The best Phil Harris’s comedy movies

Phil Harris

Phil Harris

24/06/1904- 11/08/1995
We present our ranking of the best Phil Harris’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 Phil Harris.
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The Aristocats

The Aristocats
7.1/10
When Madame Adelaide Bonfamille leaves her fortune to Duchess and her children—Bonfamille’s beloved family of cats—the butler plots to steal the money and kidnaps the legatees, leaving them out on a country road. All seems lost until the wily Thomas O’Malley Cat and his jazz-playing alley cats come to the aristocats’ rescue.

Rock-A-Doodle

Rock-A-Doodle
6/10
Chanticleer is a foolhardy farm rooster who believes his crows can actually make the sun come up and shine. When the sun rises one morning without Chanticleer's crow, he leaves the farm in disgrace and runs off to become a rock 'n' roll singer. But in his absence, a sinister, sunshine-hating owl prepares to take over.

The Patsy

The Patsy
6.2/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 24/06/1964
  • Character: Chic Wymore
When a star comedian dies, his comedy team decides to train a 'nobody' to play the Star in a big TV show (a Patsy). But the man chosen, bellboy Stanley Belt (Lewis), can't do anything right. The TV show is getting closer, and Stanley is getting worse.

Texas Tom

Texas Tom
7.7/10
Tom is a cowboy boot-wearing cat at a Texas dude ranch. When a beautiful female cat comes for a visit, Tom takes time from his regular torturing of Jerry to use the mouse as a way to impress the dame. Naturally, Jerry gives Tom his comeuppance.

The Wheeler Dealers

The Wheeler Dealers
6.5/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 14/11/1963
  • Character: Ray Jay Fox
Henry J. Tyroone leaves Texas, where his oil wells are drying up, and arrives in New York with a lot of oil money to play with in the stock market. He meets stock analyst Molly Thatcher, who tries to ignore the lavish attention he spends on her but ...

Man About Town

Man About Town
6.6/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 29/06/1939
  • Character: Ted Nash
Producer Bob Temple, who's brought an American show to London, loves his star Diana, but she won't take him seriously as a lover. To show her, he picks up stranger Lady Arlington, whose financier husband neglects her. On a weekend at the Arlington country house, Bob is used by both Lady A. and her friend to make their husbands jealous; this works all too well, and Bob is in danger from both husbands.

Buck Benny Rides Again

Buck Benny Rides Again
6.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyWestern
  • Release: 31/05/1940
  • Character: Phil Harris
Radio star Jack Benny, intending to stay in New York for the summer, is forced by the needling of rival Fred Allen to prove his boasts about roughing it on his (fictitious) Nevada ranch. Meanwhile, singer Joan Cameron, whom Jack's fallen for and offended, is maneuvered by her sisters to the same Nevada town. Jack's losing battle to prove his manhood to Joan means broad slapstick burlesque of Western cliches.

The Cool Ones

The Cool Ones
4.4/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 12/04/1967
  • Character: MacElwaine
A young, millionaire rock promoter creates a new boy/girl team for his teen TV dance show. Will the ambitious go-go dancer and has-been pop star fall in love for real?

Anything Goes

Anything Goes
6.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 27/04/1956
  • Character: Steve Blair
Bill Benson and Ted Adams are to appear in a Broadway show together and, while in Paris, each 'discovers' the perfect leading lady for the plum female role. Each promises the prize role to the girl they selected without informing the other until they head back across the Atlantic by liner - with each man having brought his choice along! It becomes a stormy crossing as each man has to tell his 'find' that she might not get the role after all.

Melody Cruise

Melody Cruise
6.1/10
A bachelor millionaire on a cruise is protected by a friend from the avid attentions of a crowd of husband (and fortune) seeking girls.

Dreaming Out Loud

Dreaming Out Loud
6.3/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 30/09/1940
  • Character: Peter Atkinson
Lum and Abner work at a general store in Arkansas. There they get involved in some misadventures with the locals.

Why Be Good?

Why Be Good?
7.2/10
  • Genre: ComedyDramaRomance
  • Release: 28/02/1929
  • Character: Drummer in Band at The Boiler (uncredited)
A flapper unwittingly falls for the boss' son.

Mitzi

Mitzi
7.2/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 14/10/1968
  • Character: Self
Mitzi Gaynor welcomes guests George Hamilton & Phil Harris (The Jungle Book) for a sparkling hour of music, comedy and dance. Songs performed include "Everybody Loves My Baby," "Gentle on My Mind," "Pretty," and "Love Is Blue." Mitzi & George parody classic movies on the late-late show, George playing Cary Grant to Mitzi's Rosalind Russell, Rock Hudson to her Doris Day, and Glenn Ford to her Rita Hayworth.

I Love a Bandleader

I Love a Bandleader
6.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 13/09/1945
  • Character: Phil Burton
A painter suffering from amnesia convinces himself that he's a famous bandleader and finds romance with a pretty singer. Comedy with music.

Harris in the Spring

Harris in the Spring
6.2/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 03/12/1937
  • Character: Phil Harris
Band leader Phil Harris, through a misunderstanding, finds himself with a job as a professional escort, and a date to take a rich young society girl to a night club. She picks the club where the Harris band is playing. Phil is kept busy trying to keep the band from telling the girl who he really is, and to keep the girl distracted enough so she won't notice he is leading the band.

Double or Nothing

Double or Nothing
6.1/10
Double or Nothing is a 1936 American short musical comedy film directed by Joseph Henabery. It was nominated for an Academy Award at the 9th Academy Awards in 1936 for Best Short Subject (Two-Reel).

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