The best Wally Brown’s comedy movies

Wally Brown

Wally Brown

08/10/1904- 13/11/1961
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The Absent-Minded Professor

The Absent-Minded Professor
6.7/10
Bumbling professor Ned Brainard accidentally invents flying rubber, or "Flubber", an incredible material that gains energy every time it strikes a hard surface. It allows for the invention of shoes that can allow jumps of amazing heights and enables a modified Model-T to fly. Unfortunately, no one is interested in the material except for Alonzo Hawk, a corrupt businessman who wants to steal the material for himself.

Alias Jesse James

Alias Jesse James
6.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyWestern
  • Release: 20/03/1959
  • Character: Dirty Dog Bartender (uncredited)
Insurance salesman Milford Farnsworth sells a man a life policy only to discover that the man in question is the outlaw Jesse James. Milford is sent to buy back the policy, but is robbed by Jesse. And when Jesse learns that Milford's boss is on the way out with more cash, he plans to rob him too and have Milford get killed in the robbery while dressed as Jesse, and collect on the policy.

Family Honeymoon

Family Honeymoon
6.4/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 06/12/1948
  • Character: Tom Roscoe
Grant Jordan, bachelor botany professor, marries Katie, a widow with three kids, despite the machinations of Grant's former girlfriend Minna. But on the wedding day, Aunt Jo, who was to babysit, breaks a leg; so the kids come along on the honeymoon.

Girl Rush

Girl Rush
4.9/10
During the California Gold Rush, two down-on-their-luck vaudevillians attempt to become wealthy by bringing a girlie show to an all-male western mining town.

Petticoat Larceny

Petticoat Larceny
6.1/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 17/07/1943
  • Character: Sam Colfax
An 11 year old radio star decides to throw in her scripts and go undercover to get a better feel for her roles, but when she is kidnapped, trouble soon follows in this comedy.

Seven Days Ashore

Seven Days Ashore
5.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 25/04/1944
  • Character: Monty Stephens
Circumstances force a womanizing playboy on leave from the Merchant Marine to ask two shipmates to help him by dating two surplus girlfriends.

Around the World

Around the World
5.6/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 27/11/1943
  • Character: Wally
Bandleader Kay Kyser takes his troupe of nutty musicians, goofball comics and pretty girl singers on a tour around the world to entertain the troops during World War II.

As Young as You Feel

As Young as You Feel
6.5/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 15/06/1951
  • Character: Horace Gallagher
Sixty-five-year-old John Hodges must retire from Acme Printing. He later impersonates the president of the parent company and arrives at his old plant on an inspection tour. Acme president McKinley is so nervous not even his beautiful secretary Harriet can calm him. McKinley's wife Lucille becomes infatuated with Hodges. Many further complications ensue.

Genius at Work

Genius at Work
5.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 20/10/1946
  • Character: Jerry Miles
Two actors who play detectives on the radio find themselves investigating a real crime masterminded by an arch-criminal named the Cobra.

Zombies on Broadway

Zombies on Broadway
5.2/10
  • Genre: ComedyHorror
  • Release: 01/05/1945
  • Character: Jerry Miles
Hiring real zombies for a broadway show proves difficult.

Vacation in Reno

Vacation in Reno
5.3/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 10/12/1946
  • Character: Eddie Roberts
A hapless husband searches for buried treasure at a dude ranch; meanwhile, his wife wants a divorce and bank robbers want him dead.

The Adventures of a Rookie

The Adventures of a Rookie
4.4/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 19/08/1943
  • Character: Jerry Miles
Two bumbling GIs manage to get themselves invited to a dinner party at a boarding house "for women only". When the cook comes down with scarlet fever, the authorities quarantine the house and the pair find themselves locked up in a house full of attractive women.

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