The best Miriam Karlin’s comedy movies

Miriam Karlin

Miriam Karlin

23/06/1925- 03/06/2011
Today we present the best Miriam Karlin’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 Miriam Karlin’s movies.

The Millionairess

The Millionairess
5.4/10
When her father dies, Epifania Parerga, an Italian in London, becomes the world's richest woman. She feels incomplete without a husband and falls in love with a humble, Indian physician, Ahmed el Kabir, much loved by his indigent English patients.

Heavens Above!

Heavens Above!
6.7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 20/05/1963
  • Character: Winnie Smith
A naive but caring prison chaplain, who happens to have the same last name as an upper class cleric, is by mistake appointed as vicar to a small and prosperous country town. His belief in charity and forgiveness sets him at odds with the conservative and narrow-minded locals, and he soon creates social ructions by appointing a black dustman as his churchwarden, taking in a gypsy family, and persuading the local landowner to provide free food for the church to distribute free to the people of the town. When the congregation leaders realise the mistake and call for the Church of England to remove him, this turns out to be a very, very difficult issue - until one clergyman realises that a British project to send a man into space is in need of an astronaut...

The Bargee

The Bargee
6.2/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 01/01/1964
  • Character: Nellie Marsh
After a lock-keeper entrusts his daughter to a canal Casanova, he is shocked to learn that she is pregnant. He then refuses to open his locks - causing barges to pile up in every direction until the guilty party confesses.

A Touch of the Sun

A Touch of the Sun
5.4/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 01/10/1956
  • Character: Alice Cann
A hotel porter is left a fortune but after living it up for a while he returns to his old place of work which is in financial difficulties.

Ladies Who Do

Ladies Who Do
6.8/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 01/11/1963
  • Character: Mrs. Higgins
The "Ladies Who Do" are office cleaners. One of them discovers some hot stock tips and they make a fortune. They then make good use of it to save their old neighbourhoods from the wicked developer.

On the Fiddle

On the Fiddle
5.7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 10/10/1961
  • Character: Waaf Sergeant
Tricked into joining the RAF by a wily judge, wide boy Horace Pope sets his sights on the main chance, teams with slow-witted, good-hearted gypsy Pedlar Pascoe, and works up a lucrative racket in conning both his colleagues and the RAF. By means of various devious schemes Pope and Pascoe manage to avoid the front lines until they are sent to France - where they find themselves making unexpected and uncomfortably close contact with the enemy.

Watch It, Sailor!

Watch It, Sailor!
5.2/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 14/08/1961
  • Character: Mrs. Lack
Sailor Albert gets a message from the Navy saying he can't marry for certain unexplained legal reasons. Everyone, including his domineering mother-in-law to be, jumps to the conclusion that there must be another woman involved.

Down Among the Z Men

Down Among the Z Men
4.3/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 01/10/1952
  • Character: Woman in Shop
The Goon Show hits the big screen. Professor Pure Heart absent-mindedly loses the top secret formula in Harry Jones' Grocery Shop. "Bats of the Yard", as Harry calls himself, finds it and attempts to return it to the Professor.

The Big Money

The Big Money
5.5/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 09/06/1958
  • Character: Lady in Nightclub
Petty thief Willie Frith steals a suitcase full of bank notes, only to find out that they have been given all the same serial number. But this is only the start of his troubles, now he has to find a way of changing the notes, so he can impress the barmaid of his local pub.

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