The best Ethan Laidlaw’s comedy movies

Ethan Laidlaw

Ethan Laidlaw

25/11/1899- 25/05/1963
Today we present the best Ethan Laidlaw’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 Ethan Laidlaw’s movies.
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Coney Island

Coney Island
6.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 18/06/1943
  • Character: Henchman
Set at the turn of the century, smooth talking con man Eddie Johnson weasels his way into a job at friend and rival Joe Rocco's Coney Island night spot. Eddie meets the club's star attraction (and Joe's love interest), Kate Farley, a brash singer with a penchant for flashy clothes. Eddie and Kate argue as he tries to soften her image. Eventually, Kate becomes the toast of Coney Island and the two fall in love. Joe then tries to sabotage their marriage plans.

Road to Utopia

Road to Utopia
7.1/10
While on a ship to Skagway, Alaska, Duke and Chester find a map to a secret gold mine, which had been 'stolen' by thugs. In Alaska to recover her father's map, Sal Van Hoyden falls in with Ace Larson, who secretly wants to steal the gold mine for himself. Duke, Chester, the thugs, Ace and his henchman chase each other all over the countryside—for the map.

Alias Jesse James

Alias Jesse James
6.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyWestern
  • Release: 20/03/1959
  • Character: James Gang Member
Insurance salesman Milford Farnsworth sells a man a life policy only to discover that the man in question is the outlaw Jesse James. Milford is sent to buy back the policy, but is robbed by Jesse. And when Jesse learns that Milford's boss is on the way out with more cash, he plans to rob him too and have Milford get killed in the robbery while dressed as Jesse, and collect on the policy.

A Thousand and One Nights

A Thousand and One Nights
6/10
On the run after being found sweet-talking the Sultan's daughter, Aladdin comes upon a lamp which, when rubbed, summons up Babs the genie. He uses it to return as a visiting prince asking for the princess's hand. Unfortunately for him, the sultan's wicked twin brother has secretly usurped the throne, someone else is after the lamp for his own ends, and Babs has taken a shine to Aladdin herself and is bent on wrecking his endeavours.

Lucky Night

Lucky Night
6.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 05/05/1939
  • Character: Bouncer in Dusty's (uncredited)
Cora, an heiress who gives it all up for the excitement of looking for a job and living on her own, meets up with unemployed and flat broke Dick. The two of them embark on a wild night of gambling and winning, where everything they touch turns to gold. Pretty soon they're in love and, to the horror of Cora's father, married.

High Tension

High Tension
5.6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 10/07/1936
  • Character: Winch Operator
Brawling cable layer Steve Reardon doesn't want to marry girlfriend Edith but he also doesn't want her to date other men.

Lucky Legs

Lucky Legs
6.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 01/10/1942
  • Character: Duke
Chorus girl Gloria Carroll inherits one million dollars from Broadway playboy Herbert Dinwiddle. Producer Ned McLane persuades her to advance him the money on a production called "Lucky Legs" that will star her. Unfortunately, the money has "made the rounds" prior to reaching Gloria and several less-than-scrupulous characters set out to separate Gloria from her inheritance.

Little Orvie

Little Orvie
5.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 11/03/1940
  • Character: Man at Dog Pound
Family film, based on a Booth Tarkington tale, about a young boy who takes extreme measures to keep the stray dog he befriends.

Silly Billies

Silly Billies
6.2/10
The boys are a dentist and his assistant traveling to the Old West to open a new practice. Once in town, they buy a business--only to wake up the next day and see that the entire population of this bustling town had left for the California gold fields early that morning! Then, they discover an evil plot to sell out these settlers to some hostile Indians, so they spring to the rescue.

The Gal Who Took the West

The Gal Who Took the West
6.2/10
In order to gain passage to the West, a woman poses as an opera singer, and causes a feud between two cousins.

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.

The Expert

The Expert
6/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 05/03/1932
  • Character: Policeman
An elderly gentleman arrives for an extended stay with his grown son in Chicago.

Captain Hurricane

Captain Hurricane
5.5/10
Zenas Brewster is a seafaring man with a bad reputation. Notorious for his tempestuous nature, Brewster has earned the nickname of "Captain Hurricane." Brewster is smitten with neighbor Abbie Howland, but she doesn't like his temperament. After a period of retirement, a bad investment puts Brewster back at work on the sea. And when fire overtakes his ship, Hurricane proves heroic, selflessly rescuing his crew from a grisly and deadly fate.

Tailspin Tommy in The Great Air Mystery

Tailspin Tommy in The Great Air Mystery
6.7/10
A 12-episode serial in which Tailspin Tommy evades volcanoes, anti-aircraft shells, and time bombs as he foils a plan by corrupt profiteers to steal an island's oil reserves.

Mr. Noisy

Mr. Noisy
7.4/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 22/03/1946
  • Character: Ballplayer in Hotel Room (uncredited)
This All-Star Comedy (production number 7437, and a remake of 1940's "The Heckler" with Charley Chase) has Shemp Howard, noise-maker and heckler deluxe, hired by two gamblers to rattle a ball team while the gamblers bet on the opponents. The gamblers are more than a little bit vexed when Shemp loses his voice.

Penrod's Double Trouble

Penrod's Double Trouble
6.1/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 23/07/1938
  • Character: Bus Driver
When a young boy disappears, a man desperate for the offered reward money turns up with an identical child.

An Angel from Texas

An Angel from Texas
5.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 27/04/1940
  • Character: Davis Henchman
A pair of slick Broadway producers con a wealthy cowboy into backing their show.

Gun Smoke

Gun Smoke
6/10
Following a killing and robbery in a big city back east, gang leader Kedge Darvas and some of his henchies take a train to a small western town in Idaho, with intentions of hiding out there until things cool down back in Chi or NYC, or wherever they lammed from.They are welcomed with open arms by the citizens under the impression they are there as capital investors with money to spend. Before long, Darvas figures the town is ripe for the taking and sends word for reinforcements, and each arriving train unloads a few suits and snappy-brim hats.Then they get rough, kill Sheriff Posey Meed and rile up the citizens, led by cowhand Brad Farley, who had Darvas spotted for a wrong number just by the way he made moves on Sue Vancey.

Bachelor Bait

Bachelor Bait
6.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 27/07/1934
  • Character: Policeman (uncredited)
After being fired from his job at the Marriage License Bureau, a clerk turns to matchmaking.

The Tip-Off

The Tip-Off
5.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 16/10/1931
  • Character: Henchman
A young radio repairman becomes involved with gangsters and one of their girlfriends when he repairs their radio.

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