The best Kevin McCarthy’s comedy movies

Kevin McCarthy

Kevin McCarthy

15/02/1914- 11/09/2010
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Kevin McCarthy’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 Kevin McCarthy.
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Innerspace

Innerspace
6.8/10
Test pilot Tuck Pendleton volunteers to test a special vessel for a miniaturization experiment. Accidentally injected into a neurotic hypochondriac, Jack Putter, Tuck must convince Jack to find his ex-girlfriend, Lydia Maxwell, to help him extract Tuck and his ship and re-enlarge them before his oxygen runs out.

The Second Civil War

The Second Civil War
6.6/10
When a planeload of Pakistani orphans are shipped to his state for permanent relocation, the governor of Idaho (Beau Bridges, who won an Emmy) defies the president (Phil Hartman) and closes the state's border. News Net Television, a cable news program that makes hay by reporting on political scandals, quickly spins the racist act into an overnight media sensation, creating a divide in national opinion over the issue.

Looney Tunes: Back in Action

Looney Tunes: Back in Action
5.8/10
Fed up with all the attention going to Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck quits Hollywood, teams up with recently-fired stuntman Damien Drake Jr. and embarks on a round-the-world adventure, along with Bugs and The VP of Warner Bros. Their mission? Find Damien's father, and the missing blue diamond... and stay one step ahead of The Acme Corp., who wants the diamond for their own purposes.

Greedy

Greedy
6.3/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 04/03/1994
  • Character: Bartlett
Meet the McTeagues. They've come to stake a claim in their wealthy uncle's will… only he's not dead yet!

Piranha

Piranha
5.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyHorror
  • Release: 03/08/1978
  • Character: Dr. Robert Hoak
When flesh-eating piranhas are accidently released into a summer resort's rivers, the guests become their next meal.

UHF

UHF
6.9/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 21/07/1989
  • Character: R.J. Fletcher
The eccentric new manager of a UHF television channel tries to save the station from financial ruin with an odd array of programming.

My Tutor

My Tutor
5.2/10
High school senior Bobby Chrystal fails his French class, which will block him from entering Yale. His rich, authoritarian father hires an attractive 29-year-old to tutor Bobby over the summer and help him pass a make-up exam. While Bobby's friends lead him away into strange excursions aimed at losing their virginity, Bobby finds all the extracurricular activities he needs with his new tutor.

Addams Family Reunion

Addams Family Reunion
3.9/10
The Addams Family goes on a search for their relatives. Gomez and Morticia are horrified to discover that Grandpa and Grandma Addams have a disease that is slowly turning them "normal". The only chance they have of a cure is to find a family member hoping that they know a home remedy.

Matinee

Matinee
6.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 29/01/1993
  • Character: General Ankrum
A showman introduces a small coastal town to a unique movie experience and capitalises on the Cuban Missile crisis hysteria with a kitschy horror extravaganza combining film effects, stage props and actors in rubber suits in this salute to the B-movie.

Ace High

Ace High
6.5/10
After Cacopoulos manages to save himself from being hung on a false charge, he robs Cat Stevens and Hutch Bessy of a lot of money and steals their horses. This results in a merry chase and Stevens and Bessy become unwilling allies in Cacopoulus' revenge against the people who deserted him and framed him to get their money back.

Ghoulies III: Ghoulies Go to College

Ghoulies III: Ghoulies Go to College
4/10
A college teacher brings the little creatures back to his campus, where they proceed to terrorize the faculty and students.

The Distinguished Gentleman

The Distinguished Gentleman
5.9/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 04/12/1992
  • Character: Terry Corrigan
A Florida con man uses the passing of the long time Congressman from his district who he just happens to share a name with, to get elected to his version of paradise, Congress, where the money flows from lobbyists. But soon he learns the nature of the game and decides to fight back the only way he knows how, with a con.

Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson

Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson
6.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyWestern
  • Release: 24/06/1976
  • Character: The Publicist (Maj. John Burke)
Buffalo Bill plans to put on his own Wild West sideshow, and Chief Sitting Bull has agreed to appear in it. However, Sitting Bull has his own hidden agenda, involving the President and General Custer.

Steal Big Steal Little

Steal Big Steal Little
4.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 29/09/1995
  • Character: Reed Tyler
Ruben and Robby are twin brothers, adopted by Mona, one of the wealthiest - and most eccentric - women in Santa Barbara. Ruben is devoted to Mona, but Robby is more devoted to her money. So when Mona leaves her fortune and estate to Ruben it starts a battle between brothers that soon leads to madness, mayhem, and even attempted murder. On Ruben's side is Lou Perilli an ex-Chicago cop and used car dealer who knows the law - and how to get around it. On Robby's side is ruthless businessman Reed Tyler, who is out to turn a swift profit on Mona's property. Walking a shifty line between them is Eddie Agopian, the family lawyer, who doesn't care which side wins as long as he's on the winner's side. But whether they're stealing big or stealing little, they're all stealing in this hilarious comedy about greed, power... and brotherly love.

40 Pounds of Trouble

40 Pounds of Trouble
6.3/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 01/01/1962
  • Character: Louie Blanchard
Hilarity ensues when a casino manager spends a day at Disneyland with a cute but troublesome little girl.

The Midnight Hour

The Midnight Hour
6.4/10
Phil, Melissa, Mitch, Mary, and Vinnie are high school friends, who unwittingly raise the dead on Halloween night. Once the dead have returned, Pitchford Cove will never be the same again....or will it?

The Best Man

The Best Man
7.6/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 05/04/1964
  • Character: Dick Jensen
The other party is in disarray. Five men vie for the party nomination for president. No one has a majority as the first ballot closes and the front-runners begin to decide how badly they want the job.

Fast Food

Fast Food
4.2/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 28/04/1989
  • Character: Judge Reinholte
Auggie wants to make it big and has tried pretty much everything in order to do so. His next idea: turn his cousin's garage into a burger joint. To make it appealing, they develop a very very very special sauce. But beware, the king of fast food, Wrangler Bob, is out to get them...

The Boneyard Collection

The Boneyard Collection
3.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyHorror
  • Release: 01/01/2008
  • Character: The Monk (segment "Her Morbid Desires")
A quirky anthology, consisting of four separate short films connected by host segments. The first one, BOOGIE WITH THE UNDEAD, has an all girl rock band booked to play a gig in a town overrun by flesh-eating zombies. In the second one, THE DEVIL'S DUE AT MIDNIGHT, a coven of beautiful witches conjure up Brad Dourif as The Devil, and endures the inept attacks of witch killer Ken Foree. In the first long segment, HER MORBID DESIRES, an actress gets the lead role in a vampire movie, only to discover that starlets are being murdered on the set. The other long segment, CRY OF THE MUMMY, has the reincarnated mummy, formerly the last Pharaoh of the 4th Dynasty, looking to sue the movie studios because he can't get work as a mummy. His new lawyer offers to represent him as an agent, but the mummy will only work in film if he can direct.

Hero at Large

Hero at Large
5.9/10
An idealistic but struggling actor finds his life unexpectedly complicated when he stops a robbery while wearing the costume of Captain Avenger, a superhero character of a film he is hired to to promote. He decides to dabble at being a superhero only to find that it is more difficult and dangerous than he ever imagined.

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