The best Victor Jory’s comedy movies

Victor Jory

Victor Jory

23/11/1902- 12/02/1982
Today we present the best Victor Jory’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 Victor Jory’s movies.
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A Midsummer Night's Dream

A Midsummer Night's Dream
6.8/10
A film adaptation by Max Reinhardt of his popular stage productions of Shakespeare's comedy. Four young people escape Athens to a forest where the king and queen of the fairies are quarreling, while meanwhile a troupe of amateur actors rehearses a play. When the fairy Puck uses a magic flower to make people fall in love, the whole thing becomes a little bit confused...

Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage

Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
7.8/10
Out-takes (mostly from Warner Bros.), promotional shorts, movie premieres, public service pleas, wardrobe tests, documentary material, and archival footage make up this star-studded voyeuristic look at the Golden age of Hollywood during the 30s, 40, and 50.

Blackwell's Island

Blackwell's Island
6/10
A reporter gets himself sent to prison to expose a mobster.

Flap

Flap
5.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyDramaWestern
  • Release: 13/11/1970
  • Character: Wounded Bear Mr. Smith (Attorney at Law)
Comedy based on the plight of modern Native Americans living on reservations.

State Fair

State Fair
6.7/10
The Frakes attend the Iowa State Fair where Father Abel enters his Hampshire boar, Blue Boy, in a hog content while Mother Melissa enters the mincemeat competition. And their children, Margy and Wayne, find love with newspaper reporter Pat Gilbert and trapeze artist Emily Joyce. But will everyone return home safe and happy or will hearts be broken?

Party Wire

Party Wire
6.6/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 27/04/1935
  • Character: Matthew Putnam
When a small-town girl's boyfriend leaves in disgrace, gossips spread false reports of her pregnancy.

Charlie Chan in Rio

Charlie Chan in Rio
6.9/10
A pair of murders in Rio de Janeiro leads the local police to call the famed detective. Charlie is puzzled, at first, when it appears that one of the murderers is killed by the first victim's widow.

Breakdowns of 1936

Breakdowns of 1936
7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 30/12/1936
  • Character: Himself
Time marches on.

Shut My Big Mouth

Shut My Big Mouth
6/10
A shy horticulturist becomes involved with a local criminal in the old west.

First Lady

First Lady
6.2/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 04/12/1937
  • Character: Senator Gordon Keane
A politician's wife plots for her husband to become the next U.S. President.

Give Us Wings

Give Us Wings
5.4/10
Dead End Kids epic. The boys want desperately to fly, and get mixed up with crooked crop dusters, whose planes are flying deathtraps.

Sailor's Luck

Sailor's Luck
6.5/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 17/03/1933
  • Character: Baron Portola aka Darrow
U.S. sailor Jimmy Harrigan, on shore leave in San Pedro, meets and falls for Sally Brent She promises to wait for him when he ships out to San Francisco, but Jimmy becomes jealous and tells her off when he learns Sally has entered a marathon dance contest sponsored by a lecherous snake named Baron Portola. Along with several of his Navy pals, Jimmy goes to the ballroom the night of the dance marathon, to try to change Sally's mind and win her back.

The Lone Wolf Meets a Lady

The Lone Wolf Meets a Lady
6.4/10
A hardworking secretary for a rich woman finds herself engaged to the woman's son and accused of a murder she didn't commit.

Streamline Express

Streamline Express
5.3/10
A disparate group of people meet as passengers on a superspeed train crossing the U.S. Aboard are a seductive blackmailer and the stage director he intends to frame, a woman chasing her husband who is running away with the blackmail victim, and the stage director's feisty leading lady.

Handle with Care

Handle with Care
7.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 25/12/1932
  • Character: 1st Public Enemy
Bill Gordon (James Dunn), whose lot-in-life is rising, falls in love with Helen Barlow (Boots Mallory), who is raising two cute motherless children who nearly wreck her romance when they can't understand why grown-ups kiss...and other complications.

Infernal Machine

Infernal Machine
6.7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 08/04/1933
  • Character: Alfred Doreen
This pre-Code comedy-thriller centers on Robert Holden, a broke and discouraged veteran, who meets fellow American Elinor Green at a cafe in Paris. After their first encounter, Holden's attempt to return Green's thought-to-be stolen purse ends up rendering him a stowaway on board a ship bound for America. Also aboard is a collection of characters, including Green's banker fiancé, a famed scientist, and an opera singer. Romance begins to blossom between Holden and Green, just as a radiogram claims that an “infernal machine,” or bomb, is aboard the ship. Quickly each passenger accuses the others of planting the bomb until eventually Holden, jealous of Green's attention to her undeserving fiancé, falsely admits to being the culprit. In his role as assumed perpetrator, Holden tests the group further.

The Stork Pays Off

The Stork Pays Off
5.9/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 05/10/1941
  • Character: Deak Foster
Gangster Deak Foster (Victory Jory) and his three henchmen, Brains Moran (Maxie Rosenbloom), Ears-to-the-Ground Hinkle (Horace MacMahon) and Photofinish Farris (George McKay), take over what they think is a night club run by a rival, Stud Rocco (Ralf Harold), only to discover it is a nursery run by Irene Perry (Rochelle Hudson). All fall under the benign influence to the point where the three henchmen go to night school to be educated and Deak falls in love with Julie.

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