The best Roscoe Ates’s comedy movies

Roscoe Ates

Roscoe Ates

20/01/1895- 01/03/1962
Today we present the best Roscoe Ates’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Roscoe Ates’s movies.
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The Palm Beach Story

The Palm Beach Story
7.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 28/08/1942
  • Character: Fourth Member Ale and Quail Club
Gerry and Tom Jeffers are finding married life hard. Tom is an inventor/ architect and there is little money for them to live on. They are about to be thrown out of their apartment when Gerry meets rich businessman being shown around as a prospective tenant. He gives Gerry $700 to start life afresh but Tom refuses to believe her story and they quarrel. Gerry decides the marriage is over and heads to Palm Beach for a quick divorce but Tom has plans to stop her.

The Ladies Man

The Ladies Man
6.3/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 21/06/1961
  • Character: Pet Shop Owner
After his girl leaves him for someone else, Herbert gets really depressed and starts searching for a job. He finally finds one in a big house which is inhabited by many, many women. Can he live in the same home with all these females?

Scarlet River

Scarlet River
6.1/10
Unable to find open range near Hollywood, western actor Tom Baxter and his troop head to Judy Blake's ranch to shoot their film.

Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops

Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops
6.3/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 02/02/1955
  • Character: Wagon Driver
Harry and Willie are scammed into buying the Thomas Edison studio lot by a man named Gorman. They decide to follow Gorman's trail to Hollywood where, unbeknownst to them, he has taken the identity of a foreign film director. The lads wind up as stunt doubles in film the which Gorman is now shooting, while the conman tries to have the bungling pair done away with before they realize who he really is.

Reducing

Reducing
6.4/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 03/01/1931
  • Character: Ticket Agent
A woman and her family leave their hick-town to help her sister out in the big-city beauty parlour. There is a bit of a culture shock.

I Want a Divorce

I Want a Divorce
6/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 20/09/1940
  • Character: Process Server
Comedy about newlyweds wondering if their marriage was a mistake.

The Affairs of Jimmy Valentine

The Affairs of Jimmy Valentine
6.1/10
A New York radio personality travels to the small town of Fernville, Indiana in an attempt to uncover a notorious safecracker, believed to be masquerading as one of the town's upstanding citizens.

She Knew All the Answers

She Knew All the Answers
6.5/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 13/05/1941
  • Character: Gas Station Attendant
Chorus girl and rich playboy want to marry but he'll lose his fortune unless his trustee approves of his mate. So she goes to work in the trustee's brokerage firm under an assumed name to get on his good side but complications ensue.

Check and Double Check

Check and Double Check
4.9/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 02/10/1930
  • Character: Brother Arthur
Amos and Andy trying to make a go of their "open-air" taxi business while they get caught up in a society hassle, involving driving musicians to a fancy party.

What! No Beer?

What! No Beer?
5.6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 10/02/1933
  • Character: Schultz
When Prohibition ends, a barber tries to get in the liquor business only to come up against mobsters.

Soup to Nuts

Soup to Nuts
5.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 28/09/1930
  • Character: Pants Presser at Al's Tailor Shop (uncredited)
Mr. Schmidt's costume store is bankrupt because he spends his time on Rube Goldberg-style inventions; the creditors send a young manager who falls for Schmidt's niece Louise, but she'll have none of him. Schmidt's friends Ted, Queenie, and some goofy firemen try to help out; things come to a slapstick head when Louise needs rescuing from a fire.

Hold 'Em Jail

Hold 'Em Jail
6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 16/09/1932
  • Character: Slippery Sam Brown
Two yokels are framed and sent to prison, but wind up playing football on the warden's championship team.

The Big Shot

The Big Shot
5.9/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 31/12/1931
  • Character: Rusty
Eddie Quillan stars in this 1931 comedy as a hapless hotel clerk who tries to impress his sweetheart (Maureen O'Sullivan) with a series of money-making schemes.

Love in the Rough

Love in the Rough
5.4/10
When a shipping clerk is recruited by his employer to help his golf game, his boss insists he conceal his humble identity at the country club.

Ladies of the Jury

Ladies of the Jury
6.3/10
Society matron Mrs. Livingston Baldwin Crane is selected as a juror in the trial of former chorus girl Yvette Gordon, who's accused of murdering her rich older husband. In court and during deliberations, Mrs. Crane proves to be a disruptive and unorthodox juror.

Thunder in the Pines

Thunder in the Pines
6.1/10
Loggers Jeff Collins and Boomer Benson compete for a mail-order bride by means of a timber-cutting contest.

Too Many Cooks

Too Many Cooks
5.4/10
A young couple, soon to wed, begin building their dreamhouse, but their interfering relatives cause no end of trouble. Comedy.

Merry Wives of Reno

Merry Wives of Reno
6.2/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 18/04/1934
  • Character: The Trapper
Three couples raise a ruckus when they travel to Nevada for quickie divorces.

Politics

Politics
6.3/10
A widow's decision to run for mayor kicks off a battle of the sexes in a small town.

She Made Her Bed

She Made Her Bed
7.2/10
"Duke" Gordon (Robert Armstrong), a circus lion-tamer, tries to tames his wife, Laura (Sally Eilers), just as he does his lions. But she is a one-man woman, married to the wrong man, and refuses to cheat on her cheating husband even though her happiness depends on doing so.

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