The best Jack Kruschen’s comedy movies

Jack Kruschen

Jack Kruschen

20/03/1922- 02/04/2002
We present our ranking of the best Jack Kruschen’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 Jack Kruschen.
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The Apartment

The Apartment
8.3/10
Bud Baxter is a minor clerk in a huge New York insurance company, until he discovers a quick way to climb the corporate ladder. He lends out his apartment to the executives as a place to take their mistresses. Although he often has to deal with the aftermath of their visits, one night he's left with a major problem to solve.

McLintock!

McLintock!
7.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyWestern
  • Release: 12/11/1963
  • Character: Jake Birnbaum
Ageing, wealthy, rancher and self-made man, George Washington McLintock is forced to deal with numerous personal and professional problems. Seemingly everyone wants a piece of his enormous farmstead, including high-ranking government men, McLintock's own sons and nearby Native Americans. As McLintock tries to juggle his various adversaries, his wife—who left him two years previously—suddenly returns. But she isn't interested in George; she wants custody of their daughter.

The Million Dollar Duck

The Million Dollar Duck
5.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyFamily
  • Release: 30/06/1971
  • Character: Doctor Gottlieb
Professor Dooley takes home a duck from his research laboratory as a toy for his son, but soon finds out that it lays golden eggs.

Lover Come Back

Lover Come Back
7.1/10
Jerry Webster and Carol Templeton are rival Madison Avenue advertising executives who each dislike each other’s methods. After he steals a client out from under her cute little nose, revenge prompts her to infiltrate his secret "VIP" campaign in order to persuade the mystery product’s scientist to switch to her firm.

The Ladies Man

The Ladies Man
6.3/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 21/06/1961
  • Character: Graduation Speaker
After his girl leaves him for someone else, Herbert gets really depressed and starts searching for a job. He finally finds one in a big house which is inhabited by many, many women. Can he live in the same home with all these females?

Where the Boys Are

Where the Boys Are
6.6/10
Good girls Merritt, Melanie, Tuggle and Angie - all students at mid-western Penmore University - are planning on going to Fort Lauderdale, Florida for spring break to get away from the mid-western snow despite not having much money to spend once there. On the drive down, they admit their real purpose is to go where the boys are.

It Should Happen to You

It Should Happen to You
7.2/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 15/01/1954
  • Character: Joe (uncredited)
Gladys Glover has just lost her modeling job when she meets filmmaker Pete Sheppard shooting a documentary in Central Park. For Pete it's love at first sight, but Gladys has her mind on other things, making a name for herself. Through a fluke of advertising she winds up with her name plastered over 10 billboards throughout city.

Abbott and Costello Go to Mars

Abbott and Costello Go to Mars
5.9/10
Lester and Orville accidentally launch a rocket which is supposed to fly to Mars. Instead it goes to New Orleans for Mardi Gras. They are then forced by bank robber Mugsy and his pal Harry to fly to Venus where they find a civilization made up entirely of women, men having been banished.

Sunburn

Sunburn
5/10
An enthralling & action-packed comedy-thriller, full of blistering excitement.

Money from Home

Money from Home
6.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 31/12/1953
  • Character: Short Boy
Herman owes a lot of gambling debts. To pay them off, he promises the mob he'll fix a horse, so that it does not run. He intends to trick his animal-loving cousin Virgil, an apprentice veterinarian, into helping him. Of course, he doesn't tell Virgil what he is really up to. Mistaken identities are assumed, while along the way, Virgil meets a female vet and Herman falls for the owner of the horse.

Dear Brigitte

Dear Brigitte
6.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyFamily
  • Release: 01/01/1965
  • Character: Doctor Volker
Professor Leaf, an absent-minded poet with a prejudice against the sciences, is forced to face the fact that his son is a math prodigy with little artistic talent of his own.

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.

Satan's Cheerleaders

Satan's Cheerleaders
4.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyHorror
  • Release: 18/03/1977
  • Character: Billy the Janitor
The janitor at a local high school is actually the scout for a coven of Satanists on the lookout for a virgin to sacrifice. One day he kidnaps the cheerleading squad to use for their rituals. However, unbeknownst to the devil-worshipers, one of the cheerleaders is actually a witch, and has plans of her own for the Satanists.

Caprice

Caprice
5.5/10
Doris Day stars as Patricia Foster, an industrial designer, when see sells a secret cosmetics formula to a competitor the troubles never stop.

Under the Rainbow

Under the Rainbow
5.3/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 31/07/1981
  • Character: Louie
In World War II era Los Angeles, the manager of the Culver Hotel leaves his nephew in charge for a weekend. The nephew changes the name to the Hotel Rainbow and overbooks with royalty, assassins, secret agents, Japanese tourists, and munchkins. Secret Service agent Bruce Thorpe and casting director Annie Clark find romance amidst the intrigue and confusion.

The Unsinkable Molly Brown

The Unsinkable Molly Brown
6.6/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 11/06/1964
  • Character: Christmas Morgan
The buoyant Molly Brown has survived the first crisis of her life—a flood. Sixteen years later she sets out to make her way in the world. She assures the Leadville saloon keeper that she can sing and play the piano, and learns quickly. Soon she marries Johnny Brown, who in a few years will be able to replace the original cigar wrapper wedding ring with a replica in gold and gemstones. The Browns head for Europe and bring a few crowned heads back to Denver for a party that turns into a ballroom brawl. Molly goes to Europe alone, returning on the Titanic. She didn't survive a flood as a baby for the story to end here.

Freebie and the Bean

Freebie and the Bean
6.6/10
Two San Francisco detectives want to bring down a local hijacking boss. But they'll have to get to him before a hitman does.

Til There Was You

Til There Was You
4.8/10
Two strangers, whose paths are always crossing, finally meet when fate steps in. It took them twenty years to fall in love at first sight.

Red, Hot and Blue

Red, Hot and Blue
6/10
A Broadway director (Victor Mature) rescues a starlet (Betty Hutton) from mobsters who blame her for a shooting.

The Happening

The Happening
5.1/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 17/05/1967
  • Character: Inspector
A group of young drifters kidnap wealthy businessman Roc Delmonico just for kicks. They keep him captive, demanding a ransom for his safe release. However there is no one - wife, Mafia associates or mother - willing to part with the $200,000 ransom. Demonico is dismayed that no one appears unduly concerned about his fate and joins forces with the kidnappers to plot his revenge, blackmailing his once nearest and dearest into parting with $3,000,000 in hush money.

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