The best Edward Peil Sr.’s comedy movies

Edward Peil Sr.

Edward Peil Sr.

18/01/1883- 29/12/1958
Today we present the best Edward Peil Sr.’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 Edward Peil Sr.’s movies.
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The Awful Truth

The Awful Truth
7.7/10
Unfounded suspicions lead a married couple to begin divorce proceedings, whereupon they start undermining each other's attempts to find new romance.

Kid Millions

Kid Millions
6.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyDramaMusic
  • Release: 10/11/1934
  • Character: Assistant Bartender (uncredited)
A musical comedy about a Brooklyn boy who inherits a fortune from his archaeologist father, but has to go to Egypt to claim it.

You Can't Take It with You

You Can't Take It with You
7.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyDramaRomance
  • Release: 01/09/1938
  • Character: Neighbor Helping with Move (uncredited)
Alice, the only relatively normal member of the eccentric Sycamore family, falls in love with Tony Kirby, but his wealthy banker father and snobbish mother strongly disapprove of the match. When the Kirbys are invited to dinner to become better acquainted with their future in-laws, things don't turn out the way Alice had hoped.

Pretty Baby

Pretty Baby
6.5/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 16/09/1950
  • Character: Hawkins (uncredited)
A young woman living in Manhattan pretends to be the mother of an infant in order to get a seat on the subway.

The Major and the Minor

The Major and the Minor
7.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 16/09/1942
  • Character: Stationmaster (uncredited)
Susan Applegate, tired of New York after one year and twenty-five jobs, decides to return to her home town. Discovering she hasn't enough money for the train fare, Susan disguises herself as a twelve-year-old and travels for half the price. Caught out by the conductors, she hides in the compartment of Major Philip Kirby, a military school instructor who takes the "child" under his wing.

College Holiday

College Holiday
5.7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 19/12/1936
  • Character: Cop in Park
College students rally to save a struggling hotel from closing. Comedy.

Too Hot to Handle

Too Hot to Handle
6.6/10
Chris Hunter is a sly newsreel reporter. While in Shanghai doing reports on the Chinese-Japanese war, he meets pilot Alma Harding. At first she doesn't trust him, but by a trick he manages to get her hired as his assistant. During an adventurous expedition through the jungles of South America he manages to change her view of him.

Ride 'Em Cowboy

Ride 'Em Cowboy
6.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyWestern
  • Release: 13/02/1942
  • Character: Minor Role (uncredited)
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.

Jesse James at Bay

Jesse James at Bay
5.7/10
When Jesse learns that Krager is cheating settlers, he and his gang rob trains to obtain money for them to purchase their land. Krager, finding a Jesse look alike in Burns, hires him to wreck havoc on the ranchers. When Jesse kills Burns he switches clothes and goes after the culprits.

Reckless

Reckless
6.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 19/04/1935
  • Character: Man Raising Stage Curtain (uncredited)
A theatrical star, born on the wrong side of the tracks, marries a drunken blue-blood millionaire.

Madame Racketeer

Madame Racketeer
6.6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 23/07/1932
  • Character: Train Passenger
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.

The Nitwits

The Nitwits
6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 07/06/1935
  • Character: Eddie the Detective
A would-be songwriter and a would-be inventor run a cigar stand and get mixed up in the murder of a song publisher.

Movie Crazy

Movie Crazy
7.1/10
After a mix-up with his application photograph, an aspiring actor is invited to a screen test and goes off to Hollywood.

The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap

The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap
6.7/10
Chester Wooley and Duke Egan are travelling salesmen who make a stopover in Wagon Gap, Montana while enroute to California. During the stopover, a notorious criminal is murdered, and the two are charged with the crime.

A Girl, a Guy, and a Gob

A Girl, a Guy, and a Gob
6.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 14/03/1941
  • Character: Opera House Assistant manager (uncredited)
Steve is a shy quiet man who is an executive for a shipping firm. He meets Dot at the Opera where she had his seats and the next day she shows up as his temporary secretary. Then Coffee Cup comes to town to see Dot, his gal. When Steven is with Cecilia, everything is boring. When he is with Dot and Coffee Cup, everything is exciting and he falls for Dot. But Coffee is getting out of the Navy in a few days and he plans to marry Dot.

It Can't Last Forever

It Can't Last Forever
5.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 15/07/1937
  • Character: Detective
Russ Matthews, a theatrical agent who is not above pulling off a hoax or two or more to further the career of his clients (and himself), and a newspaper gossip-columnist, Carol Wilson, get involved with gangsters when one of Larry's radio-program future-predicting cons gets out of hand.

Shut My Big Mouth

Shut My Big Mouth
6/10
A shy horticulturist becomes involved with a local criminal in the old west.

My Favorite Blonde

My Favorite Blonde
7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 02/04/1942
  • Character: Policeman (uncredited)
Larry Haines, a mediocre vaudeville entertainer, boards a train for Los Angeles. Aboard, he meets an attractive, blonde British agent carrying a coded message hidden in a brooch—and is being pursued by Nazi agents.

Love on a Bet

Love on a Bet
6.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 06/03/1936
  • Character: Mr. Bligh, at Hutchinson's Meeting
Aspiring Producer Michael McCreigh convinces Uncle Carlton to finance a play on the condition that he lives the play's ridiculous plot. If Michael fails, he must work in Carlton's meat packing plant.

Blossoms On Broadway

Blossoms On Broadway
5.2/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 19/11/1937
  • Character: Conductor (uncredited)
A young singer hopes to become a success on Broadway.

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