The best Lionel Atwill’s comedy movies

Lionel Atwill

Lionel Atwill

01/03/1885- 22/04/1946
We present our ranking of the best Lionel Atwill’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 Lionel Atwill.
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To Be or Not to Be

To Be or Not to Be
8.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyWar
  • Release: 05/03/1942
  • Character: Rawitch
During the Nazi occupation of Poland, an acting troupe becomes embroiled in a Polish soldier's efforts to track down a German spy.

Doctor X

Doctor X
6.4/10
A wisecracking New York reporter intrudes on a research scientist's quest to unmask The Moon Killer.

Charlie Chan's Murder Cruise

Charlie Chan's Murder Cruise
7.1/10
On a cruise ship from Honolulu to San Francisco, the famous Chinese detective encounters four more murders while trying to figure out the murder of a Scotland Yard friend.

The Devil Is a Woman

The Devil Is a Woman
6.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyDramaRomance
  • Release: 03/05/1935
  • Character: Capt. Don Pasqual 'Pasqualito' Costelar
In the carnival in Spain in the beginning of the Twentieth Century, the exiled republican Antonio Galvan comes from Paris masquerade to enjoy the party and visit his friend Capt. Don Pasqual 'Pasqualito' Costelar. However, he flirts with the mysterious Concha Perez and they schedule to meet each other later. When Antonio meets Pasqualito, his old friend discloses his frustrated relationship with the promiscuous Concha and her greedy mother and how his life was ruined by his obsession for the beautiful demimondaine. Pasqualito makes Antonio promise that he would not see Concha. However, when Antonio meets Concha, she seduces him and the long friendship between Antonio and Pasqualito is disrupted

Rendezvous

Rendezvous
6.6/10
  • Genre: ComedyWar
  • Release: 25/10/1935
  • Character: Maj. William Brennan
A decoding expert tangles with enemy spies.

Pardon My Sarong

Pardon My Sarong
6.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 07/08/1942
  • Character: Varnoff
A pair of bus drivers accidentally steal their own bus. With the company issuing a warrant for their arrest, they tag along with a playboy on a boat trip that finds them on a tropical island, where a jewel thief has sinister plans for them.

Charlie Chan in Panama

Charlie Chan in Panama
7.1/10
Charlie impersonates an employee of the U.S. government to foil an espionage plot which would destroy part of the Panama Canal, trapping a Navy fleet on its way to the Pacific after maneuvers in the Atlantic.

The Gorilla

The Gorilla
4.8/10
When an escaped circus gorilla appears to have gone on a murderous rampage, a threatened attorney calls on the detective trio of Garrity, Harrigan and Mullivan to act as bodyguards. In short order, we discover that there is more to the attorney than meets the eye, and the ape may be innocent after all. When a pretty young heiress faces peril, it's up to our heroic trio to save the day.

The Three Musketeers

The Three Musketeers
5.9/10
A parodic remake of the story of the young Gascon D'Artagnan, who arrives in Paris, his heart set on joining the king's Musketeers. He is taken under the wings of three of the most respected and feared Musketeers, Porthos, Aramis, and Athos. Together they fight to save France and the honor of a lady from the machinations of the powerful Cardinal Richelieu.

Genius at Work

Genius at Work
5.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 20/10/1946
  • Character: Latimer Marsh / The Cobra
Two actors who play detectives on the radio find themselves investigating a real crime masterminded by an arch-criminal named the Cobra.

The Great Profile

The Great Profile
6.2/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 30/08/1940
  • Character: Dr. Bruce
An alcoholic film star attempts a comeback. Director Walter Lang's 1940 comedy stars John Barrymore, Mary Beth Hughes, Anne Baxter, John Payne, Lionel Atwill and Edward Brophy.

Cairo

Cairo
6.1/10
Reporter Homer Smith accidently draws Marcia Warren into his mission to stop Nazis from bombing Allied Conwoys with robot-planes.

The Great Garrick

The Great Garrick
6.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 30/10/1937
  • Character: M. Beaumarchais
A British actor insults a French acting group only to fall victim to a prank that might destroy his career.

Eve's Daughter

Eve's Daughter
7.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 04/03/1918
  • Character: Courtenay Urquhart
Eve's Daughter was the fourth and final screen teaming of Billie Burke and Thomas Meighan. This time out, Burke is cast as Irene Simpson-Bates, who is disheartened to learn that her millionaire father has left her with a mere $15,000. She is subsequently courted by two men: Poor but respectable John Norton (Thomas Meighan), and rich but disreputable Courtenay Urquahrt (Lionel Atwill, in his American screen debut).

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