The best Jackie Moran’s comedy movies

Jackie Moran

Jackie Moran

26/01/1923- 20/09/1990
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Jackie Moran’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about Jackie Moran.

Janie

Janie
5.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 02/09/1944
  • Character: Mickey - a Sailor
Teenage Janie (Joyce Reynolds) falls in love with a private (Robert Hutton) from an Army base opposed by her editor father (Edward Arnold).

Freddie Steps Out

Freddie Steps Out
4.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 29/06/1946
  • Character: Jimmy Forrest
A high school student is mistaken for a famous radio singer who goes missing.

Common Law Cabin

Common Law Cabin
4.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 01/07/1967
  • Character: Dewey Hoople
After stealing a fortune in unclaimed jewelry, ex-detective Barney Rickert arrives at a run-down dude ranch in Arizona to hide out. When the owner, Dewey Hoople, refuses to sell the land to Rickert, he proceeds to win over the female inhabitants by seducing them one by one which leads to one refusing his advances and a dangerous game played out in which Rickert ruthlessly sets out to get what he wants.

Haunted House

Haunted House
5.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyMystery
  • Release: 21/07/1940
  • Character: Jimmie Atkins
Teenagers try to clear a friend accused of murder.

Wild Gals of the Naked West

Wild Gals of the Naked West
4.1/10
An old geezer recalls some of the antics of the men and women of his western town, more wild and woolly than Tombstone or Dodge City. In this town no one is a good shot, the women are hungry for new meat, and practical jokers abound. A stranger strolls into town, proving resistant to the mayhem, and after donning some cowboy duds begins cleaning up that town.

Mad About Music

Mad About Music
7.1/10
A young woman at a girl's school in Switzerland makes up stories about and writes herself letters from an imaginary explorer-adventurer father; and is eventually put in a position where she has to produce him. Interesting things happen as she talks a visiting Englishman into helping her out.

Andy Hardy's Blonde Trouble

Andy Hardy's Blonde Trouble
6.5/10
Andy is going to Wainwright College as did his father. He sees a pretty blonde on the train and he is alternately winked at or slapped every time he sees her. Andy is clueless. On the train Andy meets Kay and Dr. Standish who are both headed for Wainwright. Andy likes Kay, but Dr. Standish also seems to take an interest in her. Things are going well at College with Kay, but the blonde is nice one minute and ignores Andy the next. When Andy finds out that the blonde is really identical twins, he tries to help them out with their father but gets caught at their rooming house after midnight.

Junior Prom

Junior Prom
4.2/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 28/07/1946
  • Character: Jimmy Forrest Jr.
During the Whitney High School student government election, a rich man’s son tries to pay his way into office with promises of new athletic uniforms. His desperate competitors decide to stage a series of song and dance spectacles to try to garner votes.

And So They Were Married

And So They Were Married
6/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 10/05/1936
  • Character: Tommy Blake
A bitter widow and a grumpy widower find themselves stuck in a hotel that is cut off from the outside by a snowstorm. Although both have no intention of getting married again, they begin to fall for each other. Their children, however, are determined to see that the "romance" never gets off the ground and do everything they can to see that they are kept apart.

Let's Go Collegiate

Let's Go Collegiate
5/10
Rawley University is about to receive a star athlete who could give it the first championship rowing team it's ever had. Unfortunately, he gets drafted into the army before he's able to join the team. Two of the team's members get the bright idea of passing off a burly truck driver as the "athlete". Complications ensue.

The Gang's All Here

The Gang's All Here
5.4/10
Two friends take jobs as truck drivers, unaware that the trucking company is being targeted by a gang of saboteurs who will stop at nothing, including murder, to stop them.

High School Hero

High School Hero
4.2/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 06/09/1946
  • Character: Jimmy Forrest
The students at Whitney High School are down in the dumps since their football team faces almost certain defeat and hasn't won a game in 28 years. The school paper may have to suspend publication because the circulation is so low and the principal intends to replace student performers at the school bazaar with professionals.

Everybody's Hobby

Everybody's Hobby
5.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 26/08/1939
  • Character: Robert Leslie
A hobby-mad family makes their obsessions pay off.

Henry Aldrich Haunts a House

Henry Aldrich Haunts a House
6.2/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 10/11/1943
  • Character: Whit Bidecker
Henry Aldrich (Jimmy Lydon) and his high-school pals investigate a local haunted house.

Code Name: Raw-Hide

Code Name: Raw-Hide
3.7/10
  • Genre: AdventureComedy
  • Release: 01/01/1972
  • Character: The Chief (as Jack Moran)
Frank and Barny are agents of the PBI - Pornographic Bureau of Investigation, sent by Chief Rank, Head of Vice, L.A. District, to go down on the dirty crime spots of Hollywood. Mousie's Hot Shoppe is an adult bookstore where the owner is as much titillated as his customers by the material on sale. The agents are surprised to uncover that Mousie knows Chief Rank all too well, but it comes handy as he is willing to be an informer. So, the agents "discover" the Travelling House of Pleasure, a door-to-door delivery service of of Eastern Delights, the Good Time girls.

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