The best Howard McNear’s comedy movies

Howard McNear

Howard McNear

27/01/1905- 03/01/1969
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Blue Hawaii

Blue Hawaii
6.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 22/11/1961
  • Character: Mr. Chapman
Chad Gates has just been discharged from the Army, and is happy to be back in Hawaii with his surf-board, his beach buddies and his girlfriend.

Irma la Douce

Irma la Douce
7.3/10
A Parisian policeman gives up everything for the love of a free-living sex worker.

The Fortune Cookie

The Fortune Cookie
7.2/10
A cameraman is knocked over during a football game. His brother in law as the king of the ambulance chasing lawyers starts a suit while he's still knocked out. The cameraman is against it until he hears that his ex-wife will be coming to see him. He pretends to be injured to get her back, but also sees what the strain is doing to the football player who injured him.

Bell, Book and Candle

Bell, Book and Candle
6.8/10
A modern-day witch likes her neighbor but despises his fiancee, so she enchants him to love her instead... only to fall in love with him for real.

Kiss Me, Stupid

Kiss Me, Stupid
6.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 18/12/1964
  • Character: Mr Pettibone
While traveling home from Vegas, an amorous lounge singer named Dino gets conned by a local mechanic/songwriter into staying in town for the night. The mechanic's songwriting partner, Orville, offers Dino his home for overnight lodging and enlists a local waitress/call girl to pose as his wife in order to placate Dino's urges.

Fun in Acapulco

Fun in Acapulco
5.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 01/01/1963
  • Character: Dr. Stevers
Mike works on a boat in Acapulco. When the bratty daughter of the boat owner gets him fired, Mike must find new work. Little boy Rauol helps him get a job as a lifeguard and singer at a local hotel. Clashes abound when Mike runs into the rival lifeguard, who is the champion diver of Mexico.

Bundle of Joy

Bundle of Joy
6/10
Kitschy musical remake of "Bachelor Mother". Debbie Reynolds plays an over-eager clerk in a large department store and Eddie Fisher plays the boss' son. After getting fired from her job, she finds an adorable baby on the steps of the foundling home and the folks inside mistake her for the mother. Fisher, well-meaning, but obtuse, tries to help her out with the baby, and the buds of romance begin to appear. Meanwhile old Merlin, the owner of the store, thinks he just might be a grandfather...

Bachelor Flat

Bachelor Flat
5.8/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 12/01/1962
  • Character: Dr. Dylan Bowman
Professor Bruce Patterson is constantly having to fight off the advances of his young female students and is engaged to Helen Bushmill. While Helen goes on vacation, Bruce decides to stay at her apartment but is surprised by the arrival of Libby, Helen's 17-year-old daughter. Having never been told by Helen of this daughter, Bruce assumes she's another student. During her stay, Libby is noticed by an amorous neighbor, Mike.

The Wheeler Dealers

The Wheeler Dealers
6.5/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 14/11/1963
  • Character: Mr. Wilson
Henry J. Tyroone leaves Texas, where his oil wells are drying up, and arrives in New York with a lot of oil money to play with in the stock market. He meets stock analyst Molly Thatcher, who tries to ignore the lavish attention he spends on her but ...

Follow That Dream

Follow That Dream
6.5/10
When the Kwimper family car runs out of fuel on a new Florida highway and an officious state supervisor tries to run them off, Pop Kwimper digs in his heels and decides to do a little homesteading. He and his son Toby and their 'adopted' children—Holly, Ariadne, and the twins—start their own little community along a strip of the roadside.

The Errand Boy

The Errand Boy
6.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyFamily
  • Release: 28/11/1961
  • Character: Dexter Sneak
Paramutual Pictures wants to know where all the money is going so they hire Morty to be their spy. Morty works for Mr. Sneak and gets a job in the mail room so that he can have access to the lot. But all that Morty ever finds is that he can cause havoc no matter what he does.

You Can't Run Away from It

You Can't Run Away from It
5.9/10
A reporter stumbles on a runaway heiress whose story could salvage his career.

Love and Kisses

Love and Kisses
6.7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 05/08/1965
  • Character: Frisby
Two teenagers elope and take up residence at the groom's home with his parents and sister, but the newlyweds quickly discover married life is much different from high-school.

Public Pigeon No. 1

Public Pigeon No. 1
6.4/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 18/02/1957
  • Character: Warden
Swindlers con a lunchroom clerk into doing them a favor, supposedly on behalf of the FBI.

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