The best Joe Kirk’s movies

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House of Frankenstein

House of Frankenstein
6.2/10
  • Genre: Horror
  • Release: 01/12/1944
  • Character: Schwartz (uncredited)
An evil scientist and a hunchback escape from prison and encounter Dracula, the Wolf Man and Frankenstein's Monster.

Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein

Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein
7.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyHorror
  • Release: 15/06/1948
  • Character: Man at Costume Party in Fez
Two hapless freight handlers find themselves encountering Dracula, the Frankenstein Monster and the Wolf Man.

The Web

The Web
7.1/10
Leopold Kroner, formerly of Colby Enterprises, is released after five years in prison for embezzlement. Andrew Colby, claiming that Kroner has threatened him, hires lawyer Bob Regan as a secret bodyguard. Sure enough, Kroner turns up in Colby's room with a gun, and Regan kills him. Then Regan, who sticks around to romance Colby's secretary Noel, begins to suspect he's been used.

Impact

Impact
7/10
After surviving a murder attempt, an auto magnate goes into hiding so his wife can pay for the crime.

The Naughty Nineties

The Naughty Nineties
7/10
In the gay '90s, cardsharps take over a Mississippi riverboat from a kindly captain. Their first act is to change the showboat into a floating gambling house. A ham actor and his bumbling sidekick try to devise a way to help the captain regain ownership of the vessel.

Rio Rita

Rio Rita
6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 11/03/1942
  • Character: Pet Shop Owner (uncredited)
Doc and Wishey run into some Nazi-agents, who want to smuggle bombs into the USA from a Mexican border hotel.

Here Come the Co-eds

Here Come the Co-eds
6.6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 02/02/1945
  • Character: Honest Dan Murphy the Bookie
Molly (Martha O'Driscoll), her brother, Slats (Abbott), and his pal, Oliver (Costello), are taxi dancers at the Miramar Ballroom. As a publicity stunt, Slats plants an article about Molly claiming her ambition is to earn enough money to attend staid, all-girl Bixby College. Bixby's progressive dean offers Molly a scholarship. Molly accepts on the condition that Slats and Oliver come along too as campus caretakers. But the pompous Chairman threatens to foreclose on the school's mortgage if Molly isn't expelled. Together, the trio, with the help of some new friends, concocts a scheme to raise enough money to save the school. The plan involves a bet on the Bixby basketball team, which is playing in a game rated at 20 to 1 by the local bookie. But the bookie has other plans for their dough and hires a group of ringers to step in for the opponents. All is not lost, at least while Oliver has the chance to turn things around for his friends-one way or another.

Buck Privates Come Home

Buck Privates Come Home
6.8/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 04/04/1947
  • Character: Real Estate Salesman
Two ex-soldiers return from overseas--one of them having smuggled into the country a French orphan girl he has become attached to. They wind up running into their old sergeant--who hates them--and getting involved with a race-car builder who's trying to find backers for a new midget racer he's building.

Pardon My Sarong

Pardon My Sarong
6.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 07/08/1942
  • Character: Henchman with Tabor (uncredited)
A pair of bus drivers accidentally steal their own bus. With the company issuing a warrant for their arrest, they tag along with a playboy on a boat trip that finds them on a tropical island, where a jewel thief has sinister plans for them.

Beyond a Reasonable Doubt

Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
6.9/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 13/09/1956
  • Character: Clothing Store Clerk
A newspaper publisher, wanting to prove a point about the insufficiency of circumstantial evidence, talks his possible son-in-law Tom into a hoax in an attempt to expose ineptitude of the city's hard-line district attorney. The plan is to have Tom plant clues leading to his arrest for killing a female nightclub dancer. Once Tom is found guilty, he is to reveal the setup and humiliate the DA.

Who Done It?

Who Done It?
7.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyMystery
  • Release: 30/10/1942
  • Character: Radio Technician (uncredited)
Two dumb soda jerks dream of writing radio mysteries. When they try to pitch an idea at a radio station, they end up in the middle of a real murder when the station owner is killed during a broadcast.

Little Giant

Little Giant
6.7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 22/02/1946
  • Character: Salesman
Lou Costello plays a country bumpkin vacuum-cleaner salesman, working for the company run by the crooked Bud Abbott. To try to keep him under his thumb, Abbott convinces Costello that he's a crackerjack salesman. This comedy is somewhat like "The Time of Their Lives," in that Abbott and Costello don't have much screen time together and there are very few vaudeville bits woven into the plot.

Over My Dead Body

Over My Dead Body
6.1/10
Berle plays a mystery writer who forever writes himself into corners and is never able to finish a story. While visiting his wife (Mary Beth Hughes) at the office where she works, Berle overhears several men discussing the suicide of a coworker. Struck with a brilliant notion, Berle decides to confess to the murder of the dead man, certain that he'll be able to wriggle out of the situation and thereby have plenty of material for a story.

Margin for Error

Margin for Error
5.8/10
Margin for Error is a 1943 American drama film directed by Otto Preminger. The screenplay by Lillie Hayward and Samuel Fuller is based on the 1939 play of the same title by Clare Boothe Luce.

The Noose Hangs High

The Noose Hangs High
6.6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 05/04/1948
  • Character: Gangster (uncredited)
Two window washers who are mistaken by Nick Craig, a bookie, as the messengers he sent for to pick up $50,000. Now the person he sent them to sent two of his men to get the money back but they found out about it. So they try to mail to Craig but a mix up has the money sent somewhere else and the woman who got it spent it. Now Craig needs the money to pay off one of his clients.

Abbott and Costello Go to Mars

Abbott and Costello Go to Mars
5.9/10
Lester and Orville accidentally launch a rocket which is supposed to fly to Mars. Instead it goes to New Orleans for Mardi Gras. They are then forced by bank robber Mugsy and his pal Harry to fly to Venus where they find a civilization made up entirely of women, men having been banished.

X Marks the Spot

X Marks the Spot
5.2/10
  • Genre: Mystery
  • Release: 04/11/1942
  • Character: Dizzy's Fellow Henchman (as Joseph Kirk)
A private detective, soon to enlist in the army, is drawn into one final case when his police officer father is killed in the line of duty. Soon his prime suspect is murdered as well, and he finds himself framed for the crime. As more witnesses get murdered, he finds himself on the run from both the police and former Prohibition violators who seem to have found a new racket.

River Gang

River Gang
5.5/10
An orphan girl lives with apparently kind uncle who turns out to be a murderer.

The Abbott and Costello Show: Who's On First?

The Abbott and Costello Show: Who's On First?
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 01/02/2011
  • Character: Mr. Baccigaloupe
Featuring the routines that made them comedy legends like “Who’s On First?,” and “The Lemon Bit,” this digitally restored and re-mastered “Best Of” collection includes six of the Abbott and Costello Show’s most beloved episodes.

Spooks Run Wild

Spooks Run Wild
5.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyHorror
  • Release: 24/10/1941
  • Character: Camp Counselor
A group of delinquents on their way to summer camp get stuck in a haunted house.

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