The best Herbert Lom’s comedy movies

Herbert Lom

Herbert Lom

12/09/1917- 27/09/2012
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The Ladykillers

The Ladykillers
7.6/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 08/12/1955
  • Character: Louis, alias 'Mr. Harvey'
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 Return of the Pink Panther

The Return of the Pink Panther
7/10
The famous Pink Panther jewel has once again been stolen and Inspector Clouseau is called in to catch the thief. The Inspector is convinced that 'The Phantom' has returned and utilises all of his resources – himself and his Asian manservant – to reveal the identity of 'The Phantom'.

Son of the Pink Panther

Son of the Pink Panther
3.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 27/08/1993
  • Character: Police Commisioner Charles Dreyfus
The eighth and last of the Pink Panther series. The illegitimate son of Inspector Clouseau is on the case of the kidnapped Princess Yasmin.

Revenge of the Pink Panther

Revenge of the Pink Panther
6.6/10
Chief Inspector Jacques Clouseau is dead. At least that is what the world—and Charles Dreyfus—believe when a dead body is discovered in Clouseau's car after being shot off the road. Naturally, Clouseau knows differently and, taking advantage of not being alive, sets out to discover why an attempt was made on his life.

The Pink Panther Strikes Again

The Pink Panther Strikes Again
7.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 15/12/1976
  • Character: Dreyfus
Charles Dreyfus, who has finally cracked over inspector Clouseau's antics, escapes from a mental institution and launches an elaborate plan to get rid of Clouseau once and for all.

A Shot in the Dark

A Shot in the Dark
7.4/10
Inspector Jacques Clouseau investigates the murder of Mr. Benjamin Ballon's driver at a country estate. A Shot in the Dark is the second and more successful film from the Pink Panther film series where both animated and real life sequences are mixed. A cult classic from Blake Edwards based on the play L’Idiot by Marcel Achard and Harry Kurnitz.

Trail of the Pink Panther

Trail of the Pink Panther
4.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 03/12/1982
  • Character: Chef Inspektor Charles Dreyfus
The Pink Panther diamond is stolen once again from Lugash and the authorities call in Chief Inspector Clouseau from France. His plane disappears en-route. This time, famous French TV reporter Marie Jouvet sets out to solve the mystery and starts to interview everybody connected to Clouseau.

King Solomon's Mines

King Solomon's Mines
5.2/10
Ever in search of adventure, explorer Allan Quatermain agrees to join the beautiful Jesse Huston on a mission to locate her archaeologist father, who has been abducted for his knowledge of the legendary mines of King Solomon. As the kidnappers, led by sinister German military officer Bockner, journey into the wilds of Africa, Allan and Jesse track the party and must contend with fierce natives and dangerous creatures, among other perils.

Whoops Apocalypse

Whoops Apocalypse
6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 06/05/1986
  • Character: Gen. Mosquera
When a small British owned island in the Caribbean is invaded and the world's most dangerous terrorist kidnaps a member of the Royal family, the countdown to World War 3 begins. If anyone can prevent the oncoming apocalypse it's the American President, but her closest ally the British Prime Minister appears to have gone stark raving mad.

Curse of the Pink Panther

Curse of the Pink Panther
4.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 12/08/1983
  • Character: Chief Insp. Charles LaRousse Dreyfus
Inspector Clouseau disappears, and the Surete wants the world's second best detective to look for him. However, Clouseau's enemy, Dreyfus, rigs the Surete's computer to select, instead, the world's WORST detective, NYPD Sgt. Clifton Sleigh. Sleigh obtusely bungles his way past assassins and corrupt officials as though he were Clouseau's American cousin.

Gambit

Gambit
7.1/10
An English cat burglar needs a Eurasian dancer's help to pull off the perfect heist.

Hopscotch

Hopscotch
7.1/10
When CIA operative Miles Kendig deliberately lets KGB agent Yaskov get away, his boss threatens to retire him. Kendig beats him to it, however, destroying his own records and traveling to Austria where he begins work on a memoir that will expose all his former agency's covert practices. The CIA catches wind of the book and sends other agents after him, initiating a frenetic game of cat and mouse that spans the globe.

The Lady Vanishes

The Lady Vanishes
6/10
Remake of Alfred Hitchcock's 1938 classic. On the eve of the Second World War, a train carrying an assortment of passengers, pulls out of a small town in Bavaria. When one of the passengers, a kindly old lady, mysteriously disappears the other passengers are led into confrontation with the Nazis and a desperate race for freedom.

Charleston

Charleston
5.6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 05/03/1977
  • Character: Inspector Watkins
Charleston is a 1977 Italian comedy film written and directed by Marcello Fondato. It reprises the style of the film The Sting.

Our Man in Marrakesh

Our Man in Marrakesh
5.7/10
One of six travelers who catch the bus from Casablanca airport to Marrakesh is carrying $2 million to pay a local operator to fix United Nations votes. But which one?

The Pope Must Die

The Pope Must Die
5.1/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 21/06/1991
  • Character: Vittorio Corelli
A less-than-qualified and far-from-perfect priest is mistakenly named the new pope. As the pontiff, he must deal with Vatican corruption, the Mob and the reappearance of his old lover.

The Man with Bogart's Face

The Man with Bogart's Face
6.2/10
In this send-up of the Humphrey Bogart detective films of the 1940s, a man idolizes Bogart so much that he has his features altered to look exactly like him and then opens up a detective agency under the name Sam Marlow.

Going Bananas

Going Bananas
2.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyFamily
  • Release: 05/08/1987
  • Character: Captain Mackintosh
An evil circus owner chases a chimp and his friends through Africa. Not necessarily 'Dyn-O-Mite!', but this silly monkey business is decent family fun.

Mr. Topaze

Mr. Topaze
6.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 04/04/1961
  • Character: Castel Benac
Mr. Topaze (Peter Sellers) is an unassuming school teacher in an unassuming small French town, who is honest to a fault. He is fired when he refuses to give a passing grade to a bad student, the grandson of a wealthy baroness. Castel Benac (Herbert Lom), a government official who runs a crooked financial business on the side, is persuaded by his mistress, Suzy (Nadia Gray), a musical comedy actress, to hire Mr. Topaze as the front man for his business. Gradually, Topaze becomes a rapacious financier who sacrifices his honesty for success and, in a final stroke of business bravado, fires Benac and acquires Suzy in the deal. An old friend and colleague, Tamise (Michael Gough) questions him and tells Topaze that what he now says and practices indicates there are no more honest men.

The Karate Killers

The Karate Killers
5.3/10
International spies Napoleon Solo (Robert Vaughn) and Illya Kuryakin (David McCallum) travel around the globe in an effort to track down a secret formula that was divided into four parts and left by a dying scientist with his four of five daughters, all of whom live in different countries. His widow, Amanda, is murdered at the beginning by the counter-spies of the organization THRUSH. Evil THRUSH agent Randolph also wants the formula, and is aided by his karate-chopping henchmen.

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