The best Richard B. Shull’s comedy movies

Richard B. Shull

Richard B. Shull

24/02/1929- 14/10/1999
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Splash

Splash
6.3/10
A successful businessman falls in love with the girl of his dreams. There's one big complication though; he's fallen hook, line and sinker for a mermaid.

Housesitter

Housesitter
6.2/10
After building his dream house, architect Newton Davis proposes marriage to his girlfriend, only to be summarily rejected. He seeks solace in a one-night stand with a waitress, never imagining that a woman he slept with once would end up posing as his wife. Gwen's ruse is so effective that by the time Newton learns of his "marriage," the entire town feels like they know him.

The Big Bus

The Big Bus
5.6/10
  • Genre: ActionComedy
  • Release: 23/06/1976
  • Character: Emery Bush
The ultimate disaster film parody. A nuclear-powered bus is making its maiden non-stop trip from New York to Denver. The journey is plagued by disasters due to the machinations of a mysterious group allied with the oil lobby. Will the down-on-his-luck driver, with a reputation for eating his passengers, be able to complete the journey?

The Fortune

The Fortune
5.6/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrimeRomance
  • Release: 20/05/1975
  • Character: Chief Detective Sergeant Jack Power
Two bumbling hustlers in the 1920s attempt to gain the fortune of an heiress. Nothing will stop them, not even murder.

Slither

Slither
6.2/10
While searching for a small fortune of embezzled money, an ex-con, a small-time bandleader, his doting wife and a kooky drifter find themselves being followed. Their chase takes them to trailer camps, bingo halls, laundromats and ultimately, a showdown with a group of unconventional bad guys.

Victor/Victoria

Victor/Victoria
7.7/10
Out-of-work singer Victoria Grant meets a just-fired, flamboyant gay man in a diner in 1920s Paris. He convinces her to pretend to be a man who is a female impersonator in order to get a job. The act is a hit in a local nightclub, but things get complicated when a gangster and nightclub owner from Chicago, King Marchan, falls in love with "him." Filmed live on Broadway, 1995.

Wholly Moses

Wholly Moses
4.7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 13/06/1980
  • Character: Jethro
Harvey and Zoey, two tourists in Israel, discover an ancient scroll about Herschel, the man who was almost Moses. Herschel receives the command from God to free his people from slavery, but Moses keeps getting all the credit.

Heartbeeps

Heartbeeps
4.2/10
Domestic robots fall in love and run off together.

Spring Break

Spring Break
4.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 25/03/1983
  • Character: Eddie Potmore
Two sets of two college guys spend a spring break together in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. There they have lots of fun in and out of the sun.

Tune in Tomorrow...

Tune in Tomorrow...
6.1/10
Martin works at the local radio station, which just hired a new scriptwriter with a reputation for great drama, Pedro Carmichael. Martin’s aunt Julia, not related by blood, returns home after many years away and Martin falls for her. Once Pedro finds out about this romance, he starts incorporating details of it into the script of his daily drama series. Soon, Martin and Julia are not only hearing about their fictional selves over the radio, but about what they are going to do next.

Garbo Talks

Garbo Talks
6.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 12/10/1984
  • Character: Shepard Plotkin
When New York accountant Gilbert Rolfe (Ron Silver) finds out his mother has a brain tumor, he is devastated. His incorrigible mother, Estelle (Anne Bancroft), has one last wish: to meet the great Greta Garbo. Gilbert, wanting to do this last thing for her, sets out on a wild goose chase through the streets of New York City to track down the iconic star, at the expense of his personal life and much to the chagrin of his wife, Lisa (Carrie Fisher). Can he find Garbo before it's too late?

Hearts of the West

Hearts of the West
6.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyWestern
  • Release: 08/10/1975
  • Character: Stout Crook
Naive Iowa farm boy Lewis Tater dreams of being a famous Western novelist like his hero, Zane Grey. He leaves home to answer a writing correspondence course's ad for on-campus classes, only to discover that the school consists of a row of postboxes at an isolated Nevada train depot. On the run from the con men responsible, Lewis stumbles across "real" cowboys--cowboy actors shooting a movie in the desert. The would-be writer soon finds himself instead acting in Westerns, for the rundown Tumbleweed Productions studio, in Depression-era Hollywood.

The Boy Who Loved Trolls

The Boy Who Loved Trolls
6.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyFamily
  • Release: 01/08/1984
  • Character: Doorman / Narrator
Paul feels life should be an adventure, and sets out on one to prove that Trolls really exist.

Made For Each Other

Made For Each Other
6.3/10
An eccentric woman meets an equally odd man at a group therapy session and they begin a relationship.

Hail

Hail
6.9/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 27/07/1973
  • Character: Secretary of Health
A presidential advisor discovers that the President has assembled a secret army of vigilantes to suppress dissent and is setting up concentration camps in which to imprison protestors, hippies and other "social undesirables."

B.S. I Love You

B.S. I Love You
4/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 31/03/1971
  • Character: Mr. Harris
When young advertising exec Paul Bongard (Peter Kastner) gets involved with his attractive female boss, he discovers that the affair has fast-tracked his climb up the corporate ladder. Paul's career gets another boost when he starts up with the boss's daughter. Meanwhile, his childhood sweetheart, Ruth (Louise Sorel), is patiently wondering when, if ever, he'll propose to her in this sex comedy from the early 1970s.

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