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1940s War Comedy Movies

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Buck Privates(1941)

1h 24min | Comedy, Music
3.5/5 (with 25 votes)

Petty con artists Slicker Smith and Herbie Brown mistakenly join the Army evading the cops. The cop chasing them winds up as their drill instructor. A rich young man and his former working class chauffeur are not only in the same unit, they're vying for a pretty girl who seems attracted to both.

Directed by Arthur Lubin - With Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Lee Bowman, Alan Curtis, The Andrews Sisters, Nat Pendleton, ...

The Sky Slow-Mover(1945)

3.5/5 (with 8 votes)

Three pilots are best friends and good fighters. During the WWII they are taking an oath to refrain from love until the end of the War. But soon they meet three women-pilots. One by one they give up the oath, and all three fall in love.

Sailors Three(1940)

1h 26min | Comedy, War
3.6/5 (with 2 votes)

Three sailors get drunk while on shore leave and end up on the wrong ship. When they realise their mistake they scramble off it and onto their warship, HMS Ferocious. However, they soon realise that the vessel they have boarded is not the Ferocious but a German battleship.

Directed by Walter Forde - With Tommy Trinder

Blondie for Victory(1942)

1h 11min | Comedy
4.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Blondie organizes Housewives of America to perform home-front wartime duties, including guarding the local dam... Blondie for Victory was twelfth in Columbia's series of comedy films based on Chic Young's popular comic strip Blondie. Anxious to do her bit for the war effort, Blondie joins the Housewives of America, a home defense league. Husband Dagwood soon finds that Blondie is neglecting her responsibilities at home in favor of her war work; also disgruntled are Dagwood's chauvinistic boss Mr. Dithers and a newlywed husband whose wife is never home thanks to the defense league.

Directed by Frank R. Strayer

Old Bill and Son(1941)

1h 40min | Comedy, War
3.3/5 (with 2 votes)

Old Bill has grumbled his way through the trenches of the First World War. Now it is the Second and, envious of his son, Young Bill, he decides to enlist. He finally enters the Pioneer Corps, which is based near his son. When Young Bill goes missing during a raid, Old Bill shows that there's still life in the old dog yet!

Directed by Ian Dalrymple - With Morland Graham

Nobody Knows Anything(1947)

1h 16min | Comedy
3.5/5 (with 1 vote)

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I Live in Grosvenor Square(1945)

1h 54min | Comedy, Drama
3.4/5 (with 4 votes)

The WW II romance set in Grosvenor square aka Eisenhower's home where the GIs stayed in London. Neagle loves Harrison. There arrives patriot GI Dean Jagger to rouse things up in the square. Snotty British Neagle and Jagger clash and fall for each other. What will Harrison have to say or do about these? What will the consequences be? Will the three finally become two and which two in this extremely patriotic love and war story.

Boobs in Arms(1940)

18min | Comedy
3.1/5 (with 6 votes)

The stooges are greeting card salesmen who are mistakenly inducted into the army after escaping from the jealous husband of one of their customers. In bootcamp their sergeant turns out to be the same man, whom they constantly vex and bewilder. When the boys are sent to the front lines and the sergeant is captured they must rescue him, which they do after doping themselves with laughing gas. At the end they get shot off into the sunset on a cannon shell.

Air Taxi(1943)

3.2/5 (with 2 votes)

A musical romantic comedy set in Soviet Union during the first years of WWII.

Marriage Is a Private Affair(1944)

1h 56min | Comedy, War
2.6/5 (with 2 votes)

Theo has had many boyfriends who wanted to marry her. Since her mother, Mrs. Selworth, has been married many times, Theo is unsure of commitment. Without much thought, she finally accepts the proposal of Air Corps Lieutenant Tom West. After the honeymoon, Tom's father dies and Tom goes into the defense industry. When Theo has a baby, she hates the idea of being matronly and wants to be the old party girl. The problem is that her husband is working constantly. She looks to her friends, who are having their own problems, and to her old flame Captain Lancing. To decide on what she wants to do with her baby and her life, Theo must grow up.

See Here, Private Hargrove(1944)

3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Journalist Marion Hargrove enters the Army intending to supplement his income by writing about his training experiences. He muddles through basic training at Fort Bragg with the self-serving help of a couple of buddies intent on cutting themselves in on that extra income.

Directed by Wesley Ruggles - With Robert Walker

Plane Daffy(1944)

3.3/5 (with 7 votes)

Daffy Duck is a message courier bird delivering a military secret that a femme fatale Nazi spy is determined to get.

Directed by Frank Tashlin
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Get Cracking(1943)

3.3/5 (with 2 votes)

Get Cracking is a 1943 British comedy war film, directed by Marcel Varnel and starring Dinah Sheridan, Ronald Shiner and George Formby. It was produced by Marcel Varnel, Ben Henry and Columbia (British) Productions. This comedy explores the wayward rivalry between mechanic and Home Guard Lance Corporal George Singleton (George Formby) and an adversary also in the Home Guard (Ronald Shiner). When the rival Home Guard units of Major Wallop and Minor Wallop are sent on battle manoeuvres, George Singleton (Formby) launches his own unique style of commando raid against neighbouring Major Wallop to steal a Vickers machine gun. The raid fails and Singleton loses his Lance Corporal's stripe, so he and a little evacuee girl named Irene (Vera Frances) decide to fall back on 'Plan B' - to build their very own tank.

Directed by Marcel Varnel

Caught in the Draft(1941)

3.1/5 (with 7 votes)

Don Bolton is a movie star who can't stand loud noises. To evade the draft, he decides to get married...but falls for a colonel's daughter. By mistake, he and his two cronies enlist. In basic training, Don hopes to make a good impression on the fair Antoinette and her father, but his military career is largely slapstick. Will he ever get his corporal's stripes?

Confusions of a Nutzy Spy(1943)

7min | Animation
2.7/5 (with 5 votes)

Constable Porky Pig and his lazy bloodhound are on the trail of a Nazi spy, Missing Lynx, in this World War II propaganda piece (a spoof on the 1939 "Confessions of a Nazi Spy").

Directed by Norman McCabe

Mr. Winkle Goes to War(1944)

1h 20min | Comedy, War
2.8/5 (with 3 votes)

Wilbert Winkle, a henpecked, mild-mannered, middle-aged bank clerk and handyman finds himself in the midst of battle in the South Pacific.

Actress(1943)

3.1/5 (with 3 votes)

Zoya Vladimirovna Strelnikova, a famous operetta actress, quits the theater and gets a nanny in a military hospital. There she meets the wounded major Peter Nikolayevich Markov.

Bees in Paradise(1944)

1h 12min | Comedy
2.9/5 (with 2 votes)

Classic comedy starring Arthur Askey. Askey plays a pilot who bales out over Paradise Island, not knowing that he is about to land in a bee-worshipping colony of women and that he is about to become a drone for the queen bee. When he finds out that, as custom demands, he is due to be sacrificed two months after the honeymoon, he soon starts thinking about escape. The women of course have other ideas.

Three Russian Girls(1943)

1h 21min | Comedy, War

Another of a wartime cycle of Hollywood films lauding the praises of America's Soviet allies, Three Russian Girls is a remake of Russia's The Girl From Stalingrad. Set just after the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941, the film stars Anna Sten as Natasha, a Red Cross volunteer who is dispatched to a field hospital located in an old pre-revolution mansion. American test pilot John Hill (Kent Smith), who'd been in Russia on a goodwill mission, is wounded in battle and brought to the hospital. As he slowly recovers from his wounds, Hill falls in love with Natasha. A last-act crisis develops when the hospital personnel are forced to move immediately to Leningrad as the Nazis advance.

What Next, Corporal Hargrove?(1945)

1h 35min | Comedy, War
1.0/5 (with 1 vote)

An Army corporal and his con-man sidekick take a shortcut to heroism in World War II France.

Call Out the Marines(1942)

1h 7min | Comedy, Music
2.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Two Marine sergeants (Victor McLaglen, Edmund Lowe) flirt with a cafe girl (Binnie Barnes) in San Diego, then find out she's a spy.

Directed by William Hamilton - With Edmund Lowe, Victor McLaglen, Binnie Barnes

A Noisy Household(1946)

3.4/5 (with 4 votes)

A comedy about an army squad guarding the fake airport during WWII.

The Black Sheep of Whitehall(1942)

1h 20min | Comedy
3.9/5 (with 2 votes)

A professor teaching at a correspondence school discovers that a Nazi agent is trying to prevent a trade treaty being signed between England and South America.

The Balloon Goes Up(1942)

58min | War, Music, Comedy
2.7/5 (with 2 votes)

Balloon unit WAAFs catch German spies.

Directed by Redd Davis

Miss London Ltd.(1943)

1h 39min | Comedy, Music
2.5/5 (with 2 votes)

Askey stars as a man trying to save his flagging escort agency. A new partner suggests getting some new girls in, just in time for the soldiers' leave. The film also features the English singing favourite of the forties, Anne Shelton.

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