The best Woodrow Parfrey’s comedy movies

Woodrow Parfrey

Woodrow Parfrey

05/10/1922- 29/07/1984
Today we present the best Woodrow Parfrey’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 Woodrow Parfrey’s movies.
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Bronco Billy

Bronco Billy
6.1/10
An idealistic, modern-day cowboy struggles to keep his Wild West show afloat in the face of hard luck and waning interest.

Used Cars

Used Cars
6.7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 11/07/1980
  • Character: Mr. Ghertner
When the owner of a struggling used car lot is killed, it's up to the lot's hot-shot salesman to save the property from falling into the hands of the owner's ruthless brother and used-car rival.

Stay Hungry

Stay Hungry
5.6/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 23/04/1976
  • Character: Uncle Albert
A dishonest businessman asks rich layabout Craig Blake to help him buy a gym, which will be demolished for a development project in Alabama. But after spending time with weightlifter Joe Santo and gym worker Mary Tate Farnsworth, Craig wants out of the deal. The property negotiations turn ugly, causing a brawl at the gym and a spectacle at a big bodybuilding meet, as Craig learns that it's not easy to turn your back on fair-weather friends.

Oklahoma Crude

Oklahoma Crude
6.3/10
In 1913, in Oklahoma, oil derrick owner Lena Doyle, aided by her father and a hobo, is stubbornly drilling for oil despite the pressure from major oil companies to sell her land.

The Sting II

The Sting II
4.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 18/02/1983
  • Character: Georgie
Hooker and Gondorf pull a con on Macalinski, an especially nasty mob boss with the help of Veronica, a new grifter. They convince this new victim that Hooker is a somewhat dull boxer who is tired of taking dives for Gondorf. There is a ringer. Lonigan, their victim from the first movie, is setting them up to take the fall.

Sam Whiskey

Sam Whiskey
5.9/10
Sam Whiskey is an all-round talent, but when the attractive widow Laura offers him a job, he hesitates: he shall salvage gold bars, which Laura's dead husband stole recently, from a sunken ship and secretly bring them back to the mint before they are missed. But how shall he manage to get several hundred pounds of gold into the mint without anyone noticing?

The Seniors

The Seniors
4.3/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 01/01/1978
  • Character: 1st Attorney
Four college seniors open a bogus sex clinic, which unexpectedly mushrooms into a multi-million dollar business. Featuring a young Dennis Quaid in one of his earliest roles and Alan Reed (the original voice of Fred Flintstone) in his final film appearance.

Jinxed!

Jinxed!
4.7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 22/10/1982
  • Character: Insurance Agent
Harold, a professional gambler, and his girlfriend Bonita, a lounge singer, follow Willie, a young blackjack dealer, around the western U.S. Harold has a jinx on Willie and can't lose with him. Bonita and Willie meet and fall for each other and plot to do away with Harold and collect on his life insurance.

The Flim-Flam Man

The Flim-Flam Man
6.8/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 22/08/1967
  • Character: Super Market Manager
Mordrcai Jones (George C. Scott) is a rural con artist (a 'flim flam man') who takes on a young army deserter Curley (Michael Sarrazin) as his protégé and teaches him the tricks of the trade. Sheriff Slade (Harry Morgan) is in hot pursuit of the pair and rich girl Bonnie Lee Packard (Sue Lyon) becomes romantically involved with Curley and helps the fleeing duo stay one step ahead of the sheriff. The film features a great automobile chase scene for those who appreciate this kind of cinema hijinks. Screenplay by William Rose ("It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World").

A Very Missing Person

A Very Missing Person
6.1/10
An ex-schoolteacher is asked by the police to help locate a missing heiress.

How to Save a Marriage and Ruin Your Life

How to Save a Marriage and Ruin Your Life
6.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 17/01/1968
  • Character: Eddie Rankin
Wealthy playboy David Sloane wrongly believes good girl Carol Corman is his best friend's mistress.

The New Maverick

The New Maverick
6.3/10
Gambling brothers Bret (James Garner) and Bart Maverick (Jack Kelly) are, as usual, hot on the trail of a fast buck.

Wake Me When the War Is Over

Wake Me When the War Is Over
5.3/10
During the latter days of WWII an American Lieutenant accidentally falls out of an airplane into German territory. He is taken in by a Baroness who becomes smitten with him and doesn't want him to leave, so she doesn't tell him that the war has ended...for five years!

The Return of the World's Greatest Detective

The Return of the World's Greatest Detective
6.5/10
A Los Angeles cop falls off his motorcycle, strikes his head and wakes up believing himself to be Sherlock Holmes. Along with the social worker who is treating him, he sets out to solve the murder of an embezzler.

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