1952 Comedy Movies

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Monkey Business(1952)

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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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, ...

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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, ...

The Card(1952)

| 1h 25min | Comedy

3.5/5 (with 19 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, ...

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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, ...

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Sailor Beware(1952)

1h 48min | Comedy

3.1/5 (with 15 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, ...

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, ...

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 Duncan Lamont, Odoardo Spadaro, Nada Fiorelli, Elena Altieri, William Tubbs, ...

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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, ...

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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, ...

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, ...

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Totó in color(1952)

1h 44min | Comedy

3.7/5 (with 41 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 Steno - With Totò, Rocco D'Assunta, Rosita Pisano, Virgilio Riento, Luigi Pavese, Franca Valeri, ...

The Sleeping Beauty(1952)

1h 15min | Comedy, Fantasy, Science Fiction

3.6/5 (with 19 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, ...

Something for the Birds(1952)

1h 21min | Comedy

A conservationist fights to save the habitat of the California condor and to do it she works her way into the affections of a representative of the oil company that wants the land for their own purposes.

Directed by Robert Wise - With Victor Mature, Christian Rub, Edmund Gwenn, Hugh Sanders, Ian Wolfe, Larry Keating, ...

Manon of the Spring(1952)

3h 45min | Drama

3.5/5 (with 12 votes)

Marcel Pagnol's adaptation of his own novel Manon des sources, the story of a shepherdess who exacts her revenge on the townsfolk she blames for killing her father, in two parts: Manon des sources and Ugolin.

Directed by Marcel Pagnol - With Jacqueline Pagnol, Raymond Pellegrin, Rellys, Henri Poupon, Alfred Goulin, André Bervil, ...

Crazy for Love(1952)

1h 25min | Comedy

3.1/5 (with 21 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, ...

Treasure Hunt(1952)

1h 19min | Comedy

3.4/5 (with 2 votes)

Short of money the owners of Ballyroden Hall must attempt to run it as a guest house, but not everyone is happy about the plan.

Directed by John Paddy Carstairs - With Jimmy Edwards

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Mister Taxi(1952)

1h 15min | Comedy, Drama

2.8/5 (with 3 votes)

An honest taxi driver gets into trouble by looking for a customer who left her purse full of cash in her vehicle.

Directed by André Hunebelle - With Michel Simon, Louis de Funès, Claire Olivier, Roland Alexandre, André Dalibert, André Valmy, ...

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, Steno - With Totò, Ave Ninchi, Giovanna Pala, Peppino De Filippo, Clelia Matania, Franca Faldini, ...

Vacation with a Gangster(1952)

1h 11min | Adventure

2.8/5 (with 1 vote)

A group of boys calling themselves The Monte Cristo gang find a note from an innocent prisoner and set out to free him from a fortress-like prison.

Directed by Dino Risi - With Marc Lawrence, Giovanna Pala, Terence Hill, Lamberto Maggiorani, Bianca Doria, Silvio Bagolini, ...

Carmen's Innocent Love(1952)

1h 43min | Comedy, Drama, Romance / Love, Music

2.9/5 (with 6 votes)

Strip dancer Carmen falls in love with Hajime, who is engaged to the daughter of a right-wing politician.

Directed by Keisuke Kinoshita

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, ...

The Machine That Kills Bad People(1952)

1h 25min | Comedy, Fantasy

3.3/5 (with 9 votes)

In Amalfi, a village on the Italian coast, an old man who seems to have strange powers gives Celestino Esposito, the local photographer, a dangerous ability.

Directed by Roberto Rossellini - With Marilyn Buferd, William Tubbs, Clara Bindi, Giacomo Furia, Pietro Carloni, Aldo Giuffrè, ...

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, ...

The Proud Princess(1952)

1h 34min | Kids & Family, Comedy

3.6/5 (with 10 votes)

It's very human and nice story about lofty princess (her father is amiable but incapable - unforgettable performance of S. Neumann) and good, nice, kind and well-principled young king (prince) who tries to make tender her calm heart to get married with her. After being refused (she's very capricious), he conclude to make her better. He start to work as a gardener at her castle (in secret) and successively bring she to her senses...The story continues when already reformed princess and the young king (she learn about his real identity later) have to take refuge from troops, that princess father (old king) has sent (of course he took a bad and mean counsellors advice). They have to take shelter by several ordinary and poor families, which are always very friendly and give them a help... Of course the tale has happy end.

Directed by Bořivoj Zeman - With Alena Vránová, Vladimír Ráž, Stanislav Neumann, Mária Sýkorová, Jaroslav Seník, Miloš Kopecký, ...

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 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

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, ...

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, ...

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1952 Comedy Movies

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Monkey Business(1952)

The Crimson Pirate(1952)

Fan-Fan the Tulip(1952)

The Card(1952)

Jumping Jacks(1952)

Le Plaisir(1952)

Sailor Beware(1952)

Si yo fuera diputado(1952)

The Golden Coach(1952)

The Stooge(1952)

El Bombero Atómico(1952)

Waiting Women(1952)

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Totó in color(1952)

The Sleeping Beauty(1952)

Something for the Birds(1952)

Manon of the Spring(1952)

Crazy for Love(1952)

Treasure Hunt(1952)

Mister Taxi(1952)

Toto and the Women(1952)

Vacation with a Gangster(1952)

Carmen's Innocent Love(1952)

Son of Paleface(1952)

The Machine That Kills Bad People(1952)

Has Anybody Seen My Gal?(1952)

The Proud Princess(1952)

Mexican Bus Ride(1952)

The Two Mouseketeers(1952)

Dreamboat(1952)

The Emperor and the Golem(1952)

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