The best Philip Van Zandt’s comedy movies

Philip Van Zandt

Philip Van Zandt

04/10/1904- 15/02/1958
Today we present the best Philip Van Zandt’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 Philip Van Zandt’s movies.
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Around the World in Eighty Days

Around the World in Eighty Days
6.7/10
Based on the famous book by Jules Verne the movie follows Phileas Fogg on his journey around the world. Which has to be completed within 80 days, a very short period for those days.

A Thousand and One Nights

A Thousand and One Nights
6/10
On the run after being found sweet-talking the Sultan's daughter, Aladdin comes upon a lamp which, when rubbed, summons up Babs the genie. He uses it to return as a visiting prince asking for the princess's hand. Unfortunately for him, the sultan's wicked twin brother has secretly usurped the throne, someone else is after the lamp for his own ends, and Babs has taken a shine to Aladdin herself and is bent on wrecking his endeavours.

The Shanghai Chest

The Shanghai Chest
6/10
Charlie attempts to solve a triple murder in which a dead man's finger prints show up at all three murder sites.

Knutzy Knights

Knutzy Knights
6.7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 02/09/1954
  • Character: The Black Prince
Set in Elizabethan times, the stooges help their friend Cedric the Blacksmith win the hand of the fair princess Elaine. The only problem is that Elaine is promised to the Black Prince who is plotting to take over the kingdom. The stooges manage to foil the plot and the grateful King allows Cedric to marry Elaine.

Air Raid Wardens

Air Raid Wardens
6.1/10
Two bumblers, failures as businessmen and air raid wardens, stumble across a nest of Nazi saboteurs bent on blowing up the local magnesium plant.

New York Town

New York Town
6.3/10
Victor Ballard, a happy-go-lucky albeit impoverished sidewalk photographer, shares a New York City studio apartment with Polish immigrant painter Stefan Janowski. The big city doles out joy and misery indiscriminately: In the apartment below Victor and Steve, Gus Nelson learns that his wife has given birth to quintuplets, while the lonely tenant in the apartment below Gus has given up on life and committed suicide.

Ghost Chasers

Ghost Chasers
6.2/10
  • Genre: ActionComedy
  • Release: 29/04/1951
  • Character: Dr. Basil Granville
A ghost helps the Bowery Boys capture a gang of crooks led by a mad doctor.

Dancing Co-Ed

Dancing Co-Ed
6.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 29/09/1939
  • Character: Short Kidnapper (uncredited)
After discovering his star dancer is expecting and can't perform, film producer H.W. Workman (Thurston Hall) and his publicist concoct a scheme to stage a college dance contest to find a new star. To ensure they get a good winner, the men plant a real dancer, Patty Marlow (Lana Turner), at the college, having secretary Eve (Ann Rutherford) take the entrance exams for her. On campus, Patty gets involved with newspaper editor Pug Braddock (Richard Carlson) to investigate the contest's legitimacy.

Spooks!

Spooks!
7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 15/06/1953
  • Character: Dr. Jeckyl
The stooges are private detectives hired to find a missing girl. The boys disguise as pie salesmen and end up wandering around a mad scientist's mansion, trying to find the girl. The boys confront a gorilla and various other bad guys, before rescuing the girl.

Musty Musketeers

Musty Musketeers
6.8/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 13/05/1954
  • Character: Mergatroid
Set in the middle ages, the stooges wish to marry their sweethearts, but the King won't give his consent until Princess Alicia gets married. The princess is abducted by Mergatroyd, an evil magician who plans to marry her and become ruler of the country. The stooges help the princess escape and then defeat the magician and his henchmen in a sword fight.

Fuelin' Around

Fuelin' Around
7.3/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 07/04/1949
  • Character: Capt. Rork
The stooges are carpet layers working in the home of a scientist, Professor Sneed, who has invented a super rocket fuel. Larry is mistaken for the professor by foreign agents who kidnap the trio and take them to the country of Anemia where they are ordered to produce the rocket fuel or be executed. The boys come up with a concoction they try to pass of as the real stuff, but are exposed when the real professor and his daughter are also kidnapped. The stooges help them escape, using their secret formula to fuel a jeep.

Where Did You Get That Girl?

Where Did You Get That Girl?
5.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 03/01/1941
  • Character: Baxter
In this musical comedy, a motley band of musicians have only their extreme poverty in common. They end up writing a hit and getting a recording contract. The trouble is, the composer's works are never played without another band member doctoring them up to make them swingier. Fortunately, the composer isn't too averse to the changes as he has just won the heart of the beauty who sings his revamped songs. Songs include: "Where Did You Get That Girl?" (Harry Puck, Bert Kalmar, sung by Helen Parrish), "Sergeant Swing," "Rug-Cuttin' Romeo" (Milton Rosen, Everett Carter).

Fiddlers Three

Fiddlers Three
7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 06/05/1948
  • Character: Murgittroyd, the Magician
The stooges are musicians at the court of King Cole. When they ask the king's permission to marry their sweethearts, the King agrees, but only after Princess Alicia has married Prince Valiant. This news upsets Mergatroyd, an evil magician who plans to marry the Princess himself and rule the Kingdom. Mergatroyd abducts the Princess, and it's up to the stooges to foil his plans and expose his evil doings.

Slave Girl

Slave Girl
5.2/10
Tongue-in-cheek adventure tale of an American attempting to free sailors held as hostages and becoming involved in middle-East tribal wars.

Dopey Dicks

Dopey Dicks
7.6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 02/03/1950
  • Character: Professor
The stooges become detectives and go to the aid of girl in the clutches of a mad scientist. The boys arrive at a spooky mansion where the madman is building a mechanical man that needs a human head. After declining the opportunity to supply a stooge-head for the experiment, they find the girl and escape, only to wind up in a car driven by the headless robot.

Hot Stuff

Hot Stuff
6.3/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 06/09/1956
  • Character: Anemian Captain
The stooges are government agent entrusted with protecting professor Sneed, who has invented a super rocket fuel. Larry is mistaken for the professor by foreign agents who kidnap the trio and take them to the country of Anemia where they are ordered to produce the rocket fuel or be executed. The boys come up with a concoction they try to pass of as the real stuff, but are exposed when the real professor and his daughter are also kidnapped. The stooges help them escape, using their secret formula to fuel a jeep.

Red, Hot and Blue

Red, Hot and Blue
6/10
A Broadway director (Victor Mature) rescues a starlet (Betty Hutton) from mobsters who blame her for a shooting.

Squareheads of the Round Table

Squareheads of the Round Table
7.4/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 04/03/1948
  • Character: The Black Prince
Set in Arthurian times, the stooges decide to help their friend Cedric the Blacksmith win the hand of the fair princess Elaine. At night the group sneaks into the castle to serenade Elaine, but pick the wrong window and are caught by the King. Tossed in the dungeon, the boys escape with Cedric's help and manage to foil the plans of the Black Prince who was plotting against the King. All turns out well when the grateful King allows Cedric to marry Elaine.

Our Miss Brooks

Our Miss Brooks
6.4/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 24/04/1956
  • Character: Mr. Webster
The big-screen translation of the successful television show of the 1950's. Arden stars as Connie Brooks, wisecracking English teacher at Madison High School, still hoping to tie the knot with shy biology teacher Philip Boynton (Robert Rockwell).

Swing Hostess

Swing Hostess
5.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 08/09/1944
  • Character: Merlini
Swing Hostess is a 1944 American musical comedy film directed by Sam Newfield for Producers Releasing Corporation and starring Martha Tilton, Iris Adrian, Charles Collins, Betty Brodel, Cliff Nazarro and Harry Holman.

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