The best Don Ameche’s movies on YouTube

Don Ameche

Don Ameche

31/05/1908- 06/12/1993
Today we present the best Don Ameche’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 Don Ameche’s movies.
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Coming to America

Coming to America
7.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 29/06/1988
  • Character: Mortimer Duke / Homeless Man #2 (uncredited)
An African prince decides it’s time for him to find a princess... and his mission leads him and his most loyal friend to Queens, New York. In disguise as an impoverished immigrant, the pampered prince quickly finds himself a new job, new friends, new digs, new enemies and lots of trouble.

Trading Places

Trading Places
7.5/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 07/06/1983
  • Character: Mortimer Duke
A snobbish investor and a wily street con-artist find their positions reversed as part of a bet by two callous millionaires.

Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey

Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey
6.9/10
Remake of the popular Disney classic, this time featuring some well known voices as two dogs and a cat trek across America encountering all sorts of adventures in the quest to be reunited with their owners.

Harry and the Hendersons

Harry and the Hendersons
6.1/10
Returning from a hunting trip in the forest, the Henderson family's car hits an animal in the road. At first they fear it was a man, but when they examine the "body" they find it's a "bigfoot". They think it's dead so they decide to take it home (there could be some money in this). As you guessed, it isn't dead. Far from being the ferocious monster they fear "Harry" to be, he's a friendly giant.

Corrina, Corrina

Corrina, Corrina
6.6/10
When Manny Singer's wife dies, his young daughter Molly becomes mute and withdrawn. To help cope with looking after Molly, he hires sassy housekeeper Corrina Washington, who coaxes Molly out of her shell and shows father and daughter a whole new way of life. Manny and Corrina's friendship delights Molly and enrages the other townspeople.

Oscar

Oscar
6.5/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 26/04/1991
  • Character: Father Clemente
Angelo "Snaps" Provolone made his dying father a promise on his deathbed: he would leave the world of crime and become an honest businessman. Despite having no experience in making money in a legal fashion, Snaps sets about to keep his promise.

Cocoon: The Return

Cocoon: The Return
5.4/10
The reinvigorated elderly group that left Earth comes back to visit their relatives. Will they all decide to go back to the planet where no one grows old, or will they be tempted to remain on Earth?

Heaven Can Wait

Heaven Can Wait
7.3/10
Spoiled playboy Henry van Cleve dies and arrives at the entrance to Hell, a final destination he is sure he deserves after living a life of profligacy. The devil, however, isn't so sure Henry meets Hell's standards. Convinced he is where he belongs, Henry recounts his life's deeds, both good and bad, including an act of indiscretion during his 25-year marriage to his wife, Martha, with the hope that "His Excellency" will arrive at the proper judgment.

Things Change

Things Change
7/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 21/10/1988
  • Character: Gino
Jerry, a misfit Mafia henchman, is assigned the low-level job of keeping an eye on Gino, a shoe repairman fingered by the Mob to confess to a murder he didn't commit. But Gino's mistaken for a Mafia boss, and the two are suddenly catapulted to the highest levels of mobster status. Only friendship will see them through this dangerous adventure alive!

In Old Chicago

In Old Chicago
6.7/10
  • Genre: ActionDrama
  • Release: 15/04/1938
  • Character: Jack O'Leary
The O'Leary brothers -- honest Jack and roguish Dion -- become powerful figures, and eventually rivals, in Chicago on the eve of its Great Fire.

Greenwich Village

Greenwich Village
6.2/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 27/09/1944
  • Character: Kenneth Harvey
In 1922, a would-be classical composer gets involved with people putting on a musical revue.

Lillian Russell

Lillian Russell
6.4/10
  • Genre: DramaMusic
  • Release: 24/05/1940
  • Character: Edward Solomon
Alice Faye plays the title role in this 1940 film biography of the early-20th-century stage star.

Down Argentine Way

Down Argentine Way
6.4/10
An American girl on vacation in Argentina falls for a wealthy racehorse owner.

The Boatniks

The Boatniks
5.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyFamily
  • Release: 01/07/1970
  • Character: Commander Taylor
Young and awkward, The Coast-Guard's ensign Thomas Garland suffers from the comparison with his late father, a war hero. Which does not prevent him from falling for pretty Kate Fairchild, a young woman who runs a sailing school. Of course the way he expresses his deep sympathy for the lady leaves to be desired. And the situation does not improve when a trio of bumbling jewel thieves interferes.

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