The best Donald Pleasence’s comedy movies

Donald Pleasence

Donald Pleasence

05/10/1919- 02/02/1995
We present our ranking of the best Donald Pleasence’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 Pleasence.
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Shadows and Fog

Shadows and Fog
6.7/10
With a serial strangler on the loose, a bookkeeper wanders around town searching for the vigilante group intent on catching the killer.

Watch Out, We're Mad

Watch Out, We're Mad
7.3/10
  • Genre: ActionComedy
  • Release: 29/03/1974
  • Character: The Doctor
After a tied 1st place in a local stunt race, two drivers start a contest to decide who of them will own the prize, a dune buggy. But when a mobster destroys the car, they are determined to get it back.

The Hallelujah Trail

The Hallelujah Trail
6.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyWestern
  • Release: 23/06/1965
  • Character: 'Oracle' Jones
A wagon train heads for Denver with a cargo of whisky for the miners. Chaos ensues as the Temperance League, the US cavalry, the miners and the local Indians all try to take control of the valuable cargo.

The Monster Club

The Monster Club
5.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyHorror
  • Release: 11/04/1981
  • Character: Pickering, Chief of the B-Squad
A vampire attacks a horror author on the street and then invites him to a nearby club as a gesture of gratitude, which turns out to be a meeting place for assorted creatures of the night. The vampire then regales him with three stories, each interspersed with musical performances at the club.

Oh, God!

Oh, God!
6.6/10
  • Genre: ComedyFantasy
  • Release: 07/10/1977
  • Character: Doctor Harmon
When God appears to an assistant grocery manager as a good natured old man, the Almighty selects him as his messenger for the modern world.

Cul-de-sac

Cul-de-sac
7/10
A wounded criminal and his dying partner take refuge at an old beachfront fortress. The owner of the fortress and his young wife, initially unwilling hosts, quickly experience their relationship with the criminal shift in a humorous and bizarre fashion.

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.

Hearts of the West

Hearts of the West
6.5/10
Naive Iowa farm boy Lewis Tater dreams of being a famous Western novelist like his hero, Zane Grey. He leaves home to answer a writing correspondence course's ad for on-campus classes, only to discover that the school consists of a row of postboxes at an isolated Nevada train depot. On the run from the con men responsible, Lewis stumbles across "real" cowboys--cowboy actors shooting a movie in the desert. The would-be writer soon finds himself instead acting in Westerns, for the rundown Tumbleweed Productions studio, in Depression-era Hollywood.

The Battle of the Sexes

The Battle of the Sexes
6.6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 25/02/1960
  • Character: Irwin Hoffman
Angela Barrows is a man-eating business woman sent by her American employer to investigate their export opportunities in Edinburgh. En route she meets Robert MacPherson, a businessman who asks for her help to bring his company into the 20th Century. The staff, led by Mr Martin, has other ideas—and a battle between the old and new business methods soon breaks out.

Jaguar Lives!

Jaguar Lives!
4.2/10
  • Genre: ActionComedy
  • Release: 09/08/1979
  • Character: General Villanova
The world's newest kung fu legend, Joe Lewis, takes on evil gangsters and saves the world.

Better Late Than Never

Better Late Than Never
6.2/10
Harry Landers is a feisty senior citizen who refuses to abide by the rules in a stodgy retirement home run by a dour Ms. Davis, in which Harry leads a revolt by the other goated senior citizen residents against the establishment.

The Madwoman of Chaillot

The Madwoman of Chaillot
6/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 12/10/1969
  • Character: The Prospector
An eccentric Parisian woman's optimistic perception of life begins to sound more rational than the rather traditional beliefs of others.

What a Carve Up!

What a Carve Up!
6.3/10
Ernie's Uncle Gabriel has just died but to claim his inheritance he must spend the night in the ancestral family home with the rest of his rather eccentric relatives. Ernie's imagination has been affected by his constant immersion in cheap horror novels, but his wildest fears turn out to be justified when the guests begin to drop dead.

The Hour of The Pig

The Hour of The Pig
6.6/10
Black comedy about 15th-century Paris lawyer Richard Courtois (Firth) who decides to apply his trade in the country, only to find things stranger than he can imagine. His first case turns out to be defending a pig that's accused of murdering a child. The pig is owned by the beautiful gypsy Samira (Annabi), who, the idealistic lawyer finds himself falling in love (or lust) with. A Gothic tale with religion, superstition, power struggles, and ignorance as a backdrop.

Value for Money

Value for Money
5.9/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 09/08/1955
  • Character: Limpy
A wealthy young man (Gregson) from Yorkshire visits a London nightclub and meets a performer (Dors). She decides to take him for every penny he is worth, and he decides to let her.

Matchless

Matchless
5.2/10
A secret agent possesses a ring that makes him invisible for a short time, once every 10 hours. He is in pursuit of an evil criminal mastermind but, at the same time, must evade an enemy agent who also wants the ring.

Trial by Combat

Trial by Combat
5.1/10
A group called The Knights Of Avalon are unhappy with the justice system so are taking the law into their own hands by executing criminals using medieval methods such as jousting.

Where Is Parsifal?

Where Is Parsifal?
4.8/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 01/01/1984
Tucked away in his castle, a hypochondriac inventor plays generous host to a revolving cast of wacky guests. But to pay off his mounting debts, he must sell either a powerful businessman or a rich gypsy on his latest creation: a laser skywriter.

Alice Through the Looking Box

Alice Through the Looking Box
A Christmas TV special in which Alice does not go through a looking glass, but through a TV set.

Mr. Freedom

Mr. Freedom
6.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 08/01/1969
  • Character: Dr. Freedom
A pro-America superhero destroys France to prevent Communists from taking over.

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