The best Donald Haines’s comedy movies
We present our ranking of the best Donald Haines’s movies. Do you love cinema? Or are you looking for a movie of your favorite actor to watch tonight? Surely you have some to see or that you did not know yet about Donald Haines.
The Nitwits
6/10
A would-be songwriter and a would-be inventor run a cigar stand and get mixed up in the murder of a song publisher.
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.
Love Business
7.9/10
Miss Crabtree, the teacher Jackie has a crush on, rents a room at Jackie's house.
Bowery Blitzkrieg
6/10
The East Side Kids discover that one of their own, Danny, is torn between staying and school and becoming a boxer, and is getting mixed up with gangsters.
Skippy
6.3/10
Skippy, the mischievous son of a wealthy doctor, meets Sooky in poverty-ridden Shantytown, and together they try to save Sooky's pet from a cruel dogcatcher.
Bunker Bean
5.8/10
A shy office worker becomes a hero when a fortune teller calls him another Napoleon.
Helping Grandma
7.4/10
The kids' adopted grandma decides to sell her store, but can't decide whom to sell it to. The kids try to help her out.
The Winning Ticket
5.3/10
A barber tries to find the winning lottery ticket he hid from his moralistic wife.
Little Daddy
7.3/10
Farina plans a going-away party for Stymie as authorities prepare to place him in an orphanage.
On Your Toes
5.6/10
A Russian dance company agrees to stage the new ballet written by a vaudeville hoofer.
Spooks Run Wild
5.3/10
A group of delinquents on their way to summer camp get stuck in a haunted house.
Shivering Shakespeare
6.8/10
The gang is participating in a program sponsored by the Golden Age Dramatic League. They present their own fractured version of Quo Vadis. Things go from bad to worse when the neighborhood tough kids disrupt the show. The pie fight is given a new twist by use of some slow motion sequences.
Pride of the Bowery
5.9/10
Muggs is tricked into entering a Civilian Conservation Corps camp by Danny in order to get in shape. Muggs resists and battles with the camp captain and with other campers. He also becomes involved in trying to help one of his friends get out of trouble.
Boys of the City
5.6/10
Street kids get sent to the country, where they get mixed up in murder and a haunted house.
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.
Never Say Die
6.8/10
Bob Hope is being stalked by a predatory widow who is a widow of wealthy husbands many times over. Martha Raye is a Texan heiress who wants to marry her boyfriend Andy Devine, but her father is determined that she marry into royalty. To solve both their problems, Martha Raye and Bob Hope decide to marry, but will they ever find love together?
Birthday Blues
7.6/10
Dickie throws a birthday party to try to raise money to buy his mother a birthday present.
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.
Love and Hisses
6.1/10
As part of their public feud, Bandleader Bernie pretends a girl singer is no good so columnist Winchell promotes her in his column.
Down on the Farm
5.2/10
Excitement runs high when a family's farm is chosen as the site for a big cornhusking contest.
