The best Guinn Williams’s comedy movies

Guinn Williams

Guinn Williams

26/04/1899- 06/06/1962
We present our ranking of the best Guinn Williams’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 Guinn Williams.
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The Desperadoes

The Desperadoes
6.4/10
Popular mailcoach driver Uncle Willie is in fact in league with the town's crooked banker. They plan to have the bank robbed after emptying it, and when Willie's choice for this doesn't show in time, he gets some local boys to do it. When his man does turn up he decides to stick around, as he is pals with the sheriff and also takes a shine to Willie's daughter Allison. This gives the bad men several new problems.

Palooka

Palooka
6/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 26/01/1934
  • Character: Slats (uncredited)
Joe Palooka is a naive young man whose father Pete was a champion boxer, but his lifestyle caused Joe's mother Mayme to leave him and to take young Joe to the country to raise him.

Belle of the Yukon

Belle of the Yukon
5.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyWestern
  • Release: 27/12/1944
  • Character: Sheriff Mervin Maitland
Left by a con man, Belle De Valle, a dancer, finds him again in gold-rush Alaska running an honest casino/dance hall.

Miss Pacific Fleet

Miss Pacific Fleet
6/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 14/12/1935
  • Character: Nicholas 'Nick', Annie's Boyfriend
A down-on-her-luck showgirl sets her eyes on the cash prize that comes with winning the title "Miss Pacific Fleet". Director Ray Enright's 1935 comedy stars Joan Blondell, Glenda Farrell, Hugh Herbert, Allen Jenkins, Warren Hull, Marie Wilson, Minna Gombell, Guinn Williams, Eddie Acuff and Mary Treen.

You'll Never Get Rich

You'll Never Get Rich
6.7/10
A Broadway choreographer gets drafted and coincidentally ends up in the same army base as his object of affection’s boyfriend.

You Said a Mouthful

You Said a Mouthful
6.1/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 18/11/1932
  • Character: Swimming Champion Joe Holt (uncredited)
Two men bear the name Joe Holt. One is a shipping clerk, the other a champion Canadian swimmer. When a socialite gets them confused, thinking the clerk is the inventor of an unsinkable swim suit, she enters him in a 20 mile swim race.

Army Girl

Army Girl
5.7/10
A young captain hoping to replace the U.S. Army's horses with mechanized vehicles faces court-martial after his commanding officer, who's opposed to modern changes, is killed.

The Singing Marine

The Singing Marine
5.8/10
Bob Brent, a young Marine from Arkansas, impresses his comrades with his singing ability, and they pitch in to send him to New York to compete in an amateur contest. Success in the contest, however, sets him up for trouble in romance, in his career, and with the Corps.

The Littlest Rebel

The Littlest Rebel
6.7/10
Virgie Cary's father, a rebel officer, sneaks back to his rundown plantation to see his dying wife and is arrested. A Yankee officer takes pity and sets up an escape. Everyone is captured and the officers are to be executed. Virgie and Uncle Billy beg President Lincoln to intercede.

My Dear Miss Aldrich

My Dear Miss Aldrich
6.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 17/09/1937
  • Character: An Attendant
A young woman inherits a newspaper whose editor refuses to hire lady reporters.

Rafter Romance

Rafter Romance
6.6/10
A working girl shares her apartment with an artist, taking the place in shifts.

Dulcy

Dulcy
6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 04/10/1940
  • Character: Henry
A dizzy young woman aranges to turn her inventor-boyfriend's vacation into a chance meeting with a possible investor who happens to be her brother's future father-in-law. And Wacky stuff happens.

Mr. Wise Guy

Mr. Wise Guy
5.7/10
The gang is sent to the Wilton Reform School after they are unjustly convicted of stealing a truck. Bill Collins, brother of co-leader Danny, becomes involved in a killing and, while also innocent, is convicted and sentenced to death. Through a series of events, Muggs, Glimpy, Danny and the rest of the gang, learn that Knobby, a henchman of Luke Manning, knows something about the murder.

Vamping Venus

Vamping Venus
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 13/05/1928
  • Character: Mars (as Big Boy Williams)
A present-day stereotypically-Irish American politician ('Charlie Murray') is vaulted into ancient Greece after receiving a bump on the head.

War Mamas

War Mamas
6.1/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 14/11/1931
  • Character: Doughboy
During WW1, the girls become spies when they spend the evening with two German officers.

Polly of the Circus

Polly of the Circus
6.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 27/02/1932
  • Character: Eric
When Polly Fisher, a circus aerialist, is hurt while performing, she is taken to the house of a nearby minister, John Hartley. As she recuperates, they fall in love with each other and secretly marry. But when the truth leaks out , John's congregation rebels at having a circus woman as their minister's wife, and he is fired. Polly decides to leave John in hopes of giving back to him the calling that means so much to him. But fate steps in and rearranges all plans.

Professor Beware

Professor Beware
6.3/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 29/07/1938
  • Character: Motorcycle Cop
Egyptologist, Dean Lambert, accused of car-theft, skips bail and begins a cross-country trek to join a group in New York headed for Egypt. With the police close on his trail he gets in and out of scrapes along the way.

Kelly the Second

Kelly the Second
5.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 21/08/1936
  • Character: Cecil Joseph Callahan
A feisty Irish woman turns a truck driver into a championship boxer.

Don't Tell the Wife

Don't Tell the Wife
5.9/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 05/03/1937
  • Character: Lazarus "Cupid" Dougal
After being released from prison, con man Thurston Hall gathers his gang of cronies--along with innocent chump Guy Kibbee--to help him sell worthless stock in a New Mexico gold mine.

The Man Who Walked Alone

The Man Who Walked Alone
5.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 15/03/1945
  • Character: Champ
A war hero returns home following a medical discharge and ends up entangled with a young woman speeding away from her wedding day in her fiance's car. Seeing the soldier, she gives him a ride and explains her predicament. Things get sticky when the cops capture them and accuse the soldier of desertion.

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