The best Fred Clark’s comedy movies

Fred Clark

Fred Clark

19/03/1914- 05/12/1968
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Fred Clark’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about Fred Clark.
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Move Over, Darling

Move Over, Darling
6.9/10
Three years into their loving marriage, with two infant daughters at home in Los Angeles, Nicholas Arden and Ellen Wagstaff Arden are on a plane that goes down in the South Pacific. Although most passengers manage to survive the incident, Ellen presumably perishes when swept off her lifeboat, her body never recovered. Fast forward five years. Nicky, wanting to move on with his life, has Ellen declared legally dead. Part of that moving on includes getting remarried, this time to a young woman named Bianca Steele, who, for their honeymoon, he plans to take to the same Monterrey resort where he and Ellen spent their honeymoon. On that very same day, Ellen is dropped off in Los Angeles by the Navy, who rescued her from the South Pacific island where she was stranded for the past five years. She asks the Navy not to publicize her rescue nor notify Nicky as she wants to do so herself.

Auntie Mame

Auntie Mame
7.9/10
Ten-year-old orphan Patrick Dennis has come to live with his marvelously madcap Auntie Mame, who lives life to the hilt. "Life is a banquet," Mame says, "and most poor suckers are starving to death!"

How to Marry a Millionaire

How to Marry a Millionaire
6.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 29/10/1953
  • Character: Waldo Brewster
Three women set out to find eligible millionaires to marry, but find true love in the process.

Skidoo

Skidoo
4.7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 19/12/1968
  • Character: Tower Guard
Ex-gangster Tony Banks is called out of retirement by mob kingpin God to carry out a hit on fellow mobster "Blue Chips" Packard. When Banks demurs, God kidnaps his daughter Darlene on his luxury yacht.

Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine

Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine
5.1/10
In this campy spy movie spoof Dr. Goldfoot (Vincent Price) has invented an army of bikini-clad robots who are programmed to seek out wealthy men and charm them into signing over their assets. Secret agent Craig Gamble (Frankie Avalon) and millionaire Todd Armstrong set out to foil his fiendish plot.

Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops

Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops
6.3/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 02/02/1955
  • Character: Joseph Gorman - aka Sergei Toumanoff
Harry and Willie are scammed into buying the Thomas Edison studio lot by a man named Gorman. They decide to follow Gorman's trail to Hollywood where, unbeknownst to them, he has taken the identity of a foreign film director. The lads wind up as stunt doubles in film the which Gorman is now shooting, while the conman tries to have the bungling pair done away with before they realize who he really is.

The Caddy

The Caddy
6.4/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 10/08/1953
  • Character: Mr. Baxter
Although the son of a skilled golfer and an outstanding player in his own right, Harvey Miller is too nervous to play in front of a gallery, so he acts as coach and caddy for Joe Anthony, his girlfriend's brother.

Bells Are Ringing

Bells Are Ringing
6.9/10
Ella Peterson works in the basement office of Susanswerphone, a telephone answering service. She listens in on others' lives and adds some interest to her own humdrum existence by adopting different identities for her clients. They include an out-of-work Method actor, a dentist with musical yearnings, and in particular playwright Jeffrey Moss, who is suffering from writer's block and desperately needs a muse.

Living It Up

Living It Up
6.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 15/07/1954
  • Character: Oliver Stone
Homer Flagg (Lewis) is a railroad worker in the small town of Desert Hole, New Mexico. One day he finds an abandoned automobile at an old atomic proving ground. His doctor and best friend, Steve Harris (Martin), diagnoses him with radiation poisoning and gives Homer three weeks to live. A reporter for a New York newspaper, hears of Homer's plight and convinces her editor, to provide an all-expenses paid trip to New York.

The Solid Gold Cadillac

The Solid Gold Cadillac
7.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 22/08/1956
  • Character: Clifford Snell
Laura Partridge is a very enthusiastic small stockholder of 10 shares in International Projects, a large corporation based in New York. She attends her first stockholder meeting ready to question the board of directors from their salaries to their operations.

The Passionate Thief

The Passionate Thief
7.3/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 21/10/1960
  • Character: L'americano
On New Year's Eve, a young woman and an out-of-work actor complicate a pickpocket's plans to ply his trade.

The Mating Game

The Mating Game
6.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 29/04/1959
  • Character: Oliver Kelsey
Tax collector Lorenzo Charlton comes to the Larkins' farm to ask why Pop Larkins hasn't paid his back taxes. Charlton has to stay for a day to try to estimate the income from the farm, but it isn't easy to calculate when the farmer has such a lovely daughter.

Visit to a Small Planet

Visit to a Small Planet
5.9/10
The weirdest alien of the galaxy pays a visit to Earth... Jerry Lewis is Kreton, a childish alien who, against his teacher's will leaves his planet to visit the Earth, and lands in the backyard of a famous television journalist who doesn't believe in U.F.O's and aliens. Wanting to study humans but not able to fully understand them, Kreton makes a mess out of it, generating a lot of comic situations.

Dreamboat

Dreamboat
6.7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 26/07/1952
  • Character: Sam Levitt
Thornton Sayre, a respected college professor - secretly formerly a silent films romantic action hero - is disturbed, feeling his privacy has been violated, and his professional credibility as a scholar jeopardized, when he learns his old movies have been resurrected and are being aired on TV. He sets out to demand this cease. However, his former co-star is the hostess of the TV show playing the films, and she has other plans.

Sergeant Dead Head

Sergeant Dead Head
4.7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 18/08/1965
  • Character: General Rufus Fogg
An astronaut goes into space with a chimpanzee. When they return to Earth after their orbit, it is discovered that the chimp has the brains of the astronaut, and the astronaut has the brains of the chimp. Complications ensue.

John Goldfarb, Please Come Home!

John Goldfarb, Please Come Home!
5/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 24/03/1965
  • Character: Heinous Overreach
During the Cold War, John Goldfarb crashes his spy plane in the Middle East and is taken prisoner by the local government. His captor, King Fawz, soon discovers that Goldfarb used to be a college football star. So he issues him an ultimatum: coach his country's football team, or Fawz will surrender him to the Russians. Goldfarb teams up with undercover reporter Jenny Ericson, and together they plot to escape their dangerous situation.

Don't Go Near the Water

Don't Go Near the Water
6.1/10
Madison Avenue-trained Navy men handle public relations on a South Pacific island during World War II.

It Started with a Kiss

It Started with a Kiss
6/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 19/08/1959
  • Character: Maj. Gen. Tim O'Connell
While on leave in New York, a serviceman both weds a chorus girl and wins a red convertible in a charity raffle. Both his wife and the car turn out to be problematic. Comedy.

Boys' Night Out

Boys' Night Out
6.5/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 21/06/1962
  • Character: Mr. Bohannon
Fred, George, Doug and Howie are quickly reaching middle-age. Three of them are married, only Fred is still a bachelor. They want something different than their ordinary marriages, children and TV-dinners. In secret, they get themselves an apartment with a beautiful young woman, Kathy, for romantic rendezvous. But Kathy does not tell them that she is a sociology student researching the sexual life of the white middle-class male.

Joe Butterfly

Joe Butterfly
5.9/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 29/05/1957
  • Character: Col. E.E. Fuller
The staff of "Yank" magazine are among the first American troops into Tokyo after the Japanese surrender. Their mission: produce an issue of the magazine...in three days. To accomplish the seeming impossible, they reluctantly enlist the aid of black marketeer and arch-conniver Joe Butterfly, who sets them up in a palatial private mansion, complete with lovely daughter -- strictly against regulations. How much trouble can our heroes talk their way out of?

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