The best Kernan Cripps’s comedy movies

Kernan Cripps

Kernan Cripps

If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Kernan Cripps’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 Kernan Cripps.
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Hi Diddle Diddle

Hi Diddle Diddle
6.6/10
When the bride's mother is supposedly swindled out of her money by a spurned suitor, the groom's father orchestrates a scheme of his own to set things right. He is aided by a cabaret singer, while placating a jealous wife.

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.

5th Ave Girl

5th Ave Girl
6.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 22/09/1939
  • Character: Policeman in Park (uncredited)
A wealthy man hires a poor girl to play his mistress in order to get more attention from his neglectful family.

Dance, Girl, Dance

Dance, Girl, Dance
6.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusicRomance
  • Release: 30/08/1940
  • Character: Night Court Bailiff (uncredited)
Judy O'Brien is an aspiring ballerina in a dance troupe. Also in the company is Bubbles, a brash mantrap who leaves the struggling troupe for a career in burlesque. When the company disbands, Bubbles gives Judy a thankless job as her stooge. The two eventually clash when both fall for the same man.

The Invisible Woman

The Invisible Woman
6/10
Kitty Carroll, an attractive store model, volunteers to become a test subject for a machine that will make her invisible so that she can use her invisibility to exact revenge on her ex-boss.

Big Brown Eyes

Big Brown Eyes
6.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyMystery
  • Release: 03/04/1936
  • Character: Police Telephone Operator (Uncredited)
Sassy manicurist Eve Fallon is recruited as an even more brassy reporter and she helps police detective boyfriend Danny Barr break a jewel theft ring and solve the murder of a baby.

She Couldn't Take It

She Couldn't Take It
6.4/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 08/10/1935
  • Character: Guard
The wealthy Van Dyke family are constantly in the media for outrageous behavior, much to the frustration of the patriarch, Dan Van Dyke. His self-centered wife has a fondness for foreign imports, including "pet projects" like dancers and such and his spoiled children Tony and Carol have constant run-ins with the law. When Dan himself ends up in the clink for five years for tax evasion, he becomes bunk-mates with ex-bootlegger Joe "Spots" Ricardi. Ricardi lectures him on being such a push-over for an out-of-control family, so a dying Dan makes Ricardi his estate trustee once he is released from prison. Ricardi is then thrust into high society and must do everything he once nagged Dan to do.

Murder by Invitation

Murder by Invitation
5.8/10
The relatives of a rich old woman unsuccessfully try to have her declared insane, so they can divide up her money. To show them that there are no hard feelings, she invites them to her estate for the weekend so she can decide to whom she actually will leave her money when she dies. Soon, however, family members begin turning up dead.

Appointment for Love

Appointment for Love
5.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 31/10/1941
  • Character: Bartender (uncredited)
Charming Andre Cassil woos physician Jane Alexander and the two impulsively get married. The honeymoon ends very quickly when Jane voices her progressive views on marriage which include the two having separate apartments. Andre then tries to make his wife jealous in order to lure her into his bedroom.

Broadway Bill

Broadway Bill
6.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 30/11/1934
  • Character: Policeman (uncredited)
Tycoon J.L. Higgins controls his whole family, but one of his sons- in-law, Dan Brooks and his daughter Alice are fed up with that. Brooks quits his job as manager of J.L.'s paper box factory and devotes his life to his racing horse Broadway Bill, but his bank- roll is thin and the luck is against him, he is arrested because of $150 he owes somebody for horse food, but suddenly a planed fraud by somebody else seems to offer him a chance...

Slightly French

Slightly French
6.3/10
A film director, in bad standing with his studio, tries to turn a local carnival dancer into a "French" movie star and pass her off as his big new discovery

Cross-Country Romance

Cross-Country Romance
5.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 12/07/1940
  • Character: Tough at Auto Camp #2
Chase across the country romance.

The Undie-World

The Undie-World
6.7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 03/04/1934
  • Character: Gangster
Big Boy Williams is a gangster who is smitten with the two girls in the next apartment. With the help of his violinist friend Grady Sutton he gets acquainted with the girls by posing as a musician.

That Girl From Paris

That Girl From Paris
5.7/10
Nikki Martin (Lily Pons), a beautiful French opera star, stows away on an ocean liner in hopes of escaping her jealous fiancee. Once aboard, she joins an American swing band and falls in love with its leader, who, after hearing her sing, eventually comes to reciprocate her feelings.

Angel's Holiday

Angel's Holiday
6.4/10
Lively June (Jane Withers), teen-aged daughter of mystery writer Waldo Everett (Jon Qualen), who calls her "Angel," becomes involved in intrigue centering on movie star Pauline Kaye (Sally Blane) and her companion Stivers (Joan Davis). Reporter Nick Moore (Robert Kent), once sweet on Pauline, is convinced that her sudden disappearance is a publicity stunt, which is true -- until gangster Bat Regan (Harold Huber) decides to get involved.

Strange Affair

Strange Affair
6.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyMystery
  • Release: 05/10/1944
  • Character: Officer in Patrol Car (Uncredited)
Eminent psychiatrist Dr. Brenner invites cartoonist Bill Harrison and his wife, Jack, to a banquet honoring war refugees. Bill volunteers to pick up fellow psychiatrist Dr. Baumler at the train station, but the man vanishes when he has Bill stop so he can use a pay phone. At the dinner, Bill and Jack are seated with Brenner's daughter, Freda, and, to Bill's surprise, another man is introduced as Baumler -- who dies moments later.

Little Big Shot

Little Big Shot
6.2/10
A con man and his partner inherit a dead gangster's precocious daughter.

The Lady from Cheyenne

The Lady from Cheyenne
6.1/10
Fictionalized story of the 1869 adoption of women's suffrage in Wyoming Territory. In the new-founded railroad town of Laraville, Boss Jim Cork hopes to manipulate the sale of town lots to give him control, but Quaker schoolmarm Annie Morgan bags one of the key lots. Cork's lawyer Steve Lewis tries romancing Annie to get the lot back, finding her so overpoweringly liberated she leaves him dizzy. Still, Steve attains his nefarious object...almost...then has cause to deeply regret having aroused the sleeping giant of feminism!

Blondie Hits the Jackpot

Blondie Hits the Jackpot
6.3/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 08/09/1949
  • Character: Officer (uncredited)
The "Blondie" series reaches Number 26 with Blondie Hits the Jackpot. Fired for messing up an important contract, Dagwood (Arthur Lake) takes a job as a manual laborer for a construction firm. Of interest is the fact that Dagwood and Blondie's son Alexander (Larry Simms), is now shaving and going out with girls--a far cry from his "Baby Dumpling" days in the series' earliest entries.

Gaucho Serenade

Gaucho Serenade
6.3/10
Gene Autry and sidekick Frog Millhouse depart Madison Square Garden and NYC heading west for home in their car and a horse trailer carrying Gene's horse, Champion. They discover that Ronnie Willoughby, a young boy just off the boat from school in England, has hitched a ride, thinking that Gene and Frog were sent by his father to meet him. Ronnie thinks his father is a big rancher in the west and doesn't know that his father, Alfred Willoughby, is serving time in San Quentin prison because of a frame-up by the officials of a packing company. To keep the father from testifying against them, the packing company officials, Carter, Jenkins and Martin, have arranged for the boy to be kidnapped. Along the way a runaway bride, Joyce Halloway, and her young sister Patsy join the troupe.

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