The best Russell Hicks’s comedy movies on Apple iTunes

Russell Hicks

Russell Hicks

04/06/1895- 01/06/1957
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Russell Hicks’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 Russell Hicks.

You Can't Take It with You

You Can't Take It with You
7.8/10
Alice, the only relatively normal member of the eccentric Sycamore family, falls in love with Tony Kirby, but his wealthy banker father and snobbish mother strongly disapprove of the match. When the Kirbys are invited to dinner to become better acquainted with their future in-laws, things don't turn out the way Alice had hoped.

Pick a Star

Pick a Star
5.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 21/05/1937
  • Character: Mr. Stone
A Cinderella story of a young country girl who comes to Hollywood and achieves movie stardom with the help of a publicity man.

Honolulu

Honolulu
6.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 03/02/1939
  • Character: Mr. Clifford Jones (uncredited)
Movie star Brooks Mason tries to avoid his fans and spend some weeks on vacation. When Hawaiian plantage-owner George Smith is mistaken by Mason's fans for Mason and brought to Mason's home. They decide to change their identities for a few weeks. But George Smith is mobbed by Mason's fans again on a personal appearance tour in New York, Mason falls in love to dancer Dorothy March, who also is on her way to Hawaii. Problems for Mason arise due to the fact that Smith is engaged with Cecilia Grayson, and her wealthy father believes, that Smith has double-crossed him. Mason isn't able to establish a connection with Smith in New York due to his agent's orders.

Bowery Battalion

Bowery Battalion
6.2/10
  • Genre: ActionComedy
  • Release: 24/01/1951
  • Character: Melvin Hatfield
Slip, Sach and the gang (Bowery Boys) think an air-raid test is for real and join the Army.

Swing Parade of 1946

Swing Parade of 1946
5.2/10
The Three Stooges help an aspiring singer, Carol Lawrence, and a nightclub owner, Danny Warren, find love. It features dizzy dishwashers Moe, Larry, and Curly, and musical numbers by Connee Boswell and the Louis Jordan and Will Osborne orchestras, including "Stormy Weather" and "Caldonia."

We Were Dancing

We Were Dancing
6.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 30/04/1942
  • Character: Mr. Bryce-Carew
A penniless former princess weds an equally cash-strapped baron, so they support themselves by becoming houseguests at the homes of wealthy American socialites.

You Can't Run Away from It

You Can't Run Away from It
5.9/10
A reporter stumbles on a runaway heiress whose story could salvage his career.

Devil Dogs of the Air

Devil Dogs of the Air
5.9/10
Two Marine pilots vie for romance and glory.

Air Raid Wardens

Air Raid Wardens
6.1/10
Two bumblers, failures as businessmen and air raid wardens, stumble across a nest of Nazi saboteurs bent on blowing up the local magnesium plant.

Ship Ahoy

Ship Ahoy
6.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 16/04/1942
  • Character: Capt. C.V. O'Brien
Miss Winters is a dancer with the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra and is asked to secretly transport a prototype magnetic mine to Puerto Rico. She thinks that she is working for the US Government, but fails to see why she would be involved.

On Again-Off Again

On Again-Off Again
5.9/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 09/07/1937
  • Character: George Dilwig
This wacky vaudeville-style romp casts the irreverent comedy team as feuding co-owners of a drug company, William “Willy” Hobbs (Wheeler) and Claude Augustus Horton (Woolsey), who agree to wrestle each other for the sole ownership of the business. The winner will take the company and the loser must become the other’s valet for a year. But when Hobbs loses, he sends his wife to Florida and schemes to trick Horton. What follows are hilarious hijinks as only Wheeler and Woolsey can pull off!

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