The best John Slater’s comedy movies

John Slater

John Slater

22/08/1916- 09/01/1975
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best John Slater’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 John Slater.

The Million Pound Note

The Million Pound Note
6.8/10
An impoverished American sailor is fortunate enough to be passing the house of two rich gentlemen who have conceived the crazy idea of distributing a note worth one million pounds. The sailor finds that whenever he tries to use the note to buy something, people treat him like a king and let him have whatever he likes for free. Ultimately, the money proves to be more troublesome than it is worth when it almost costs him his dignity and the woman he loves.

Passport to Pimlico

Passport to Pimlico
7.1/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 26/10/1949
  • Character: Frank Huggins
When an unexploded WWII bomb is accidentally detonated in Pimlico, it reveals a treasure trove and documents proving that the region is in fact part of Burgundy, France and thus foreign territory. The British government attempts to regain control by setting up border controls and cutting off services to the area.

I Live in Grosvenor Square

I Live in Grosvenor Square
6.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 20/07/1945
  • Character: Paratrooper
The WW II romance set in Grosvenor square aka Eisenhower's home where the GIs stayed in London. Neagle loves Harrison. There arrives patriot GI Dean Jagger to rouse things up in the square. Snotty British Neagle and Jagger clash and fall for each other. What will Harrison have to say or do about these? What will the consequences be? Will the three finally become two and which two in this extremely patriotic love and war story.

Nothing Barred

Nothing Barred
5.2/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 10/10/1961
  • Character: Warder Lockitt
Penniless Lord Whitebait's plan to save his sinking fortunes is to open stately Whitebait Manor to the public. But the public ignores his gesture, and his fortunes fade even further, with a stream of debts threatening to run into a deluge when his daughter's fiancé demands a plush and costly wedding. Where is the cash to come from? Whitebait and his servant Spankforth's answer is a scam involving the theft of a valuable painting from the Manor. How could such a cunningly original ruse fail?

Three on a Spree

Three on a Spree
6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 28/06/1961
  • Character: Sid Johnson
A young man will inherit a huge fortune--8 million pounds--but to qualify, he must spend a million pounds in just two months. Easy to do? That's what you think!

The Night We Got the Bird

The Night We Got the Bird
5.7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 03/11/1960
  • Character: Wolf Mannheim (Manny)
Good natured comic caper charting the misadventures of a hapless bunch of Brighton based petty crooks dogged with disaster at every turn.

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