The best James Robertson Justice’s comedy movies

James Robertson Justice

James Robertson Justice

15/06/1907- 02/07/1975
Today we present the best James Robertson Justice’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 James Robertson Justice’s movies.
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Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 hours 11 minutes

Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 hours 11 minutes
7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 16/06/1965
  • Character: Narrator
In order to boost circulation of his newspaper, Lord Rawnsley announces an air race and offers £10,000 to the first person who can fly across the English Channel. But one of the participants, Percy, plots to sabotage his competitor's planes. Will Percy triumph?

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
6.9/10
A hapless inventor finally finds success with a flying car, which a dictator from a foreign government sets out to take for himself.

Murder She Said

Murder She Said
7.3/10
Miss Marple believes she's seen a murder in a passing-by train, yet when the police find no evidence she decides to investigate it on her own.

Whisky Galore!

Whisky Galore!
7.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 16/06/1949
  • Character: Dr. Maclaren
Based on a true story. The name of the real ship, that sunk Feb 5 1941 - during WWII - was S/S Politician. Having left Liverpool two days earlier, heading for Jamaica, it sank outside Eriskay, The Outer Hebrides, Scotland, in bad weather, containing 250,000 bottles of whisky. The locals gathered as many bottles as they could, before the proper authorities arrived, and even today, bottles are found in the sand or in the sea every other year.

Crooks Anonymous

Crooks Anonymous
6.2/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 31/03/1962
  • Character: Sir Harvey Russelrod
A former burglar trying to go straight joins a rehabilitation scheme using much the same methods as AA. Through the process, he takes work as a department store Santa, where the endless parade of goods and money, not to mention the pretty young shop hands have him like a moth to a flame in no time flat.

Zeta One

Zeta One
3.8/10
Women around the globe begin disappearing when a renegade race of top-heavy aliens from the planet Angvia begin snatching them off the streets.

Doctor in the House

Doctor in the House
6.6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 23/03/1954
  • Character: Sir Lancelot Spratt
The first of the seven "Doctor" films, based on Richard Gordon's novels and released between 1954 and 1970. Simon Sparrow is a newly arrived medical student at St Swithin's hospital in London. Falling in with three longer-serving hopefuls he is soon immersed in the wooing, imbibing and fast sports-car driving that constitute 1950s medical training. There is, however, always the looming and formidable figure of chief surgeon Sir Lancelot Spratt to remind them of their real purpose.

The Magnet

The Magnet
6.8/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 01/10/1950
  • Character: Tramp
A classic Ealing comedy in which a young boy steals a magnet and becomes a hero.

Vice Versa

Vice Versa
6.3/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 01/01/1948
  • Character: Dr. Grimstone
Businessman Paul Bultitude is sending his son Dick to a boarding school. While holding a magic stone from India, he wishes that he could be young again. His wish is immediately fulfilled and the two change bodies with each other. Mr Bultitude becomes a school boy who smokes cigars and has a very conservative view on child upbringing, while his son Dick becomes a gentleman who spends his time drinking lemonade and arranging children's parties.

Doctor at Sea

Doctor at Sea
5.8/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 12/07/1955
  • Character: Wentworth Hogg
The second of the seven "Doctor" films, based on Richard Gordon's novels and released between 1954 and 1970. A bachelor doctor goes to sea to escape the boredom of shore practice, but studies the nurses more than medicine, and Brigitte Bardot is around.

Upstairs and Downstairs

Upstairs and Downstairs
6.3/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 02/11/1959
  • Character: Mansfield
On marrying the boss's daughter, Richard takes his father-in-law's advice to hire a live-in domestic. He soon finds good help is hard to come by. Run-ins follow with dipsomaniacs, bank robbers, a Welsh lass who takes one look at London and runs, and an Italian charmer who turns the place into a bawdy house. Then when Ingrid arrives from Sweden things actually start to get complicated.

Doctor at Large

Doctor at Large
6/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 26/03/1957
  • Character: Sir Lancelot Spratt
The third of the "Doctor" films. Newly qualified doctor Simon Sparrow goes in search of a job. He applies for a surgery position at the hospital where he studied, but manages to insult the senior surgeon and one of the hospital's governors. So, instead he ends up as assistant to with a niggardly and rather scary GP with an amerous wife, followed by cushy but rather unmedical job with a Harley Street doctor, and then a job with a very nice GP whp is the opposite to the first one. But after getting the chance to rescue the hospital governor from a group of angry ladies at a resort in France, he finally lands a job at his beloved hosdpital.

Fiddlers Three

Fiddlers Three
5.4/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 01/10/1944
  • Character: Centurion of the 8th Legion
Two British soldiers and a WREN take refuge at Stonehenge during a thunderstorm, they are struck by lightning and transported back to ancient Rome.

The Iron Petticoat

The Iron Petticoat
5.1/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 01/09/1956
  • Character: Colonel Vladimir Denisovich Sklarnoff
Captain Vinka Kovalenko defects from Russia, but not for political reasons. She defects because she feels discriminated against as a woman. Captain Chuck Lockwood gets the order to show her the bright side of capitalism, while she tries to convince him of the superiority of communism. Naturally, they fall in love, but there's still the KGB, which doesn't like the idea of having a defected Russian officer running around in London.

The Fast Lady

The Fast Lady
6.1/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 14/12/1962
  • Character: Charles
A Scottish civil servant (Stanley Baxter) must learn how to drive a Bentley to impress his girlfriend's (Julie Christie) tycoon father (James Robertson Justice).

Doctor in Distress

Doctor in Distress
5.6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 30/07/1963
  • Character: Sir Lancelot Spratt
"Doctor in Distress" is the fifth of the seven films in the "Doctor" series, and focuses on Sir Lancelot Spratt, Simon Sparrow's old teacher and sometimes nemesis. When the eternal bachelor Sir Lancelot injures his back and falls in love with his physiotherapist Iris Marchant, he becomes very distressed and turns to Simon for help. Simon, who now is a senior doctor at fictional Hampden Cross Hospital and hopelessly in love with aspiring actress Delia, sends him to a nature cure clinic in a vain attempt to help him lose weight, but Sir Lancelot can't get Iris off his mind and has her followed, first by a private investigator and eventually by himself. When he finally proposes, she rejects him and marries an old army major, which distresses Sir Lancelot even more.

An Alligator Named Daisy

An Alligator Named Daisy
5.2/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 13/12/1955
  • Character: Sir James Colebrook
Returning from a cricket match in Ireland, Peter Weston gains a pet alligator from another passenger who abandons it with him. He is horrified and while his first instinct is to get rid of it he develops a relationship with a young Irishwoman who appears to be entwined with the reptile. He soon discovers that Daisy is tame and seems to be the way to Moira's heart.

Doctor in Clover

Doctor in Clover
5.7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 08/03/1966
  • Character: Sir Lancelot Spratt
Doctor in Clover is another 'Doctor' movie, but this time Leslie Phillips is the main doctor in the story, looking for love and romance from the hospital nurses, much to the annoyance of the main Administrator (James Robertson Justice) who wants his doctors to be 100% focussed on the job. Numerous antics follow, with Phillips getting Justice fixed up with the new prim-and-proper Matron (Joan Sims) and his attempted failures to lure the hospital's beauty, the physiotherapist.

Champagne Charlie

Champagne Charlie
6.5/10
A man from the countryside becomes London’s newest music hall sensation, and competes with a rival music hall performer for the audience’s attention.

Doctor in Love

Doctor in Love
5.7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 12/07/1960
  • Character: Sir Lancelot Spratt
Doctors Burke and Hare leave the confines of St Swithins for the world of general practice, stopping off on the way as patients at the Foulness Anti-cold Unit. Hare then takes up a position as junior in a well-healed G.P.'s surgery while Burke continues to sow his doctorial wild oats.

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