The best Tom Neal’s comedy movies
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Tom Neal’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 Tom Neal.
Another Thin Man
7.3/10
Not even the joys of parenthood can stop married sleuths Nick and Nora Charles from investigating a murder on a Long Island estate.
Bowery at Midnight
5.3/10
Soup kitchen operator and criminologist Bela Lugosi operates a soup kitchen as a front for a criminal gang who commit a series of robberies and murders.
Out West with the Hardys
6.5/10
Judge Hardy goes to his friend's Arizona ranch to help her in a legal dispute, and he takes his family with him.
Honolulu
6.5/10
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.
No Time for Love
6.8/10
Upper-class female reporter is (despite herself) attracted to hulking laborer digging a tunnel under the Hudson river.
Sky Murder
6/10
This final Carter film is a lot of fun, with Nick (unwillingly, at first) taking on a ring of Fifth Columnists (since this was filmed before the US entered the war, we're not told the villains are Nazis, but it's pretty clear anyway). Of course, the helpful and persistent Bartholomew is at his side--much to Nick's irritation. To further complicate things--and to make them still funnier--Joyce Compton is along for the ride too, as a delightfully brainless "detective" named Christine Cross.
Let's Go Navy!
6.3/10
The Bowery Boys join the Navy to catch some crooks who are posing as sailors.
One Thrilling Night
5.6/10
A honeymoon couple in New York for one night of wedded bliss before he's to join the army, become involved with gangsters after they find a cadaver under their bed.
Top Sergeant Mulligan
4.6/10
Frank Faylen and Charlie Hall (a longtime Laurel & Hardy foil) star as Dolan and Doolittle, a pair of goofy druggists who join the army to escape the wrath of bill collector Mulligan
G.I. Jane
6.3/10
A civilian, ordered to report to his draft board, slips off into a dream about the army life ahead of him. He is assigned to a remote desert post where the soldiers crave female companionship. He forges orders that brings a platoon of WACs who are forbidden to fraternize with the soldiers.
Varieties on Parade
5.4/10
A 54-minute filmed vaudeville variety show directed by Ron Ormond, starring Jackie Coogan, Lyle Talbot, and Tom Neal.
Blonde Alibi
6.3/10
Soon after a young woman breaks off her engagement to a doctor, the doctor is found murdered. Suspicion falls on his ex-fiancé and a pilot with a checkered past.
The Miracle Kid
5.6/10
A young boxer finds his life turned upside down when he meets with sudden success in the ring.
Four Girls in White
6/10
Young Women go through Nursing School together, each with there own motivation for being there. They learn more than how to be a Nurse.
Stop That Cab
5/10
Sid Melton stars as a taxi driver dealing with nutty passengers and a nagging wife. Comedy.
Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President
6.1/10
Joe and Ethel Turp are up in arms when their faithful old mailman is fired. Unable to get satisfaction on a municipal level, Joe and Ethel plead their mailman's case to the President himself.
The Hat Box Mystery
5/10
Susan Hart, assistant to private detective Russ Ashton, is given a camera concealed in a hat box and assigned to take a picture of a woman. A gun is accidentally hidden in the box and the woman is killed. Susan is charged with murder, but Russ and his less-than-useful associate, Harvard, get on the case and prove that the fatal shot was fired by the killer from across the street.
Joe Palooka in Humphrey Takes a Chance
6.5/10
A crooked boxing promoter tries to shake down Joe's manager by setting up a rigged fight in Humphrey Pennyworth's hometown.
Rodeo Dough
6.2/10
After a trip to Hollywood, two young ladies attempt to hitchhike home but end up at a star filled rodeo.
She Has What It Takes
Fay Weston (Jinx Falkenburg), a radio singer of no consequence, pretends to be the daughter of a recently deceased Broadway stage star in order to hoodwink Broadway play producer in starring her in a planned-show that is a tribute to her supposed mother.
