The best Paul Douglas’s comedy movies

Paul Douglas

Paul Douglas

11/04/1907- 11/09/1959
We present our ranking of the best Paul Douglas’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 Paul Douglas.
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Angels in the Outfield

Angels in the Outfield
7.1/10
Paul Douglas, stars with Janet Leigh, as the hot-tempered Pittsburgh Pirates manager whose hard-luck team goes on a wining streak thanks to some heavenly intervention.

Forever Female

Forever Female
6.6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 28/11/1953
  • Character: Harry Phillips
An aging actress has a hard time admitting she is too old to play the ingenue role anymore.

Margin for Error

Margin for Error
5.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrimeDramaWar
  • Release: 10/02/1943
  • Character: Policeman at Front Desk (uncredited)
Margin for Error is a 1943 American drama film directed by Otto Preminger. The screenplay by Lillie Hayward and Samuel Fuller is based on the 1939 play of the same title by Clare Boothe Luce.

The Solid Gold Cadillac

The Solid Gold Cadillac
7.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 22/08/1956
  • Character: Edward L. McKeever
Laura Partridge is a very enthusiastic small stockholder of 10 shares in International Projects, a large corporation based in New York. She attends her first stockholder meeting ready to question the board of directors from their salaries to their operations.

The Mating Game

The Mating Game
6.9/10
Tax collector Lorenzo Charlton comes to the Larkins' farm to ask why Pop Larkins hasn't paid his back taxes. Charlton has to stay for a day to try to estimate the income from the farm, but it isn't easy to calculate when the farmer has such a lovely daughter.

It Happens Every Spring

It  Happens Every Spring
6.8/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 10/06/1949
  • Character: Monk Lanigan
A scientist discovers a formula that makes a baseball which is repelled by wood. He promptly sets out to exploit his discovery.

Never Wave at a WAC

Never Wave at a WAC
5.9/10
A divorced socialite decides to join the Army because she hopes it will enable her to see more of her boyfriend, a Colonel. She soon encounters many difficulties with the Army lifestyle. Moreover, her ex-husband is working as a consultant with the Army, and he uses his position to disrupt her romantic plans by making her join a group of WACs who are testing new equipment.

Rhubarb

Rhubarb
6.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyFamily
  • Release: 29/08/1951
  • Character: Man on Park Bench (uncredited)
Rich, eccentric T.J. Banner adopts a feral cat who becomes an affectionate pet. Then T.J. dies, leaving to Rhubarb most of his money and a pro baseball team, the Brooklyn Loons. When the team protests, publicist Eric Yeager convinces them Rhubarb is good luck. But Eric's fiacee Polly seems to be allergic to cats, and the team's success may mean new hazards for Rhubarb.

We're Not Married!

We're Not Married!
6.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 11/07/1952
  • Character: Hector Woodruff
A Justice of the Peace performed weddings a few days before his license was valid. A few years later five couples learn they have never been legally married.

The Maggie

The Maggie
6.9/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 25/02/1954
  • Character: Calvin B. Marshall, the American
The poor, elderly—and the wily, when it comes to parting those who can afford it from their money—Scottish skipper of a broken-down old 'puffer' boat tricks an American tycoon into paying him to transport his personal cargo. When the tycoon learns of the trick, he attempts to track down the boat and remove his possessions.

Fortunella

Fortunella
6.8/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 14/03/1958
  • Character: Professore Golfiero Paganica
A poor girl is convinced she is the daughter of a prince.

Everybody Does It

Everybody Does It
6.7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 24/10/1949
  • Character: Leonard Borland aka Logan Bennett
Leonard Borland loves his monied wife, but with his wrecking business looking shaky he treasures her all the more. So when she decides to try again to become an opera singer he indulges her. While organising a concert for her he meets glamorous Cecil Carver. She in turn discovers Leonard has a splendid voice, and encourages him to use it for reasons very much her own.

The Gamma People

The Gamma People
5.3/10
An American reporter smells a story when he is stranded in an Iron Curtain country where the local dictator is using gamma rays to transform children into mutated henchmen.

This Could Be the Night

This Could Be the Night
6.7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 14/05/1957
  • Character: Rocco
To earn extra money, a prim schoolteacher takes a second job as secretary to the uncouth owner of a boisterous nightclub.

When in Rome

When in Rome
6.6/10
An American fugitive flees to Rome and tries to elude capture by masquerading as a priest.

Calling Scotland Yard: Falstaff's Fur Coat

Calling Scotland Yard: Falstaff's Fur Coat
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 20/02/1954
  • Character: Commentator
Because of his luxurious fur coat, a hammy actor becomes involved with crooks. His coat resembles the one that a gang's fence wears, and he is continually finding stolen jewelry in his coat pockets. When the gang learns that he is planning to turn the loot over to Scotland Yard, they go gunning for him and wound him while he is on stage performing 'Falstaff.' And, although wounded, he continues with his performance, trouper that he is that believes the show must go on, while the police are apprehending the gunmen.

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