The best Jerry Desmonde’s movies

Jerry Desmonde

Jerry Desmonde

20/07/1908- 11/02/1967
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A King in New York

A King in New York
7/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 12/09/1957
  • Character: Prime Minister Voudel
Due to a revolution in his country, King Shahdov comes to New York—almost broke. To get some money, he makes TV commercials, where he meets a child who has communist parents. Because of this meeting, he's immediately suspected of being a communist—and gets caught up in the McCarthy's hearings.

A Kind of Loving

A Kind of Loving
7.3/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 12/04/1962
  • Character: TV Compère (uncredited)
As Vic Brown vacillates between infatuation and disinterest for his co-worker Ingrid Rothwell, she finds out that she is pregnant and Vic has to reconcile how he thought his life would go with what life actually has in store for him.

Trouble in Store

Trouble in Store
6.6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 01/01/1953
  • Character: August Freeman
Norman is working in the stock room of a large London department store, but he has ambition (doesn't he always !!), he wants to be a window dresser making up the public displays. Whilst trying to fulfill his ambition, he falls in love (doesn't he always !!), with one of the shopgirls. Together they discover a plot to rob the store and, somehow, manage to foil the robbers.

The Early Bird

The Early Bird
6.7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 30/11/1965
  • Character: Mr. Walter Hunter
Norman Pitkin is the assistant helping to run a small, old fashioned dairy which is threatened by a larger, modern organisation. Pitkin does his best to save the dairy (and his horse) and the usual chaos ensues

Up in the World

Up in the World
6.5/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 01/01/1956
  • Character: Maj. Willoughby
Norman is a window cleaner who has to clean a manor house with hundreds of windows. He is distracted by the son of the house who persuades him to go into town. When some villains try and kidnap the young heir Norman fights them off but the heir has banged his head and can't remember Norman's heroic stand

A Stitch in Time

A Stitch in Time
6.9/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 01/12/1963
  • Character: Sir Hector
An accident in the butchers shop leads Norman Pitkin and Mr Grimsdale to the hospital where, after causing the normal ammount of chaos, Pitkin finds Lindy, a little girl who hasn't spoken or smiled since her parents were killed in an aeroplane accident. Pitkin decides to help.

The Beauty Jungle

The Beauty Jungle
5.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 25/08/1964
  • Character: Swimming Pool MC
A Bristol typist joins the world of beauty contests.

Follow a Star

Follow a Star
6.5/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 01/01/1959
  • Character: Vernon Carew
Norman Truscott is a store worker who dreams of stardom. Vernon Carew is a singer whose star is fading. Vernon manages to get a recording of Norman singing and passes it off as himself.

The Perfect Woman

The Perfect Woman
5.9/10
In need of cash, Roger Cavendish and his valet take a job escorting the perfect woman for a night on the town. She is in fact the robotic creation of Professor Belman, but it turns out rather to be the Professor's niece Penelope doing a pretty good imitation of the perfect Olga who winds up with them in the bridal suite at the Hotel Splendide.

Man of the Moment

Man of the Moment
6.3/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 01/01/1955
  • Character: Jackson
Norman is a file clerk who accidentally becomes a British delegate to a diplomatic conference, befriends the queen of a remote island, and winds up a knight. Norman leaves rooms in shambles, tailors in shreds, and diplomats in bandages. Chased by gunmen and assassins of foreign powers, Norman finds himself running through active TV studio sets and interrupts various programs and performances in progress

Ramsbottom Rides Again

Ramsbottom Rides Again
4.9/10
Bill Ramsbottom sells his English pub and drags his family off to Canada where he has inherited a ranch from his grandfather Wild Bill Ramsbottom. He ends up tangling with outlaw Black Jake, an Indian chief Blue Eagle, and the local law.

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