The best Leon Errol’s comedy movies
We present our ranking of the best Leon Errol’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 Leon Errol.
The Noose Hangs High
6.6/10
Two window washers who are mistaken by Nick Craig, a bookie, as the messengers he sent for to pick up $50,000. Now the person he sent them to sent two of his men to get the money back but they found out about it. So they try to mail to Craig but a mix up has the money sent somewhere else and the woman who got it spent it. Now Craig needs the money to pay off one of his clients.
Paramount on Parade
5.7/10
This 1930 film, a collection of songs and sketches showcasing Paramount Studios' contract stars, credits 11 directors (including Dorothy Arzner, Ernst Lubitsch, Victor Schertzinger and Edmund Goulding). The cast features Clara Bow, Gary Cooper, Fredric March, Jean Arthur, William Powell, Maurice Chevalier, Kay Francis, Buddy Rogers, Jack Oakie, Stuart Erwin and Nancy Carroll.
Never Give a Sucker an Even Break
7/10
Never Give a Sucker an Even Break is a 1941 film about a man who wants to sell a film story to Esoteric Studios. On the way he gets insulted by little boys, beat up for ogling a woman, and abused by a waitress. W. C. Fields' last starring role in a feature-length film.
What a Blonde
6.5/10
American gas rationing during WWII results in comic mayhem as a lingerie executive finds his home overrun with showgirls.
The Golden Fleecing
6.1/10
A mild-mannered insurance salesman gets mixed up with gangsters.
Joe Palooka in the Counterpunch
5.8/10
Joe heads for South America to fight the Latin champ. Shipboard, he helps federal agents fight counterfeiters. He also spars with love interest Anne Howe.
Melody Lane
5.5/10
In this musical, four entertaining farmboys from Iowa head for the Big Apple to find fame and fortune but find themselves in trouble when a radio sponsor finds himself accused of kidnapping a girl. Songs include: "Septimus Winner," "Peaceful Ends the Day," "Cherokee Charlie," "Let's Go to Calicabu," "Swing-a-Bye My Baby," "Changeable Heart," "If It's a Dream Don't Wake Me," "Since the Farmer in the Dell," "Caliacau," and "Listen to the Mockingbird."
The Girl from Mexico
6.4/10
Carmelita Fuentes is a fiery-Latin singer/dancer in Mexico City who has designs on Dennis Lindsay, an American publicity agent, for unclear reasons, while Lindsay's shiftless uncle Matthew Lindsay aids and abets her every step of the way to the marriage altar.
Autobuyography
Leon trades in his old car for an expensive new car, which promptly begins to fall apart.
Variety Time
5.7/10
Jack Parr hosts a variety program of comedic sketches.
Riverboat Rhythm
5.7/10
A financially-strapped showboat captain struggles to stay in business.
Gals, Incorporated
6.6/10
The story of a nightclub.
Gentleman Joe Palooka
5.9/10
In the second film of Monogram's Joe Palooka series, Joe is 'used', by two state senators scheming to obtain oil-rich lands, in a publicity campaign to get the land transferred to the state, supposedly for a park. When Joe learns that he has been used as a dupe he becomes disillusioned and leaves the prize=fighting profession. But, his manager, sparring partners, and fiancée manage to expose the land-grab scheme, clear Joe's name and discredit the crooked politicians.
Mexican Spitfire
6.1/10
Newlyweds Dennis and Carmelita have several obstacles to deal with in their new marriage: Carmelita's fiery Latin temper, a meddling aunt and a conniving ex-fiancee who's determined to break up their marriage.
Perfectly Mismated
6.3/10
Leon's ex-wife moves into the apartment next to him.
Sally
7.6/10
Sally is a 1925 American silent romantic comedy film starring Colleen Moore.
The Mexican Spitfire's Baby
5.9/10
An advertising executive and his temperamental wife adopt a war orphan who turns out to be a beautiful woman.
Mexican Spitfire's Elephant
6.1/10
A pair of shipboard smugglers have a large diamond hidden inside a small elephant statuette, which they plant on absentminded Lord Epping to get it past customs. Now, his lordship is visiting Uncle Matt Lindsay who looks just like him. Thanks to flirtatious Diana's efforts to get the elephant back, the comic confusion proliferates, with 'spitfire' Carmelita (now a blonde) playing a prominent part.
Cowboy in Manhattan
6.6/10
Bob Allen, a struggling songwriter poses as a millionaire cowboy to win Broadway star Babs Lee.
We're Not Dressing
6/10
Beautiful high society type Doris Worthington is entertaining guests on her yacht in the Pacific when it hits a reef and sinks. She makes her way to an island with the help of singing sailor Stephen Jones. Her friend Edith, Uncle Hubert, and Princes Michael and Alexander make it to the same island but all prove to be useless in the art of survival. The sailor is the only one with the practical knowhow to survive but Doris and the others snub his leadership offer. That is until he starts a clam bake and wafts the fumes in their starving faces. The group gradually gives into his leadership, the only question now is if Doris will give into his charms.
