The best Phil Harris’s music 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.

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.

Starlift

Starlift
5.8/10
  • Genre: Music
  • Release: 14/12/1951
  • Character: Phil Harris
To impress a movie star, a U.S. Air Force crewman pretends he is soon to see combat. When his lie gets out, chaos ensues.

Wabash Avenue

Wabash Avenue
6.1/10
  • Genre: Music
  • Release: 31/03/1950
  • Character: Mike Stanley
Andy Clark discovers he was cheated out of a half interest in partner Mike's business, now a thriving dance hall in 1892 Chicago. Unable to win it back, Andy schemes to make Mike's position untenable. He also hopes to turn Ruby Summers, Mike's motor-mouthed burlesque queen, into a classier entertainer, and incidentally to make her his own. But at the last minute, Andy's revenge comes unravelled.

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.

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.

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.

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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