The best Robert Kent’s comedy movies

Robert Kent

Robert Kent

03/12/1908- 04/05/1955
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Robert Kent’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 Robert Kent.

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.

Reunion

Reunion
5.1/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 20/11/1936
  • Character: Tony Luke
Newspapers around the world proclaim the birth in Moosetown, Canada of the 3,000th baby brought into the world by the doctor, John Luke, known for delivering the famous Wyatt quintuplets. To honor the doctor on his retirement and to publicize their town, the Moosetown chamber of commerce decides to hold a reunion of all the babies delivered by the doctor, some of whom have become famous.

Charlie Chan at Monte Carlo

Charlie Chan at Monte Carlo
6.7/10
Although Charlie and Lee are in Monaco for an art exhibit, they become caught up in a feud between rival financiers which involves the Chan's in a web of blackmail and murder.

Angel's Holiday

Angel's Holiday
6.4/10
Lively June (Jane Withers), teen-aged daughter of mystery writer Waldo Everett (Jon Qualen), who calls her "Angel," becomes involved in intrigue centering on movie star Pauline Kaye (Sally Blane) and her companion Stivers (Joan Davis). Reporter Nick Moore (Robert Kent), once sweet on Pauline, is convinced that her sudden disappearance is a publicity stunt, which is true -- until gangster Bat Regan (Harold Huber) decides to get involved.

Blonde Alibi

Blonde Alibi
6.3/10
Soon after a young woman breaks off her engagement to a doctor, the doctor is found murdered. Suspicion falls on his ex-fiancé and a pilot with a checkered past.

Dragnet

Dragnet
6.4/10
Scotland Yard Inspector Geoffrey James (Henry Wilcoxon) comes to the United States looking for a band of international gem-thieves who have smuggled a rich load of jewels from England to America via a trans-ocean airline. Mary Hogan (Mary Brian), an airline hostess, aids him in his quest.

Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever

Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever
6.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 21/07/1939
  • Character: Ensign Copley
Young Andy develops a crush on his drama teacher. When his play is chosen as the school's annual production, Andy seizes the opportunity to spend as much time as possible with his pretty teacher. Meanwhile, Judge Hardy has his own problems when he gets conned into forming a phony aluminum corporation.

The Gladiator

The Gladiator
6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 14/08/1938
  • Character: Tom Dixon
A man returns to college and is talked into joining he football team and is a real joke on the team, until he is given a drug that gives him super strength.

Step Lively, Jeeves!

Step Lively, Jeeves!
5.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 30/06/1937
  • Character: Gerry Townsend
A British butler goes to America duped by mobsters into believing he is the heir to a fortune.

Joe Palooka, Champ

Joe Palooka, Champ
5.7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 26/05/1946
  • Character: Ronnie Brewster
After losing heavyweight contender Al Costa to mob boss Florini fight promoter Knobby Walsh recruits small town boy Joe Palooka to take his place. First in the series.

East Side of Heaven

East Side of Heaven
6.6/10
  • Genre: ComedyFamily
  • Release: 07/04/1939
  • Character: Cyrus Barrett Jr.
A man finds himself the father, by proxy, of a ten-month-old baby and becomes involved in the turbulent lives of the child's family.

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