The best Harry Wilson’s comedy movies

Harry Wilson

Harry Wilson

22/11/1897- 06/09/1978
We present our ranking of the best Harry Wilson’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 Harry Wilson.
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The Great Dictator

The Great Dictator
8.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyWar
  • Release: 23/10/1940
  • Character: Soldier in Field (uncredited)
Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecution from Hynkel's regime.

Some Like It Hot

Some Like It Hot
8.2/10
Two musicians witness a mob hit and struggle to find a way out of the city before they are found by the gangsters. Their only opportunity is to join an all-girl band as they leave on a tour. To make their getaway they must first disguise themselves as women, then keep their identities secret and deal with the problems this brings - such as an attractive bandmate and a very determined suitor.

Modern Times

Modern Times
8.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 11/02/1936
  • Character: Worker (uncredited)
The Tramp struggles to live in modern industrial society with the help of a young homeless woman.

Topper

Topper
7.2/10
Madcap couple George and Marion Kerby are killed in an automobile accident. They return as ghosts to try and liven up the regimented lifestyle of their friend and bank president, Cosmo Topper. When Topper starts to live it up, it strains relations with his stuffy wife.

Woman of the Year

Woman of the Year
7.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyDramaRomance
  • Release: 05/02/1942
  • Character: Lubbeck's Bodyguard (uncredited)
Rival reporters Sam and Tess fall in love and get married, only to find their relationship strained when Sam comes to resent Tess' hectic lifestyle.

Pocketful of Miracles

Pocketful of Miracles
7.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 18/12/1961
  • Character: Slop (uncredited)
Boozy, brassy Apple Annie, a beggar with a basket of apples, is as much a part of downtown New York as old Broadway itself. Bootlegger Dave the Dude is a sucker for her apples -- he thinks they bring him luck. But Dave and girlfriend Queenie Martin need a lot more than luck when it turns out that Annie is in a jam and only they can help: Annie's daughter Louise, who has lived all her life in a Spanish convent, is coming to America with a Count and his son. The count's son wants to marry Louise, who thinks her mother is part of New York society. It's up to Dave and Queenie and their cronies to turn Annie into a lady and convince the Count and his son that they are hobnobbing with New York's elite.

Robin and the 7 Hoods

Robin and the 7 Hoods
6.4/10
In prohibition-era Chicago, the corrupt sheriff and Guy Gisborne, a south-side racketeer, knock off the boss Big Jim. Everyone falls in line behind Guy except Robbo, who controls the north side. Although he's out-gunned, Robbo wants to keep his own territory. A pool-playing dude from Indiana and the director of a boys' orphanage join forces with Robbo; and, when he gives some money to the orphanage, he becomes the toast of the town as a hood like Robin Hood. Meanwhile, Guy schemes to get rid of Robbo, and Big Jim's heretofore unknown daughter Marian appears and goes from man to man trying to find an ally in her quest to run the whole show. Can Robbo hold things together?

Hold That Ghost

Hold That Ghost
7.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyHorror
  • Release: 08/08/1941
  • Character: Harry (uncredited)
Two bumbling service station attendants are left as the sole beneficiaries in a gangster's will. Their trip to claim their fortune is sidetracked when they are stranded in a haunted house along with several other strangers.

Go West

Go West
6.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyWestern
  • Release: 06/12/1940
  • Character: Barfly / Train Passenger
Embezzler, shill, all around confidence man S. Quentin Quale is heading west to find his fortune; he meets the crafty but simple brothers Joseph and Rusty Panello in a train station, where they steal all his money. They're heading west, too, because they've heard you can just pick the gold off the ground. Once there, they befriend an old miner named Dan Wilson whose property, Dead Man's Gulch, has no gold. They loan him their last ten dollars so he can go start life anew, and for collateral, he gives them the deed to the Gulch. Unbeknownst to Wilson, the son of his longtime rival, Terry Turner (who's also in love with his daughter, Eva), has contacted the railroad to arrange for them to build through the land, making the old man rich and hopefully resolving the feud. But the evil Red Baxter, owner of a saloon, tricks the boys out of the deed, and it's up to them - as well as Quale, who naturally finds his way out west anyway - to save the day.

Honky Tonk

Honky Tonk
6.6/10
Fast-talking con-man and grifter Candy Johnson rises to be the corrupt boss of Yellow Creek, but his wife's alcoholic father tries to set things right.

Buccaneer's Girl

Buccaneer's Girl
6.1/10
Buccaneer's Girl is a 1950 American romantic adventure film directed by Frederick De Cordova and starring Yvonne De Carlo, Philip Friend and Robert Douglas. A New Orleans singer becomes involved with a Pirate Lord.

Designing Woman

Designing Woman
6.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 16/05/1957
  • Character: Thug (uncredited)
A sportswriter who marries a fashion designer discovers that their mutual interests are few, although each has an intriguing past which makes the other jealous.

Adventure

Adventure
6.1/10
A rough and tumble man of the sea falls for a meek librarian.

Swing Fever

Swing Fever
5.9/10
Comedy about a bandleader with hypnotic powers.

Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
6.4/10
Abbott and Costello, two bumbling American cops on exchange in London, hunt for Mr. Hyde—the monster that has been terrorizing the city.

Pardon My Sarong

Pardon My Sarong
6.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 07/08/1942
  • Character: Varnoff's Henchman (uncredited)
A pair of bus drivers accidentally steal their own bus. With the company issuing a warrant for their arrest, they tag along with a playboy on a boat trip that finds them on a tropical island, where a jewel thief has sinister plans for them.

That Girl From Paris

That Girl From Paris
5.7/10
Nikki Martin (Lily Pons), a beautiful French opera star, stows away on an ocean liner in hopes of escaping her jealous fiancee. Once aboard, she joins an American swing band and falls in love with its leader, who, after hearing her sing, eventually comes to reciprocate her feelings.

Maisie Was a Lady

Maisie Was a Lady
6.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 10/01/1941
  • Character: Man at Carnival Sideshow (Uncredited)
Showgirl Maisie Ravier finds herself once again out of work. She meets a wealthy playboy who hires her to be his family's new maid. Maisie soon finds herself trying to mend the family's many problems.

The Bride Wore Red

The Bride Wore Red
6.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyDramaRomance
  • Release: 08/10/1937
  • Character: Cordellera Bar Patron (uncredited)
A poor singer in a bar masquerades as a rich society woman thanks to a rich benefactor.

Lost in a Harem

Lost in a Harem
6.3/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 01/12/1944
  • Character: Native in Café Audience (uncredited)
Two bumbling magicians help a Middle Eastern prince regain his rightful throne from his despotic uncle.

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