The best Joe E. Brown’s comedy movies

Joe E. Brown

Joe E. Brown

28/07/1892- 06/07/1973
Today we present the best Joe E. Brown’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 Joe E. Brown’s movies.
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Some Like It Hot

Some Like It Hot
8.2/10
Two musicians witness a mob hit and struggle to find a way out of the city before they are found by the gangsters. Their only opportunity is to join an all-girl band as they leave on a tour. To make their getaway they must first disguise themselves as women, then keep their identities secret and deal with the problems this brings - such as an attractive bandmate and a very determined suitor.

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
7.5/10
A group of strangers come across a man dying after a car crash who proceeds to tell them about the $350,000 he buried in California. What follows is the madcap adventures of those strangers as each attempts to claim the prize for himself.

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.

Hollywood Canteen

Hollywood Canteen
7/10
Two soldiers on leave spend three nights at a club offering free of charge food, dancing, and entertainment for servicemen on their way overseas. Club founders Bette Davis and John Garfield give talks on the history of the place.

A Midsummer Night's Dream

A Midsummer Night's Dream
6.8/10
A film adaptation by Max Reinhardt of his popular stage productions of Shakespeare's comedy. Four young people escape Athens to a forest where the king and queen of the fairies are quarreling, while meanwhile a troupe of amateur actors rehearses a play. When the fairy Puck uses a magic flower to make people fall in love, the whole thing becomes a little bit confused...

The Stolen Jools

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

The Comedy of Terrors

The Comedy of Terrors
6.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyHorror
  • Release: 22/01/1964
  • Character: Cemetery Keeper
An undertaker who hasn't had any 'customers' in a long time is forced to pay one year's back-rent. To get money he starts to kill people, which brings absurd results.

Alibi Ike

Alibi Ike
6.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 15/06/1935
  • Character: Frank "Ike" Farrell
Idiosyncratic new recruit Francis "Ike" Farrell tries to help the Cubs to the pennant with his pitching and hitting.

When's Your Birthday?

When's Your Birthday?
5.5/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 19/02/1937
  • Character: Dustin Willoughby
Some shady characters discover that a sad sack nightclub bus boy has the ability to predict outcomes of races and other events through astrology.

Breakdowns of 1936

Breakdowns of 1936
7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 30/12/1936
  • Character: Himself
Time marches on.

Polo Joe

Polo Joe
5.7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 04/11/1936
  • Character: Joe Bolton
A young man allergic to horses decides he has to learn to play polo in order to impress the girl he loves. Comedy.

Rodeo Dough

Rodeo Dough
6.2/10
  • Genre: ComedyWestern
  • Release: 09/11/1940
  • Character: Joe E. Brown
After a trip to Hollywood, two young ladies attempt to hitchhike home but end up at a star filled rodeo.

Top Speed

Top Speed
5.8/10
An order clerk poses as a millionaire.

Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage

Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
7.8/10
Out-takes (mostly from Warner Bros.), promotional shorts, movie premieres, public service pleas, wardrobe tests, documentary material, and archival footage make up this star-studded voyeuristic look at the Golden age of Hollywood during the 30s, 40, and 50.

Earthworm Tractors

Earthworm Tractors
6.3/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 24/07/1936
  • Character: Alexander Botts
A salesman tries to sell a tractor to a customer who hates tractors while falling for the girl.

Son of a Sailor

Son of a Sailor
5.8/10
A lovesick fool bumbles into espionage and finds a stolen plane.

Beware Spooks!

Beware Spooks!
6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 24/10/1939
  • Character: Roy L. Gifford
A Coney Island fun house is a major setting of this 1939 comedy in which bumbling detective Joe E. Brown interrupts his honeymoon to pursue a wanted killer.

The Gladiator

The Gladiator
6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 14/08/1938
  • Character: Hugo Kipp
A man returns to college and is talked into joining he football team and is a real joke on the team, until he is given a drug that gives him super strength.

Going Wild

Going Wild
5.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 21/12/1930
  • Character: Rollo Smith
Rollo and Lane just happen to be tossed off the train at White Beach where Robert Story -Air ace and writer- is supposed to stop. It is a case of mistaken identity as no one knows what Story looks like. So they get free room and meals at the Palm Inn and everything is going well until they want Story to fly in the race on Saturday. Rollo has never even be up in a plane, never mind fly one, so he must figure a way out. But the girls have everything bet on his winning the race. Written by Tony Fontana

Classic Movie Bloopers: Uncensored

Classic Movie Bloopers: Uncensored
5.5/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 29/01/2013
  • Character: Himself (archive footage)
Uncensored. Laugh along with Hollywood's brightest stars in this hilarious compilation of bloopers from some of the biggest movies in history . You'll see stars such as Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Lucille Ball, Bob Hope, Ronald Reagan, Marlene Dietrich, Boris Karloff, Edward G. Robinson, Errol Flynn and more. They're not so perfect after all when these flubbed moments are caught on film!

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