The best Richard Fiske’s comedy movies
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Richard Fiske’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about Richard Fiske.
Girls' School
5.9/10
Wealthy high school girls are sent to a boarding school to learn proper etiquette. Linda Simpson stays out all night. She tells her roommate, Betty Fleet, that it was because she's planning to elope. Linda gets in trouble when the faculty finds out from a monitor's report submitted by reluctant Natalie Freeman, a poor girl attending on scholarship.
The Major and the Minor
7.4/10
Susan Applegate, tired of New York after one year and twenty-five jobs, decides to return to her home town. Discovering she hasn't enough money for the train fare, Susan disguises herself as a twelve-year-old and travels for half the price. Caught out by the conductors, she hides in the compartment of Major Philip Kirby, a military school instructor who takes the "child" under his wing.
Blondie
6.9/10
Blondie and Dagwood are about to celebrate their fifth wedding anniversary but this happy occasion is marred when the bumbling Dagwood gets himself involved in a scheme that is promising financial ruin for the Bumstead family.
Blondie Meets the Boss
6.7/10
Dagwood inadvertently gets cornered in to resigning. When his wife Blondie tries to ask Dagwoods boss Mr. Dithers for his job back, he ends up hiring her instead. This doesn't sit too well with Dagwood. Blondie's sister comes to visit, and Dagwood is put in a compromising situation with another woman.
Good Girls Go to Paris
6.8/10
Jenny Swanson, a waitress on a college campus, is dying to visit Paris. Thanks to English professor Ronald Brooke, she manages to make her dream come true. Besides seeing the sights in the French capital she makes friends with a wealthy family there, the Brands.
The Lone Wolf Keeps a Date
6.1/10
Complicated plot involving missing stamp collection and kidnapped businessman, with the Lone Wolf keeping one step ahead of the police in Havana trying to solve the crime and make a profit.
The Lone Wolf Strikes
6.4/10
Delia Jordan's father is murdered and some very valuable jewelry stolen. She hires The Lone Wolf.
Blondie Plays Cupid
6.5/10
The Bumstead family is off to see relatives in the country when Blondie runs into Charlie and Millie, an eloping couple needing her help.
Dizzy Pilots
7.6/10
The Three Stooges, as the Wrong Bothers, aided the war effort by inventing a new plane in this below-average two-reel comedy. Actually, they are attempting to avoid the draft but when their plane, the Buzzard, fails miserably, they march off to war. Richard Fiske, formerly a busy supporting player in Stooges comedies, appeared in this two-reeler courtesy of stock footage from the earlier Boobs in Arms (1940). Ironically, Fiske had himself been drafted and would be killed in action in France in August of 1944.
Pest from the West
6.3/10
A millionaire vacationing in Mexico falls for a local girl and sets out to win her.
Blondie Brings Up Baby
6.8/10
Baby Dumpling, the six-year-old son of Blondie and Dagwood Bumstead disappears from sight during his first day at school. While Dagwood frantically combs the city in search of the boy, Baby Dumpling spents a nice, safe afternoon with poor little rich girl Melinda Mason, who with her new playmate's help arises from her sickbed to walk across the room for the first time in months.
Glove Slingers
6.9/10
A fighter trains for the big bout, and discovers that his opponent is his girlfriend's brother.
The Lone Wolf Meets a Lady
6.4/10
A hardworking secretary for a rich woman finds herself engaged to the woman's son and accused of a murder she didn't commit.
Go West, Young Lady
6.3/10
A young woman arrives in the western town of Headstone and helps the locals outsmart a gang of outlaws.
Black Eyes and Blues
Roscoe's wife decides to divorce him and heads for Reno.
Pardon My Berth Marks
6/10
Buster, a reporter, takes a train trip and winds up innocently involved with a gangster's wife.
The Taming of the Snood
5.7/10
A jewel thief uses Buster as an unsuspecting dupe.
Nothing But Pleasure
6/10
To save money, Buster and his wife decide to drive to Detroit to buy a new car, then drive it home.
