The best Eddie Albert’s comedy movies

Eddie Albert

Eddie Albert

22/04/1906- 26/05/2005
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Eddie Albert’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about Eddie Albert.
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Roman Holiday

Roman Holiday
8/10
Overwhelmed by her suffocating schedule, touring European princess Ann takes off for a night while in Rome. When a sedative she took from her doctor kicks in, however, she falls asleep on a park bench and is found by an American reporter, Joe Bradley, who takes her back to his apartment for safety. At work the next morning, Joe finds out Ann's regal identity and bets his editor he can get exclusive interview with her, but romance soon gets in the way.

The Big Picture

The Big Picture
6.2/10
Hollywood beckons for recent film school grad Nick Chapman, who is out to capitalize on the momentum from his national award-winning student film. Studio executive Allen Habel seduces Nick with a dream deal to make his first feature, but once production gets rolling, corporate reality begins to intervene: Nick is unable to control a series of compromises to his high-minded vision, and it's all he can do to maintain his integrity in the midst of filmmaking chaos.

The Longest Yard

The Longest Yard
7.1/10
In this rough-and-tumble yarn, actually filmed on-location at the Georgia State Prision, the cons are the heroes and the guards are the heavies. Eddie Albert is the sadistic warden who'll gladly make any sacrifice to push his guards' semi-pro football team to a national championship.

La Classe américaine

La Classe américaine
7.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyTV Movie
  • Release: 31/12/1993
  • Character: The Porter (archive footage) (uncredited)
George Abitbol, the classiest man in the world, dies tragically during a cruise. With his last breath, he whispers: “Shitty world.” The director of an American newspaper, wondering about the meaning of these intriguing final words, asks his three best investigators, Dave, Peter and Steven, to solve the mystery… (16 French actors dub scenes from various Warner Bros. films to create a parody of Citizen Kane, 1941.)

Head Office

Head Office
5.4/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 06/06/1985
  • Character: Pete Helmes
In this comic take on big-business wheelings and dealings, an ambitious senator's son (Judge Reinhold) moves up the corporate ladder through undeserved promotions. But against his better judgment, he falls for a woman (the chairman's daughter, no less) who's leading a protest against the company's shady business practices. "Saturday Night Live" writer-performer Michael O'Donoghue scripted this satire co-starring Danny DeVito and Jane Seymour.

The Teahouse of the August Moon

The Teahouse of the August Moon
6.6/10
An Okinawan translator introduces U.S. occupation forces to the joys of local life.

The Heartbreak Kid

The Heartbreak Kid
7/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 17/12/1972
  • Character: Duane Corcoran
Three days into his Miami honeymoon, Lenny meets tall, blonde Kelly. This confirms him in his opinion that he has made a serious mistake and he decides he wants Kelly instead.

The Fuller Brush Girl

The Fuller Brush Girl
6.6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 15/09/1950
  • Character: Humphrey Briggs
A daffy door-to-door saleswoman blunders into a murder investigation.

Captain Newman, M.D.

Captain Newman, M.D.
6.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyDramaWar
  • Release: 25/12/1963
  • Character: Col. Norval Algate Bliss
In 1944, Capt. Josiah J. Newman is the doctor in charge of Ward 7, the neuropsychiatric ward, at an Army Air Corps hospital in Arizona. The hospital is under-resourced and Newman scrounges what he needs with the help of his inventive staff, especially Cpl. Jake Leibowitz. The military in general is only just coming to accept psychiatric disorders as legitimate and Newman generally has 6 weeks to cure them or send them on to another facility. There are many patients in the ward and his latest include Colonel Norville Bliss who has dissociated from his past; Capt. Paul Winston who is nearly catatonic after spending 13 months hiding in a cellar behind enemy lines; and 20 year-old Cpl. Jim Tompkins who is severely traumatized after his aircraft was shot down. Others come and go, including Italian prisoners of war, but Newman and team all realize that their success means the men will return to their units.

Brenda Starr

Brenda Starr
4.7/10
Mike is a struggling artist who draws the 'Brenda Starr' strip for the papers. When Brenda comes to life in the strip and sees how unappreciated she is by Mike, she leaves the strip. To get her back, and keep his job, Mike draws himself into the strip. In her world, Brenda Starr is the Ace Reporter for the New York Flash. She is talented, fearless, smart and a very snappy dresser. The only competition she has is from the rival paper's top reporter Libby Lipscomb. Brenda heads to the Amazon jungle to find a scientist with a secret formula which will create cheap and powerful gas from ordinary water. (This movie was filmed in 1986 but release was delayed for several years.)

Rooster

Rooster
6.8/10
A physically small police psychologist and a physically large insurance detective team up on an arson case.

Foolin' Around

Foolin' Around
6/10
A working-class boy falls for a girl from a wealthy family, and must compete for her with a rich boy who also wants her.

Lady Bodyguard

Lady Bodyguard
6.1/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 02/01/1943
  • Character: Terry Moore
A.C.Baker, advertising executive for an insurance company, approaches test pilot Terry Moore with a proposition that in return for using his picture and endorsement he will get a paid-for-a-year $1000 policy. High-risk Terry agrees. George MacAlister fires his secretary, Miss Tracy, just as she is typing up the policy and she, for spite, changes the amount from a thousand dollars to one million dollars. A.C. delivers the policy, without noticing the difference, to Terry at a party at the Frolics Club, a cheap joint wedged between a burlesque house and a flop house hotel. Three characters, an elderly hat-check "girl" known as Mother Hodges; Avery Jamieson, a broken-down actor; and bartender Harry Gargan are named beneficiaries. When the company discovers the error, A.C. is sent to get back the policy and, pending that, don't let Terry make any test flights.

How to Beat the High Cost of Living

How to Beat the High Cost of Living
6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 11/07/1980
  • Character: Max
Oregon, 1980: Jane, Elaine and Louise are all feeling the effects of inflation and cannot afford the high cost of living. Jane cannot afford a babysitter or get married and if she wants privacy with her boyfriend, she has to sleep in the car. Even worse, her war veteran father comes to live with her to turn her life upside down. Louise lives a happy life with her veterinarian husband, Albert. She runs an antique shop on the side, but since it doesn't take in any profit, the IRS considers it a hobby. She needs to come up with the money to keep it going, or she will be trouble with the IRS. Elaine's husband has left her for another woman and without any money. She is in a constant struggle with banks, power companies, and gas stations. She needs money to get by and also catches the eye of police officer Jack. The local mall is having a contest that features a giant money ball that states it will help fight the inflation.

Brother Rat and a Baby

Brother Rat and a Baby
5.4/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 13/01/1940
  • Character: Bing Edwards
Three comrades graduate from Viriginia Military Institute. Bing has a chance to return to VMI as a football coach.

You Gotta Stay Happy

You Gotta Stay Happy
6.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 28/10/1948
  • Character: Bullets Baker
Indecisive heiress Dee Dee Dillwood is pushed into marrying her sixth fiancée, but unable to face the wedding night, she flees into the adjacent hotel room of commercial pilot Marvin Payne, who just wants to sleep. She then persuades him to take her to California.

You're in the Navy Now

You're in the Navy Now
6.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyWar
  • Release: 23/02/1951
  • Character: Lt. Bill Barron
When Lt. John Harkness is assigned as the new skipper of a submarine chaser equipped with an experimental steam engine, he hopes that the U.S.S. Teakettle's veterans will afford him enough help to accomplish the ship's goals. Unfortunately, he finds the crew and its officers share his novice status or only have experience in diesel engines.

The Perfect Marriage

The Perfect Marriage
5.9/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 24/01/1947
  • Character: Gil Cummins
A couple celebrate their tenth anniversary by quarreling their way to divorce court.

Every Girl Should Be Married

Every Girl Should Be Married
6.2/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 25/12/1948
  • Character: Harry Proctor / 'Old' Joe
Anabel Sims is determined to find the perfect husband. She thinks she's found her man in Madison Brown, a handsome pediatrician. She then prepares an elaborate scheme to trap him into marriage

Take This Job and Shove It

Take This Job and Shove It
5/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 24/04/1981
  • Character: Samuel Ellison
A junior executive is ordered to boost output in the hometown brewery where his old friends work.

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