The best Marcel Dalio’s comedy movies

Marcel Dalio

Marcel Dalio

23/11/1899- 18/11/1983
We present our ranking of the best Marcel Dalio’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 Marcel Dalio.
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Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
7.1/10
Lorelei Lee is a beautiful showgirl engaged to be married to the wealthy Gus Esmond, much to the disapproval of Gus' rich father, Esmond Sr., who thinks that Lorelei is just after his money. When Lorelei goes on a cruise accompanied only by her best friend, Dorothy Shaw, Esmond Sr. hires Ernie Malone, a private detective, to follow her and report any questionable behavior that would disqualify her from the marriage.

How to Steal a Million

How to Steal a Million
7.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 13/07/1966
  • Character: Senior Paravideo
A woman must steal a statue from a Paris museum to help conceal her father's art forgeries.

Sabrina

Sabrina
7.6/10
Linus and David Larrabee are the two sons of a very wealthy family. Linus is all work – busily running the family corporate empire, he has no time for a wife and family. David is all play – technically he is employed by the family business, but never shows up for work, spends all his time entertaining, and has been married and divorced three times. Meanwhile, Sabrina Fairchild is the young, shy, and awkward daughter of the household chauffeur, who goes away to Paris for two years, and returns to capture David's attention, while falling in love with Linus.

The Wing or The Thigh?

The Wing or The Thigh?
7.2/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 27/10/1976
  • Character: Duchemin's tailor
Charles Duchemin, a well-known gourmet and publisher of a famous restaurant guide, is waging a war against fast food entrepreneur Tri- catel to save the French art of cooking. After having agreed to appear on a talk show to show his skills in naming food and wine by taste, he is confronted with two disasters: his son wants to become a clown rather than a restaurant tester and he, the famous Charles Duchemin, has lost his taste!

Catch-22

Catch-22
7.1/10
A bombardier in World War II tries desperately to escape the insanity of the war. However, sometimes insanity is the only sane way to cope with a crazy situation.

The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob

The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob
7.4/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 17/10/1973
  • Character: Rabbi Jacob
In this riot of frantic disguises and mistaken identities, Victor Pivert, a blustering, bigoted French factory owner, finds himself taken hostage by Slimane, an Arab rebel leader. The two dress up as rabbis as they try to elude not only assasins from Slimane's country, but also the police, who think Pivert is a murderer. Pivert ends up posing as Rabbi Jacob, a beloved figure who's returned to France for his first visit after 30 years in the United States. Adding to the confusion are Pivert's dentist-wife, who thinks her husband is leaving her for another woman, their daughter, who's about to get married, and a Parisian neighborhood filled with people eager to celebrate the return of Rabbi Jacob.

Pillow Talk

Pillow Talk
7.4/10
A man and woman share a telephone line and despise each other, but then he has fun by romancing her with his voice disguised.

The Rules of the Game

The Rules of the Game
7.9/10
A weekend at a marquis’ country château lays bare some ugly truths about a group of haut bourgeois acquaintances.

Donovan's Reef

Donovan's Reef
6.7/10
'Guns' Donovan prefers carousing with his pals Doc Dedham and 'Boats' Gilhooley, until Dedham's high-society daughter Amelia shows up in their South Seas paradise.

To Have and Have Not

To Have and Have Not
7.8/10
A Martinique charter boat skipper gets mixed up with the underground French resistance operatives during WWII.

Swords of Blood

Swords of Blood
6.5/10
In the 18th century, Louis de Bourguignon is working with the Malichot's gang, but their ways are too 'unethical' for him. He creates his own band, acting under the name of Cartouche, making audacious robberies of the rich people, and even distributing the takings with the poor. Thus, cartouche attracts the people's sympathies, Venus's love, and hate from the Police and Malichot... Cartouche can escape all the traps they set at him - except the entrapments of love. Eventually, he will be saved by a woman, at her own cost.

Tender Scoundrel

Tender Scoundrel
5.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 12/12/1966
  • Character: Le père de Véronique
Jean-Paul Belmondo is a lovable lothario who delights in his womanizing ways in this ribald comedy adventure. When two women can't get enough of him, he is chased to Tahiti and back to Paris by admiring females. His experiences are exhausting to the point that he considers giving up his life as a ladies man.

The Oldest Profession

The Oldest Profession
5.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 05/04/1967
  • Character: Vladimir Leskov
A collection of sketches that tells the story of prostitution through the ages.

Tales of Manhattan

Tales of Manhattan
7.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyDramaRomance
  • Release: 05/08/1942
  • Character: Second Salesman at Sandelli's (uncredited)
Ten screenwriters collaborated on this series of tales concerning the effect a tailcoat cursed by its tailor has on those who wear it. The video release features a W.C. Fields segment not included in the original theatrical release.

The Devil and the Ten Commandments

The Devil and the Ten Commandments
6.7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 14/09/1962
  • Character: Le bijoutier / Jeweler
The film consists of seven roughly 15 minute episodes, each showing what will happen if one or more of the Ten Commandments will be broken: Jérome Chambard is warned that he will lose his job if he continues to swear; Françoise Beaufort enamored of a stripper calls on her only to find her married to a janitor who doesn't know what kind of dancing his wife performs; Denis, a Jesuit novice, leaves the order to avenge his sister's suicide, which was provoked by Garigny, who seduced her into prostitution and drug addiction; Philip buys a necklace for Micheline though he is bored with her; a young man find out that his real mother is not Madeleine, but actress Clarisse Ardant; Didier Marin, cashier of a bank, was fired by his boss; the Devil appears as a serpent for Jérome Chambard and the bishop are eating.

Ten Thousand Bedrooms

Ten Thousand Bedrooms
5.6/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 03/04/1957
  • Character: Vittorio Cisini
In this musical-comedy, Dean Martin plays an American hotel mogul who becomes smitten with a young Italian woman (Anna Maria Alberghetti) when buying a hotel in Rome. To marry this gal, he has to get her three older sisters married off.

Jessica

Jessica
5.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 19/04/1962
  • Character: Luigi Tuffi
When the men of a Sicilian village start obsessing over ravishing blonde midwife Jessica (Angie Dickinson), angry females revolt by refusing to have sex with their husbands. As the local priest (Maurice Chevalier) tries to encourage procreation, Jessica falls for a tricky recluse (Gabriele Ferzetti). An adaptation of a Flora Sandstrom novel, this charming comedy also features Noel-Noel as a matchmaking old-timer.

Made in Paris

Made in Paris
5.4/10
A pretty fashion buyer visiting Paris on business is courted by a famous designer. Boris Sagal's 1966 romantic comedy stars Ann-Margret, Louis Jourdan, Richard Crenna, Chad Everett, Edie Adams, John McGiver, Reta Shaw and Count Basie.

Lady L

Lady L
5.5/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 17/12/1965
  • Character: Sapper
Lady L is an elegant 80-year-old woman who recalls her amorous life story, including past loves and lusty, scandalous adventures she has lived through.

The Perfect Furlough

The Perfect Furlough
6.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 30/11/1958
  • Character: Henri Valentin
A love-starved soldier stationed at an Arctic base wins a furlough in Paris, but a pretty, no-nonsense military psychologist is ordered to accompany him as chaperone to keep him out of trouble.

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