The best Joseph Crehan’s comedy movies on Apple iTunes

Joseph Crehan

Joseph Crehan

15/07/1883- 15/04/1966
We present our ranking of the best Joseph Crehan’s movies. Do you love cinema? Or are you looking for a movie of your favorite actor to watch tonight? Surely you have some to see or that you did not know yet about Joseph Crehan.

Here Comes Mr. Jordan

Here Comes Mr. Jordan
7.5/10
Boxer Joe Pendleton, flying to his next fight, crashes...because a Heavenly Messenger, new on the job, snatched Joe's spirit prematurely from his body. Before the matter can be rectified, Joe's body is cremated; so the celestial Mr. Jordan grants him the use of the body of wealthy Bruce Farnsworth, who's just been murdered by his wife. Joe tries to remake Farnsworth's unworthy life in his own clean-cut image, but then falls in love; and what about that murderous wife?

It Happened One Night

It Happened One Night
8.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 22/02/1934
  • Character: Detective (uncredited)
A renegade reporter and a crazy young heiress meet on a bus heading for New York, and end up stuck with each other when the bus leaves them behind at one of the stops.

Duck Soup

Duck Soup
7.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyWar
  • Release: 12/11/1933
  • Character: Dignitary at Reception (uncredited)
Rufus T. Firefly is named president/dictator of bankrupt Freedonia and declares war on neighboring Sylvania over the love of wealthy Mrs. Teasdale.

Monsieur Verdoux

Monsieur Verdoux
7.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 26/09/1947
  • Character: Broker (uncredited)
The film is about an unemployed banker, Henri Verdoux, and his sociopathic methods of attaining income. While being both loyal and competent in his work, Verdoux has been laid-off. To make money for his wife and child, he marries wealthy widows and then murders them. His crime spree eventually works against him when two particular widows break his normal routine.

Gentleman Jim

Gentleman Jim
7.6/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 14/11/1942
  • Character: Duffy - Referee (uncredited)
As bareknuckled boxing enters the modern era, brash extrovert Jim Corbett uses new rules and dazzlingly innovative footwork to rise to the top of the top of the boxing world.

Jimmy the Gent

Jimmy the Gent
6.6/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrimeDrama
  • Release: 09/03/1934
  • Character: Murder Trial Judge (uncredited)
An unpolished racketeer, whose racket is finding heirs for unclaimed fortunes, affects ethics and tea-drinking manners to win back the sweetheart who now works for his seemingly upright competitor.

Mr. Lucky

Mr. Lucky
7.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 01/07/1943
  • Character: Detective (uncredited)
A conman poses as a war relief fundraiser, but when he falls for a charity worker, his conscience begins to trouble him.

Babes in Arms

Babes in Arms
6.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 10/10/1939
  • Character: Mr. Essex
Mickey Moran, son of two vaudeville veterans, decide to put up his own vaudeville show with his girlfriend Patsy Barton. But child actress Rosalie wants to make a comeback and replace Patsy both professionally and as Mickey's girl.

Love Crazy

Love Crazy
7.4/10
Circumstance, an old flame and a mother-in-law drive a happily married couple to the verge of divorce and insanity.

Brother Orchid

Brother Orchid
7/10
When retired racket boss John Sarto tries to reclaim his place and former friends try to kill him, he finds solace in a monastery and reinvents himself as a pious monk.

Too Hot to Handle

Too Hot to Handle
6.6/10
Chris Hunter is a sly newsreel reporter. While in Shanghai doing reports on the Chinese-Japanese war, he meets pilot Alma Harding. At first she doesn't trust him, but by a trick he manages to get her hired as his assistant. During an adventurous expedition through the jungles of South America he manages to change her view of him.

Adventure

Adventure
6.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyDramaRomance
  • Release: 28/12/1945
  • Character: Ed - Maritime Office (uncredited)
A rough and tumble man of the sea falls for a meek librarian.

Front Page Woman

Front Page Woman
6.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 11/07/1935
  • Character: Spike Kiley
Ace reporter Curt Devlin and fellow reporter Ellen Garfield love one another, but Curt believes women are "bum newspapermen". When a murder investigation ensues, the two compete every step of the way, determined to not be scooped by the other.

Gold Diggers of 1937

Gold Diggers of 1937
6.4/10
The partners of stage-producer J. J. Hobart gamble away the money for his new show. They enlist a gold-digging chorus girl to help get it back by conning an insurance company. But they don’t count on the persistence of insurance man Rosmer Peck and his secretary Norma Perry.

Cain and Mabel

Cain and Mabel
6.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 26/09/1936
  • Character: Reed's Manager
A chorus girl and a heavyweight boxer are paired romantically as a publicity stunt.

Andy Hardy's Private Secretary

Andy Hardy's Private Secretary
6.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 21/02/1941
  • Character: Peter Dugan
All set to graduate from high school , Andy Hardy flunks his English exam -- in spite of the fact that Aunt Milly is his teacher, and that the Judge has gone to all the trouble of getting him his very own private secretary.

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