureate of Dixieland.

The Smiling Ghost

The Smiling Ghost
6.4/10
Elinor Bentley Fairchild's previous three grooms-to-be have either died or been maimed. Her aunt hires Lucky Downing to become engaged to her for a month to break the curse. But Lucky becomes a target of what appears to be the ghost of one of the former fiances.

Honeymoon Lodge

Honeymoon Lodge
7/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 23/07/1943
  • Character: Horace Crump aka Bob Sterling
Honeymoon Lodge is a musical variation on the old Awful Truth plotline. Divorce-bound Bob and Carol Sterling (David Bruce, June Vincent) make a last-ditch attempt to avoid their legal breakup by restaging their mountain-resort honeymoon. Things get complicated when a rancher named Big Boy (Rod Cameron, in a Ralph Bellamy-style "sap" role) shows up at the resort in ardent pursuit of Carol, while Lorraine Logan (Harriet Hilliard) sets her cap for Bob.

The Body Disappears

The Body Disappears
6.2/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 06/12/1941
  • Character: Jimmy Barbour
Wealthy scion Peter DeHaven, about to marry socialite Christine Lunceford, wakes up after bachelor party revelry to find he's been turned invisible by eccentric college professor Reginald Shotesbury. An unbelievable series of events is revealed by several witnesses testifying in a "mystery trial" to determine the reason for DeHaven's "disappearance".

Moon Over Las Vegas

Moon Over Las Vegas
6.8/10
A beautiful woman goes to Las Vegas in a scheme to make her husbnd jealous, but once she gets there she becomes involved with another man.

You're a Lucky Fellow, Mr. Smith

You're a Lucky Fellow, Mr. Smith
6/10
A young woman marries a soldier to fulfill the conditions of a will. However, when she gets ready to divorce him, she realizes that she actually loves him, and determines to find a way to keep him.

That Night with You

That Night with You
6.1/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 28/09/1945
  • Character: Johnny
In this musical comedy, a young singer becomes so desperate to appear on Broadway that she goes to a prominent producer and tells him that she is the daughter who resulted from his day-long marriage to a young woman he knew years ago. The producer is delighted and soon puts his daughter up on stage. The trouble begins when the girl's "mother" suddenly pays a call. For her own reasons, the woman decides to play along with the girl's ruse. Fortunately, by the story's end, the truth is revealed, all differences are reconciled and happiness ensues.

Joe Palooka in the Big Fight

Joe Palooka in the Big Fight
6.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 06/03/1949
  • Character: Tom Conway
Gangsters frame Joe on a drunk charge and a murder rap so they can put their own fighter into a big event. Joe investigates in an attempt to prove his innocence.

She's for Me

She's for Me
6.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 10/12/1943
  • Character: Michael Reed
Two lawyers fall for their beautiful client.

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