The best Edwin August’s comedy movies

Edwin August

Edwin August

Today we present the best Edwin August’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 Edwin August’s movies.
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Gentleman Jim

Gentleman Jim
7.6/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 14/11/1942
  • Character: Olympic Club Member (uncredited)
As bareknuckled boxing enters the modern era, brash extrovert Jim Corbett uses new rules and dazzlingly innovative footwork to rise to the top of the top of the boxing world.

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
8.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 19/10/1939
  • Character: Senator (uncredited)
Naive and idealistic Jefferson Smith, leader of the Boy Rangers, is appointed to the United States Senate by the puppet governor of his state. He soon discovers, upon going to Washington, many shortcomings of the political process as his earnest goal of a national boys' camp leads to a conflict with the state political boss.

Mr. Lucky

Mr. Lucky
7.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 01/07/1943
  • Character: Blood Bank Donor (uncredited)
A conman poses as a war relief fundraiser, but when he falls for a charity worker, his conscience begins to trouble him.

The Rage of Paris

The Rage of Paris
6.9/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 09/06/1938
  • Character: Receptionist (Uncredited)
Nicole has no job and is several weeks behind with her rent. Her solution to her problems is to try and snare a rich husband. Enlisting the help of her friend Gloria and the maitre'd at a ritzy New York City hotel, the trio plot to have Gloria catch the eye of Bill Duncan, a millionaire staying at the hotel. The plan works and the two quickly become engaged. Nicole's plan may be thwarted by Bill's friend, Jim Trevor, who's met Nicole before and sees through her plot.

Over My Dead Body

Over My Dead Body
6.1/10
Berle plays a mystery writer who forever writes himself into corners and is never able to finish a story. While visiting his wife (Mary Beth Hughes) at the office where she works, Berle overhears several men discussing the suicide of a coworker. Struck with a brilliant notion, Berle decides to confess to the murder of the dead man, certain that he'll be able to wriggle out of the situation and thereby have plenty of material for a story.

Youth Takes a Fling

Youth Takes a Fling
6.2/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 22/09/1938
  • Character: Railroad Conductor
McCrea plays Joe Meadows, whose only ambition as a Kansas farm boy was a life at sea. He moves to New York to try to get a job as a sailor, finds it more difficult than he thought, and meets Helen Brown, who falls for him and uses her feminine wiles to try to prevent him leaving.

Getting Even

Getting Even
4.7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 12/09/1909
All the young men in the mining camp flirt with Lucy. Bud, the youngest of them, doesn't stand a chance. At a dance, Bud dresses as a woman and all the men flirt with him and abandon Lucy. When his disguise is revealed, the other men are too embarrassed to approach Lucy, and Bud dances the rest of the night with her.

Safety in Numbers

Safety in Numbers
6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 30/05/1938
  • Character: Customer
The Jones family patriarch, also mayor (Prouty), is swindled into thinking the town swamp is a rich mineral deposit.

A Broadway Scandal

A Broadway Scandal

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