The best Guy Usher’s comedy movies

Guy Usher

Guy Usher

09/05/1883- 16/06/1944
Today we present the best Guy Usher’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 Guy Usher’s movies.
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Doomed to Die

Doomed to Die
5.5/10
Shipping magnate Cyrus Wentworth, downcast over a disaster to his ocean liner 'Wentworth Castle' (carrying, oddly enough, an illicit shipment of Chinese bonds) is shot in his office at the very moment of kicking out his daughter's fiance Dick Fleming. Of course, Captain Street arrests Dick, but reporter Bobbie Logan, the attractive thorn in Street's side, is so convinced he's wrong that she enlists the help of detective James Lee Wong to find the real killer.

It's a Gift

It's a Gift
7.1/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 30/11/1934
  • Character: Harry Payne Bosterly
After he inherits some money, Harold Bissonette ("pronounced bis-on-ay") decides to give up the grocery business, move to California and run an orange grove. Despite his family's objections and the news that the land he bought is worthless, Bissonette packs up and drives out to California with his nagging wife Amelia and children.

King of the Zombies

King of the Zombies
5.2/10
During World War II, a small plane somewhere over the Caribbean runs low on fuel and is blown off course by a storm. Guided by a faint radio signal, they crash-land on an island. The passenger, his manservant and the pilot take refuge in a mansion owned by a doctor. The quick-witted yet easily-frightened manservant soon becomes convinced the mansion is haunted by zombies and ghosts.

Big Brown Eyes

Big Brown Eyes
6.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyMystery
  • Release: 03/04/1936
  • Character: Judge Davis (Uncredited)
Sassy manicurist Eve Fallon is recruited as an even more brassy reporter and she helps police detective boyfriend Danny Barr break a jewel theft ring and solve the murder of a baby.

Baby Take a Bow

Baby Take a Bow
6.4/10
Eddie Ellison is an ex-con who spent time in Sing-Sing prison. Kay marries him as soon as he serves his time. Five years later, Eddie and his ex-convict buddy Larry, have both gone straight, and Eddie and Kay have a beautiful little girl named Shirley. However, Welch has kept a close eye on them for years. He believes in "once a criminal, always a criminal." Then, when Eddie's employer's wife's pearls go missing, it comes out that Eddie and Larry both spent time in prison, and they're fired. Welch suspects that Eddie and Larry have something to do with the theft of the pearls. Will Welch prove that Eddie and Larry had something to do with the theft, or will the truth prevail?

Penguin Pool Murder

Penguin Pool Murder
6.9/10
New York schoolmarm Hildegarde Withers assists a detective when a body of unscrupulous stockbroker Gerald Parker suddenly appears in the penguin tank at the aquarium.

The Goose and the Gander

The Goose and the Gander
6.5/10
When Georgiana Summers learns that the woman who stole and married her husband is planning a romantic tryst with a new love, she hatches a giddy plot to expose the rendezvous and pay her back.

The Go-Getter

The Go-Getter
6.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 22/05/1937
  • Character: Ship line official (uncredited)
A Navy veteran with one leg fights to make himself a success.

The Merry Frinks

The Merry Frinks
5.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 26/05/1934
  • Character: 2nd Detective Sergeant (uncredited)
An heiress abandons an out-of-work husband, two sons and a lovesick daughter.

Hold 'Em Yale

Hold 'Em Yale
6.2/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 27/04/1935
  • Character: Coach Jennings
A pretty young socialite falls for a charming but shady hustler, who abandons her when he finds that she has been disowned by her wealthy father. Three of the hustler's partners, who have also been left high and dry by heir former associate, come up with a plan to get her to the annual Yale-Harvard football game to reunite with her former sweetheart, an honest but nerdy bookworm.

The Nuisance

The Nuisance
6.7/10
Fast-talker extraordinaire Tracy gives one of his quintessential wiseguy performances as a conniving ambulance chaser who falls in love with Evans, unaware she's a special investigator for a streetcar company he's repeatedly victimized.

Big Town Girl

Big Town Girl
5.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 03/12/1937
  • Character: Inspector
When a department store songstress becomes a radio star she keeps her identity secret, as the "Masked Countess", because he estranged husband is a crook.

Midnight Intruder

Midnight Intruder
6.3/10
A former actor poses as the son of a wealthy man and gets involved in a murder in which the real son is the suspect.

Little Big Shot

Little Big Shot
6.2/10
A con man and his partner inherit a dead gangster's precocious daughter.

Under Western Stars

Under Western Stars
5.8/10
In his starring debut, Roy gets elected to Congress in order to bring water to the ranchers in his district. In Washington, he learns he needs the backing of a key congressman and gets that man to go west for an inspection trip. When the congressman is initially unimpressed, Roy gets the inspection party stranded without water to show the true conditions.

Flirting with Danger

Flirting with Danger
5.1/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 01/12/1934
  • Character: James E. Fenton
Three brash and cocky powder mixers are sent to South America to work at a dynamite plant there.

Time Out for Romance

Time Out for Romance
5.8/10
A girl (Trevor) escapes marriage and hitchhikes with a young man (Whalen) in whose car a jewel thief has planted his loot.

Atlantic Adventure

Atlantic Adventure
5.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyMystery
  • Release: 25/08/1935
  • Character: Police Lieutenant Bill Kelly
When reporter Dan Miller is once again late to meet his girl friend, Helen Murdock, because he is working on a story, Helen breaks up with him. Later, in an effort to reconcile with her, Dan misses an appointment with the district attorney, and is fired when his editor learns that the district attorney was murdered in Dan's absence. The man suspected of the crime, Mitts Coster, is rumored to be traveling to Europe aboard an ocean liner. While Dan's friend, photographer Snapper McGillicuddy, fetches Helen to the boat, under the pretense that Dan is leaving town to forget her, Dan searches the ship for Mitts, whom he does not recognize. When Helen arrives, Dan feigns illness, and she admits her love for him. When Helen learns of Dan's ruse, however, she angrily hits him with a package that a passenger gave her when she boarded the ship. The package contains a passport for Dorothy Madden, who greatly resembles Helen, and $2,000 dollars.

Whistling in the Dark

Whistling in the Dark
6.5/10
A mystery writer and his sweetheart are held hostage by a fugitive gangster, who hopes to enlist their help in devising the perfect crime.

Little Miss Roughneck

Little Miss Roughneck
5/10
Sad-eyed, uniquely talented child actress Edith Fellows was Columbia's "answer" to Shirley Temple, Jane Withers and Deanna Durbin. In Little Miss Roughneck, Fellows is cast as Foxine LaRue, a tomboyish sort who is being prodded into a show-biz career by her stage mother Gert (Margaret Irving). Young Mr. Partridge (Scott Colton) becomes Foxine's agent, principally because he's sweet on the girl's older sister Mary (Jacqueline Wells). Blackballed from Hollywood because of her mother's pushiness, Foxine tries to help out Partridge and her own family by cooking up a bizarre publicity stunt, enlisting the aid of easy-going Mexican "papacita" Pascual (Leo Carrillo).

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