The best John Carroll’s comedy movies

John Carroll

John Carroll

17/07/1906- 24/04/1979
Today we present the best John Carroll’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 John Carroll’s movies.
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Go West

Go West
6.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyWestern
  • Release: 06/12/1940
  • Character: Terry Turner
Embezzler, shill, all around confidence man S. Quentin Quale is heading west to find his fortune; he meets the crafty but simple brothers Joseph and Rusty Panello in a train station, where they steal all his money. They're heading west, too, because they've heard you can just pick the gold off the ground. Once there, they befriend an old miner named Dan Wilson whose property, Dead Man's Gulch, has no gold. They loan him their last ten dollars so he can go start life anew, and for collateral, he gives them the deed to the Gulch. Unbeknownst to Wilson, the son of his longtime rival, Terry Turner (who's also in love with his daughter, Eva), has contacted the railroad to arrange for them to build through the land, making the old man rich and hopefully resolving the feud. But the evil Red Baxter, owner of a saloon, tricks the boys out of the deed, and it's up to them - as well as Quale, who naturally finds his way out west anyway - to save the day.

Rio Rita

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

The Big Parade of Comedy

The Big Parade of Comedy
5.8/10
Film clips highlight the funniest scenes and brightest comic stars in MGM's history.

Congo Maisie

Congo Maisie
6.2/10
Maisie gets lost in a jungle in Africa and the jungle of romance. The African jungle has snakes, crocodiles and witch doctors. The romantic jungle has a dedicated doctor with an un-dedicated wife and an embittered doctor who is dedicated to no one.

The Youngest Profession

The Youngest Profession
6/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 26/02/1943
  • Character: John Carroll
Joan Lyons and her friend Patricia Drew are autograph hounds spending most of their day bumping into, and having tea, with the likes of Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon. Based on misinformation from a meddling old-maid governess, Miss Featherstone, Joan also devotes some time to working on the no-problem marriage of her parents to the extent of hiring Dr. Hercules, the strong man from a side show to pay attention to her mother in order to make her father jealous, despite the good advice received from Walter Pidgeon.

Geraldine

Geraldine
5.8/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 26/01/1954
  • Character: Grant Sanborn
Music manager Janey Edwards poses as a co-ed to get the rights to a song from one of the professors.

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.

Lady Be Good

Lady Be Good
6.4/10
Married songwriters almost split up while putting on a big show.

Phantom Raiders

Phantom Raiders
6.1/10
In this second Carter mystery, a mysterious rash of cargo ships sinking in Panama leads insurers Llewellyns of London to hire vacationer Nick Carter and his eccentric associate Bartholomew to investigate. Nick recognizes influential nightclub owner Al Taurez as a shady operator, but getting the goods on him depends on slick diversions involving the heavyweight champ of the Pacific Tuna Fleet, a Panamanian bombshell armed with American slang, a young couple in love and a whole raft of crooks and cutthroats.

Swingtime in the Movies

Swingtime in the Movies
5.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 24/12/1938
  • Character: Rick Arden
In this musical short, a waitress at the Warner Bros. commissary gets her big break.

Hired Wife

Hired Wife
6.6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 13/09/1940
  • Character: Jose de Briganza
Ad man Stephen Dexter asks his secretary Kendall to marry him as a loophole in order to protect his finances during an important business deal. Once the deal is completed, he asks Kendall for a divorce and is dismayed when she refuses.

Murder on a Bridle Path

Murder on a Bridle Path
6.2/10
  • Genre: ComedyMystery
  • Release: 17/04/1936
  • Character: Latigo Wells
When the body of Violet Feverel is discovered on the Central Park bridle path, Inspector Oscar Piper is about to declare her death accidental from a thrown horse, until his friend and amateur detective Hildegarde Withers locates the horse and discovers blood on the horse.

Doughboys

Doughboys
5.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyWar
  • Release: 30/08/1930
  • Character: Doughboy in Elmer's Squad (uncredited)
Elmer, rich society loafer, falls for Mary, but she'll have nothing to do with him until (mistakenly thinking that he's hiring a new chauffeur) he accidentally volunteers for the army. Luckily, Mary's signed up to entertain the troops. Unluckily, Elmer's sergeant likes Mary, too. And worst of all, they're all about to ship out for France.

Marianne

Marianne
6.1/10
At the conclusion of World War I, a French girl is romanced by an American doughboy even though she is promised to a French soldier who was sent to the front.

Her Favorite Patient

Her Favorite Patient
5.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 22/06/1945
  • Character: Morgan Hale
A beautiful female doctor visits her small hometown on her way back to Chicago. Her overworked uncle, who is the town's doctor, wants her to stay and help him, and he and a macho test pilot who's fallen for her come up with a plan that involves the pilot faking an illness and being treated by her, with her uncle's "help".

Monte Carlo

Monte Carlo
6.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusicRomance
  • Release: 27/08/1930
  • Character: Wedding Guest Officer (uncredited)
A countess fleeing her husband mistakes a count for her hairdresser at a Monte Carlo casino.

Susan and God

Susan and God
5.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 07/06/1940
  • Character: Clyde Rochester
A flighty socialite neglects her family to promote a new religious group.

The Farmer Takes a Wife

The Farmer Takes a Wife
5.3/10
Erie Canal, N.Y., 1850: Molly Larkins, cook on Jotham Klore's canal boat, has a love-hate relationship with her boss. She hires handsome new haul-horse driver Dan Harrow and the inevitable triangle develops (complicated by Dan's desire to farm and Molly's to boat) against a background of the canalmen's fight against the encroaching railroad.

A Letter for Evie

A Letter for Evie
7/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 28/01/1946
  • Character: Edgar 'Wolf' Larson
Evie's co-workers at the uniform shirt factory, and her almost-fiancée's inability to kiss, inspire her to slip a letter into a size sixteen-and-a-half shirt for some anonymous soldier. It's received by "Wolf" Larson, who immediately throws it away, but his sensitive, dreaming--and short--buddy John McPherson snags it, and begins a correspondence with Evie, pretending to be Wolf. But things get complicated when Evie wants to meet her tall, handsome soldier. And even more complicated when Wolf sees Evie and likes what he sees.

Rhumba Rhythm at the Hollywood La Conga

Rhumba Rhythm at the Hollywood La Conga
5.5/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 02/09/1939
  • Character: Himself (uncredited)
Two starstruck visitors to Hollywood sneak into the famous nightclub and end up in a Conga contest and get more than they expected.

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