1952 Comedy Movies

197 movies found (page 1/7):

Le Plaisir(1952)

1h 37min | Drama, Comedy, Romance / Love

3.8/5 (with 44 votes)

Three stories about the pleasure. The first one is about a man hiding his age behind a mask to keep going to balls and fancying women - pleasure and youth. Then comes the long tale of Mme Tellier taking her girls (whores) to the country for attending her niece's communion - pleasure and purity. And lastly, Jean the painter falling in love with his model - pleasure and death.

Directed by Max Ophüls - With Peter Ustinov, Claude Dauphin, Gaby Morlay, Madeleine Renaud, Danielle Darrieux, Pierre Brasseur, ...

The Crimson Pirate(1952)

1h 45min | Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama

3.5/5 (with 54 votes)

Burt Lancaster plays a pirate with a taste for intrigue and acrobatics who involves himself in the goings on of a revolution in the Caribbean in the late 1700s. A light hearted adventure involving prison breaks, an oddball Scientist, sailing ships, naval fights, and tons of swordplay.

Directed by Robert Siodmak - With Burt Lancaster, Nick Cravat, Eva Bartok, Leslie Bradley, Torin Thatcher, James Hayter, ...

Fan-Fan the Tulip(1952)

1h 42min | Romance / Love, Adventure, Comedy, War

3.4/5 (with 43 votes)

Fanfan is a young handsome peasant. He joins the army to escape marriage and because a gipsy girl predicted he will get glory and the king's daughter as a wife. But the gipsy girl was in fact Adeline, the daughter of the recruiting officer. Once he has discovered the stratagem, Fanfan refuses to forget this dream and decides to fulfill the destiny of the fake prediction. Fantastic swashbuckling adventures in a 18th century setting, with a light criticism of the war and the mighty.

Directed by Christian-Jaque - With Gérard Philipe, Gina Lollobrigida, Nerio Bernardi, Marcel Herrand, Geneviève Page, Olivier Hussenot, ...

Monkey Business(1952)

1h 37min | Comedy, Romance / Love

3.4/5 (with 101 votes)

Research chemist Barnaby Fulton works on a fountain of youth pill for a chemical company. One of the labs chimps gets loose in the laboratory and mixes chemicals, but then pours the mix into the water cooler. When trying one of his own samples, washed down with water from the cooler, Fulton begins to act just like a twenty-year-old and believes his potion is working. Soon his wife and boss are also behaving like children.

Directed by Howard Hawks - With Cary Grant, Ginger Rogers, Marilyn Monroe, Charles Coburn, Hugh Marlowe, Kathleen Freeman, ...

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El Bombero Atómico(1952)

1h 35min | Comedy

4.1/5 (with 30 votes)

Cantinflas is a clumsy fireman, who one day receives the visit of his little goddaughter, whose mother recently died in the jungle. After having work in a few fires, Cantinflas decided to quit and become a policeman, because is less dangerous. Everything goes well until a gang of gangsters kidnap the girl, because of a monetary inheritance.

Directed by Miguel M. Delgado - With Cantinflas, Gilberto González, Pascual García Peña, Eduardo Alcaraz, José Chávez Trowe, Miguel Manzano, ...

Totó in color(1952)

1h 44min | Comedy

3.7/5 (with 37 votes)

In the first Italian film to be shot in color, Totò portrays a musician named Antonio Scannagatti who strongly hopes to sell his composition, "Epopea italiana", to Tiscordi, who is one of the most important Italian impresarios.

Directed by Stefano Vanzina - With Totò, Rocco D'Assunta, Rosita Pisano, Virgilio Riento, Luigi Pavese, Franca Valeri, ...

Here Comes Martin Corona(1952)

1h 27min | Comedy, Drama, Western

3.5/5 (with 11 votes)

Martin Corona, player and womanizer, defends the underprivileged, the poor and the needy. He will have to defend a Spanish girl and her servant from the clutches of the villainous of the town. Not only will he have to fight the bad guy, but against the pride of the girl who initially believes that he is the bad character and distrusts him. She was very proud to put him at her feet, but there was a problem, Martin Corona was due more to his people than anyone and she was not willing to risk losing it, so before marrying him, made him swear he would not intervene In other problems.

Directed by Miguel Zacarías - With Pedro Infante, Sara Montiel, Eulalio González, Armando Silvestre, Guillermo Calles, José Torvay, ...

The Two Mouseketeers(1952)

8min | Animation, Comedy

3.3/5 (with 27 votes)

Tom, a castle soldier in 16th century France, is assigned to guard the food laid out on a banquet table. Jerry and a smaller mouse companion, two wandering "mouseketeers", make the situation miserable for Tom as they abscond with (and occasionally eat) all the food they can.

Directed by William Hanna, Joseph Barbera

The Golden Coach(1952)

1h 45min | History, Comedy, Drama, Romance / Love

3.6/5 (with 27 votes)

A viceroy, a nobleman and a bullfighter court a comedy-troupe actress in 16th-century Peru.

Directed by Jean Renoir - With Anna Magnani, Duncan Lamont, Odoardo Spadaro, Nada Fiorelli, Elena Altieri, William Tubbs, ...

Si yo fuera diputado(1952)

1h 35min | Comedy

3.7/5 (with 30 votes)

Cantinflas is a unique barber, who trades with an elderly neighbor, a lawyer by profession, laws lessons in exchange for haircuts and shaved. It proposes advice to defend in court the disadvantaged neighborhood. His success deputy seeks the votes as the other candidate, Don Próculo, it is not accepted by anyone but his own bodyguards. Don Próculo will use know how much ruse to win the election by the Council, and also for the love of 'Sarita'.

Directed by Miguel M. Delgado - With Cantinflas, Gloria Mange, Andrés Soler, Eduardo Alcaraz, Víctor Alcocer, Lupe Carriles, ...

Son of Paleface(1952)

1h 35min | Comedy, Romance / Love, Western

3.1/5 (with 14 votes)

Peter Potter Jr. returns to claim his father's gold, which is nowhere to be found.

Directed by Frank Tashlin - With Bob Hope, Jane Russell, Roy Rogers, Lloyd Corrigan, Douglass Dumbrille, Chester Conklin, ...

Sailor Beware(1952)

1h 48min | Comedy

3.2/5 (with 12 votes)

Meeting in a navy recruiting line, Al Crowthers and Melvin Jones become friends. Al has tried to enlist before, but was always rejected. He keeps trying so that he can impress women. Melvin, is allergic to women's cosmetics and his doctor prescribed ocean travel, so he decided to join the navy.

Directed by Hal Walker - With Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Robert Strauss, Corinne Calvet, Leif Erickson, Don "The Dragon" Wilson, ...

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The Card(1952)

1h 25min | Comedy, Drama, Kids & Family, Romance / Love

3.6/5 (with 16 votes)

A charming and ambitious young man finds many ways to raise himself through the ranks in business and social standing - some honest, some not quite so. If he can just manage to avoid a certain very predatory woman...

Directed by Ronald Neame - With Alec Guinness, Petula Clark, Valerie Hobson, Glynis Johns, Edward Chapman, Frank Pettingell, ...

Jumping Jacks(1952)

1h 36min | Comedy

3.5/5 (with 9 votes)

Nightclub entertainer Hap Smith has a new act since his former partner Chick Allen joined the army. With his lovely new female partner, Hap now plays a clownish parody of a soldier. When Chick organises a soldier show at Fort Benning, he realizes he needs his former partner's help—so, to get onto the base, Hap impersonates a hapless real soldier, but circumstances force them to prolong the masquerade, creating an increasingly tangled Army-sized SNAFU.

Directed by Norman Taurog - With Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Mona Freeman, Don DeFore, Robert Strauss, Richard Erdman, ...

The Sleeping Beauty(1952)

1h 15min | Comedy, Fantasy

3.6/5 (with 18 votes)

A Mexican comedy loosely playing off of the tale of Sleeping Beauty. A caveman wakes up after a thousand year slumber. When he awakens he is seen as a wonder to behold, and discovers his ancient love and romantic rival are seemingly still alive as well.

Directed by Gilberto Martínez Solares - With Germán Valdés, Lilia del Valle, Wolf Ruvinskis, Marcelo Chávez, Gloria Mestre, Tonina Jackson, ...

Mexican Bus Ride(1952)

1h 20min | Comedy

3.3/5 (with 12 votes)

Newlywed Oliverio receives disturbing news that his mother is on her deathbed. He travels to a remote part of Mexico to fetch a lawyer who can sort out her will. Leaving his wife behind, he embarks on a bus ride that’s interrupted by an increasingly absurd series of episodes, including an impromptu birthday celebration; a one-legged man writhing in the mud; come-ons from an insatiable small-town belle, Raquel; and Oliverio’s frequent, Freudian nightmares.

Directed by Luis Buñuel - With Lilia Prado, Carmelita González, Pedro Elviro, Roberto Cobo, Luis Aceves Castañeda, Manuel Dondé, ...

The Emperor and the Golem(1952)

2h 24min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror

3.4/5 (with 20 votes)

The Emperor's mismanagement of his country is provoking some in his court to plot to overthrow him. He feels successful, at least, when he discovers the legendary Golem, which he believes can protect him and even cure his imaginary illnesses but, when he disappears while on a bender, his kindly baker, who looks just like him, is mistaken for him, and begins to put things in order. However, the conspirators, not to be outdone, determine to bring the Golem back to life to do their bidding.

Directed by Martin Frič, Jiří Krejčík - With Jan Werich, Jiří Plachý, Zdeněk Štěpánek, Bohuš Záhorský, František Filipovský, Marie Vášová, ...

Holiday for Henrietta(1952)

1h 58min | Comedy

3.7/5 (with 5 votes)

Two scriptwriters argue about the fate of Henrietta, a charming and gamine shopgirl. One favors a comical path for their heroine, who is overcome with sentimental love for a young photographer on Bastille Day. The other has a more thrilling and dastardly fate in mind for her. Among the film's irresistible conceits is Hildegarde Neff as an oversexed circus bareback rider.

Directed by Julien Duvivier - With Dany Robin, Michel Auclair, Alexandre Rignault, André Philip, Anne-Marie Mersen, Betty Beckers, ...

Toto and the Women(1952)

1h 43min | Comedy

3.4/5 (with 22 votes)

Antonio Scaparro (Toto) is obsessed for women. He invents his own way to hide from them - in the attic of his house.

Directed by Mario Monicelli, Stefano Vanzina - With Totò, Ave Ninchi, Giovanna Pala, Peppino De Filippo, Clelia Matania, Franca Faldini, ...

Has Anybody Seen My Gal?(1952)

1h 28min | Comedy

3.6/5 (with 4 votes)

When a 1920s millionaire tests the fiber of his Vermont family, a young lady and her boyfriend feel the repercussions.

Directed by Douglas Sirk - With Piper Laurie, Rock Hudson, Charles Coburn, Gigi Perreau, Lynn Bari, Larry Gates, ...

Sai da Frente(1952)

1h 20min | Comedy

3.1/5 (with 3 votes)

Isidoro Colepicula is a humble truck driver hired to transport some furniture from São Paulo to Santos, in his worn out truck he calls "Anastácio". Hiding among the pieces travels a bride who's trying to escape her own marriage. With his dog Coroné, he gets himself into many amusing situations, especially when the packed vehicle is left without brakes on a steep road, and he has to chase after it.

Directed by Abílio Pereira de Almeida, Tom Payne

Waiting Women(1952)

1h 47min | Drama, Comedy

3.3/5 (with 26 votes)

Rakel, Marta, Karin and Annette are married to four brothers. While waiting in a summer cottage for their husbands to come home, they tell each other stories about their marriages. Rakel tells about the time she had an affair and confronted her husband with it. Marta's story is about how she at first refused to marry and had her child by herself. Karin tells about what happened when one time she and her husband got stuck in an elevator together. While the women tell their stories, Marta's younger sister Maj is planning to elope.

Directed by Ingmar Bergman - With Anita Björk, Eva Dahlbeck, Birger Malmsten, Gunnar Björnstrand, Jarl Kulle, Ingmar Bergman, ...

Dreamboat(1952)

1h 23min | Comedy

3.4/5 (with 5 votes)

Thornton Sayre, a respected college professor - secretly formerly a silent films romantic action hero - is disturbed, feeling his privacy has been violated, and his professional credibility as a scholar jeopardized, when he learns his old movies have been resurrected and are being aired on TV. He sets out to demand this cease. However, his former co-star is the hostess of the TV show playing the films, and she has other plans.

Directed by Claude Binyon - With Clifton Webb, Ginger Rogers, Anne Francis, Jeffrey Hunter, Fred Clark, Elsa Lanchester, ...

Francis Goes to West Point(1952)

1h 21min | Comedy, Kids & Family, Fantasy

2.9/5 (with 5 votes)

Francis the talking mule gets his owner in and out of trouble while he is taking basic training at West Point.

Directed by Arthur Lubin - With Donald O'Connor, Lori Nelson, William H. Reynolds, Les Tremayne, David Janssen, James Best, ...

The Stooge(1952)

1h 40min | Comedy, Drama, Romance / Love

3.3/5 (with 14 votes)

Bill Miller is an unsuccessful Broadway performer until his handlers convince him to enhance his act with a stooge—Ted Rogers, a guy positioned in the audience to be the butt of Bill's jokes. After Ted begins to steal the show, Bill's girlfriend and his pals advise him to make Ted an equal partner.

Directed by Norman Taurog - With Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Polly Bergen, Frances Bavier, Marie McDonald, Eddie Mayehoff, ...

Penny Princess(1952)

1h 31min | Comedy, Romance / Love

3.2/5 (with 3 votes)

A tiny European country which for years has survived financially only through evading its bills and smuggling is finally facing bankruptcy, when a rich American agrees to save the place by buying it. But before, the deal is closed, he dies. His nearest relative and heir turns out to be a young woman with high ethical and democratic standards, but no experience with money, or affairs of state, or Europe. A charming young English visitor helps her to muddle through. Comedy and romance follow.

Directed by Val Guest - With Yolande Donlan, Dirk Bogarde, Reginald Beckwith, Arthur Hill, Mary Clare, Richard Wattis, ...

Androcles and the Lion(1952)

1h 38min | Comedy

2.9/5 (with 7 votes)

George Bernard Shaw’s breezy, delightful dramatization of this classic fable—about a Christian slave who pulls a thorn from a lion’s paw and is spared from death in the Colosseum as a result of his kind act—was written as a meditation on modern Christian values. Pascal’s final Shaw production is played broadly, with comic character actor Alan Young as the titular naïf. He’s ably supported by Jean Simmons, Victor Mature, Robert Newton, and Elsa Lanchester.

Directed by Chester Erskine, Nicholas Ray - With Jean Simmons, Victor Mature, Alan Young, Alan Mowbray, Elsa Lanchester, Gene Lockhart, ...

Time, Gentlemen, Please!(1952)

1h 22min | Comedy

4.0/5 (with 2 votes)

Because of its high productivity and "almost" 100 per cent employment, the town of Hayhoe, England is expecting a visit from the Prime Minister. The "almost" is because of Dan Dance (Eddie Byrne), an old rogue who would rather drink and philosophize than work. The Village Council are determined to have a perfect record so they connive to have the old man put into the alms-house which has been unoccupied for many years, where he must abide by rules laid down 400 years ago. A new Vicar arrives and discovers that, because of the circumstances created by the Council, Dan Dance is entitled to 6,000 pounds a year at the expense of the village.

Directed by Lewis Gilbert - With Eddie Byrne, Hermione Baddeley

The Dream of Zorro(1952)

1h 33min | Adventure

2.8/5 (with 1 vote)

An old gentleman, a direct descendant of Zorro, has a single son named Raimundo in whom there is no trace of proud pride.

Directed by Mario Soldati - With Walter Chiari, Delia Scala, Vittorio Gassman, Luigi Pavese, Carlo Ninchi, Giacomo Furia, ...

Crazy for Love(1952)

1h 25min | Comedy

3.1/5 (with 17 votes)

A comedy about a dimwitted man who must obtain a high-school diploma before he can inherit an inn.

Directed by Jean Boyer - With Albert Duvaleix, André Dalibert, Bourvil, Brigitte Bardot, Georges Baconnet, Jack Ary, ...