The best Eddie Byrne’s comedy movies

Eddie Byrne

Eddie Byrne

31/01/1911- 21/08/1981
Today we present the best Eddie Byrne’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 Eddie Byrne’s movies.

Lady Godiva Rides Again

Lady Godiva Rides Again
5.8/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 25/10/1951
  • Character: Eddie Mooney
Marjory Clark wins a competition in her Midland town and finds herself in a Festival of Britain procession as Lady Godiva - though not in the buff. This leads by way of a suspect beauty competition to the show-business world of London. But it could be a slippery slope for simple home-town Marge.

Aunt Clara

Aunt Clara
6.5/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 22/11/1954
  • Character: Fosdick
A wealthy old man dies and leaves his holdings--including a brothel and a gambling den, racing greyhounds and a sleazy bar--to his eccentric Aunt Clara. Clara vows to "clean up" her new establishments, but complications ensue when she visits the crooked gambling den--just as it's being raided by the police.

A Kid for Two Farthings

A Kid for Two Farthings
6.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyDramaFamily
  • Release: 20/01/1956
  • Character: Sylvester the Photographer (uncredited)
Joe is a young boy who lives with his mother, Joanna, in working-class London. The two reside above the tailor shop of Mr. Kandinsky, who likes to tell Joe stories. When Kandinsky informs Joe that a unicorn can grant wishes, the hopeful lad ends up buying a baby goat with one tiny horn, believing it to be a real unicorn. Undaunted by his rough surroundings, Joe sets about to prove that wishes can come true.

Children Galore

Children Galore
5.3/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 01/02/1955
  • Character: Zachariah "Zacky" Jones
As a going away gift to a small village, the local Lord and Lady promise a new cottage to the local couple with the most grandchildren. Competitive instincts and petty jealousies ensue.

Rooney

Rooney
6.4/10
The life of James Ignatius Rooney, a Dublin rubbish collector during the week and a Gaelic sportsman at the weekends.

The Bridal Path

The Bridal Path
6.7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 05/08/1959
  • Character: Mike Flanagan
Based on a novel by Nigel Tranter, The Bridal Path is a light-hearted look at the somewhat unfortunate results that can come of the continued marrying of fairly close cousins in a restricted and remote community. Set in the Hebrides off Scotland, the story tells how Ewan MacEwan leaves the isle of Eorsa in search of the perfect wife, but finally returns to marry Katie.

Trouble in the Glen

Trouble in the Glen
5.4/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 15/06/1954
  • Character: Dinny Sullivan
Major Jim "Lance" Lansing, an American ex-pilot of the U.S. Air Corps, returns to Scotland after the war and finds much trouble in the glen where he settles because of the high-handed activities of the local laird, Sandy Mengues, a wealthy South American who, with his daughter Marissa, has returned to the land of his forefathers. Led by Lansing, the people eventually prevail upon Mengues to restore peace to the glen, but not before a brief and unconvincing fight between Lansing and Dukes, the Mengues foreman. Written by Les Adams

Stolen Assignment

Stolen Assignment
5.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 01/08/1955
  • Character: Inspector Corcoran
Henry Crossley is an artist whose wife is spending a week's holiday with her aunt. But when her aunt comes to see him, worried because her niece has not arrived, a police investigation into her disappearance begins. It seems that Henry was fully occupied at the time his wife went missing; but is his alibi completely truthful?

Never Mind the Quality: Feel the Width

Never Mind the Quality: Feel the Width
6.6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 03/01/1973
  • Character: Father Ignatious
Two London tailors horse around, wind up robbed, go to Rome and disrupt the Vatican.

Time, Gentlemen, Please!

Time, Gentlemen, Please!
6.5/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 01/07/1952
  • Character: Dan Dance
Because of its high productivity and "almost" 100 per cent employment, the town of Hayhoe, England is expecting a visit from the Prime Minister. The "almost" is because of Dan Dance (Eddie Byrne), an old rogue who would rather drink and philosophize than work. The Village Council are determined to have a perfect record so they connive to have the old man put into the alms-house which has been unoccupied for many years, where he must abide by rules laid down 400 years ago. A new Vicar arrives and discovers that, because of the circumstances created by the Council, Dan Dance is entitled to 6,000 pounds a year at the expense of the village.

The Punch and Judy Man

The Punch and Judy Man
6.2/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 01/01/1963
  • Character: Ice Cream Man
Walter Pinner is the titular Punch And Judy Man plying his trade in the seaside town of Piltdown. Unhappily married to his social climbing wife, who gets him to perform at the 60th Anniversary celebrations of the town in front of all the local dignitaries, his hatred of snobbery comes to a hilarious head.

The Pot Carriers

The Pot Carriers
6.5/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 10/03/1962
  • Character: Chief Officer Bailey
New inmate Rainbow has just been imprisoned for a year for his part in a fight over his girlfriend Wendy. After being assigned to kitchen duty, he becomes involved in a food-trading racket. When the scheme is betrayed to the prison's governor, its prime mover is threatened with an extended sentence - unless Rainbow can come up with a way to save him.

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