The best Douglass Dumbrille’s comedy movies

Douglass Dumbrille

Douglass Dumbrille

13/10/1889- 02/04/1974
We present our ranking of the best Douglass Dumbrille’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 Douglass Dumbrille.
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Mr. Deeds Goes to Town

Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
7.8/10
Longfellow Deeds lives in a small town, leading a small town kind of life. When a relative dies and leaves Deeds a fortune, Longfellow moves to the big city where he becomes an instant target for everyone. Deeds outwits them all until Babe Bennett comes along. When small-town boy meets big-city girl anything can, and does, happen.

The Big Store

The Big Store
6.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 20/06/1941
  • Character: Mr. Grover
A detective is hired to protect the life of a singer, who has recently inherited a department store, from the store's crooked manager.

Abbott and Costello in the Foreign Legion

Abbott and Costello in the Foreign Legion
6.3/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 05/08/1950
  • Character: Sheik Hamud El Khalid
Jonesy and Lou are in Algeria looking for a wrestler they are promoting. Sergeant Axmann tricks them into joining the Foreign Legion, after which they discover Axmann's collaboration with the nasty Sheik Hamud El Khalid. Bits include Lou's mirage sightings, one a New York newsboy ("they gave me a bad corner").

Buccaneer's Girl

Buccaneer's Girl
6.1/10
Buccaneer's Girl is a 1950 American romantic adventure film directed by Frederick De Cordova and starring Yvonne De Carlo, Philip Friend and Robert Douglas. A New Orleans singer becomes involved with a Pirate Lord.

A Day at the Races

A Day at the Races
7.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 11/06/1937
  • Character: Morgan
Doctor Hugo Hackenbush, Tony, and Stuffy try and save Judy's farm by winning a big race with her horse. There are a few problems. Hackenbush runs a high priced clinic for the wealthy who don't know he has his degree in Veterinary Medicine.

Road to Utopia

Road to Utopia
7.1/10
While on a ship to Skagway, Alaska, Duke and Chester find a map to a secret gold mine, which had been 'stolen' by thugs. In Alaska to recover her father's map, Sal Van Hoyden falls in with Ace Larson, who secretly wants to steal the gold mine for himself. Duke, Chester, the thugs, Ace and his henchman chase each other all over the countryside—for the map.

Son of Paleface

Son of Paleface
6.8/10
Peter Potter Jr. returns to claim his father's gold, which is nowhere to be found.

Ride 'Em Cowboy

Ride 'Em Cowboy
6.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyWestern
  • Release: 13/02/1942
  • Character: Jake Rainwater
Two peanut vendors at a rodeo show get in trouble with their boss and hide out on a railroad train heading west. They get jobs as cowboys on a dude ranch, despite the fact that neither of them knows anything about cowboys, horses, or anything else.

Hard to Handle

Hard to Handle
6.6/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 28/01/1933
  • Character: District Attorney (uncredited)
A hustling public relations man promotes a series of fads.

Michael Shayne: Private Detective

Michael Shayne: Private Detective
6.6/10
  • Genre: ComedyDramaMystery
  • Release: 19/12/1940
  • Character: Benny Gordon (as Douglas Dumbrille)
Millionaire sportsman Hiram Brighton hires gumshoe Michael Shayne to keep his spoiled daughter Phyllis away from racetrack betting windows and roulette wheels. After Phyllis slips away and continues her compulsive gambling, Shayne fakes the murder of her gambler boyfriend, who is also romancing the daughter of casino owner Benny Gordon, in order to frighten her. When the tout really ends up murdered, Shayne and Phyllis' Aunt Olivia, an avid reader of murder mysteries, both try to find the identity of the killer.

The Three Musketeers

The Three Musketeers
5.9/10
A parodic remake of the story of the young Gascon D'Artagnan, who arrives in Paris, his heart set on joining the king's Musketeers. He is taken under the wings of three of the most respected and feared Musketeers, Porthos, Aramis, and Athos. Together they fight to save France and the honor of a lady from the machinations of the powerful Cardinal Richelieu.

Du Barry Was a Lady

Du Barry Was a Lady
6.1/10
Hat check man Louis Blore is in love with nightclub star May Daly. May, however, is love with a poor dancer, but wants to marry for money. When Louis wins the Irish Sweepstakes, he asks May to marry him and she accepts even though she doesn't love him. Soon after, Louis has an accident and gets knocked on the head, where he dreams that he's King Louis XV pursuing the infamous Madame Du Barry.

Road to Zanzibar

Road to Zanzibar
6.7/10
Stranded in Africa, Chuck and his pal Fearless have comic versions of jungle adventures, featuring two attractive con-women.

Fast Company

Fast Company
6.6/10
Married book-dealers Joel and Garda Sloane try to clear a friend in the murder of a rival book-seller.

Stand by for Action

Stand by for Action
6.5/10
U. S. Navy Lieutenant Gregg Masterman, of The Harvard and Boston Back Bay Mastermans, learned about the sea while winning silver cups sailing his yacht. He climbs swiftly in rank, and is now Junior Aide to Rear Admiral Stephen Thomas.

Spook Busters

Spook Busters
5.9/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 24/08/1946
  • Character: Dr. Coslow
The Bowery Boys--Slip, Sach, Bobby, Whitey & Chuck--start their own exterminating service, and get a job which takes them to a spooky old abandoned mansion in the middle of the night. Meeting up with pal Gabe and his new French bride, the boys are tormented by mad scientists who try to convince them the place is haunted and then kidnap Sach in order to place his brain inside a gorilla.

The Princess Comes Across

The Princess Comes Across
6.7/10
A Swedish princess boards an ocean liner in Europe en route to an acting career in America, and finds herself getting inconveniently attached to a bandleader returning home. To complicate matters, a blackmailer on board apparently knows she is not who she claims to be - and he has his sights set on other passengers with secrets of their own. In the meantime an escaped killer has stowed away under someone else's identity, and is killing again to cover his tracks; five international police detectives on board are heading the investigation to find him. When evidence points to the princess and bandleader, they must find the killer themselves - before he finds them.

Riding High

Riding High
6.2/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 12/04/1950
  • Character: Eddie Howard
A horse trainer who has fallen on hard times looks to his horse, Broadway Bill, to finally win the big race.

The Working Man

The Working Man
7.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 20/04/1933
  • Character: Lawyer Hammersmith (uncredited)
A successful shoe manufacturer named John Reeves goes on vacation and meets the grown children of his recently deceased and much-respected competitor; they're on the verge of losing the family legacy through their careless behavior. Reeves takes it upon himself to save his rival's company by teaching the heirs a lesson in business.

Lady Killer

Lady Killer
7/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 09/12/1933
  • Character: Spade Maddock
An ex-gangster tries to resist his old cohorts' criminal activities after he accidentally becomes a movie star.

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