The best Slim Summerville’s comedy movies

Slim Summerville

Slim Summerville

10/07/1892- 05/01/1946
Today we present the best Slim Summerville’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 Slim Summerville’s movies.
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The Front Page

The Front Page
6.7/10
Hildy Johnson is an investigative reporter is looking for a bigger paycheck. When an accused murderer escapes from custody, Hildy sees an opportunity for the story of a lifetime. But when he finds the criminal, he learns that the man may not be guilty. With the help of his editor, Hildy attempts to hide the convict, uncover the conspiracy and write the scoop of his career.

Gold Rush Maisie

Gold Rush Maisie
6.2/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 26/07/1940
  • Character: Fred Gubbins
Maisie becomes attached to a dirt-poor farmer and his family as they try to make ends meet joining hundreds of others digging for gold in a previously panned-out ghost town.

Tobacco Road

Tobacco Road
6.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 20/02/1941
  • Character: Henry Peabody
Shiftless Jeeter Lester and his family of sharecroppers live in rural Georgia where their ancestors were once wealthy planters. Their slapstick existence is threatened by a bank's plans to take over the land for more profitable farming.

The Knockout

The Knockout
5.7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 11/06/1914
  • Character: Spectator (uncredited)
To show his girl how brave he is, Fatty challenges the champion to a fight. Charlie referees, trying to avoid contact with the two monsters.

Laughing Gas

Laughing Gas
5.6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 09/07/1914
  • Character: Patient
Although only a dental assistant, Charlie pretends to be the dentist. After receiving too much anesthesia, a patient can't stop laughing, so Charlie knocks him out with a club.

Tillie's Punctured Romance

Tillie's Punctured Romance
6.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyDramaRomance
  • Release: 14/11/1914
  • Character: The Keystone "Kops" / Guest in restaurant (uncredited)
A womanizing city man meets Tillie in the country, after a fight with his girlfriend. When he sees that Tillie's father has a very large bankroll for his workers, he persuades her to elope with him.

Dough and Dynamite

Dough and Dynamite
5.9/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 26/10/1914
  • Character: Striking Baker
Pierre and Jacques are working as waiters at a restaurant where the cooks go on strike. When the two are forced to work as bakers, the striking cooks put dynamite in the dough, with explosive results.

King of Jazz

King of Jazz
6.7/10
  • Genre: AnimationComedyMusic
  • Release: 20/04/1930
  • Character: Automobile Owner ('Springtime') / Rear End of Horse / Charles
Made during the early years of the movie musical, this exuberant revue was one of the most extravagant, eclectic, and technically ambitious Hollywood productions of its day. Starring the bandleader Paul Whiteman, then widely celebrated as the King of Jazz, the film drew from Broadway variety shows to present a spectacular array of sketches, performances by such acts as the Rhythm Boys (featuring a young Bing Crosby), and orchestral numbers—all lavishly staged by veteran theater director John Murray Anderson.

Captain January

Captain January
7/10
  • Genre: ComedyFamily
  • Release: 17/04/1936
  • Character: Captain Nazro
A little girl named Star lives with a lighthouse keeper who rescued her when her parents drowned. A truant officer decides she should go to boarding school but she's rescued by relatives.

Caught in the Rain

Caught in the Rain
5.6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 04/05/1914
  • Character: Cop (uncredited)
When a married couple become separated in the park, Charlie takes up with the lady and is beat up when her husband rejoins her. He takes a room in their hotel, and she sleepwalks into his room so that when her husband returns from his walk he must go out again to look for her. Charlie returns the lady to her room but must climb out onto the window ledge in a downpour.

Mabel's Busy Day

Mabel's Busy Day
5.4/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 13/06/1914
  • Character: Policeman
Mabel tries to sell hot dogs at a car race, but isn't doing a very good job at it. She sets down the box of hot dogs and leaves them for a moment. Charlie finds them and gives them away to the hungry spectators at the track as Mabel frantically tries to find her lost box of hot dogs. Mabel finds out that Charlie has stolen them and sends the police after him. Chaos ensues.

Those Love Pangs

Those Love Pangs
5.4/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 10/10/1914
  • Character: Movie Patron (uncredited)
Charlie and a rival vie for the favors of their landlady.

Gentlemen of Nerve

Gentlemen of Nerve
5.6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 29/10/1914
  • Character: Spectator (uncredited)
Mabel and her beau go to an auto race and are joined by Charlie and his friend. As Charlie's friend is attempting to enter the raceway through a hole, the friend gets stuck and a policeman shows up.

Reunion

Reunion
5.1/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 20/11/1936
  • Character: Jim Ogden
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.

Niagara Falls

Niagara Falls
5.9/10
The nosy antics of a honeymooner puts an unwed couple in the same room.

Five of a Kind

Five of a Kind
5.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 14/10/1938
  • Character: Constable Jim Ogden
Rival reporters compete to sign the Wyatt Quintuplets to be guests on their radio shows.

Love Is News

Love Is News
6.9/10
When a crafty reporter uses false pretenses to get a story out of heiress Tony Gateson, she turns the tables on him, telling the press that they are engaged. Suddenly he's front page news, every salesman is at his doorstep, and he loses his job. A series of misadventures ensues with him alternately back on his job and fired and her ex-fiance showing up. Can an heiress be a human being, and can a reporter get a scoop?

The Property Man

The Property Man
5.6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 01/08/1914
  • Character: Man in Second Row Audience (uncredited)
Charlie is in charge of stage "props" and has trouble with actors' luggage and conflicts over who gets the star's dressing room. Once the dressing-room issue is resolved the next issue is getting everyone on stage with the correct backdrop. Backstage Charlie and an old man fight, often disrupting the on-stage performances. The audience also break into a fight, and a hose brought out behind the scenes ends up squirted over them.

That Little Band Of Gold

That Little Band Of Gold
5.3/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 14/03/1915
  • Character: Waiter / Audience Member (uncredited)
A happy young couple become engaged, and soon afterwards they are married. But after their marriage, the husband begins to stay out carousing with his friends, leaving his wife at home with her mother. Then, when the three of them go to the opera together, the husband spots one of his friends in another box. Soon the domestic difficulties reach their peak.

Miss Polly

Miss Polly
6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 14/11/1941
  • Character: Slim Wilkins
A small-town spinster, who's a born romantic, takes on the strict members of the local "Purity League" by spilling a few of their well-kept secrets. Comedy.

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