The best Michael Medwin’s comedy movies

Michael Medwin

Michael Medwin

18/07/1923- 26/02/2020
Today we present the best Michael Medwin’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Michael Medwin’s movies.

Britannia Hospital

Britannia Hospital
6.2/10
Britannia Hospital, an esteemed English institution, is marking its gala anniversary with a visit by the Queen Mother herself. But when investigative reporter Mick Travis arrives to cover the celebration, he finds the hospital under siege by striking workers, ruthless unions, violent demonstrators, racist aristocrats, and African cannibal dictator and sinister human experiments.

A Countess From Hong Kong

A Countess From Hong Kong
6/10
A Russian countess stows away in the stateroom of a married U.S. diplomat bound for New York.

Fanny & Elvis

Fanny & Elvis
6.2/10
Yorkshire writer Kate finds out her biological clock is ticking down the same day that her husband leaves her. To get over the financial crisis this creates she takes in car-dealer Dave. He's homeless as Kate's husband has moved in with his wife. This leaves the problem of how to get promptly pregnant. Surely not with increasingly interesting Dave. They can't even agree on a baby's name - he thinks Fanny is silly and she finds Elvis, well, inconceivable.

Staggered

Staggered
5.7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 08/07/1994
  • Character: Sarah's father
Very much in love, Neil's wedding plans are sabotaged, beginning when he is abandoned, naked, on a Scottish island. A road trip ensues, with Neil encountering many obstacles as he makes his way to London for what he believes is to be his wedding day. Or is it?

O Lucky Man!

O Lucky Man!
7.6/10
  • Genre: ComedyDramaFantasyMusic
  • Release: 25/03/1973
  • Character: Army Captain/Power Station Technician/Duke of Belminster
This sprawling, surrealist musical serves as an allegory for the pitfalls of capitalism, as it follows the adventures of a young coffee salesman in modern Britain.

Crooks Anonymous

Crooks Anonymous
6.2/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 31/03/1962
  • Character: Ronnie Bassett
A former burglar trying to go straight joins a rehabilitation scheme using much the same methods as AA. Through the process, he takes work as a department store Santa, where the endless parade of goods and money, not to mention the pretty young shop hands have him like a moth to a flame in no time flat.

Trottie True

Trottie True
5.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyDramaMusic
  • Release: 29/09/1949
  • Character: Monty, Marquis of Maidenhead
Tottie True is a gay-90s British music-hall performer who has her sights set on moving from rags to riches, who loses her heart to the pure-and-true blue balloonist, Sid Skinner, but continues her upward search on improving her social status. She finally settles for Lord Landon Digby who has lots of assets and a very-stiff upper lip. She gets a lot of the latter and very little of the former, and decides Sid might have been a better choice.

Doctor at Sea

Doctor at Sea
5.8/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 12/07/1955
  • Character: Sub-lieutenant Trail
The second of the seven "Doctor" films, based on Richard Gordon's novels and released between 1954 and 1970. A bachelor doctor goes to sea to escape the boredom of shore practice, but studies the nurses more than medicine, and Brigitte Bardot is around.

Another Shore

Another Shore
6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 24/11/1948
  • Character: Yellow
A young Irishman comes up with an unusual plan to get the money to emigrate to Tahiti. One of the Ealing comedies.

Carry On Nurse

Carry On Nurse
6.2/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 30/01/1959
  • Character: Ginger
Set in Haven Hospital where a certain men's ward is causing more havoc than the whole hospital put together. The formidable Matron's debut gives the patients a chill every time she walks past, with only Reckitt standing up to her. There's a colonel who is a constant nuisance, a bumbling nurse, a romance between Ted York and Nurse Denton, and Bell who wants his bunion removed straight away, so after drinking alcohol, the men decide to remove the bunion themselves!

An Ideal Husband

An Ideal Husband
6.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 14/11/1947
  • Character: Duke of Nonesuch
A prominent politician is preparing to expose a financial scandal. But then a woman who has invested heavily in the shady venture threatens to uncover a damaging secret in the politician's past if he exposes the speculation as a fraud. His problem is compounded by his wife's intolerance of the slightest character flaws.

The Sandwich Man

The Sandwich Man
5.5/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 01/07/1966
  • Character: Sewer Man
A man with a sandwich-board (advert) wanders around London meeting many strange characters.

Helter Skelter

Helter Skelter
5.2/10
A detective gets involved with a wealthy socialite who can't seem to stop hiccuping.

Genevieve

Genevieve
7.1/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 28/05/1953
  • Character: Father To Be (Uncredited)
Two friends driving in the London to Brighton vintage car rally bet on which of them will be the first to arrive back home.

I Only Arsked

I Only Arsked
5.7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 01/01/1958
  • Character: Cpl. Springer
A group of misfit soldiers are desperately trying to fiddle themselves some leave. Instead they wrangle a posting to the British Middle-East protectorate of Darawa. Their frustrations and disappointment at landing one of the harshest territories is compensated when they discover a secret passage to the King's harem.

Doctor at Large

Doctor at Large
6/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 26/03/1957
  • Character: Dr. Charles Bingham
The third of the "Doctor" films. Newly qualified doctor Simon Sparrow goes in search of a job. He applies for a surgery position at the hospital where he studied, but manages to insult the senior surgeon and one of the hospital's governors. So, instead he ends up as assistant to with a niggardly and rather scary GP with an amerous wife, followed by cushy but rather unmedical job with a Harley Street doctor, and then a job with a very nice GP whp is the opposite to the first one. But after getting the chance to rescue the hospital governor from a group of angry ladies at a resort in France, he finally lands a job at his beloved hosdpital.

Just Ask for Diamond

Just Ask for Diamond
6.2/10
Thirteen-year-old Nick and his slightly dense older brother Herbert run the Diamond Private Detective Agency above Camden Town Tube Station in north-central London. When a master criminal called The Falcon dies, they come into possession of his box of chocolate Maltesers, which contains the secret key to a fabulous cache of diamonds. Can they unravel the mystery and avoid the clutches of seedy lowlifes Brenda Von Falkenberg, Gott and Himmell, The Fat Man and the dogmatic Chief Inspector Snape, all of whom want to find the swag first.

Rattle of a Simple Man

Rattle of a Simple Man
6.7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 20/12/1964
  • Character: Ginger
Percy Winthram is a naive young man who still lives at home with his mum. In London for the Cup Final with his friends, he finds himself in a Soho strip club, where he meets blonde hostess Cyrenne. Accepting a bet from friend Ginger, he accompanies Cyrenne back to her flat, and a boast-worthy night of lust seems to be on the cards; however, drained of beer and bravado, Percy's innocence and vulnerability become all too evident…

Woman Hater

Woman Hater
5.7/10
A confirmed bachelor and a woman who claims to hate men get together and find romance.

Curtain Up

Curtain Up
6.3/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 12/03/1952
  • Character: Jerry Winterton
In a small town in the 1950's a repertory company meets on Monday morning to start rehearsing the following week's play. This is a ghastly thing written by the aunt of one of the theatre's directors. The producer doesn't try to hide his annoyance about it, and is further exercised when the authoress herself arrives to help. The cast have to try and sort out real-life problems that keep intruding as they wrestle with the play's dire dialogue.

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