The best Harry Bowen’s comedy movies
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Harry Bowen’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 Harry Bowen.
Shall We Dance
7.4/10
Ballet star Petrov arranges to cross the Atlantic aboard the same ship as the dancer and musical star he's fallen for but barely knows. By the time the ocean liner reaches New York, a little white lie has churned through the rumour mill and turned into a hot gossip item—that the two celebrities are secretly married.
The Dentist
6.7/10
An unconventional dentist deals with patients in slapstick fashion.
She's Got Everything
6.1/10
The day after Carol returns from a European trip, she wakes up to find her dead father's creditors hauling everything away. Her aunt wants her to marry a millionaire, but Carol insists on getting a job.
Crazy Feet
7.9/10
Charley intervenes in a fight between Eddie and Thelma inside her small car. Cop Kennedy misinterprets things, and Charley hides in the theatre Thelma is rehearsing in. Charley replaces Eddie as Thelma's partner in an artistic dance act, and makes a fiasco of it.
Gridiron Flash
4.9/10
A college football team recruits a tough convict.
Hot Tip
5.6/10
An amateur handicapper must help his future son-in-law recoup the money he lost while playing the ponies.
Too Many Highballs
5.2/10
Harold Hobbs doesn't much like that his lazy, sponging and unemployed brother-in-law Claude and his mother-in-law live with him and his wife, Hortense, especially as the in-laws seem to rule the roost ever since they moved in. To get his in-laws out of the house, Harold has regularly left a bottle of booze for Claude to be able to entertain prospective employers. When Harold learns that on all the other occasions the employers have not showed (he assumes there probably were no prospective employers) leaving Claude to consume the booze on his own, he decides to show Claude a lesson by spiking the bottle with castor oil. Complications ensue when Joe, Harold's friend, encourages him to skip work to attend the prize fight. What Joe doesn't tell Harold is that he tells his boss that Harold needs the day off to attend to the sudden death of his brother-in-law.
The Day the Bookies Wept
5.4/10
A pigeon breeder is hired to train a racehorse that wins only when it drinks beer. Comedy.
Goldie Gets Along
4.8/10
A small-town girl schemes to get to Hollywood only to run into the man she left behind.
Living on Love
5.4/10
A man and woman, who've never met, are forced by circumstances to share the same apartment. A remake of the 1933 film "Rafter Romance".
Dummy Ache
5.8/10
1936 short film nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Short Subject, Two Reel.
Thundering Fleas
5.8/10
The kids from Our Gang have to attend a wedding, and they bring along their flea collection--which gets loose.
The Tip-Off
5.8/10
A young radio repairman becomes involved with gangsters and one of their girlfriends when he repairs their radio.
Strike Me Pink
6.4/10
Meek Eddie Pink becomes manager of an amusement park beset by mobsters.
Slightly Static
6.4/10
Thelma and Patsy get jobs at a radio station.
It Happened One Day
7/10
Charley meets his new boss--who has a lovely daughter.
Red Hot Rhythm
6.3/10
A 1929 film by Leo McCarey.
You Said a Hatful!
6.7/10
When he learns the secret news that it will be sold today at 4pm in Kansas City, international banker J.P. Anderson sets in motion a plan to purchase the Tippycanoe Tuckahoe & Tehachapi Railroad.
Something Simple
7/10
Taken to a hospital, after suffering a dizzy spell, Charley is told by a 'nut', posing as a doctor, that he suffers from 'Tetra-Ethyl", and the only remedy is to sit down, relax, clear the mind and recite a nursery rhyme. The fake doctor gives Charley a package to deliver to Mr. Henderson, the "Supreme Crown of the Knights of the Brown Derby." At the hotel, hosting a convention of "Brown Derbies," Charley suffers a dizzy spell and the only place he can find to sit down is in Mr. Henderson's lap, where he recites "Mary Had a Little Lamb." Mr. Henderson, it is revealed, also suffers from "Tetra-Ethyl." Seized by an attack, Henderson sits down and tries to recite "Who Killed Cock Robin," but forgets the lines, which Charley and Henderson's daughter, Betty, sing in a song together. That, coming at the end of the second reel,is all it takes for Charley and Betty to decide to get married.
Should Wives Work?
5.8/10
Errol's wife goes back to work, despite his objections.
