The best Erich Ponto’s comedy movies

Erich Ponto

Erich Ponto

14/12/1884- 04/02/1957
We present our ranking of the best Erich Ponto’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 Erich Ponto.

The Punch Bowl

The Punch Bowl
7.7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 28/01/1944
  • Character: Professor Crey, genannt Schnauz
Die Feuerzangenbowle from Director Helmut Weiss is based on the novel by the same name from Heinrich Spoerl and Hans Reimann that has turned into a cult German film. The film tells the story of a writer Johannes Pfeiffer who goes undercover as a student in a high school after his friends told him that he missed out on a great life experience since he was home schooled.

Hokuspokus

Hokuspokus
7.2/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 31/08/1953
  • Character: Mr. Arthur Graham

Die kupferne Hochzeit

Die kupferne Hochzeit
5.4/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 15/12/1948
  • Character: Old teacher

The Four Companions

The Four Companions
6.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 01/10/1938
  • Character: Regierungsrat Alfred Hintze
Four graduates of an industrial design school team up and form a small business. The protagonist is so excited by the venture that she turns down the proposal of her dashing instructor. Time passes and her three partners lose interest in the business for different reasons. This leaves the heroine who has a change of heart and decides to forgo the business and marry the instructor after all.

The Flying Classroom

The Flying Classroom
7.1/10
The third form of a boarding school and the students of a neighboring school do not get along. Each side dreams up the craziest pranks to defeat the other. And when one day the high school students go as far as stealing the Gymnasium students’ essays and even burning them, daily school life really gets out of hand.

Clothes Make the Man

Clothes Make the Man
6.6/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 16/09/1940
  • Character: Puppenspieler Christoffel
The daydreaming tailor Wenzel is fired from his job, because the fancy frock he was supposed to cut for the mayor, he instead made for himself. He is allowed, however, to take the frock, which he appropriated for himself and he puts it on as he leaves the shop. A puppeteer picks him up in his coach and addresses Wenzel as "Count". So is he received in Goldach, where people think he is Count Stroganoff, the ambassador to the Czar of Russia.

Hallo Janine

Hallo Janine
6.9/10
The French ballet girl Janine, a gifted tap-dancer, dreams of a musical career in Paris. But first she wants to take revenge on Count René who stood up her best friend Charlotte. Janine wants him to fall in love with her and disappoint him afterwards. At a masked ball at which Janine pretends to be a Marquise they have their first meeting. Janine is very disappointed in the "good gentleman", but she does not suspect that this gentleman also makes a pretence. The man whom she holds to be count René is Pierre, a composer and pianist.

Keine Angst vor großen Tieren

Keine Angst vor großen Tieren
5.9/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 30/07/1953
  • Character: Polizeikommissar

Wie konntest Du, Veronika!

Wie konntest Du, Veronika!
6.6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 29/08/1940
  • Character: Bankier

The Affairs of Julie

The Affairs of Julie
6.5/10
Juliane Thomas is an ambitious but unemployed young writer. After breaking up with her lover she works at a dentist friend to make ends meet. One day she instantly falls in love with one of the patients (Jean Berner) and promptly writes a movie script about the encounter in which she projects her own fantasies about how things will turn out eventually. By coincidence this movie script is picked up by a film director who happens to be Berner's closest friend and from then on things become very complicated...

Film Without Title

Film Without Title
7.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 23/01/1948
  • Character: Herr Schichtholz
A screenwriter comes up with a story about an affair between a maid and her employer.

Der Meisterdetektiv

Der Meisterdetektiv
6.9/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 10/07/1944
  • Character: Gutsbesitzer Theobald Langendorff

Wenn wir alle Engel wären

Wenn wir alle Engel wären
6.1/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 20/09/1956
  • Character: Amtsrichter

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