The best Willie Best’s movies

Willie Best

Willie Best

27/05/1913- 27/11/1962
Today we present the best Willie Best’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 Willie Best’s movies.
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High Sierra

High Sierra
7.5/10
Given a pardon from jail, Roy Earle gets back into the swing of things as he robs a swanky resort.

The Kansan

The Kansan
5.6/10
Wounded while stopping the James gang from robbing the local bank, a cowboy wakes up in the hospital to find that he's been elected town marshal. He soon comes into conflict with the town banker, who controls everything in town and is squeezing the townspeople for every penny he can get out of them.

Slightly Honorable

Slightly Honorable
6/10
  • Genre: ComedyMystery
  • Release: 22/12/1939
  • Character: Art, Elevator Operator
A lawyer is framed for the murder of a young party girl and tries to clear his name.

The Littlest Rebel

The Littlest Rebel
6.7/10
Virgie Cary's father, a rebel officer, sneaks back to his rundown plantation to see his dying wife and is arrested. A Yankee officer takes pity and sets up an escape. Everyone is captured and the officers are to be executed. Virgie and Uncle Billy beg President Lincoln to intercede.

At the Circus

At the Circus
6.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 20/10/1939
  • Character: Redcap (uncredited)
Jeff Wilson, the owner of a small circus, owes his partner Carter $10,000. Before Jeff can pay, Carter lets his accomplices steal the money, so he can take over the circus. Antonio Pirelli and Punchy, who work at the circus, together with lawyer Loophole try to find the thief and get the money back.

Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?

Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
7.1/10
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 06/08/1975
  • Character: (archive footage)
Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American entertainment industry during the Great Depression.

The Ghost Breakers

The Ghost Breakers
7/10
After intrepid working girl Mary Carter becomes the new owner of a reputedly haunted mansion located on Black Island near the Cuban coast, a stranger phones warning her to stay away from the castle. Undaunted, Mary sets sail for Cuba with a stowaway in her trunk—wise-cracking Larry Lawrence, a radio announcer who helps Mary get to the bottom of the voodoo magic, zombies and ghosts that supposedly curse the spooky estate.

Merrily We Live

Merrily We Live
7.3/10
Society matron Emily Kilbourne has a habit of hiring ex-cons and hobos as servants. Her latest find is a handsome tramp who shows up at her doorstep and ends up in a chauffeur's uniform. He also catches the eye of Geraldine.

Vivacious Lady

Vivacious Lady
7.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 13/05/1938
  • Character: Train Porter
College town life gets turned upside down after a button-down botany professor secretly weds a sizzling night-club singer.

Night Waitress

Night Waitress
5.7/10
Helen Roberts, who's on probation, goes back to work as a waitress at Torre's Fish Palace, a San Francisco waterfront dive. The customers are low characters trying to make time with Helen and ex-rum runners trying to make a dishonest dollar. Some of the latter, including Helen's unwelcome suitor Martin Rhodes, are after a mysterious, valuable hidden "cargo"; when violence erupts, Helen finds herself innocently involved, and is soon on the run from both cops and crooks.

Highway West

Highway West
6.2/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 07/08/1941
  • Character: Bub Wellington
A young woman marries a man who turns out to be a bank robber.

Blondie

Blondie
6.9/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 30/11/1938
  • Character: Porter
Blondie and Dagwood are about to celebrate their fifth wedding anniversary but this happy occasion is marred when the bumbling Dagwood gets himself involved in a scheme that is promising financial ruin for the Bumstead family.

Cabin in the Sky

Cabin in the Sky
7.1/10
  • Genre: FantasyMusic
  • Release: 09/04/1943
  • Character: Second Idea Man
When compulsive gambler Little Joe Jackson dies in a drunken fight, he awakens in purgatory, where he learns that he will be sent back to Earth for six months to prove that he deserves to be in heaven. He awakens, remembering nothing and struggles to do right by his devout wife, Petunia, while an angel known as the General and the devil's son, Lucifer Jr., fight for his soul.

Ladies of Leisure

Ladies of Leisure
6.7/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 05/04/1930
  • Character: George (uncredited)
Kay Arnold is a gold digger who wanders from party to party with the intention of catching a rich suitor. Jerry Strong is a young man from a wealthy family who strives to succeed as an artist. What begins as a relationship of mutual convenience soon turns into something else.

Dangerous Money

Dangerous Money
6.3/10
  • Genre: CrimeMystery
  • Release: 12/10/1946
  • Character: Chattanooga Brown
A treasury agent on the trail of counterfeit money confides to fellow ocean liner passenger, Charlie Chan, that there have been two attempts on his life.

A-Haunting We Will Go

A-Haunting We Will Go
6.2/10
Stan and Ollie get involved with con men, crooks, a genial magician, and two interchangeable coffins with disastrous but funny results.

Silly Billies

Silly Billies
6.2/10
The boys are a dentist and his assistant traveling to the Old West to open a new practice. Once in town, they buy a business--only to wake up the next day and see that the entire population of this bustling town had left for the California gold fields early that morning! Then, they discover an evil plot to sell out these settlers to some hostile Indians, so they spring to the rescue.

Spring Madness

Spring Madness
5.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 11/11/1938
  • Character: Porter on Train
Harvard senior Sam Thatcher (Lew Ayres) and his best friend and roommate, known as "The Lippencott" (Burgess Meredith), plan to go to Russia after graduation, a decision Sam has kept from his girlfriend, Alexandra Benson (Maureen O'Sullivan).

Dixie

Dixie
6/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 23/06/1943
  • Character: Steward (uncredited)
A young songwriter leaves his Kentucky home to try to make it in New Orleans. Eventually he winds up in New York, where he sells his songs to a music publisher, but refuses to sell his most treasured composition: "Dixie." The film is based on the life of Daniel Decatur Emmett, who wrote the classic song "Dixie."

The Saint Strikes Back

The Saint Strikes Back
6.2/10
Suave private detective Simon "The Saint" Templar arrives in San Francisco and meets Val, a woman whose police inspector father killed himself after being accused of corruption and dismissed from the force. Convinced of the man's innocence, Templar takes it upon himself to vindicate the memory of Val's father. To do so he must take on the city's most dangerous criminal gang, while also battling hostile members of the police department.

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