The best Ted Bessell’s movies

Ted Bessell

Ted Bessell

20/03/1935- 06/10/1996
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Ted Bessell’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 Ted Bessell.
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Lover Come Back

Lover Come Back
7.1/10
Jerry Webster and Carol Templeton are rival Madison Avenue advertising executives who each dislike each other’s methods. After he steals a client out from under her cute little nose, revenge prompts her to infiltrate his secret "VIP" campaign in order to persuade the mystery product’s scientist to switch to her firm.

Captain Newman, M.D.

Captain Newman, M.D.
6.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyDramaWar
  • Release: 25/12/1963
  • Character: Carrozzo - Patient (uncredited)
In 1944, Capt. Josiah J. Newman is the doctor in charge of Ward 7, the neuropsychiatric ward, at an Army Air Corps hospital in Arizona. The hospital is under-resourced and Newman scrounges what he needs with the help of his inventive staff, especially Cpl. Jake Leibowitz. The military in general is only just coming to accept psychiatric disorders as legitimate and Newman generally has 6 weeks to cure them or send them on to another facility. There are many patients in the ward and his latest include Colonel Norville Bliss who has dissociated from his past; Capt. Paul Winston who is nearly catatonic after spending 13 months hiding in a cellar behind enemy lines; and 20 year-old Cpl. Jim Tompkins who is severely traumatized after his aircraft was shot down. Others come and go, including Italian prisoners of war, but Newman and team all realize that their success means the men will return to their units.

McHale's Navy Joins the Air Force

McHale's Navy Joins the Air Force
5.7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 09/07/1965
  • Character: Lt. Wilbur Harkness
The crew of PT-73 are in trouble again when Ensign Parker is mistaken for a pilot and gets shanghied into the Air Force.

Don't Drink the Water

Don't Drink the Water
5.5/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 11/11/1969
  • Character: Axel Magee
The Hollander family's European vacation is interrupted when their plane is forced to land in Vulgaria. The Hollanders leave the plane to take pictures which results in accusations of spying. Chased by Vulgarian soldiers, they take refuge in the American Embassy under the protection of the absent ambassador's hapless son.

Two on a Bench

Two on a Bench
5.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyTV Movie
  • Release: 02/11/1971
  • Character: Preston Albright
An outgoing young girl and a square stockbroker meet on a park bench in Boston and are mistaken for international spies and chased by both sides.

Scream, Pretty Peggy

Scream, Pretty Peggy
6.1/10
A sculptor hires young college girls to take care of his elderly mother and his supposedly insane sister, both of whom live in the old family mansion with him.

What Are Best Friends For?

What Are Best Friends For?
6.2/10
A married couple is determined to find a girl for their recently divorced best friend.

Your Money Or Your Wife

Your Money Or Your Wife
6.4/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 19/12/1972
TV script about a kidnapping inspires real-life plot.

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