The best John Davidson’s comedy movies

John Davidson

John Davidson

25/12/1886- 16/01/1968
Today we present the best John Davidson’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 Davidson’s movies.
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The Great Dictator

The Great Dictator
8.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyWar
  • Release: 23/10/1940
  • Character: Hospital Superintendent (uncredited)
Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecution from Hynkel's regime.

People Will Talk

People Will Talk
7.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyDramaRomance
  • Release: 29/08/1951
  • Character: Faculty Board Member (uncredited)
Successful and well-liked, Dr. Noah Praetorius becomes the victim of a witchhunt at the hands of Professor Elwell, who disdains Praetorius's unorthodox medical views and also questions his relationship with the mysterious, ever-present Mr. Shunderson.

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.

Saps at Sea

Saps at Sea
7.1/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 29/04/1940
Stan and Ollie work in a horn factory. Ollie starts having violent fits every time he hears a horn. His doctor prescribes a restful sea voyage. Mayhem ensues.

Dinner at Eight

Dinner at Eight
7.5/10
An ambitious New York socialite plans an extravagant dinner party as her businessman husband, Oliver, contends with financial woes, causing a lot of tension between the couple. Meanwhile, their high-society friends and associates, including the gruff Dan Packard and his sultry spouse, Kitty, contend with their own entanglements, leading to revelations at the much-anticipated dinner.

Live, Love and Learn

Live, Love and Learn
5.9/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 29/10/1937
  • Character: Mr. Wingate (uncredited)
A starving, uncompromising artist and an heiress fall in love on first sight and immediately get married. She loves his outrageous behaviour, his strange room-mate and the best apartment poverty can buy.

Turnabout

Turnabout
6.2/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 17/05/1940
  • Character: Minor Role (uncredited)
Bickering husband and wife Tim and Sally Willows mutter a few angry words to a statue of Buddha and wind up living each other's life.

Mummy's Boys

Mummy's Boys
5.1/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 02/10/1936
  • Character: Cafe Manager in Cairo
Wheeler & Woolsey comedy about two moronic ditch diggers, recruited for an archaeology expedition, getting mixed up with jewel thieves and an ancient Egyptian "curse."

The Moonstone

The Moonstone
5/10
A valuable gem from India is stolen in an old dark mansion and it is up to Scotland Yard inspector Charles Irwin to find out who did it among all the suspects who were in the house.

Charlie Chan in The Chinese Cat

Charlie Chan in The Chinese Cat
6.3/10
To solve the murder of a man shot in a locked room, Chan must wade through a Fun House, the writings of an unscrupulous author, and chess pieces.

Saturday Night

Saturday Night
6.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 29/01/1922
  • Character: The Count Demitry Scardoff
Though betrothed to fellow socialite Richard, Iris weds her chauffeur Tom leaving Richard to marry the family laundress' daughter Shamrock. Class differences lead to divorces and remarriages.

Hold That Girl

Hold That Girl
5.9/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 23/03/1934
  • Character: Ackroyd
"That girl" is newspaper sob-sister Tony Bellamy (Claire Trevor), whose nose for news gets her into one jam after another, especially when she poses as an exotic dancer to get the goods on a gangster.

The Life of the Party

The Life of the Party
5.3/10
Two gold diggers try a French dressmaker, two Mr. Smiths and Havana.

Dancing in the Dark

Dancing in the Dark
5.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 02/12/1949
  • Character: Board Member
Emery Slade was one of the brightest stars in Hollywood in 1932, but by 1949 his career has hit the skids. Fortunately, he is able to convince studio head Melville Crossman to cast him in the adaptation of a hit Broadway show. Crossman has one condition: Slade must travel to New York and convince the female star of the stage production to join the film. Slade goes, but, when he eyes the winsome Julie Clarke, he hatches a different scheme.

Duel Personalities

Duel Personalities
6.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyFamily
  • Release: 11/03/1939
  • Character: Prof. William Delmore, the Hypnotist (uncredited)
While under a hypnotic spell, Alfalfa thinks he's one of the Three Musketeers and challenges Butch to a duel.

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