The best George Woodbridge’s comedy movies

George Woodbridge

George Woodbridge

16/02/1907- 31/03/1973
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best George Woodbridge’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 George Woodbridge.
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A King in New York

A King in New York
7/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 12/09/1957
  • Character: Member of Atomic Commission
Due to a revolution in his country, King Shahdov comes to New York—almost broke. To get some money, he makes TV commercials, where he meets a child who has communist parents. Because of this meeting, he's immediately suspected of being a communist—and gets caught up in the McCarthy's hearings.

Carry On Jack

Carry On Jack
5.8/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 01/11/1963
  • Character: Ned
Tenth entry in the Carry On series. Able seaman Poop-Decker (Bernard Cribbins) signs up for adventure on the high seas with the wicked Captain Fearless (Kenneth Williams). Those swabbing the decks include Juliet Mills, Charles Hawtrey and Donald Houston. The film was originally to be titled Up the Armada, but the British Board of Film Censors objected to such a rude title.

Only Two Can Play

Only Two Can Play
6.6/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 19/01/1962
  • Character: Farmer
John Lewis is bored by his librarian's job and henpecked at home. Then Liz, wife of a local councillor, sets her sights on him. But this is risky stuff in a Welsh valleys town - if he and Liz ever manage to consummate their affair, that is.

Green for Danger

Green for Danger
7.4/10
In the midst of Nazi air raids, a postman dies on the operating table at a rural hospital. But was the death accidental?

The Constant Husband

The Constant Husband
6.4/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 21/04/1955
  • Character: Old Bailey Warder
Charles Hathaway wakes up in West Wales with no recollection of who he is or how he got there. With the help of a Cardiff specialist he traces his life back to his gorgeous wife and their large London house, so all seems well with the world. But more detective work starts to uncover an alarming chain of further stunning wives and a way of going on that the new Charles finds pretty unacceptable.

Take a Girl Like You

Take a Girl Like You
5.6/10
Young Jenny heads to the South of England to start a new career as a school teacher. Even before she has had a chance to settle in she meets Patrick, one of the local "lads". Within a short time she has her hands full when a number of the local boys take a liking to her. But who will be the lucky one who wins her affections?

For Better, for Worse

For Better, for Worse
5.7/10
In postwar London a young graduate and his girlfriend decide to marry. Her well-to-do parents are not convinced, but they agree once he has got a £5.10.0 job and a 30/- a week single-room flat. The newly-weds find money fearfully tight, the flat cramped, the neighbours a trial, and her parents always hovering. Can faith conquer all? Is there some way of getting rid of tea-leaves except down the sink?

Two Way Stretch

Two Way Stretch
6.8/10
Three criminals plan to break out of prison the day before their release in order to carry out a daring jewel robbery, intending to establish the perfect alibi by returning to jail afterwards. First however they must get out, a task made more difficult by a new, stricter prison officer.

An Alligator Named Daisy

An Alligator Named Daisy
5.2/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 13/12/1955
  • Character: PC Jorkins (uncredited)
Returning from a cricket match in Ireland, Peter Weston gains a pet alligator from another passenger who abandons it with him. He is horrified and while his first instinct is to get rid of it he develops a relationship with a young Irishwoman who appears to be entwined with the reptile. He soon discovers that Daisy is tame and seems to be the way to Moira's heart.

What a Carve Up!

What a Carve Up!
6.3/10
Ernie's Uncle Gabriel has just died but to claim his inheritance he must spend the night in the ancestral family home with the rest of his rather eccentric relatives. Ernie's imagination has been affected by his constant immersion in cheap horror novels, but his wildest fears turn out to be justified when the guests begin to drop dead.

The Iron Maiden

The Iron Maiden
6.4/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 07/06/1963
  • Character: Sid Ludge
The film follows Jack Hopkins (played by Michael Craig), an aircraft designer with a passion for traction engines. His boss (played by Cecil Parker) is eager to sell a new supersonic jet plane that Jack has designed to American millionaire Paul Fisher (Alan Hale, Jr.). The first encounter between Fisher and Jack goes badly, and tensions only heighten after Fisher's daughter Kathy (Anne Helm) damages Jack's prize traction engine "The Iron Maiden", rendering it impossible to drive solo. Jack is desperate to enter the annual Woburn Abbey steam rally with the machine, but his fireman is injured and unable to participate. When all seems lost the millionaire himself is won over by Jack's plight and joins him in driving the engine; the two soon become firm friends.

Mad About Men

Mad About Men
6.4/10
Flirtatious mermaid Miranda swaps places with a schoolteacher who has gone on holiday. All is well until she falls in love with a human.

Conflict of Wings

Conflict of Wings
6.3/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 29/03/1954
  • Character: 'Old Circular'
In rural Norfolk, villagers are spurred to action when it is announced that the nearby RAF station is taking over the Island of Children, a much-loved and untouched bird sanctuary, for rocket practice.

A Yank in Ermine

A Yank in Ermine
4.9/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 01/01/1955
  • Character: Landlord
An American airman inherits an Earldom in England along with the small matter of $3 million on the proviso that he gives up his US citizenship. Unsure if he is prepared to make the sacrifice he takes a trip with his two best friends to try our his new title, but will he be able to cope with the British aristocracy?

Nurse on Wheels

Nurse on Wheels
6.2/10
Quietly competent young Joanna moves with her scatterbrain mother to a country village to take up her first job as District Nurse. She soon overcomes the suspicion of her patients used to someone rather older, while becoming romantically involved with a local farmer - at least until he tries to evict a newly-arrived expectant couple who park their caravan on his land.

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