The best Torin Thatcher’s comedy movies

Torin Thatcher

Torin Thatcher

15/01/1905- 04/03/1981
We present our ranking of the best Torin Thatcher’s movies. Do you love cinema? Or are you looking for a movie of your favorite actor to watch tonight? Surely you have some to see or that you did not know yet about Torin Thatcher.

The Crimson Pirate

The Crimson Pirate
7.1/10
Burt Lancaster plays a pirate with a taste for intrigue and acrobatics who involves himself in the goings on of a revolution in the Caribbean in the late 1700s. A light hearted adventure involving prison breaks, an oddball Scientist, sailing ships, naval fights, and tons of swordplay.

Knock On Wood

Knock On Wood
6.7/10
  • Genre: ActionComedy
  • Release: 06/04/1954
  • Character: Godfrey Langston
Ventriloquist Jerry Morgan has failed with another love affair. The reason: when the relationship reaches the point when it is time to discuss marriage, his two dolls become mean and jealous. Morgan's dollmaker Papinek is a member of a spy ring who has stolen the secret plans for the top-secret Lafayette airplane. Since Morgan is leaving for Zurich the same night, he decides to hide the secret plan in the heads of the dolls.

Gasbags

Gasbags
5.4/10
It's war time London and the Crazy Gang (Flanagan & Allen, Nervo & Knox, Naughton & Gold) are doing their bit for the war effort by running a fish and chip stall using their platoon's barrage balloon for advertising. Their Sgt Major is not happy about this and orders them to take the balloon down, but a freak heavy wind accidentally carries the gang away to Nazi Germany. They are captured and placed in a detention camp where they meet an elderly prisoner named Jerry, who possess a map for the location of a secret weapon which will win the war! Fortunately Teddy Knox's impersonation of Hitler lands him the spot of pretending to be the Fuhrer at a gala dinner and the gang are allowed out of the camp. However the Nazis have other ideas for their substitute leader.

Climbing High

Climbing High
6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 31/10/1938
  • Character: Jim Castle
Wealthy Nicky finds himself engaged to gold-digger Lady Constance, but he really loves scatty model Diana. Complications, slapstick and mountaineering are the result.

Major Barbara

Major Barbara
6.8/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 14/05/1941
  • Character: Todger Fairmile
A young and idealistic woman, who has adopted the Salvation Army and whose father is an armament industrialist, will save more souls directing her father's business. A comedy with social commentary.

Let George Do It!

Let George Do It!
6.4/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 12/07/1940
  • Character: U-Boat commander
Shortly after the start of World War II, a ukelele player (George) takes the wrong boat and finds himself in (still uninvaded) Norway. He is mistaken for a fellow British intelligence agent by a woman (Mary), and becomes involved in trying to defeat Nazi agents.

The Man Who Could Work Miracles

The Man Who Could Work Miracles
6.9/10
An ordinary man, while vigorously asserting the impossibility of miracles, suddenly discovers that he can perform them.

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