The best Robert Homans’s comedy movies

Robert Homans

Robert Homans

08/11/1877- 28/07/1947
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Anchors Aweigh

Anchors Aweigh
7/10
Two sailors, Joe and Clarence have four days shore leave in spend their shore leave trying to get a girl for Clarence. Clarence has his eye on a girl with musical aspirations, and before Joe can stop him, promises to get her an audition with José Iturbi. But the trouble really starts when Joe realizes he's falling for his buddy's girl.

The Thin Man

The Thin Man
7.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrimeMystery
  • Release: 25/05/1934
  • Character: Billy the Detective (uncredited)
A husband and wife detective team takes on the search for a missing inventor and almost get killed for their efforts.

She Done Him Wrong

She Done Him Wrong
6.3/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 09/02/1933
  • Character: Doheney
New York singer and nightclub owner Lady Lou has more men friends than you can imagine. One of them is a vicious criminal who’s escaped and is on the way to see “his” girl, not realising she hasn’t exactly been faithful in his absence. Help is at hand in the form of young Captain Cummings, a local temperance league leader.

Union Depot

Union Depot
7/10
  • Genre: ComedyDramaRomance
  • Release: 14/01/1932
  • Character: Policeman in Paddy Wagon (uncredited)
Among the travelers of varied backgrounds that meet and interact on one night at Union Depot, a metropolitan train station, are Chick and his friend Scrap Iron, both newly released from prison after serving time for vagrancy. Hungry and desperate for a break, Chick fortuitously comes across across a valise abandoned by a drunken traveler. In it he finds a shaving kit and a suit of clothes with a bankroll, which help transform the affable tramp into a dashing gent. After buying himself a meal, Chick seeks some female companionship among the many hustlers who walk the station. He propositions Ruth Collins, a stranded, out-of-work showgirl and takes her to the station's hotel.

No Time for Love

No Time for Love
6.8/10
Upper-class female reporter is (despite herself) attracted to hulking laborer digging a tunnel under the Hudson river.

Honky Tonk

Honky Tonk
6.6/10
Fast-talking con-man and grifter Candy Johnson rises to be the corrupt boss of Yellow Creek, but his wife's alcoholic father tries to set things right.

It Ain't Hay

It Ain't Hay
6.6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 10/03/1943
  • Character: Policeman (uncredited)
Abbot and Costello must find a replacement for a woman's horse they accidentally killed after feeding it some candy. They head for the racetrack, find a look-a-like and take it. They do not realize that the nag is "Tea Biscuit," a champion racehorse.

Strike Me Pink

Strike Me Pink
6.4/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 24/01/1936
  • Character: Joe - the Cop (uncredited)
Meek Eddie Pink becomes manager of an amusement park beset by mobsters.

It Happened in Flatbush

It Happened in Flatbush
6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 28/05/1942
  • Character: Mr. Collins
A washed up baseball player returns to Brooklyn to manage his old team but an old sports reporter is eager to prove that he is a looser.

Man Alive

Man Alive
5.4/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 16/11/1945
  • Character: Uncle Barney McBride (uncredited)
A reportedly dead man haunts his wife and her boyfriend.

High School

High School
6.6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 26/01/1940
  • Character: Policeman
A teenager who's been raised and home-schooled at her father's Texas ranch must adjust to her new surroundings and being with other students when she's sent to a San Antonio high-school.

Mr. Skitch

Mr. Skitch
6.3/10
After losing their Missouri home during the Great Depression, the Skitch family pulls up stakes and heads west to California to begin life anew. Comedy, released in 1933.

Music for Madame

Music for Madame
5.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 08/10/1937
  • Character: Police Desk Sergeant (Uncredited)
An Italian immigrant singer, Nino, hoping to succeed in Hollywood, falls in with a gang of crooks who use his talent to distract everyone at a party while they steal the jewels.

Make Your Own Bed

Make Your Own Bed
5.5/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 10/06/1944
  • Character: Policeman
Walter and Vivian live in the country and have a difficult time keeping servants. Walter then hires a private detective who has been fired for arresting the District Attorney. They only way that Walter can get Jerry to work for him is to tell Jerry that his life is in danger; the neighbor is trying to take his wife; and that Nazi spies are everywhere. Jerry needs a cook for his 'cover' so he gets his fiancée Susan to work with him. To keep Jerry working, Walter sends the threatening letters to himself and hires actors to play the spies but when a real group of spies disguised as a troupe of radio actors appears on the scene, events quickly spiral out of control.

One Sunday Afternoon

One Sunday Afternoon
6.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 01/09/1933
  • Character: Officer Charlie Brown (uncredited)
Middle-aged dentist Biff Grimes reminisces about his unrequited love for beautiful Virginia Brush and her husband Hugo, his ex-friend, who betrayed him.

Come Out Fighting

Come Out Fighting
6.2/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 29/09/1945
  • Character: Police Sergeant Tom Riley
The police commissioner asks some local street kids to toughen up his sissy son.

Yes, My Darling Daughter

Yes, My Darling Daughter
6.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 25/02/1939
  • Character: Sergeant Murphy
Ellen is a free spirited young woman in love with Doug. Sadly he must leave America for a two year job in Belgium. Ellen and Doug decide to spend their last weekend together in a tourist cabin at a rural lake. Her family is shocked that a young unmarried woman would engage in such amoral activity. The comic plot develops as Ellen argues her case for women's freedom and independence, trying to win over her mother, grandmother, and other dubious relatives.

Steamboat Round the Bend

Steamboat Round the Bend
6.9/10
A Louisiana con man enters his steamboat into a winner-take-all race with a rival while trying to find a witness to free his nephew, about to be hanged for murder.

Ever Since Eve

Ever Since Eve
6.6/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 15/07/1937
  • Character: Police Sergeant (uncredited)
Madge Winton (Marion Davies), a beautiful secretary, makes herself look homely in order to avoid advances by lecherous bosses. When her new employer, writer Freddy Matthews (Robert Montgomery), accidentally sees her without her disguise, she has to pretend to be her roommate Sadie.

Hot Water

Hot Water
5.1/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 24/09/1937
  • Character: Desk Sergeant (uncredited)
The Jones family is in an uproar when Dad's campaign for mayor appears sabotaged by an anonymous newspaper article.

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