The best Willie Fung’s comedy movies

Willie Fung

Willie Fung

03/03/1896- 16/04/1945
We present our ranking of the best Willie Fung’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 Willie Fung.
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Seven Sinners

Seven Sinners
6.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyDramaRomance
  • Release: 25/10/1940
  • Character: Charlie, Shopkeeper (uncredited)
Beautiful chanteuse 'Bijou' (Marlene Dietrich) cascades through Malaysia's ports of call eventually landing in a handsome lieutenant's lap. As Bijou 'drifts through the standards', the fleet's Admiral reckons the US Navy "already has enough destroyers". A Marlene classic with songs by Frederick Hollander and a young and promising John Wayne.

College Holiday

College Holiday
5.7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 19/12/1936
  • Character: Chinese Man in Junk
College students rally to save a struggling hotel from closing. Comedy.

Union Depot

Union Depot
7/10
Among the travelers of varied backgrounds that meet and interact on one night at Union Depot, a metropolitan train station, are Chick and his friend Scrap Iron, both newly released from prison after serving time for vagrancy. Hungry and desperate for a break, Chick fortuitously comes across across a valise abandoned by a drunken traveler. In it he finds a shaving kit and a suit of clothes with a bankroll, which help transform the affable tramp into a dashing gent. After buying himself a meal, Chick seeks some female companionship among the many hustlers who walk the station. He propositions Ruth Collins, a stranded, out-of-work showgirl and takes her to the station's hotel.

Hollywood Cavalcade

Hollywood Cavalcade
6.5/10
Starting in 1913 movie director Connors discovers singer Molly Adair. As she becomes a star she marries an actor, so Connors fires them. She asks for him as director of her next film. Many silent stars shown making the transition to sound.

The Big Parade of Comedy

The Big Parade of Comedy
5.8/10
Film clips highlight the funniest scenes and brightest comic stars in MGM's history.

One Way Passage

One Way Passage
7.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyDramaRomance
  • Release: 04/10/1932
  • Character: Hong Kong Curio Dealer (uncredited)
A terminally ill woman and a debonair murderer facing execution meet and fall in love on a trans-Pacific crossing, each without knowing the other's secret.

Tugboat Annie

Tugboat Annie
6.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 04/08/1933
  • Character: Chow, the Cook (uncredited)
Waterfront couple raise their son to be a sea captain. He grows up to be rather snotty and rebels against drunken Beery. Valiant Dressler keeps things moving even as hubby ruins their tugboat business.

Tell It to the Marines

Tell It to the Marines
7.1/10
  • Genre: ActionComedyDrama
  • Release: 23/12/1926
  • Character: Guard at Door of Besieged Clinic
U.S. Marine Sergeant O'Hara has his hands full training raw recruits, one of whom, 'Skeets' Burns, is a particular thorn in his side. If Burns's lackadaisical approach to the military were not bad enough, he also makes advances on nurse Nora Dale, whom Sergeant O'Hara secretly loves. Nora is oblivious to O'Hara's feelings and is attracted to the handsome 'Skeet.' But an indiscretion turns her against him, and it takes an expedition to China and a battle with a warlord's bandit brigade to sort things out among the nurse and her two Marines.

The Gracie Allen Murder Case

The Gracie Allen Murder Case
6.3/10
The zany plot follows nitwit Gracie Allen trying to help master sleuth Philo Vance solve a murder.

Gun Smoke

Gun Smoke
6/10
Following a killing and robbery in a big city back east, gang leader Kedge Darvas and some of his henchies take a train to a small western town in Idaho, with intentions of hiding out there until things cool down back in Chi or NYC, or wherever they lammed from.They are welcomed with open arms by the citizens under the impression they are there as capital investors with money to spend. Before long, Darvas figures the town is ripe for the taking and sends word for reinforcements, and each arriving train unloads a few suits and snappy-brim hats.Then they get rough, kill Sheriff Posey Meed and rile up the citizens, led by cowhand Brad Farley, who had Darvas spotted for a wrong number just by the way he made moves on Sue Vancey.

Honolulu

Honolulu
6.5/10
Movie star Brooks Mason tries to avoid his fans and spend some weeks on vacation. When Hawaiian plantage-owner George Smith is mistaken by Mason's fans for Mason and brought to Mason's home. They decide to change their identities for a few weeks. But George Smith is mobbed by Mason's fans again on a personal appearance tour in New York, Mason falls in love to dancer Dorothy March, who also is on her way to Hawaii. Problems for Mason arise due to the fact that Smith is engaged with Cecilia Grayson, and her wealthy father believes, that Smith has double-crossed him. Mason isn't able to establish a connection with Smith in New York due to his agent's orders.

Small Town Girl

Small Town Girl
6.6/10
Kay is a girl living in a small rural town whose life is just too dull and repetitious to bear. One night, she meets young, handsome, and rich Bob Dakin, who asks her for directions while drunk and then proceeds to take her out on a night on the town. Kay likes the stranger, and when the drunken Bob decides that they should get married, Kay hesitates little before consenting. The morning after the affair, Bob, once sober, regrets his mistake. His strict and upright parents, however, insist that the young couple pretend marriage for 6 months before divorcing, in order to avoid bad publicity. Bob resents Kay for standing in the way of him and his fiancée, Priscilla, but Kay still hopes that he'd have a change of heart.

Ruggles of Red Gap

Ruggles of Red Gap
7.6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 08/03/1935
  • Character: Willie - Chinese Servant
In this comedy of an Englishman stranded in a sea of barbaric Americans, Marmaduke Ruggles, a gentleman's gentleman and butler to an Earl is lost in a poker game to an uncouth American cattle baron. Ruggles's life is turned upside down as he's taken to the USA, is gradually assimilated into American life, accidently becomes a local celebrity, and falls in love along the way.

Too Hot to Handle

Too Hot to Handle
6.6/10
Chris Hunter is a sly newsreel reporter. While in Shanghai doing reports on the Chinese-Japanese war, he meets pilot Alma Harding. At first she doesn't trust him, but by a trick he manages to get her hired as his assistant. During an adventurous expedition through the jungles of South America he manages to change her view of him.

The Thrill Hunter

The Thrill Hunter
6.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyWestern
  • Release: 30/04/1933
  • Character: Wong, the Cook
A blowhard cowboy talks himself into a job as a movie stunt man.

The Great Profile

The Great Profile
6.2/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 30/08/1940
  • Character: Confucius
An alcoholic film star attempts a comeback. Director Walter Lang's 1940 comedy stars John Barrymore, Mary Beth Hughes, Anne Baxter, John Payne, Lionel Atwill and Edward Brophy.

Nancy Drew... Reporter

Nancy Drew... Reporter
6.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrimeMystery
  • Release: 18/02/1939
  • Character: Mandarin Cafe Proprietor (uncredited)
While participating in a contest at a local newspaper in which school children are asked to submit a news story, local attorney Carson Drew's daughter Nancy intercepts a real story assignment. She "covers" the inquest of the death of a woman who was poisoned. Nancy doesn't think the young woman accused of the crime is guilty and corrals her neighbor Ted into searching for a vital piece of evidence and stumbles onto the identity of the real killer.

Maisie

Maisie
6.6/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 22/06/1939
  • Character: Lee, the Ranch Cook
Wisecracking showgirl Maisie Ravier finds herself trapped in a Wyoming town when her new employer closes the show prematurely. She meets ranch foreman Charles "Slim" Martin when he accuses her of lifting his wallet and ends up being hired as a maid for ranch owners Cliff and Sybil, who are attempting to mend their rocky marriage after Sybil's infidelity with a cowboy.

Happiness Ahead

Happiness Ahead
6.6/10
Society heiress Joan Bradford rebels against her mother's choice of a future husband by masquerading as a working class girl and dating a window washer.

Meet the Stewarts

Meet the Stewarts
6.1/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 21/05/1942
  • Character: Wong, Cook (Uncredited)
A young newlywed couple learns to make their new marriage work; trying to impress family, stay on budget, and remain as diplomatic towards each other as possible.

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