The best Peter Graves’s comedy movies

Peter Graves

Peter Graves

21/10/1911- 06/06/1994
Today we present the best Peter Graves’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 Graves’s movies.

I Hired a Contract Killer

I Hired a Contract Killer
7.2/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 12/10/1990
  • Character: Jeweller
After losing his job and realizing that he is alone in the world, a businessman opts to voluntarily end his life. Lacking courage, he hires a contract killer to do the job. Then, while awaiting his demise, he meets a woman and promptly falls in love.

How I Won the War

How I Won the War
5.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyWar
  • Release: 18/10/1967
  • Character: Staff Officer
An inept British WWII commander leads his troops to a series of misadventures in North Africa and Europe.

The Wrong Box

The Wrong Box
6.7/10
In Victorian England, a fortune now depends on which of two brothers outlives the other—or can be made to have seemed to do so.

The Admirable Crichton

The Admirable Crichton
7.1/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 16/12/1957
  • Character: Brocklehurst
Lord Loam has modern ideas about his household, he believes in treating his servants as his equals - at least sometimes. His butler, Crichton, still believes that members of the serving class should know their place and be happy there. But when the Loam family are shipwrecked on a desert island with the self-reliant Crichton and lady's maid Tweeny, the class system is put to the test.

Encore

Encore
6.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 11/06/1951
  • Character: Philip Cronshaw
Encore is a 1951 anthology film composed of adaptations of three short stories by W. Somerset Maugham: "The Ant and the Grasshopper", directed by Pat Jackson and adapted by T. E. B. Clarke; "Winter Cruise", helmed by Anthony Pelissier, screenplay by Arthur Macrae; "Gigolo and Gigolette", directed by Harold French, written by Eric Ambler. It is the last film in a Maugham trilogy, preceded by Quartet and Trio.

Miss London Ltd.

Miss London Ltd.
5.6/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 14/06/1943
  • Character: Capt. Rory O'Moore
Askey stars as a man trying to save his flagging escort agency. A new partner suggests getting some new girls in, just in time for the soldiers' leave. The film also features the English singing favourite of the forties, Anne Shelton.

Lilacs in the Spring

Lilacs in the Spring
5.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 21/12/1954
  • Character: Albert Gutman
A young actress must decide which of two lovers will be her husband. She daydreams about each one to help her decide.

Spring in Park Lane

Spring in Park Lane
7.1/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 17/03/1948
  • Character: Basil Maitland
Life in the normally tranquil high society home of Joshua Howard is disrupted by the arrival of a mysterious footman in this sparkling British romantic comedy hit. Richard (Michael Wilding) acts like anything but a servant. He has aristocratic airs and graces, an expert knowledge of fine art and can play classical music and boogie-woogie on a grand piano with equal aplomb. And is that an Old Etonian tie he's wearing? Judy (Anna Neagle), is determined to discover Richard's true identity and the reason he's posing as a lowly footman. Bored with the attentions of vain movie stars and eccentric minor nobility, she's captivated by his easy-going charm and ready to fall. But will his scandalous secret come between them and true happiness?

Give Us the Moon

Give Us the Moon
5.7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 31/07/1944
  • Character: Peter Pyke
Set just after the end of WWII (but filmed in the middle of it) in a time of general euphoria at having won the war, with full employment and general happiness for all (or nearly all). Peter, the young wastrel son of a hard working hotel owner doesn't like the idea of having to work for a living. He discovers a society of "White Elephants" who are quite willing to be poor as long as they don't have to work. They are protected and guided by Nina (Margaret Lockwood) and her precocious sister Heidi (Jean Simmons).

Bees in Paradise

Bees in Paradise
4.9/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 20/03/1944
  • Character: peter lovell
Classic comedy starring Arthur Askey. Askey plays a pilot who bales out over Paradise Island, not knowing that he is about to land in a bee-worshipping colony of women and that he is about to become a drone for the queen bee. When he finds out that, as custom demands, he is due to be sacrificed two months after the honeymoon, he soon starts thinking about escape. The women of course have other ideas.

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