The best Eric Barker’s movies

Eric Barker

Eric Barker

12/02/1912- 01/06/1990
We present our ranking of the best Eric Barker’s movies. Do you love cinema? Or are you looking for a movie of your favorite actor to watch tonight? Surely you have some to see or that you did not know yet about Eric Barker.
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Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 hours 11 minutes

Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 hours 11 minutes
7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 16/06/1965
  • Character: French Postman
In order to boost circulation of his newspaper, Lord Rawnsley announces an air race and offers £10,000 to the first person who can fly across the English Channel. But one of the participants, Percy, plots to sabotage his competitor's planes. Will Percy triumph?

Heavens Above!

Heavens Above!
6.7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 20/05/1963
  • Character: Bank Manager
A naive but caring prison chaplain, who happens to have the same last name as an upper class cleric, is by mistake appointed as vicar to a small and prosperous country town. His belief in charity and forgiveness sets him at odds with the conservative and narrow-minded locals, and he soon creates social ructions by appointing a black dustman as his churchwarden, taking in a gypsy family, and persuading the local landowner to provide free food for the church to distribute free to the people of the town. When the congregation leaders realise the mistake and call for the Church of England to remove him, this turns out to be a very, very difficult issue - until one clergyman realises that a British project to send a man into space is in need of an astronaut...

Carry On Constable

Carry On Constable
6.2/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 22/02/1960
  • Character: Inspector Mills
With a flu epidemic running rife, three new bumbling recruits are assigned to Inspector Mills police station. With help from Special Constable Gorse, they manage to totally wreck the operations of the police force and let plenty of criminals get away, even before they arrive at the station. They all have to prove themselves or else they'll be out of a job and Sergeant Wilkins will be transferred. Sub-plots include romances between Wilkins and Moon, Constable and Passworthy.

Carry On Spying

Carry On Spying
6.2/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 01/06/1964
  • Character: The Chief
Carry On favourite Barbara Windsor makes her debut in this outrageous send-up of the James Bond movies. Fearless agent Desmond Simpkins and Charlie Bind, aided and abetted by the comely Agent Honeybutt and Agent Crump, battle against the evil powers of international bad guys STENCH and their three cronies.

Carry On Sergeant

Carry On Sergeant
6.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyWar
  • Release: 15/08/1958
  • Character: Captain Potts
Fall in for the first ever film in the highly successful Carry On comedy series—now an acclaimed British institution. Kenneth Connor and Charles Hawtrey are the prankish misfits who become the hilarious bane of Army Officers existence when he makes a bet he will turn them into ‘Star Squad’ Award soldiers—or bust!

Maroc 7

Maroc 7
5.1/10
The lady of a top fashion magazine doubles as a jewel thief and becomes involved in Moroccan intrigue.

On the Beat

On the Beat
6.8/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 11/12/1962
  • Character: Doctor
Norman Pitkin wants to be a policeman like his father was, but he fails the height test (amongst others). One day he gets out his father's old uniform and "walks the beat". This leads to a level of chaos that only Pitkin could cause

Blue Murder at St. Trinian's

Blue Murder at St. Trinian's
6.4/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 01/12/1957
  • Character: Culpepper Brown
With their headmistress under lock and key in her majesty's prison, the St Trinian's girls find themselves under the protection of the army. However, when the sixth form take a fancy to winning a trip to Italy through means fair or foul, the army discover this is one battle they can't win. Let loose in Europe, it is not long before St Trinian's have succeeded in endangering European relations.

On the Fiddle

On the Fiddle
5.8/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 10/10/1961
  • Character: Doctor
Tricked into joining the RAF by a wily judge, wide boy Horace Pope sets his sights on the main chance, teams with slow-witted, good-hearted gypsy Pedlar Pascoe, and works up a lucrative racket in conning both his colleagues and the RAF. By means of various devious schemes Pope and Pascoe manage to avoid the front lines until they are sent to France - where they find themselves making unexpected and uncomfortably close contact with the enemy.

Brothers in Law

Brothers in Law
6.4/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 04/03/1957
  • Character: Alec Blair
Roger Thursby (Ian Carmichael) is an overly keen, newly-qualified barrister who rubs his fellow barristers up the wrong way. When he is thrown in at the deep-end, with a particularly hot-tempered judge (Miles Malleson) and tricky case, Thursby learns how to prove himself not only to the judge and fellow barristers but also to the public gallery.

Carry On Emmannuelle

Carry On Emmannuelle
3.2/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 01/01/1978
  • Character: Ancient General
The beautiful and sex-starved Emmannuelle Prevert just cannot inflame her husband's ardour. In frustration she seduces a string of VIPs, including the Prime Minister and the American Ambassador. A jealous lover gives a list of all her conquests to the national press and a scandal ensues. But will she ever manage to get her own husband into bed?

The Mouse on the Moon

The Mouse on the Moon
6.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 07/05/1963
  • Character: M.I.5 Man
Sequel to The Mouse that Roared; The Tiny Country of Grand Fenwick has a hot water problem in the castle. To get the money necessary to put in a new set of plumbing, they request foreign aid from the U.S. for Space Research. The Russians then send aid as well to show that they too are for the internationalization of space. While the grand Duke is dreaming of hot baths, their one scientist is slapping together a rocket. The U.S. and Soviets get wind of the impending launch and try and beat them to the moon.

Happy Is the Bride

Happy Is the Bride
6.6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 04/03/1958
  • Character: Vicar
In a quiet summer corner of Wiltshire that is forever England, David and Janet decide to tie the knot. Unfortunately this is the cue for everyone else to take over proceedings, to the dismay of the couple and the increasing despair of Janet's father.

The Pure Hell of St. Trinian's

The Pure Hell of St. Trinian's
6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 22/12/1960
  • Character: Culpepper-Brown
The fourth form monsters' latest trick is their best ever – they have burned down St Trinian’s school! As the girls stand trial, the police breathe a sigh of relief, but miraculously the judge's infatuation with a student means the school is freed. For the authorities, it means a new reign of terror as the girls of St Trinian’s regroup with gleeful anticipation.

Doctor in Clover

Doctor in Clover
5.7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 08/03/1966
  • Character: Prof. Halfbeck
Doctor in Clover is another 'Doctor' movie, but this time Leslie Phillips is the main doctor in the story, looking for love and romance from the hospital nurses, much to the annoyance of the main Administrator (James Robertson Justice) who wants his doctors to be 100% focussed on the job. Numerous antics follow, with Phillips getting Justice fixed up with the new prim-and-proper Matron (Joan Sims) and his attempted failures to lure the hospital's beauty, the physiotherapist.

The Fast Lady

The Fast Lady
6.1/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 14/12/1962
  • Character: Wentworth
A Scottish civil servant (Stanley Baxter) must learn how to drive a Bentley to impress his girlfriend's (Julie Christie) tycoon father (James Robertson Justice).

The Best House in London

The Best House in London
4.3/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 01/01/1969
In Victorian London, the British Government attempts a solution to the problem of prostitution by establishing the world's most fabulous brothel.

Left Right and Centre

Left Right and Centre
6.2/10
  • Release: 23/06/1959
  • Character: Bert Glimmer
At the Earndale by-election natural history expert and TV personality Bob Wilcot for the Conservatives finds himself up against Billingsgate girl Stella Stoker for the socialists. Amateur politician against committed activist. But could it become boy-who-fancies-girl against girl-who-fancies-boy? The party agents are soon colluding against such a disaster.

Watch Your Stern

Watch Your Stern
5.8/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 01/01/1960
  • Character: Capt. David Foster
When the details of a secret torpedo are destroyed by an incompetent seaman, the crew of the ship rally round, when the Admiral needs the plans to show to a visiting scientist.

Bachelor of Hearts

Bachelor of Hearts
5.7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 12/12/1958
  • Character: Aubrey Murdock
A German scholar has girl troubles while studying at Cambridge.

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