1947 Comedy Movies

120 movies found (page 1/4):

¡A volar, joven!(1947)

1h 53min | Comedy

4.0/5 (with 47 votes)

Cantinflas is a private in the military, who doesn't know anything about discipline or following rules. He only wants to think about his girlfriend, the maid in an opulent hacienda. The owner of the hacienda has an ugly and shy daughter, who is in love with Cantinflas. The problems arrive when the family arranges a wedding between the ugly girl and Cantinflas, who in order to avoid the commitment gets himself arrested. During his punishment, Cantinflas learns to fly with a silly and poorly trained flight instructor.

Directed by Miguel M. Delgado - With Cantinflas, Ángel Garasa, Andrés Soler, Miroslava Stern, Roberto Cañedo, Joaquín Cordero, ...

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty(1947)

1h 50min | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance / Love

3.4/5 (with 50 votes)

Walter Mitty, a daydreaming writer with an overprotective mother, likes to imagine that he is a hero who experiences fantastic adventures. His dream becomes reality when he accidentally meets a mysterious woman who hands him a little black book. According to her, it contains the locations of the Dutch crown jewels hidden since World War II. Soon, Mitty finds himself in the middle of a confusing conspiracy, where he has difficulty differentiating between fact and fiction.

Directed by Norman Z. McLeod - With Danny Kaye, Virginia Mayo, Fay Bainter, Thurston Hall, Ann Rutherford, Florence Bates, ...

The Three Garcia(1947)

1h 48min | Comedy, Romance / Love

3.9/5 (with 30 votes)

Ruled by a tough grandma, the Garcías are three charro cousins who fall in love with young American-born Lupita and fight for her love until grandma quiets them.

Directed by Ismael Rodríguez - With Pedro Infante, Sara García, Marga López, Abel Salazar

Life with Father(1947)

1h 58min | Comedy, Kids & Family

3.3/5 (with 23 votes)

A straitlaced turn-of-the-century father presides over a family of boys and the mother who really rules the roost.

Directed by Michael Curtiz - With William Powell, Irene Dunne, Elizabeth Taylor, Edmund Gwenn, ZaSu Pitts, Jimmy Lydon, ...

Magic Town(1947)

1h 43min | Comedy, Romance / Love

3.5/5 (with 11 votes)

Rip Smith's opinion-poll business is a failure...until he discovers that the small town of Grandview is statistically identical to the entire country. He and his assistants go there to run polls cheaply and easily, in total secrecy (it would be fatal to let the townsfolk get self-conscious). And of course, civic crusader Mary Peterman must be kept from changing things too much. But romantic involvement with Mary complicates life for Rip; then suddenly everything changes.

Directed by William Augustus Wellman - With James Stewart, Jane Wyman, Kent Smith, Ned Sparks, Wallace Ford, Ann Doran, ...

The Sin of Harold Diddlebock(1947)

1h 29min | Comedy

3.2/5 (with 12 votes)

Twenty-three years after scoring the winning touchdown for his college football team mild-mannered Harold Diddlebock, who has been stuck in a dull, dead-end book-keeping job for years, is let go by his pompous boss, advertising tycoon J.E. Wagglebury, with nothing but a tiny pension. Harold, who never touches the stuff, takes a stiff drink with his new pal... and another, and another. What happened Wednesday?

Directed by Preston Sturges - With Harold Lloyd, Rudy Vallée, Jimmy Conlin, Edgar Kennedy, Lionel Stander, Margaret Hamilton, ...

School for Postmen(1946)

16min | Comedy

3.6/5 (with 29 votes)

Jacques Tati plays a French postman adamant to prove he can be just as fast as American postmen at delivering mail.

Directed by Jacques Tati - With Jacques Tati, Paul Demange

Hue and Cry(1947)

1h 22min | Crime, Comedy, Adventure

3.1/5 (with 20 votes)

A gang of street boys foil a master crook who sends commands for robberies by cunningly altering a comic strip's wording each week, unknown to writer and printer. The first of the Ealing comedies.

Directed by Charles Crichton - With Alastair Sim, Harry Fowler, Jack Lambert, Frederick Piper, Vida Hope, Joan Dowling, ...

Song of the Thin Man(1947)

1h 26min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery

3.4/5 (with 39 votes)

Society sleuths Nick and Nora Charles investigate a murder in a jazz club.

Directed by Edward Buzzell - With William Powell, Myrna Loy, Keenan Wynn, Dean Stockwell, Phillip Reed, Leon Ames, ...

Buck Privates Come Home(1947)

1h 17min | Comedy, Romance / Love, Action

3.2/5 (with 9 votes)

Two ex-soldiers return from overseas--one of them having smuggled into the country a French orphan girl he has become attached to. They wind up running into their old sergeant--who hates them--and getting involved with a race-car builder who's trying to find backers for a new midget racer he's building.

Directed by Charles Barton - With Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Tom Brown, Nat Pendleton, Russell Hicks, Charles Trowbridge, ...

Antoine and Antoinette(1947)

1h 28min | Drama, Comedy, Romance / Love

3.2/5 (with 13 votes)

She's working in a big store, he's a typographer and they lost their winning lottery ticket.

Directed by Jacques Becker - With Roger Pigaut, Gaston Modot, Annette Poivre, Bob Ingarao, Brigitte Auber, Charles Camus, ...

O Leão da Estrela(1947)

2h 1min | Comedy, Romance / Love

3.6/5 (with 10 votes)

Anastácio lives in Lisbon and is fanatic for Sporting, one of the city's football teams. When the team travels to face Porto, he follows it with the family, staying in house of his friend, Mr. Barata, pretending to be rich.

Directed by Arthur Duarte - With António Silva, Maria Olguim, Milú, Laura Alves

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Angelina(1947)

1h 30min | Drama

3.3/5 (with 10 votes)

A rowdy woman is so forceful that she outdoes her husband in a loud cry against speculators who refuse poor people entrance to a block of new apartments, built after WW2. Without noticing it, she starts a people's movement, and leads a march to the capital. She returns to her village a winner, an honourable MP. Yet, she is still the same simple, fiery woman, able to get in a hair-pulling brawl with the local barmaid for the affection of her man.

Directed by Luigi Zampa - With Anna Magnani, Nando Bruno, Ave Ninchi, Ernesto Almirante, Armando Migliari, Maria Grazia Francia, ...

Easter Yeggs(1947)

7min | Animation, Action, Comedy

3.1/5 (with 10 votes)

Bugs gets roped into delivering the Easter Rabbit's eggs for him.

Directed by Robert McKimson

The Perils of Pauline(1947)

1h 36min | Comedy, Music

3.3/5 (with 3 votes)

Funloving Pearl White, working in a garment sweatshop, gets her big chance when she "opens" for a delayed Shakespeare play...with a comic vaudeville performance. Her brief stage career leads her into those "horrible" moving pictures, where she comes to love the chaotic world of silent movies, becoming queen of the serials. But the consequences of movie stardom may be more than her leading man can take.

Directed by George Marshall - With Betty Hutton, John Lund, William Demarest, Constance Collier, Frank Faylen, Chester Conklin, ...

Christmas Eve(1947)

1h 33min | Comedy, Drama

2.9/5 (with 4 votes)

The greedy nephew of eccentric Matilda Reid seeks to have her judged incompetent so he can administer her wealth, but she will be saved if her three long-lost adopted sons appear for a Christmas Eve reunion. Separate stories reveal Michael as a bankrupt playboy loved by loyal Ann; Mario as a seemingly shady character tangling with a Nazi war criminal in South America; Jonathan as a hard-drinking rodeo rider intent on a flirtatious social worker. Is there hope for Matilda?

Directed by Edwin L. Marin - With George Raft, George Brent, Randolph Scott, Joan Blondell, Virginia Field, Reginald Denny, ...

The Unfinished Dance(1947)

1h 41min | Comedy, Drama, Music

3.0/5 (with 3 votes)

A young dance student accidentally cripples a teacher she doesn't like.

Directed by Henry Koster - With Margaret O'Brien, Cyd Charisse, Danny Thomas, Elinor Donahue

El retrato(1947)

1h 15min | Comedy, Fantasy

3.2/5 (with 3 votes)

A repressed woman, unable to give love, is possessed by the spirit of her lewd grandmother.

Directed by Carlos Schlieper - With Mirtha Legrand, Alberto Bello, Héctor Calcaño, Alberto de Mendoza, Carlos Enríquez, Mario Faig, ...

Out of the Blue(1947)

1h 24min | Comedy

3.1/5 (with 3 votes)

Set in an apartment building whose occupants include Arthur Earthleigh, a meek and mild type married to the beautiful-but-domineering Mae; a Bohemian artist, David Galleo and his always-there model, Deborah Tyler; and Olive Jensen, a Greenwich Village type who is always slightly-but-continuously inebriated, and whose motto is "love and let love." She calls on George while his wife is out, and when she passes out during his attempts to get her out before his wife returns, he thinks she is dead and deposits her on Galleo's terrace. Galleo takes advantage of the situation by using it in a blackmail scheme against Arthur, which is shaky, at best, as Olive refuses to stay dead.

Directed by Leigh Jason - With George Brent, Ann Dvorak, Turhan Bey, Virginia Mayo, Carole Landis, Elizabeth Patterson, ...

Alena(1947)

1h 35min | Comedy, Fantasy

Master armourer Tomás has young wife Alena, of whom he is very jealous. One day the ruler of town sees Alena and decides to win her over for himself. To get a free hand for his love affairs, he sends Master Tomás to acquire more skills in Flanders. Jealous husband does not know how to secure fidelity of his beautiful wife while he is away, and finally accepts aid of the devil, to whom he signs his soul as a reward. Devil in the disguise of Master Ondrej works in Tomás's workshop and protects Alena against various courtiers and the ruler of town. But finally he falls in love with Alena himself and becomes her lover.

Directed by Miroslav Cikán - With Vladimír Řepa, Vítězslav Vejražka, Terezie Brzková, Vladimír Hlavatý, Rudolf Hrušínský, Vladimír Leraus, ...

How I Lost the War(1947)

1h 30min | Comedy

Leo Bianchetti has just finished his military service but then is again called to arms; after 10 years on various fronts, he finds himself again in Italy to guard a bridge destroyes by the Germans that he doesn't want to leave.

Directed by Carlo Borghesio - With Nando Bruno, Carlo Campanini, Vera Carmi, Nunzio Filogamo, Erminio Macario, Folco Lulli, ...

Nobody Knows Anything(1947)

1h 16min | Comedy

3.5/5 (with 1 vote)

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Directed by Josef Mach - With Jiří Sovák, Jaroslav Marvan, František Filipovský, Eduard Linkers, Jana Dítětová, Stanislav Neumann, ...

Things Happen at Night(1947)

1h 19min | Comedy, Horror

2.4/5 (with 3 votes)

A young girl finds herself possessed by the spirit of a mischievous demon.

Directed by Francis Searle

Square of Knaves(1947)

1h 30min | Comedy

Summoned by his mother to plead, a very young lawyer has a trio of pathetic criminals acquitted. The daughter of one of them reveals to the lawyer that the three accomplices hoped to find food and board in prison. For the beautiful eyes of the young girl, Master of La Bastide attaches the three rogues to his service. Disasters, confusion, clumsiness follow one another until the planned wedding.

Directed by André Berthomieu - With Albert Broquin, Albert Brouett, Bernard Lajarrige, Charles Bouillaud, Charles Lavialle, Christiane Muller, ...

Last Chance Castle(1947)

1h 25min | Comedy

3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Rather than commit suicide, it is better to stay at the clinic of Professor Patureau-Duparc. This practitioner experiments on his clients with a serum that modifies their personality. Thus Yolande and Albert become new Romeo and Juliet. They end up marrying each other after having regained their primitive selves. Their married life is then a hell and they welcome with joy the proposal of a new injection of serum.

Directed by Jean-Paul Paulin - With Albert Michel, Corinne Calvet, Frédéric Mariotti, Jean Marchat, Julien Carette, Louis de Funès, ...

The Chinese Ring(1947)

1h 8min | Thriller, Crime, Mystery

2.4/5 (with 6 votes)

Soon after a Chinese princess comes to the US to buy planes for her people, she is murdered by a poison dart fired by an air rifle.

Directed by William Beaudine - With Roland Winters

The Trouble with Women(1947)

1h 20min | Comedy

A psychology professor comes up with a theory that women have a desire to be subjugated. A newswoman, using a pseudonym, accuses him of advocating wife-beating. There is trouble, when he falls in love with her, unaware of who she is.

Directed by Sidney Lanfield - With Ray Milland, Teresa Wright, Brian Donlevy, Rose Hobart, Iris Adrian, Frank Faylen, ...

It's a Joke, Son!(1947)

1h 3min | Comedy

3.5/5 (with 4 votes)

Claghorn gets into some financial difficulties and is forced by a machine-political gang to enter a race for state senator against his wife (Una Merkel) who appears to have a good chance to beat the political hack backed by the machine. Claghorn is in to siphon votes and ensure his wife's opponent will win and is expected to run a campaign that will defeat himself and his wife. But, he runs to win and the machine's henchies abduct him.

Directed by Benjamin Stoloff

So You Want to Be in Pictures(1947)

11min | Comedy

2.9/5 (with 3 votes)

Aspiring actor Joe McDoakes blows his first part at Warner Bros. and has to settle for being a stand-in.

Directed by Richard L. Bare

An Ideal Husband(1947)

1h 36min | Comedy, Drama

3.1/5 (with 5 votes)

A prominent politician is preparing to expose a financial scandal. But then a woman who has invested heavily in the shady venture threatens to uncover a damaging secret in the politician's past if he exposes the speculation as a fraud. His problem is compounded by his wife's intolerance of the slightest character flaws.

Directed by Alexander Korda - With Paulette Goddard, Michael Wilding, Diana Wynyard, Hugh Williams, C. Aubrey Smith, Glynis Johns, ...