The best Peter Brocco’s comedy movies

Peter Brocco

Peter Brocco

16/01/1903- 20/12/1992
Today we present the best Peter Brocco’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 Peter Brocco’s movies.
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Our Man Flint

Our Man Flint
6.4/10
When scientists use eco-terrorism to impose their will on the world by affecting extremes in the weather, Intelligence Chief Cramden calls in top agent Derek Flint.

The War of the Roses

The War of the Roses
6.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 08/12/1989
  • Character: Elderly Mourner
The Roses, Barbara and Oliver, live happily as a married couple. Then she starts to wonder what life would be like without Oliver, and likes what she sees. Both want to stay in the house, and so they begin a campaign to force each other to leave. In the middle of the fighting is D'Amato, the divorce lawyer. He gets to see how far both will go to get rid of the other, and boy do they go far.

Throw Momma From the Train

Throw Momma From the Train
6.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 11/12/1987
  • Character: Old Man
Larry Donner, an author with a cruel ex-wife, teaches a writing workshop in which one of his students, Owen, is fed up with his domineering mother. When Owen watches a Hitchcock classic that seems to mirror his own life, he decides to put the movie's plot into action and offers to kill Larry's ex-wife, if Larry promises to murder his mom. Before Larry gets a chance to react to the plan, it seems that Owen has already set things in motion.

The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming!

The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming!
7/10
  • Genre: ComedyWar
  • Release: 25/05/1966
  • Character: Reverend Hawthorne (uncredited)
When a Soviet submarine gets stuck on a sandbar off the coast of a New England island, its commander orders his second-in-command, Lieutenant Rozanov, to get them moving again before there is an international incident. Rozanov seeks assistance from the island locals, including the police chief and a vacationing television writer, while trying to allay their fears of a Communist invasion by claiming he and his crew are Norwegian sailors.

Champagne for Caesar

Champagne for Caesar
7.4/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 11/05/1950
  • Character: Fortune Teller
When jobless genius Beauregard Bottomley interviews with Burnbridge Waters for a position at Waters' soap company, the owner rudely turns Bottomley down. As revenge, Bottomley enters a TV quiz show that Waters' company sponsors, with the goal of winning until he bankrupts the businessman. When Bottomley keeps acing the questions, becoming a media sensation, Waters desperately calls on vixen Flame O'Neal to uncover Bottomley's area of weakness.

Fuzz

Fuzz
5.4/10
Police in Boston search for a mad bomber trying to extort money from the city.

The Ratings Game

The Ratings Game
5.9/10
A New Jersey trucker creates a hit TV show with help from his girlfriend in the ratings business.

Young Man with Ideas

Young Man with Ideas
6/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 02/05/1952
  • Character: Butler (uncredited)
A Montana lawyer (Glenn Ford) gets distracted after moving to California with his wife (Ruth Roman) and children.

Jekyll and Hyde ... Together Again

Jekyll and Hyde ... Together Again
6/10
Dr. Jekyll (Mark Blankfield) inhales white powder and becomes an obnoxious Southern Californian.

Homebodies

Homebodies
6.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyHorror
  • Release: 01/09/1974
  • Character: Mr. Blakely
When a quiet group of pensioners learn that their homes are to be torn down to make way for a block of flats, they decide to take action. What starts as an attempt to discourage the developers soon escalates into wholesale murder of both the developers and the construction workers.

Ma and Pa Kettle on Vacation

Ma and Pa Kettle on Vacation
6.6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 01/04/1953
  • Character: Adolph Wade
The Kettles are in Paris along with their daughter-in-law's parents the Parkers. Pa tries to buy racy postcards. He also gets in big trouble when he is given a letter to deliver to Adolph Wade, a spy who gets killed by spies Inez and Cyrus Kraft.

Too Young to Kiss

Too Young to Kiss
6.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 22/11/1951
  • Character: Waiter (uncredited)
Eric Wainwright (Van Johnson), a busy impresario, is besieged by hordes of wannabe concert stars, eager for their big break. One of them is Cynthia Potter (June Allyson), a talented pianist... but she can't get in to see him. When she learns that Wainwright is auditioning young musicians for a children's concert tour, Cynthia dons braces and bobby sox and passes herself off as a child prodigy.

Peggy

Peggy
6.8/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 01/07/1950
  • Character: Bob Winters
Professor Brookfield along with daughters Peggy and Susan move to small town Pasadena, California. Their new neighbor Mrs. Fielding helps them move in, and urges the girls to participate in the annual Rose Bowl beauty pageant. Meanwhile Mrs. Fielding's son Tom makes eyes at Peggy but she's smitten with a famous football star so she tries to redirect his interest to Susan.

The Balcony

The Balcony
6/10
Shelley Winters is the madam of a house where customers play out their erotic fantasies, oblivious to a revolution that is sweeping the country. When her old friend, the chief of police (Peter Falk), asks her to impersonate the missing queen in order to reassure the people and halt the revolution, she offers instead three of her customers to play the general, bishop, and chief justice, all of whom have died in the revolution.

The One and Only

The One and Only
5.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 03/02/1978
  • Character: Autograph Hound
1951: Andy Schmidt is in his last year of college. Taking life easy and always a saucy joke on his lips, he manages to win fellow student Mary's heart, although she's already otherwise engaged. But getting a job after college turns out much harder than expected; most directors take offense at his free interpretation of his roles. Desperate, he tries in wrestling. To avoid getting beaten up he stages the fights - and incidentally invents show-wrestling.

Some Kind of a Nut

Some Kind of a Nut
4.3/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 14/09/1969
  • Character: Mr. Suzumi
A New York City bank teller becomes a media celebrity when he refuses to comply with his employer's demands that he shave his beard.

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