The best Joe Sawyer’s comedy movies

Joe Sawyer

Joe Sawyer

29/08/1906- 21/04/1982
We present our ranking of the best Joe Sawyer’s movies. Do you love cinema? Or are you looking for a movie of your favorite actor to watch tonight? Surely you have some to see or that you did not know yet about Joe Sawyer.
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North to Alaska

North to Alaska
6.9/10
Sam and George strike gold in Alaska. George sends Sam to Seattle to bring George's fiancé back to Alaska. Sam finds she is already married, and returns instead with Angel. Sam, after trying to get George and Angel together, finally romances Angel, who, in the meantime, is busy fighting off the advances of George's younger brother, Billy.

The Whole Town's Talking

The Whole Town's Talking
7.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrimeDrama
  • Release: 22/02/1935
  • Character: Mannion's Thug (uncredited)
Ordinary man-in-the-street Arthur Ferguson Jones leads a very straightforward life. He's never late for work and nothing interesting ever happens to him. One day everything changes: he oversleeps and is fired as an example, he's then mistaken for evil criminal killer Mannion and is arrested. The resemblance is so striking that the police give him a special pass to avoid a similar mistake. The real Mannion sees the opportunity to steal the pass and move around freely and chaos results.

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.

Comin' Round the Mountain

Comin' Round the Mountain
6.3/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 26/07/1951
  • Character: Kalem McCoy
Bud and Lou get mixed up with hillbillies, witches and love potions.

Jimmy the Gent

Jimmy the Gent
6.6/10
An unpolished racketeer, whose racket is finding heirs for unclaimed fortunes, affects ethics and tea-drinking manners to win back the sweetheart who now works for his seemingly upright competitor.

Big Brown Eyes

Big Brown Eyes
6.5/10
Sassy manicurist Eve Fallon is recruited as an even more brassy reporter and she helps police detective boyfriend Danny Barr break a jewel theft ring and solve the murder of a baby.

Gridiron Flash

Gridiron Flash
4.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 06/10/1934
  • Character: Coach Eversmith
A college football team recruits a tough convict.

College Humor

College Humor
5.9/10
A college professor and the school's star football player are both rivals for the same beautiful coed.

Passport Husband

Passport Husband
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 15/07/1938
  • Character: Duke Selton
At the Club Habana, Henry Cabot, a bumbling busboy, is infatuated with the club's dancer, Conchita Montez. As Tiger Martin, the leader of a gang of thieves, gives Conchita a diamond bracelet, he is arrested. After Tiger is deported, Duke Selton, of Tiger's gang, pays a visit to Conchita and tells her he believes that Blackie Bennet, the leader of a rival gang, is responsible for tipping off the police about Tiger's citizenship.

Fall In

Fall In
5.7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 20/11/1942
  • Character: Sgt. Ames
An Army sergeant's photographic memory puts him in conflict with a Nazi spy.

Christmas Eve

Christmas Eve
5.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 31/10/1947
  • Character: Private Detective
The greedy nephew of eccentric Matilda Reid seeks to have her judged incompetent so he can administer her wealth; but she will be saved if her three long-lost adopted sons appear for a Christmas Eve reunion. Separate stories reveal Michael as a bankrupt playboy loved by loyal Ann; Mario as a seemingly shady character tangling with a Nazi war criminal in South America; Jonathan as a hard-drinking rodeo rider intent on a flirtatious social worker. Is there hope for Matilda?

Broadway Gondolier

Broadway Gondolier
6.4/10
A taxi driver travels to Venice and poses as a gondolier to land a radio singing job.

You're in the Army Now

You're in the Army Now
6.1/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 25/12/1941
  • Character: Sergeant Madden
Incompetent door-to-door vacuum cleaner salesmen become enlisted without their knowledge.

Hit the Ice

Hit the Ice
6.7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 02/06/1943
  • Character: Buster - Silky's Henchman
Flash Fulton (Bud Abbott) and Weejie McCoy (Lou Costello) take pictures of a bank robbery. Lured to the mountain resort hideout of the robbers and accompanied by Dr. Bill Elliott (Patric Knowles) and Peggy Osborn (Elyse Knox), they also meet old friend Johnny Long (Johnny Long) and his band and singer Marcia Manning (Ginny Simms). Dr. Elliott and Peggy are being held in a remote cabin by the robbers, but Weejie rescues them by turning himself into a human snowball that becomes an avalanche that engulfs the crooks.

If You Knew Susie

If You Knew Susie
5.9/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 07/02/1948
  • Character: Zero Zantini
In the small town of Brookford, everybody can trace their ancestors back to the Revolutionary War, except Sam and Susie Parker. One day, however, they find a letter written by George Washington that mentions the bravery of a Revolutionary War hero named Parker.

Little Big Shot

Little Big Shot
6.2/10
A con man and his partner inherit a dead gangster's precocious daughter.

High Tension

High Tension
5.6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 10/07/1936
  • Character: Terry Madden
Brawling cable layer Steve Reardon doesn't want to marry girlfriend Edith but he also doesn't want her to date other men.

Down Mexico Way

Down Mexico Way
6.3/10
Like 1940's Melody Ranch, the 1941 Gene Autry vehicle Down Mexico Way was designed as a "special", to be promoted separately from Autry's regular B-western series as an A-picture attraction. The story gets under way when a pair of con artists, Gibson (Sidney Blackmer) and Allen (Joe Sawyer), breeze into the town of Sage City claiming to be movie producers. The two scoundrels promise to film a movie in the little burg on the condition that the townsfolk pony up the necessary production fees.

The Lady from Cheyenne

The Lady from Cheyenne
6.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyDramaWestern
  • Release: 11/04/1941
  • Character: Sheriff 'Noisy' Burkett, Henchman
Fictionalized story of the 1869 adoption of women's suffrage in Wyoming Territory. In the new-founded railroad town of Laraville, Boss Jim Cork hopes to manipulate the sale of town lots to give him control, but Quaker schoolmarm Annie Morgan bags one of the key lots. Cork's lawyer Steve Lewis tries romancing Annie to get the lot back, finding her so overpoweringly liberated she leaves him dizzy. Still, Steve attains his nefarious object...almost...then has cause to deeply regret having aroused the sleeping giant of feminism!

Brewster's Millions

Brewster's Millions
6.6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 07/04/1945
  • Character: Hacky Smith
Monty Brewster is a pennyless, former U.S. Army soldier back from World War II Europe who learns that he has inherited $8 million from a distant relative. But there's a catch: he must spend $1 million of that money in less than two months before his 30th birthday in order to inherit the rest.

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