The best David Tree’s comedy movies

David Tree

David Tree

15/07/1915- 04/11/2009
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best David Tree’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 Tree.

Pygmalion

Pygmalion
7.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 03/03/1939
  • Character: Freddy Eynsford-Hill
When linguistics professor Henry Higgins boasts that he can pass off Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle as a princess with only six months' training, Colonel George Pickering takes him up on the bet. Eliza moves into Higgins's home and begins her rigorous training after the professor comes to a financial agreement with her dustman father, Alfred. But the plucky young woman is not the only one undergoing a transformation.

Major Barbara

Major Barbara
6.8/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 14/05/1941
  • Character: Charles Lomax
A young and idealistic woman, who has adopted the Salvation Army and whose father is an armament industrialist, will save more souls directing her father's business. A comedy with social commentary.

Q Planes

Q Planes
6.5/10
An eccentric Scotland Yard inspector thinks something beamed from a spy ship is dropping planes.

Just William

Just William
6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 20/07/1940
  • Character: Marmaduke Bott
A rascal child recruits his friends as assistants to help his father to get elected to the city council. Sadly, the children accidentally helped two jewel thieves to escape. They feel sorry about this, and then, to redeem themselves, the kids begin investigating a rival candidates conspiracy. Their involvement causes the boy's father to win the elections.

Return to Yesterday

Return to Yesterday
6.4/10
Robert Maine is torn between returning to the glamour of Hollywood and working with a small theatre company in England.

Over the Moon

Over the Moon
5.5/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 12/10/1939
  • Character: Journalist
Young Jane Benson just about manages to make ends meet running the large family house in Yorkshire. In love with local doctor Freddie Jarvis, she suggests they marry, but almost at once finds she has inherited eighteen million pounds. He makes it clear he wants nothing to do with the money and what it can buy, and Jane sets off alone on a spree pursued by two ardent suitors. Jarvis finds he has gained notoriety for turning down such a catch and his plans for ernest research are soon compromised.

Paradise for Two

Paradise for Two
6.5/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 22/12/1937
  • Character: Marcel
A chorus girl is mistaken for a millionaire's girlfriend.

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