The best Victor Maddern’s comedy movies

Victor Maddern

Victor Maddern

16/03/1926- 22/06/1993
Today we present the best Victor Maddern’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 Maddern’s movies.

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
6.9/10
A hapless inventor finally finds success with a flying car, which a dictator from a foreign government sets out to take for himself.

Carry On Cleo

Carry On Cleo
6.7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 08/11/1964
  • Character: Segeant-Major
Two Brits—inventor Hengist Pod, and Horse, a brave and cunning fighter—are captured and enslaved by invading Romans and taken to Rome. One of their first encounters in Rome leaves Hengist being mistaken for a fighter, and gets drafted into the Royal Guard to protect Cleopatra.

I'm All Right Jack

I'm All Right Jack
7.1/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 18/08/1959
  • Character: Knowles
Naive Stanley Windrush returns from the war, his mind set on a successful career in business. Much to his own dismay, he soon finds he has to start from the bottom and work his way up, and also that the management as well as the trade union use him as a tool in their fight for power.

Barnacle Bill

Barnacle Bill
6.7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 17/12/1957
  • Character: Figg
A seasick sea captain commands an amusement pier despite local opposition. Released in the U.S. as 'All at Sea'

Steptoe and Son

Steptoe and Son
6.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 01/03/1972
  • Character: Chauffeur
Albert Steptoe and his son Harold are junk dealers, complete with horse and cart to tour the neighbourhood. They also live amicably together at the junk yard. But Harold, who likes the bright lights in the West End of London, meets a stripper, marries her and takes her home. Albert, of course, is furious and tries every trick he knows to drive the new bride from his household.

Please Turn Over

Please Turn Over
6.3/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 17/12/1959
  • Character: Manager
The orderly suburban life of a 1950's English town is turned on its head when the teenaged daughter of one of the residents writes a steamy bestseller featuring characters obviously based on the local population.

Private's Progress

Private's Progress
6.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyWar
  • Release: 17/02/1956
  • Character: Private George Blake
Stanley Windrush has to interrupt his university education when he is called up towards the end of the war. He quickly proves himself not to be officer material, but befriends wily Private Percival Cox who knows exactly how all the scams work in the confused world of the British Army. And Stanley's brigadier War Office uncle seems to be up to something more than a bit shady too - and they are both soon working for him, behind the enemy lines.

His Excellency

His Excellency
5.5/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 22/01/1952
  • Character: Second Soldier
A trade union official becomes governor of a British island colony

Carry On Emmannuelle

Carry On Emmannuelle
3.2/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 01/01/1978
  • Character: Man in Launderette
The beautiful and sex-starved Emmannuelle Prevert just cannot inflame her husband's ardour. In frustration she seduces a string of VIPs, including the Prime Minister and the American Ambassador. A jealous lover gives a list of all her conquests to the national press and a scandal ensues. But will she ever manage to get her own husband into bed?

Rotten to the Core

Rotten to the Core
5.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 14/07/1965
  • Character: Anxious O'Toole
Rogues Jelly Knight, Scapa Flood, and Lennie the Dip leave prison expecting boss The Duke to have their stash ready to share out. Instead, Duke's girl Sara gives them the news Duke is dead and the money gone on nursing care. They soon discover that Duke is actually running Hope Springs Nature Clinic with the help of most of the local villains. Very strange - and the nearby army camp and Sara's encouragement of Lieutenant Vine would seem to be no coincidence either. Written by Jeremy Perkins

Watch Your Stern

Watch Your Stern
5.7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 01/01/1960
  • Character: Sailor fishing for bike
When the details of a secret torpedo are destroyed by an incompetent seaman, the crew of the ship rally round, when the Admiral needs the plans to show to a visiting scientist.

On the Fiddle

On the Fiddle
5.7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 10/10/1961
  • Character: 1st Airman
Tricked into joining the RAF by a wily judge, wide boy Horace Pope sets his sights on the main chance, teams with slow-witted, good-hearted gypsy Pedlar Pascoe, and works up a lucrative racket in conning both his colleagues and the RAF. By means of various devious schemes Pope and Pascoe manage to avoid the front lines until they are sent to France - where they find themselves making unexpected and uncomfortably close contact with the enemy.

Carry On Spying

Carry On Spying
6.2/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 01/06/1964
  • Character: Milchmann
Carry On favourite Barbara Windsor makes her debut in this outrageous send-up of the James Bond movies. Fearless agent Desmond Simpkins and Charlie Bind, aided and abetted by the comely Agent Honeybutt and Agent Crump, battle against the evil powers of international bad guys STENCH and their three cronies.

The Magnificent Two

The Magnificent Two
5.2/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 05/07/1967
  • Character: Drunken Soldier
Two salesmen travel to a small South American Country to peddle their wares. However the country is in the middle of a major conflict between the Government led by Diaz and the rebels led by Torez. When Torez is accidentally killed the rebels mistaken pick up one of the salesmen, Eric, as he looks like Torez. Eric and Ernie are promised millions to carry on the charade once the rebels take charge. However once Eric takes charge he finds himself back in danger as scheming general Carillo plans to remove the impostor from his role.

Josephine and Men

Josephine and Men
5.6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 09/11/1955
  • Character: Henry
1955 British comedy starring Glynis Johns.

Sweet Nothing

Sweet Nothing
A youth abandoned by his family joins a group of homeless people.

Light Up the Sky!

Light Up the Sky!
6.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomanceWar
  • Release: 05/07/1960
  • Character: Lance Bombardier Tomlinson (as L/Bombadier Victor Maddern)
Lewis Gilbert's classic comedy drama portrays the antics of a British Army Searchlight Squad during World War II. Lieutenant Ogleby (Ian Carmichael) has his work cut out to keep his "legionnaires" at their post and not rampaging through the local countryside. The McGaffey brothers (Benny Hill and Tommy Steele) create havoc with their light-fingers and light-loving with the local girls, whilst Smithy (Johnny Briggs) pines for his sweetheart.

The Cuckoo Patrol

The Cuckoo Patrol
3.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 16/07/1967
  • Character: Dicko
Freddie and the Dreamers play part of a Scout troupe that get caught up in a series of misadventures on their way to camp.

Run Like a Thief

Run Like a Thief
4.8/10
The theft of a fortune in diamonds and the attempt by soldier of fortune Johnny Dent to outwit his pursuers who would stop at nothing to get their hands on the treasure forms the story-line. The chase reaches across the continent as Dent eludes the diamond syndicate police, a ruthless gangster, and a scheming girl in his attempt to escape.

It's a Great Day

It's a Great Day
5.2/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 01/01/1955
  • Character: Charlie Mead
Big screen spin off from the BBC TV series The Grove Family, ostensibly the first British soap opera. Bob Grove, a builder has problems with the council, over building supplies that he needs to complete a job on a local housing estate. Under pressure to finish the job, his son gets them from a local crook. When the council find out, they call in the police, so the Grove family get together, to clear themselves, in time for the grand opening.

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