The best Ed Brady’s comedy movies

Ed Brady

Ed Brady

06/12/1889- 31/03/1942
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The Son of Kong

The Son of Kong
5.6/10
Beleaguered adventurer Carl Denham returns to the island where he found King Kong.

Saps at Sea

Saps at Sea
7.1/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 29/04/1940
  • Character: Store Dresser
Stan and Ollie work in a horn factory. Ollie starts having violent fits every time he hears a horn. His doctor prescribes a restful sea voyage. Mayhem ensues.

Honky Tonk

Honky Tonk
6.6/10
Fast-talking con-man and grifter Candy Johnson rises to be the corrupt boss of Yellow Creek, but his wife's alcoholic father tries to set things right.

Red-Headed Woman

Red-Headed Woman
7/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 25/06/1932
  • Character: Man Outside Pool Hall (uncredited)
Lil works for the Legendre Company and causes Bill to divorce Irene and marry her. She has an affair with businessman Gaerste and uses him to force society to pay attention to her.

Redhead

Redhead
7.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 31/10/1934
  • Character: Joe
A girl marries a playboy from a rich family, expecting a life of comfort and luxury. However, her new father-in-law turns his ne'er-do-well son out into the street with no money, and promises the girl that if she can make a man out of her new husband, the father will give her $10,000 and see that she gets a quick divorce.

Harold Teen

Harold Teen
6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 28/04/1928
  • Character: Officer Axel Dewberry
Farmboy Harold moves to the city and there attends high school. Soon he is very popular, his spirited nature causing much excitement on the campus. He joins a fraternity, goes out for football, and directs his class theatrical effort. Instead of a school play, Harold suggests doing a western motion picture. Part of the plot requires them to blow up the dam that has cut off the water supply to Harold's homestead in the country. After the explosion Harold runs away because he is afraid of being arrested, but he returns just in time to win a football game for his team.

The Mad Miss Manton

The Mad Miss Manton
6.7/10
When the murdered body discovered by beautiful, vivacious socialite Melsa Manton disappears, police and press label her a prankster until she proves them wrong.

Li'l Abner

Li'l Abner
4.9/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 09/11/1940
  • Character: Townsman
Li'l Abner becomes convinced that he is going to die within twenty-four hours, so agrees to marry two different girls: Daisy Mae (who has chased him for years) and Wendy Wilecat (who rescued him from an angry mob). It is all settled at the Sadie Hawkins Day race.

Dressed to Kill

Dressed to Kill
6.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 17/03/1928
  • Character: Singing Walter
A mob boss' gang gets suspicious about their boss' new girlfriend, a beautiful young girl who doesn't seem to be the type who'd hang out with gangsters. They're not quite certain if she's actually a police agent or just a "groupie".

Madame Racketeer

Madame Racketeer
6.6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 23/07/1932
  • Character: Taxi Driver
International con artist Martha Hicks a.k.a. Countess von Claudwig is released from another stay in prison and decides to treat her rheumatism with a stay at her estranged husband's hotel at a Wisconsin spa. There undercover, she checks in on the two daughters she abandoned as infants.

Slightly Honorable

Slightly Honorable
6/10
  • Genre: ComedyMystery
  • Release: 22/12/1939
  • Character: Ed, District Attorney's Man (Uncredited)
A lawyer is framed for the murder of a young party girl and tries to clear his name.

The Nuisance

The Nuisance
6.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyDramaRomance
  • Release: 03/06/1933
  • Character: Conspirator to Get the District Attorney (uncredited)
Fast-talker extraordinaire Tracy gives one of his quintessential wiseguy performances as a conniving ambulance chaser who falls in love with Evans, unaware she's a special investigator for a streetcar company he's repeatedly victimized.

Girl Missing

Girl Missing
6.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrimeMystery
  • Release: 04/03/1933
  • Character: Motorcycle Policeman (Uncredited)
Kay and June, two showgirls, are hurt when they seek financial help from Daisy. On Daisy's wedding night when she is rendered missing, Kay and June decide to look for her to claim the reward.

Shooting High

Shooting High
5.8/10
A movie company making a film about a famous sheriff hires his grandson as a stand-in for the lead.

One Sunday Afternoon

One Sunday Afternoon
6.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 01/09/1933
  • Character: Pig Contest Emcee (uncredited)
Middle-aged dentist Biff Grimes reminisces about his unrequited love for beautiful Virginia Brush and her husband Hugo, his ex-friend, who betrayed him.

Racing Hearts

Racing Hearts
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 15/07/1923
  • Character: Pete Delaney (as Edwin J. Brady)
Automobile maker John Kent is an old-fashioned sort who refuses to advertise his car line. His daughter Ginger, however, is determined to get him some publicity and goes speeding around town in one of his cars, hoping to get arrested. Roddy Smith, posing as a cop, stops her. His father owns a rival firm and he suggests that Ginger convince her father to enter his car in the Vanderbilt road race.

Mantrap

Mantrap
6.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyWestern
  • Release: 24/07/1926
  • Character: Trapper (uncredited)
A sexy young manicurist living with her older backwoodsman husband in a small Canadian town finds herself attracted to a young, rich and famous divorce lawyer who comes to town on vacation.

The Broken Wing

The Broken Wing
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 19/12/1923
  • Character: Bassilio (as Edwin J. Brady)
An American pilot flying in Mexico crash-lands on a ranch, and is nursed back to health by the daughter of the ranch's owner. Unbeknownst to the pilot--who has lost his memory because of the crash--the girl has been praying for a husband, and believes that God has answered her prayers by sending him this handsome pilot. However, a local guerrilla leader has also had designs on the daughter, and comes up with a plan to get rid of his competition, make some money and win the girl in the bargain.

Everything's Ducky

Everything's Ducky
5.7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 18/10/1934
  • Character: Dolan, the Cop
Bobby Clark and Paul McCullough take to the streets as pots and pans salesmen, wreaking havoc door to door with their demonstrations of their cookware.

Leading Lizzie Astray

Leading Lizzie Astray
5.6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 30/11/1914
  • Character: A City Slicker
A city slicker tries to woo a country girl while her boyfriend fixes his tire.

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