The best Robert Shayne’s comedy movies

Robert Shayne

Robert Shayne

04/10/1900- 29/11/1992
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The Million Dollar Duck

The Million Dollar Duck
5.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyFamily
  • Release: 30/06/1971
  • Character: Refinery Executive (uncredited)
Professor Dooley takes home a duck from his research laboratory as a toy for his son, but soon finds out that it lays golden eggs.

Christmas in Connecticut

Christmas in Connecticut
7.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 27/07/1945
  • Character: Dudley Beecham
Journalist Elizabeth Lane is one of the country's most famous food writers. In her columns, she describes herself as a hard working farm woman, taking care of her children, and being an excellent cook. But this is all lies. In reality, she is an unmarried New Yorker who can't even boil an egg. The recipes come from her good friend Felix. The owner of the magazine she works for has decided that a heroic sailor will spend his Christmas on *her* farm. Miss Lane knows that her career is over if the truth comes out, but what can she do?

Hollywood Canteen

Hollywood Canteen
7/10
Two soldiers on leave spend three nights at a club offering free of charge food, dancing, and entertainment for servicemen on their way overseas. Club founders Bette Davis and John Garfield give talks on the history of the place.

Spook Chasers

Spook Chasers
5.4/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 02/06/1957
  • Character: Police Lt. Harris
Sach and the gang (Bowery Boys) find stashed cash in an old farmhouse apparently haunted.

Hot Shots

Hot Shots
5.5/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 23/12/1956
  • Character: Pierre M. Morley
Sach and the gang baby-sit a bratty TV star.

The Naked Monster

The Naked Monster
5.2/10
  • Genre: ComedyHorror
  • Release: 22/04/2005
  • Character: Prof. Bradshaw
Using soundtracks and extensive footage from many old movies, this spoof/homage of 1950's science-fiction films brings back many favorite actors from these classic movies, some reprising their former roles, to help destroy a giant stop-motion monster that is threatening to destroy Los Angeles.

Dance With Me, Henry

Dance With Me, Henry
5.6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 17/12/1956
  • Character: District Attorney Martin Proctor
Bud and Lou are the owners of the amusement park Kiddieland. Bud, a compulsive gambler, gets in trouble with the mob, and Lou finds himself struggling to keep his adopted children. When Bud is forced to make a shady deal, Lou tries to arrange a deal with the DA, but winds up framed for murder.

Welcome Stranger

Welcome Stranger
6.8/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 13/06/1947
  • Character: Roy Chesley
Crusty Dr. McRory of Fallbridge, Maine, hires his vacation replacement sight unseen. Alas, he and young singing Doctor Jim Pearson don't hit it off; but once he meets teacher Trudy Mason, Pearson is delighted to stay. The locals, taking their cue from McRory, cold-shoulder Pearson, especially Trudy's stuffy fiancé. But then, guess who needs an emergency appendectomy?

The Inside Story

The Inside Story
6.6/10
A collection agent arrives in a small town with $1000 for a local farmer. Whilst waiting for the farmer to arrive the money is put in a safe at a hotel for safe keeping. However, it is removed by mistake and solves a number of financial problems before it is returned.

Let's Live a Little

Let's Live a Little
5.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 09/12/1948
  • Character: Dr. Richard Field
A harried, overworked advertising executive is being pursued romantically by one of his clients, a successful perfume magnate ... and his former fiancée. The latest client of the agency is a psychiatrist and author of a new book. When the executive goes over to discuss the ad campaign, the psychiatrist turns out to be a woman. But what does he really need? Romance? Or analysis?

Make Your Own Bed

Make Your Own Bed
5.5/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 10/06/1944
  • Character: Lester Knight
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.

Mr. Walkie Talkie

Mr. Walkie Talkie
5.6/10
  • Genre: ComedyWar
  • Release: 28/11/1952
  • Character: Capt. Burke
Military comedy about two sergeant buddies constantly getting into trouble.

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