The best John Dehner’s comedy movies

John Dehner

John Dehner

23/11/1915- 04/02/1992
Today we present the best John Dehner’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 Dehner’s movies.
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The Reluctant Dragon

The Reluctant Dragon
6.7/10
Humorist Robert Benchley attempts to find Walt Disney to ask him to adapt a short story about a gentle dragon who would rather recite poetry than be ferocious. Along the way, he is given a tour of Walt Disney Studios, and learns about the animation process.

Airplane II: The Sequel

Airplane II: The Sequel
6.2/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 10/12/1982
  • Character: The Commissioner
A faulty computer causes a passenger space shuttle to head straight for the sun, and man-with-a-past, Ted Striker must save the day and get the shuttle back on track – again – all the while trying to patch up his relationship with Elaine.

Creator

Creator
6.1/10
With the help of student assistant Boris and stolen university equipment, Dr. Harry Wolper plans to clone his dead wife. But then he meets Meli, an egg donor for his experiment, and they fall in love. Faced with choosing between his deceased wife and Meli, Dr. Wolper sees his situation in a new light when Boris' own new love, Barbara, falls into a coma. Meanwhile, another professor tries shutting down the cloning project.

Scaramouche

Scaramouche
7.5/10
In 18th-century France, a young man masquerades as an actor to avenge his friend's murder.

Support Your Local Gunfighter

Support Your Local Gunfighter
6.8/10
A con artist arrives in a mining town controlled by two competing companies. Both companies think he's a famous gunfighter and try to hire him to drive the other out of town.

Hollywood Canteen

Hollywood Canteen
7/10
Two soldiers on leave spend three nights at a club offering free of charge food, dancing, and entertainment for servicemen on their way overseas. Club founders Bette Davis and John Garfield give talks on the history of the place.

Captive Girl

Captive Girl
5.2/10
Jungle Jim is out to save Joan from an evil witch doctor whilst simultaneously fighting evil treasure hunter Barton.

Fun with Dick and Jane

Fun with Dick and Jane
6.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 18/03/1977
  • Character: Jane's Father
When an upwardly mobile couple find themselves unemployed and in debt, they turn to armed robbery in desperation.

Critic's Choice

Critic's Choice
5.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 13/04/1963
  • Character: S.P. Champlain
Bob Hope is a New York theater critic and his wife (Lucille Ball in their final motion picture pairing) writes a play that may or may not be very good. Now Hope must either get out of reviewing the play or cause the breakup of his marriage. Based on the Broadway play by Ira Levin.

Twice Blessed

Twice Blessed
6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 31/05/1945
  • Character: Contest Announcer (uncredited)
Stephanie and Terry are identical twins who have been raised separately since their parents divorced seven years earlier. Each envies the lifestyle of the other; and they decide, without telling Jeff or Mary, to switch families for a day or two. They soon find that it is harder to do what the other person is expected to do, and that looking alike is not enough. When they find that their charade may bring their parents back together, they agree to continue it. A major complication begins when Alice, Jeff's girlfriend and co-worker, finds out the real story.

The New Daughters of Joshua Cabe

The New Daughters of Joshua Cabe
6.1/10
Three young women who posed as the daughters of an elderly homesteader find out that he has been falsely accused of murder, convicted, and sentenced to hang. They hatch a plot to smuggle him out of prison.

Ten Tall Men

Ten Tall Men
6/10
Sgt. Mike Kincaid of the French Foreign Legion learns, from a Riff prisoner, that an attack will soon be made by the villainous Hussin on the Legion's outpost of Tarfa. Kincaid volunteers to lead nine other Legionnaires on a mission to delay Hussin's attack till reinforcements arrive. When he discovers that Hussin plans to marry Mahla, a girl from a rival tribe, in order to build a coalition against the French, Kincaid kidnaps Mahla. Hussin forcefully takes her back, but by now his planned attack on Tarfa is crumbling and Mahla has begun to fall in love with Kincaid.

The Bowery Boys Meet the Monsters

The Bowery Boys Meet the Monsters
5.9/10
Slip, Sach and the rest of the Bowery Boys enter a haunted house, where they engage in slapstick with a gorilla, a robot and a vampire

Harem Girl

Harem Girl
6.1/10
The palace secretary (Joan Davis) to a princess (Peggie Castle) foils a sheik's plot to grab royal oil.

Nothing Personal

Nothing Personal
4.6/10
Environmentally concerned lawyer Abigail Adams works with Professor Roger Keller in his effort to protect baby seals from slaughter.

Dirty Dingus Magee

Dirty Dingus Magee
5.2/10
  • Genre: ComedyWestern
  • Release: 18/11/1970
  • Character: Brig. Gen. George
Ass-breaker Dingus Magee is looking for a gold train when he comes upon old acquaintance Hoke Birdsill on stage to San Francisco, and robs him of his money. Hoke goes to the nearby town of Yerkey's Hole, where Belle Knops is both mayor and bordello-mistress. She appoints Hoke Town Sheriff and tries to get him to stir up the Indians so the soldiers at the nearby fort (the main customers) won't go to Little Big Horn. Dingus tries to stir up more trouble and get involved with the pale, baby-talking Indian, Anna. The film is a send-up of the oft-repeated phrase "the Code of the West" and exaggerates it and what it stands for into the ridiculousness that it is.

The Lucille Ball Comedy Hour

The Lucille Ball Comedy Hour
7.2/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 18/04/1964
  • Character: Mr. Henderson

Corky of Gasoline Alley

Corky of Gasoline Alley
6.4/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 17/09/1951
  • Character: Jefferson Jay
A small town family discovers an unwanted houseguest is harder to eject than they expected. Comedy.

The Great Cat Family

The Great Cat Family
7.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyFamily
  • Release: 01/01/1956
  • Character: John Dehner

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