The best Donald Houston’s comedy movies

Donald Houston

Donald Houston

06/11/1923- 13/10/1991
Today we present the best Donald Houston’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 Donald Houston’s movies.

Carry On Jack

Carry On Jack
5.8/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 01/11/1963
  • Character: First Officer Jonathan Howett
Tenth entry in the Carry On series. Able seaman Poop-Decker (Bernard Cribbins) signs up for adventure on the high seas with the wicked Captain Fearless (Kenneth Williams). Those swabbing the decks include Juliet Mills, Charles Hawtrey and Donald Houston. The film was originally to be titled Up the Armada, but the British Board of Film Censors objected to such a rude title.

Doctor in the House

Doctor in the House
6.6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 23/03/1954
  • Character: Taffy Evans
The first of the seven "Doctor" films, based on Richard Gordon's novels and released between 1954 and 1970. Simon Sparrow is a newly arrived medical student at St Swithin's hospital in London. Falling in with three longer-serving hopefuls he is soon immersed in the wooing, imbibing and fast sports-car driving that constitute 1950s medical training. There is, however, always the looming and formidable figure of chief surgeon Sir Lancelot Spratt to remind them of their real purpose.

The Secret Adversary

The Secret Adversary
7.1/10
After a chance meeting and an indiscreet conversation, childhood friends Tommy Beresford and Tuppence Cowley become involved in a convoluted intrigue led by a mysterious man known simply as Mr. Brown.

Tales That Witness Madness

Tales That Witness Madness
5.6/10
Dr Tremayne is an enigmatic Psychiatrist running an asylum housing four very special cases. Visited by colleague Nicholas, Tremayne explains his amazing and controversial theories as to why each of the four patients went mad...cue four distinct tales each with a different set of characters.

Doctor in Distress

Doctor in Distress
5.6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 30/07/1963
  • Character: Major Tommy French
"Doctor in Distress" is the fifth of the seven films in the "Doctor" series, and focuses on Sir Lancelot Spratt, Simon Sparrow's old teacher and sometimes nemesis. When the eternal bachelor Sir Lancelot injures his back and falls in love with his physiotherapist Iris Marchant, he becomes very distressed and turns to Simon for help. Simon, who now is a senior doctor at fictional Hampden Cross Hospital and hopelessly in love with aspiring actress Delia, sends him to a nature cure clinic in a vain attempt to help him lose weight, but Sir Lancelot can't get Iris off his mind and has her followed, first by a private investigator and eventually by himself. When he finally proposes, she rejects him and marries an old army major, which distresses Sir Lancelot even more.

A Run for Your Money

A Run for Your Money
6.4/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 23/11/1949
  • Character: David "Dai Number 9" Jones
Two Welsh coal-mining brothers win a trip to London to claim a monetary prize. They are supposed to meet a newspaper reporter who will be their escort. Instead, the brothers are launched into an adventure with some London riff-raff. It is up to the reporter to look out for the brothers, and what a job it turns out to be!

Find the Lady

Find the Lady
5.8/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 01/10/1956
  • Character: Bill
During New Year's Eve, a young model spends the day searching for her grandmother, who has suspiciously gone missing.

Twice Round the Daffodils

Twice Round the Daffodils
6.2/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 02/04/1962
  • Character: John Rhodes
Twice Round the Daffodils is a 1962 British comedy drama film directed by Gerald Thomas and starring Juliet Mills, Donald Sinden, Donald Houston, Kenneth Williams, Ronald Lewis, Andrew Ray, Joan Sims and Jill Ireland. A new group of patients arrive at a hospital to be treated for tuberculosis where they all take a fancy to one of the nurses. The film was adapted from the play Ring for Catty by Patrick Cargill and Jack Beale. Carry on Nurse from 1959 was based on the same play. The cast and production team of Twice Round the Daffodils create a noticeable similarity with the Carry On films, but the film is not an official member of the Carry On series.

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