The best Richard Cramer’s comedy movies

Richard Cramer

Richard Cramer

03/07/1889- 09/08/1960
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Saps at Sea

Saps at Sea
7.1/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 29/04/1940
  • Character: Nick Grainger - Escaped Convict (uncredited)
Stan and Ollie work in a horn factory. Ollie starts having violent fits every time he hears a horn. His doctor prescribes a restful sea voyage. Mayhem ensues.

The Flying Deuces

The Flying Deuces
6.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyWar
  • Release: 03/11/1939
  • Character: Laundry Truck Driver
Ollie is in love with a woman. When he discovers that she is already married, he tries to kill himself. Of course, the suicide is avoided and the boys join the Foreign Legion to get away from their troubles. Finally, they are arrested for trying to desert the Legion and to escape the firing squad by stealing a plane.

Crashing Hollywood

Crashing Hollywood
6.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 07/01/1938
  • Character: Detective Barging Into Makeup Room (uncredited)
Two gangsters provide details of an actual bank robbery when helping a neophite screenwriter create a hit Hollywood film.

A Chump at Oxford

A Chump at Oxford
7.2/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 25/01/1940
  • Character: Minor Role (uncredited)
The boys get jobs as a butler and maid (Stan in drag) for a dinner party. When that ends in disaster, they resort to sweeping streets and accidentally capture a bank robber. The thankful bank president sends them to Oxford to get an education. Predictable results ensue.

The Fatal Glass of Beer

The Fatal Glass of Beer
6.6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 03/03/1933
  • Character: Canadian Mounted Police Officer Posthlewhistle
The prodigal son of a Yukon prospector comes home on a night that "ain't fit for man nor beast."

Pack Up Your Troubles

Pack Up Your Troubles
7.2/10
  • Genre: ComedyWar
  • Release: 16/09/1932
  • Character: Uncle Jack
The story begins in 1917 with Stan and Ollie being drafted into the U.S. Army to fight in World War I. While in the Army, the pair befriend a man named Eddie Smith, who is killed by the enemy during a battle. After the war is over, Stan and Ollie venture to New York City, where they begin a quest to reunite Eddie's little daughter with her rightful family. The task proves both monumental and problematic as the boys discover just how many people in New York have the last name Smith.

Blonde Crazy

Blonde Crazy
7.1/10
Adventures of a cocky con man and his beautiful accomplice.

Lucky Night

Lucky Night
6.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 05/05/1939
  • Character: $35 Passerby (uncredited)
Cora, an heiress who gives it all up for the excitement of looking for a job and living on her own, meets up with unemployed and flat broke Dick. The two of them embark on a wild night of gambling and winning, where everything they touch turns to gold. Pretty soon they're in love and, to the horror of Cora's father, married.

Scram!

Scram!
7.3/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 10/09/1932
  • Character: Judge Beaumont
Ordered out of town by angry Judge Beaumont, vagrants Stanley and Oliver meet a congenial drunk who invites them to stay at his luxurious mansion. The drunk can't find his key, but the boys find a way in, sending the surprised woman inside into a faint.

Private Jones

Private Jones
5.1/10
After America enters World War I, young William "Bill" Jones tries to avoid military service by telling the draft board that he is the sole supporter of his family and is employed by businessman Roger Winthrop, his sister Helen's boss.

Footsteps in the Dark

Footsteps in the Dark
6.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrimeMystery
  • Release: 08/03/1941
  • Character: Detective Bringing Vernon (uncredited)
A high-society gent has a secret life - he writes murder mysteries and hangs out with the police attempting to solve crimes. This causes him no end of problems when his wife wants to know about his little disappearances and exceptionally late nights out.

The Red Rider

The Red Rider
6.9/10
"Red" Davison(Buck Jones), the sheriff of Sun Dog, sacrifices his job and his good name to save his best friend, "Silent" Slade from the hangman's noose, following a framed-up court decision which sentences Slade to hang for the murder of "Scotty McKee (J.P. McGowan). Davidson allows Slade to escape from jail and follows him to aid him in proving his innocence.

Love Is a Headache

Love Is a Headache
6/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 14/01/1938
  • Character: Process Server (uncredited)
A press agent for a Broadway actress whose career is going downhill, attempts to get her some publicity by having her adopt two orphans, without her knowledge.

Woman Chases Man

Woman Chases Man
6.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 07/05/1937
  • Character: Second Subway Man (uncredited)
A pretty architect devises a wild scheme to convince a handsome millionaire to fund a new housing development project.

A Bride for Henry

A Bride for Henry
5.6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 29/09/1937
  • Character: Bicycle Owner (uncredited)
On the day of her wedding a young woman's fiancé doesn't show up, sleeping off the results of the previous night's wild bachelor party. Miffed, the woman decides to go ahead with the wedding anyway to teach her fiancé a lesson, so she calls her lawyer, Henry, and has him stand in for her missing groom. She intends to divorce her new "husband" at the first opportunity, but Henry--who has been in love with her for a long time--is determined to win his "wife's" hand.

Don't Play Bridge With Your Wife

Don't Play Bridge With Your Wife
4.8/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 13/01/1933
  • Character: Stoneage Bridge Player / King Henry VIII / Mr. Roberts
A Mack Sennett-produced sound short about couples playing bridge through the ages.

Half a Sinner

Half a Sinner
6.3/10
Although young and beautiful, schoolteacher Anne Gladden fears a dull future. She finally decides to take a walk on the wild side, splurging on some fashionable new clothes and setting off to find adventure. Her new confidence inspires her to flirt with complete strangers. When a gangster pays unwanted attention to her, she ditches him and flees in his car, unaware that there's a corpse in the trunk. Determined to recover his stolen vehicle and its incriminating cargo the thug begins a desperate search. The oblivious Anne, comes to the aid of a handsome young man stranded alongside the road. Romance blooms, but after the shocking discovery of a body in the trunk, the duo decide they have to return the car. The bickering lovebirds head back to the city, trailed by both the angry gangster and the cops, who suspect the young couple of murder.

Trailing Double Trouble

Trailing Double Trouble
5.5/10
When Moreland's henchman attack Bob Horner the Range Busters break it up. Horner dies but they get the baby Moreland was after. He must have it to become it's guardian and take control of the Horner ranch. When the henchmen catch up with Alibi, they take the baby cradle not realizing Alibi has substituted his dummy Elmer. Crash having evidence Moreland is the one they want, now has a plan to expose him.

Crook's Tour

Crook's Tour
7.4/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 23/09/1933
  • Character: Stephen Dorigan
A short film from Hal Roach Studios' All-Star series.

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