The best Joe Turkel’s comedy movies
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Joe Turkel’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about Joe Turkel.
The Prisoner of Second Avenue
6.7/10
Mel Edison has just lost his job after many years and now has to cope with being unemployed at middle age during an intense NYC heat wave.
Reel Horror
1.7/10
Evil spirits that emerge from cans of old movie film terrorize a neighborhood.
Lucky Losers
6.2/10
Slip and Sach's boss, David J. Thurston, has allegedly committed suicide. Slip finds a book of matches with the name of a local nightclub on his boss' desk and finds out from Gabe that a gambling casino is being run out of it. Slip comes to the conclusion that the club had something to do with his boss' death and sets out to find his murderer. The boys get jobs at the club and Louie poses as a rich cattlemen as they gather the information to convict the murderers.
Which Way Is Up?
6.2/10
Richard Pryor plays three roles - a beleaguered, sex-starved farm worker named Leroy Jones; the farm worker's randy old father Rufus; and the hypocritical town preacher Rev. Lenox Thomas - and Pryor has never been so outrageously funny. The lives and love lives of these three men cross and crisscross as Leroy tries to get his life back on track.
Triple Trouble
6.2/10
Slip and the gang (Bowery Boys) take the rap for a robbery they did not commit.
Down among the Sheltering Palms
5.6/10
War-weary Captain Willoby and his men are the occupation force on an island of lovely women...and are forbidden to fraternize.
Angels in Disguise
6.6/10
Slip and the gang stray from newspaper work to detective work.
Wild in the Sky
5.9/10
Three anti-war activists hijack a B-52 bomber.
A Slight Case of Larceny
6/10
Two nitwits decide to open a gas station. Comedy.
