The best Harold Goodwin’s comedy movies

Harold Goodwin

Harold Goodwin

22/10/1917- 03/06/2004
Today we present the best Harold Goodwin’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 Harold Goodwin’s movies.
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The Ladykillers

The Ladykillers
7.6/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 08/12/1955
  • Character: Parcels Clerk (uncredited)
Five oddball criminals planning a bank robbery rent rooms on a cul-de-sac from an octogenarian widow under the pretext that they are classical musicians.

The Prince and the Showgirl

The Prince and the Showgirl
6.4/10
A saucy American showgirl in London is wooed by a roving-eyed Duke, but his estranged son, the young King, interrupts their late supper with politics and angry accusations.

Jabberwocky

Jabberwocky
6.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyFantasy
  • Release: 28/03/1977
  • Character: 1st Peasant
A medieval tale with Pythonesque humour: After the death of his father the young Dennis Cooper goes to town where he has to pass several adventures. The town and the whole kingdom is threatened by a terrible monster called 'Jabberwocky'. Will Dennis make his fortune? Is anyone brave enough to defeat the monster?

The Happiest Days of Your Life

The Happiest Days of Your Life
7.2/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 08/03/1950
  • Character: Edwin: Staff of Nutbourne
Nutbourne College, an old established, all-boys, boarding school is told that another school is to be billeted with due to wartime restrictions. The shock is that it's an all-girls school that has been sent. The two head teachers are soon battling for the upper hand with each other and the Ministry. But a crisis (or two) forces them to work together.

The Million Pound Note

The Million Pound Note
6.8/10
An impoverished American sailor is fortunate enough to be passing the house of two rich gentlemen who have conceived the crazy idea of distributing a note worth one million pounds. The sailor finds that whenever he tries to use the note to buy something, people treat him like a king and let him have whatever he likes for free. Ultimately, the money proves to be more troublesome than it is worth when it almost costs him his dignity and the woman he loves.

The Magnet

The Magnet
6.8/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 01/10/1950
  • Character: Pinball man
A classic Ealing comedy in which a young boy steals a magnet and becomes a hero.

Barnacle Bill

Barnacle Bill
6.7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 17/12/1957
  • Character: Duckworth
A seasick sea captain commands an amusement pier despite local opposition. Released in the U.S. as 'All at Sea'

Crooks Anonymous

Crooks Anonymous
6.2/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 31/03/1962
  • Character: George
A former burglar trying to go straight joins a rehabilitation scheme using much the same methods as AA. Through the process, he takes work as a department store Santa, where the endless parade of goods and money, not to mention the pretty young shop hands have him like a moth to a flame in no time flat.

The Man in the White Suit

The Man in the White Suit
7.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 07/08/1951
  • Character: Wilkins
The unassuming, nebbishy inventor Sidney Stratton creates a miraculous fabric that will never be dirty or worn out. Clearly he can make a fortune selling clothes made of the material, but may cause a crisis in the process. After all, once someone buys one of his suits they won't ever have to fix them or buy another one, and the clothing industry will collapse overnight. Nevertheless, Sidney is determined to put his invention on the market, forcing the clothing factory bigwigs to resort to more desperate measures...

A Kid for Two Farthings

A Kid for Two Farthings
6.4/10
Joe is a young boy who lives with his mother, Joanna, in working-class London. The two reside above the tailor shop of Mr. Kandinsky, who likes to tell Joe stories. When Kandinsky informs Joe that a unicorn can grant wishes, the hopeful lad ends up buying a baby goat with one tiny horn, believing it to be a real unicorn. Undaunted by his rough surroundings, Joe sets about to prove that wishes can come true.

On the Fiddle

On the Fiddle
5.7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 10/10/1961
  • Character: Corporal Reeves
Tricked into joining the RAF by a wily judge, wide boy Horace Pope sets his sights on the main chance, teams with slow-witted, good-hearted gypsy Pedlar Pascoe, and works up a lucrative racket in conning both his colleagues and the RAF. By means of various devious schemes Pope and Pascoe manage to avoid the front lines until they are sent to France - where they find themselves making unexpected and uncomfortably close contact with the enemy.

The Ugly Duckling

The Ugly Duckling
5.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 09/09/1959
  • Character: Benny
Henry Jekyll was always the outsider, a bungling and awkward buffoon, relegated to waiting for his invitation to participate in life that never arrived: until he discovers a medical formula developed by a dead uncle, which claimed to turn 'a man of timid disposition into a bold, fearless dragon'. Taking a draught of the elixir Henry is transformed into suave, sophisticated and highly desirable Teddy Hyde. Armed with his new persona, Teddy is ready to face the world; but is Henry ready for the consequences?

Operation Cupid

Operation Cupid
5.6/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 01/04/1960
  • Character: Mervyn
A gang of criminals plan to use a marriage agency that they won during a card game, to arrange a lucrative marriage for one of their number.

Green Grow the Rushes

Green Grow the Rushes
5.9/10
Efforts to move Britain into the modern age don't sit well with the people of the small village of Anderia Marsh, who have claimed a right (going back to Henry III) to evade government-imposed import duties and taxes. And when the government decides to curb this right, the whole village quietly rises up in a comical rebellion. After their vessel runs aground during a storm and is impounded by the British authorities, local smugglers must find a way of disposing of their contraband brandy cargo before it's discovered by the Customs Officers.

You Lucky People

You Lucky People
5.1/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 01/01/1955
  • Character: Pvt. Rossiter
Reservist Tommy Smart - who has made his fortune since the war selling army surplus - arrives at an army camp, with his chauffeur/valet, for two weeks' training. Bank manager Corporal Jones is in Tommy's squad. Sylvia, Jones' daughter, wishes to marry Lieutenant Robson, a National Service officer. Smart is under the orders of his old enemy Sergeant Thickpenny and R.S.M. Brittain; various parade ground antics ensue.

The Harassed Hero

The Harassed Hero
5.5/10
Poor Mr. Murray Selwyn (Guy Middleton)! He's suffering from 'Acute Apprehension Complex' and his doctors have strongly recommended that he avoid any stress or excitement in his life. Unfortunately -- thanks to a chance encounter in a London taxi cab -- he now finds himself at the very centre of an explosive international criminal caper and his life is filled with suitcases full of hot money, desperate gunmen and vanishing bodies! More dangerous still, he's been cared for by the rather ravishing Nurse Brook (Joan Winmill Brown) -- a girl guaranteed to stimulate any red-blooded English gentleman! How much excitement can one man take?

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