The best Renée Houston’s comedy movies

Renée Houston

Renée Houston

24/07/1902- 09/02/1980
Today we present the best Renée Houston’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 Renée Houston’s movies.

And the Same to You

And the Same to You
5.4/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 01/02/1960
  • Character: Mildred Pomphret
Dickie Dreadnought is the boxing-mad nephew of pious clergyman Reverend Sydney Mullet. To mollify his disapproving uncle, Dickie embarks on an elaborate plan to keep his budding boxing career a secret, with he and his tough-talking promoter Wally Burton both pretending to be devout 'men of the cloth'.

Cul-de-sac

Cul-de-sac
7/10
A wounded criminal and his dying partner take refuge at an old beachfront fortress. The owner of the fortress and his young wife, initially unwilling hosts, quickly experience their relationship with the criminal shift in a humorous and bizarre fashion.

The Belles of St. Trinian's

The Belles of St. Trinian's
6.7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 28/09/1954
  • Character: Miss Brimmer
The unruly schoolgirls of St Trinian's are more interested in men and mischief than homework and hockey. But greater trouble than ever beckons when the arrival at the school of Princess Fatima of Makyad coincides with the return of recently expelled Arabella Fritton, who has the kidnap of a prize racehorse on her mind. The first film in the classic comedy series.

Carry On Spying

Carry On Spying
6.2/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 01/06/1964
  • Character: Funhouse Madame
Carry On favourite Barbara Windsor makes her debut in this outrageous send-up of the James Bond movies. Fearless agent Desmond Simpkins and Charlie Bind, aided and abetted by the comely Agent Honeybutt and Agent Crump, battle against the evil powers of international bad guys STENCH and their three cronies.

Carry On at Your Convenience

Carry On at Your Convenience
6.2/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 15/06/1971
  • Character: Agatha Spanner
This is the tale of industrial strife at WC Boggs' Lavatory factory. Vic Spanner is the union representative who calls a strike at the drop of a hat; eventually everyone has to get fed up with him. This is also the ideal opportunity for lots of lavatorial jokes...

Carry On Cabby

Carry On Cabby
6.4/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 01/06/1963
  • Character: Molly
Speedee Taxis is a great success, which means its workaholic owner Charlie starts neglecting Peggy, his wife. Suddenly a fleet of rival taxis appears from nowhere and start pinching all the fares. The rivals are Glamcabs, and they have a secret weapon. All their drivers are very attractive women! Who's behind Glamcabs? It's open warfare and only one fleet can survive!

The Horse's Mouth

The Horse's Mouth
7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 11/11/1958
  • Character: Sara Monday
Gulley Jimson is a boorish aging artist recently released from prison. A swindler in search of his next art project, he hunkers down in the penthouse of would-be patrons the Beeders while they go on an extended vacation; he paints a mural on their wall, pawns their valuables and, along with the sculptor Abel, inadvertently smashes a large hole in their floor. Jimson's next project is an even larger wall in an abandoned church.

Lady Godiva Rides Again

Lady Godiva Rides Again
5.8/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 25/10/1951
  • Character: Beattie
Marjory Clark wins a competition in her Midland town and finds herself in a Festival of Britain procession as Lady Godiva - though not in the buff. This leads by way of a suspect beauty competition to the show-business world of London. But it could be a slippery slope for simple home-town Marge.

Two Thousand Women

Two Thousand Women
6.5/10
Downed English airmen hide out with women in a Nazi concentration camp in France.

Three on a Spree

Three on a Spree
6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 28/06/1961
  • Character: Mrs. Gray
A young man will inherit a huge fortune--8 million pounds--but to qualify, he must spend a million pounds in just two months. Easy to do? That's what you think!

Nurse on Wheels

Nurse on Wheels
6.2/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 03/01/1963
  • Character: Mrs. Beacon
Quietly competent young Joanna moves with her scatterbrain mother to a country village to take up her first job as District Nurse. She soon overcomes the suspicion of her patients used to someone rather older, while becoming romantically involved with a local farmer - at least until he tries to evict a newly-arrived expectant couple who park their caravan on his land.

Old Bill and Son

Old Bill and Son
5.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyWar
  • Release: 01/03/1941
  • Character: Stella Malloy
Old Bill has grumbled his way through the trenches of the First World War. Now it is the Second and, envious of his son, Young Bill, he decides to enlist. He finally enters the Pioneer Corps, which is based near his son. When Young Bill goes missing during a raid, Old Bill shows that there's still life in the old dog yet!

Twice Round the Daffodils

Twice Round the Daffodils
6.2/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 02/04/1962
  • Character: Matron
Twice Round the Daffodils is a 1962 British comedy drama film directed by Gerald Thomas and starring Juliet Mills, Donald Sinden, Donald Houston, Kenneth Williams, Ronald Lewis, Andrew Ray, Joan Sims and Jill Ireland. A new group of patients arrive at a hospital to be treated for tuberculosis where they all take a fancy to one of the nurses. The film was adapted from the play Ring for Catty by Patrick Cargill and Jack Beale. Carry on Nurse from 1959 was based on the same play. The cast and production team of Twice Round the Daffodils create a noticeable similarity with the Carry On films, but the film is not an official member of the Carry On series.

The Big Money

The Big Money
5.5/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 09/06/1958
  • Character: Bobbie
Petty thief Willie Frith steals a suitcase full of bank notes, only to find out that they have been given all the same serial number. But this is only the start of his troubles, now he has to find a way of changing the notes, so he can impress the barmaid of his local pub.

A Girl Must Live

A Girl Must Live
6.6/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 24/09/1939
  • Character: Gloria Lind
A run-away school-girl falls among chorus girls planning to marry into the nobility.

The Peterville Diamond

The Peterville Diamond
5.8/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 11/01/1943
  • Character: Lady Margaret
Frantic farce involving a neglected wife, a stolen diamond and four identical briefcases.

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