The best Knox Manning’s comedy movies

Knox Manning

Knox Manning

17/01/1904- 26/08/1980
We present our ranking of the best Knox Manning’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 Knox Manning.

Meet John Doe

Meet John Doe
7.6/10
As a parting shot, fired reporter Ann Mitchell prints a fake letter from unemployed "John Doe," who threatens suicide in protest of social ills. The paper is forced to rehire Ann and hires John Willoughby to impersonate "Doe." Ann and her bosses cynically milk the story for all it's worth, until the made-up "John Doe" philosophy starts a whole political movement.

The Kid from Brooklyn

The Kid from Brooklyn
6.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 21/03/1946
  • Character: Radio Announcer
Shy milkman Burleigh Sullivan accidentally knocks out drunken Speed McFarlane, a champion boxer who was flirting with Burleigh's sister. The newspapers get hold of the story and photographers even catch Burleigh knock out Speed again. Speed's crooked manager decides to turn Burleigh into a fighter. Burleigh doesn't realize that all of his opponents have been asked to take a dive. Thinking he really is a great fighter, Burleigh develops a swelled head which puts a crimp in his relationship with pretty nightclub singer Polly Pringle. He may finally get his comeuppance when he challenges Speed for the title.

Buck Privates Come Home

Buck Privates Come Home
6.8/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 04/04/1947
  • Character: Commentator
Two ex-soldiers return from overseas--one of them having smuggled into the country a French orphan girl he has become attached to. They wind up running into their old sergeant--who hates them--and getting involved with a race-car builder who's trying to find backers for a new midget racer he's building.

Tom, Dick and Harry

Tom, Dick and Harry
6.4/10
Janie is a telephone operator who is caught up in the lines of love of three men: car salesman Tom, Chicago millionaire Dick and auto mechanic Harry. But Janie just can't seem to make up her mind between them. While fantasizing about her futures with each of the men, Janie spends her time desperately trying to juggle between them until she can make a decision.

Cheers For Miss Bishop

Cheers For Miss Bishop
6.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 21/02/1941
  • Character: Anton Radcheck
Ella Bishop is an inhibited girl whose frustrations grow as she approaches womanhood. As a women, her ambitions to teach cause her to lose her only opportunity for true love. Ella's life becomes one of missed chances and wrong choices. As she reaches old age, she reflects back and realizes she allowed the years to go by without achieving what she believes to be her true fulfillment. However, her years have not been without glory, and her moment of triumph arrives when her numerous now-famous students from over the years, return to honor their beloved Miss Bishop.

Up in Arms

Up in Arms
6.2/10
Hypochondriac Danny Weems gets drafted and accidentally smuggles his girlfriend aboard his Pacific-bound troopship.

Tanks a Million

Tanks a Million
5.9/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 12/09/1941
  • Character: Radio Interviewer Cardigan
Chubby William Tracy starred as Dodo Doubleday, a feckless Army draftee blessed (or cursed) with a photographic memory. Inexplicably promoted to sergeant, Doubleday becomes the bane of topkick Sgt. Ames' (Joe Sawyer) existence.

Peeks at Hollywood

Peeks at Hollywood
5.8/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 26/01/1946
  • Character: Narrator (voice)
Two young beautiful starlets use the Griffith Observatory telescope to find stars in Hollywood.

Joe Palooka Meets Humphrey

Joe Palooka Meets Humphrey
6.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyFamily
  • Release: 05/02/1950
  • Character: Radio Announcer
Newlyweds Joe and Anne Palooka are delayed in their honeymoon plans by the helpful Humphrey Pennyworth and by considerably-less-helpful manager, Knobby Walsh.

So You Think You're Allergic

So You Think You're Allergic
5.9/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 01/12/1945
  • Character: Narrator
Joe McDoakes thinks he's allergic.

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