The best Jack Oakie’s movies

Jack Oakie

Jack Oakie

12/11/1903- 23/01/1978
Today we present the best Jack Oakie’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Jack Oakie’s movies.
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The Great Dictator

The Great Dictator
8.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyWar
  • Release: 23/10/1940
  • Character: Benzino Napaloni, Dictator of Bacteria
Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecution from Hynkel's regime.

Around the World in Eighty Days

Around the World in Eighty Days
6.7/10
Based on the famous book by Jules Verne the movie follows Phileas Fogg on his journey around the world. Which has to be completed within 80 days, a very short period for those days.

Alice in Wonderland

Alice in Wonderland
6.3/10
In Victorian England, a bored young girl dreams that she has entered a fantasy world called Wonderland populated by even more fantastic characters.

Thieves' Highway

Thieves' Highway
7.5/10
Nick Garcos comes back from his tour of duty in World War II planning to settle down with his girlfriend, Polly Faber. He learns, however, that his father was recently beaten and burglarized by mob-connected trucker Mike Figlia, and Nick resolves to get even. He partners with prostitute Rica, and together they go after Mike, all the while getting pulled further into the local crime underworld.

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 Stolen Jools

The Stolen Jools
5.7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 04/04/1931
  • Character: Jack Oakie
Famous actress Norma Shearer's jewels are stolen… (Star-packed promotional short film intended to raise funds for the National Variety Artists Tuberculosis Sanatorium.)

If I Had a Million

If I Had a Million
6.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 02/12/1932
  • Character: Private Mulligan
An elderly business tycoon, believed to be dying, decides to give a million dollars each to eight strangers chosen at random from the phone directory.

It Happened Tomorrow

It Happened Tomorrow
7/10
A young turn-of-the-century newspaper man finds he can get hold of the next day's paper. This brings more problems than fortune, especially as his new girlfriend is part of a phony clairvoyant act.

Call of the Wild

Call of the Wild
6.8/10
Jack Thornton has trouble winning enough at cards for the stake he needs to get to the Alaska gold fields. His luck changes when he pays $250 for Buck, a sled dog that is part wolf to keep him from being shot by an arrogant Englishman also headed for the Yukon. En route to the Yukon with Shorty Houlihan -- who spent time in jail for opening someone else's letter with a map of where gold is to be found -- Jack rescues a woman whose husband was the addressee of that letter. Buck helps Jack win a $1,000 bet to get the supplies he needs. And when Jack and Claire Blake pet Buck one night, fingers touch.

Young People

Young People
6.3/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 30/08/1940
  • Character: Joe Ballantine
Wendy Ballantine's parents decide to retire from show biz so she can have a normal life. They are unwelcome in the small town until a storm lets the family show their stuff.

The Wonderful Country

The Wonderful Country
6.1/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 21/10/1959
  • Character: Travis Hyle
Having fled to Mexico from the U.S. many years ago for killing his father's murderer, Martin Brady travels to Texas to broker an arms deal for his Mexican boss, strongman Governor Cipriano Castro. Brady breaks a leg and while recuperating in Texas the gun shipment is stolen. Complicating matters further the wife of local army major Colton has designs on him, and the local Texas Ranger captain makes him a generous offer to come back to the states and join his outfit. After killing a man in self defense, Brady slips back over the border and confronts Castro who is not only unhappy that Brady has lost his gun shipment but is about to join forces with Colton to battle the local raiding Apache Indians.

The Texas Rangers

The Texas Rangers
6.6/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 28/08/1936
  • Character: Henry B. 'Wahoo' Jones
Two down-on-their-luck former outlaws volunteer to be Texas Rangers and find themselves assigned to bring in an old friend, now a notorious outlaw.

Million Dollar Legs

Million Dollar Legs
6.8/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 08/07/1932
  • Character: Migg Tweeny
A small country on the verge of bankruptcy is persuaded to enter the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics as a means of raising money.

The Rat Race

The Rat Race
6.6/10
An aspiring musician arrives in New York in search of fame and fortune. He soon meets a taxi dancer, moves in with her, and before too long a romance develops.

Little Men

Little Men
5.6/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 29/11/1940
  • Character: William "Willie" Deming
Jo March and her husband Professor Bhaer operate the Plumfield School for poor boys. When Dan, a tough street kid, comes to the school, he wins Jo's heart despite his hard edge, and she defends him when he is falsely accused. Dan's foster father, Major Burdle, is a swindler in cahoots with another crook called Willie the Fox. When the Plumfield School becomes in danger of foreclosure, the two con men cook up a scheme to save the home.

Breakdowns of 1942

Breakdowns of 1942
8/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 01/01/1942
  • Character: Self
This is a collection of bloopers and film manipulation by The Warner Studio Club for an annual dinner for the staff at Warner Brothers.

Colleen

Colleen
5.9/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 21/03/1936
  • Character: Joe Cork
Musical about dingaling millionaire businessman Cedric Ames and his various employees

The Eagle and the Hawk

The Eagle and the Hawk
7.1/10
  • Genre: ActionDramaWar
  • Release: 06/05/1933
  • Character: Mike 'Slug' Richards
The pilots of a Royal Air Force squadron in World War I face not only physical but mental dangers in their struggle to survive while fighting the enemy.

College Humor

College Humor
5.9/10
A college professor and the school's star football player are both rivals for the same beautiful coed.

Tomahawk

Tomahawk
6.3/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 05/02/1951
  • Character: Sol Beckworth
In 1866, a new gold discovery and an inconclusive conference force the U.S. Army to build a road and fort in territory ceded by previous treaty to the Sioux...to the disgust of frontier scout Jim Bridger, whose Cheyenne wife led him to see the conflict from both sides. The powder-keg situation needs only a spark to bring war, and violent bigots like Lieut. Rob Dancy are all too likely to provide this. Meanwhile, Bridger's chance of preventing catastrophe is dimmed by equally wrenching personal conflicts. Unusually accurate historically.

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