1931 Comedy Movies

233 movies found (page 1/8):

City Lights(1931)

| 1h 27min | Comedy, Romance / Love, Drama

4.2/5 (with 992 votes)

In this sound-era silent film, a tramp falls in love with a beautiful blind flower seller.

Directed by Charlie Chaplin - With Harry Myers, Charlie Chaplin, Henry Bergman, Virginia Cherrill, Al Ernest Garcia, Albert Austin, ...

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Monkey Business(1931)

1h 17min | Music, Comedy

3.5/5 (with 79 votes)

Four stowaways get mixed up with gangsters while running riot on an ocean liner.

Directed by Norman Z. McLeod - With Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx, Zeppo Marx, Thelma Todd, Ruth Hall, ...

Marius(1931)

2h 10min | Comedy, Drama, Romance / Love

3.6/5 (with 31 votes)

César runs a bar along Marseilles' port, assisted by his 23 year old son, Marius. Colorful characters abound: M. Panisse, an aging widower and prosperous sail maker; Honorine, a fishmonger with a sidewalk stall near the bar; her daughter, Fanny, who helps her sell cockles just outside the bar; and various old salts. Friends since childhood, Fanny and Marius love each other, but Marius has a secret wanderlust: every ship's whistle stirs a longing for foreign lands. When M. Panisse seeks Fanny's hand in marriage and when a departing clipper needs a deckhand, Marius and Fanny must decide who and what they love most. César, with his generous, wise spirit, tries to guide his son.

Directed by Alexander Korda - With Raimu, Pierre Fresnay, Alexandre Mihalesco, Alida Rouffe, Édouard Delmont, Fernand Charpin, ...

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Pardon Us(1931)

| 56min | Comedy

3.4/5 (with 28 votes)

It's Prohibition, and the boys wind up behind bars after Stan sells some of their home-brew beer to a policeman.

Directed by James Parrott - With Oliver Hardy, Stan Laurel, Walter Long, Jimmy Finlayson, Wilfred Lucas, Tiny Sandford, ...

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Blonde Crazy(1931)

1h 19min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

3.5/5 (with 16 votes)

Adventures of a cocky con man and his beautiful accomplice.

Directed by Roy Del Ruth - With James Cagney, Joan Blondell, Guy Kibbee, Louis Calhern, Maude Eburne, Nat Pendleton, ...

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Sidewalks of New York(1931)

1h 14min | Comedy, Crime, Romance / Love

3.4/5 (with 2 votes)

A dim-witted slumlord tries to reform a gang of urban boys (and impress an attractive young woman) by transforming their rough neighborhood into a more decent place.

Directed by Jules White - With Buster Keaton, Anita Page, Cliff Edwards, Oscar Apfel, Syd Saylor

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The Front Page(1931)

1h 41min | Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance / Love

3.3/5 (with 20 votes)

Hildy Johnson is an investigative reporter is looking for a bigger paycheck. When an accused murderer escapes from custody, Hildy sees an opportunity for the story of a lifetime. But when he finds the criminal, he learns that the man may not be guilty. With the help of his editor, Hildy attempts to hide the convict, uncover the conspiracy and write the scoop of his career.

Directed by Lewis Milestone, Nate Watt - With Adolphe Menjou, Pat O'Brien, Mary Brian, George E. Stone, Edward Everett Horton, Walter Catlett, ...

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Chickens Come Home(1931)

| 30min | Comedy

3.4/5 (with 22 votes)

Ollie is running for mayor when an old flame tries to blackmail him with a old photo.

Directed by James W. Horne - With Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Thelma Todd, Mae Busch, Jimmy Finlayson, Baldwin Cooke, ...

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Beau Hunks(1931)

| 37min | Comedy

3.5/5 (with 23 votes)

Stan and Ollie join the French Foreign Legion after Ollie's sweetheart rejects him.

Directed by James W. Horne - With Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Charles Middleton, James W. Horne, Billy Bletcher, Charlie Hall, ...

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Smart Woman(1931)

1h 8min | Comedy, Drama

3.6/5 (with 2 votes)

A society man's loving, devoted wife, upon learning that he has been unfaithful and is planning to leave her for the other woman, strategically pretends to be having an affair of her own. The woman's friends gladly assist in the deception.

Directed by Gregory La Cava - With Mary Astor, Dennis O'Keefe, Edward Everett Horton, John Halliday, Noel Francis

Our Wife(1931)

| 20min | Comedy

3.6/5 (with 14 votes)

Oliver is making plans to marry his sweetheart Dulcy with Stan as his best man, but the plans are thwarted when Dulcy's father sees a picture of Ollie and forbids the marriage. The couple plan to elope, and run away to a Justice of the Peace. After typical Laurel and Hardy blundering, they manage to sneak the girl away from her father's house.

Directed by James W. Horne - With Laurel and Hardy, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Babe London, Jimmy Finlayson, Ben Turpin, ...

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Transatlantic(1931)

| 1h 18min | Comedy, Drama, Thriller

2.8/5 (with 6 votes)

As a luxurious ocean liner makes its way across the Atlantic Ocean, the audience is made privy to the travails of several of its passengers. Edmund Lowe heads the cast as Monty Greer, a suave gambler who falls in love with Judy, the daughter of immigrant lens grinder Rudolph Kramer. In trying to recover some valuable securities stolen from banker Henry Graham, Greer finds himself in the middle of a fierce gun battle in the ship's engine room. Meanwhile, Graham, who has been cheating on his wife Kay with sexy dancer Sigrid Carline, is murdered by person or persons unknown.

Directed by William K. Howard - With Edmund Lowe, Myrna Loy, Jean Hersholt, Billy Bevan, James Kirkwood, Lois Moran, ...

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The Millionaire(1931)

| 1h 20min | Comedy, Drama

3.9/5 (with 2 votes)

A millionaire automaker retires upon the advice of his doctor, but becomes so bored he buys half interest in a gas station and works it on the sly.

Directed by John G. Adolfi - With George Arliss, David Manners, Evalyn Knapp, James Cagney, Sam Hardy, Charley Grapewin, ...

Be Big!(1931)

| 28min | Comedy

3.5/5 (with 16 votes)

Stan and Ollie are on their way to Atlantic City with their wives, when Ollie gets a phone call from a lodge buddy telling him that a stag party is taking place that night in their honor. Ollie pretends to be sick and sends the wives on ahead, promising that he and Stan will meet them in the morning. The pair dress in their lodge gear, but their wives return having missed their train. With no obvious escape route, Stan and Ollie take to a bed in fear and in response to Stan's plea of "What'll I do?", Ollie replies "Be big!".

Directed by James Parrott, James W. Horne - With Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Anita Garvin, Baldwin Cooke, Charlie Hall, Jack Hill, ...

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One Good Turn(1931)

| 20min | Comedy

3.5/5 (with 15 votes)

Down and out Stan and Ollie beg for food from a friendly old lady who provides them with sandwiches. While eating, they overhear the lady's landlord tell her he's going to throw her out because she can't pay her mortgage. They don't realize that the old lady is really rehearsing for a play. Stan and Ollie decide to help the old lady by selling their car. During the auction a drunk puts a wallet in Stan's pocket. Ollie accuses Stan of robbing the old lady, but when the truth is revealed Stan takes revenge on Ollie.

Directed by James W. Horne - With Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Mary Carr, Jimmy Finlayson, Billy Gilbert, Gordon Douglas, ...

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The Neighbour's Wife and Mine(1931)

1h 4min | Drama, Comedy

3.2/5 (with 6 votes)

A playwright moves to a rural neighborhood to avoid the distractions of the city, but he discovers there are plenty of ways to get sidetracked in his new home, too.

Directed by Heinosuke Gosho - With Kinuyo Tanaka, Shinichi Himori, Atsushi Watanabe, Satoko Date, Tokuji Kobayashi, Takeshi Sakamoto, ...

Laughing Gravy(1930)

| 20min | Comedy

3.6/5 (with 22 votes)

Stan and Ollie try to hide their pet dog Laughing Gravy from their exasperated, mean tempered landlord, who has a "No Pets" policy.

Directed by James W. Horne - With Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Charlie Hall, Charles Dorety, Harry Bernard

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The Guardsman(1931)

1h 22min | Comedy, Drama

2.9/5 (with 3 votes)

An acclaimed actor and his equally acclaimed actress wife, who have been married for less than a year, are already showing signs of strain in their marriage. The actor believes his wife is capable of infidelity and sets out to prove this is so. Disguising himself as the kind of man he believes she fancies (a Russian military officer), the actor woos his wife while she believes her husband to be out of town.

Directed by Sidney Franklin, Harold S. Bucquet - With Alfred Lunt, Lynn Fontanne, Roland Young, ZaSu Pitts, Herman Bing, Ann Dvorak, ...

Come Clean(1931)

| 20min | Comedy

3.6/5 (with 18 votes)

The Hardys wish to have a quiet evening in their apartment, but are interrupted when the Laurels pay a visit. Stan and Ollie go out for ice cream, and manage to prevent a shrewish woman from committing suicide on the way back home. The woman is ungrateful and makes threats against the them unless they look after her. They spend a chaotic evening trying to keep her hidden from their wives.

Directed by James W. Horne - With Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Gertrude Astor, Mae Busch, Charlie Hall, Tiny Sandford, ...

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Newly Rich(1931)

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| 1h 17min | Comedy, Kids & Family, Adventure

1.5/5 (with 1 vote)

Two small town widows bring their children to Hollywood, where their children become competing film stars. The girl is sweet, the boy is a killjoy sissy. For publicity, the rival families go to London to meet a middle European boy King. The three kids decide they need to escape their stifling lives and run away to the docks and join a gang.

Directed by Norman Taurog - With Mitzi Green, Edna May Oliver, Lawrence Grant, Dell Henderson, Lester Dorr, Billy West, ...

On the Loose(1931)

20min | Comedy

3.3/5 (with 6 votes)

Two young women, Zasu and Thelma, complain that all of their dates take them to Coney Island. The next day a car goes by and they are splashed with mud. The driver stops and offers to buy them some new clothes. They accept the offer and later agree to go on a date.

Directed by Hal Roach - With ZaSu Pitts, Thelma Todd, Billy Gilbert, Charlie Hall, Claud Allister, Gordon Douglas, ...

Stepping Out(1931)

| 1h 13min | Comedy

3.3/5 (with 1 vote)

After catching their husbands with other women, two wives go on a girls-only vacation.

Directed by Charles Reisner - With Charlotte Greenwood, Cliff Edwards, Leila Hyams, Lilian Bond, Reginald Denny, Richard Tucker, ...

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Baby's Laxative(1931)

56min | Comedy

2.9/5 (with 15 votes)

A little boy won't go to the bathroom, which leads to all sorts of complications for his parents and their friends.

Directed by Jean Renoir - With Marguerite Pierry, Michel Simon, Fernandel, Jacques Louvigny, Olga Valery

Parlor, Bedroom and Bath(1931)

| 1h 13min | Comedy

3.1/5 (with 7 votes)

Jeffrey Haywood wants to marry to Virginia Embrey. However, Virginia refused to marry unless her older sister, the hard-to-please Angelica gets married first. Angelica, in turn, finds every man she knows too dull and predictable, and for this reason prefers to stay single. Jeff then tries to make Angelica interested in the mild-mannered and timid Reggie Irving passing him off as a notorious playboy to intrigue her. He asks his friend Polly to teach Reggie "how to treat a woman right", but he turns to be a disastrous learner.

Directed by Edward Sedgwick - With Buster Keaton, Charlotte Greenwood, Cliff Edwards, Edward Brophy, Natalie Moorhead, Reginald Denny, ...

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Reducing(1931)

1h 17min | Comedy

1.7/5 (with 2 votes)

Culture shock bombards a woman and her family when they leave their hick town to help her sister out in her big-city beauty parlor.

Directed by Charles Reisner - With Marie Dressler, Polly Moran, Anita Page, Lucien Littlefield, William Collier Jr., Sally Eilers, ...

I'll Be Alone After Midnight(1931)

1h 42min | Comedy, Drama

2.3/5 (with 2 votes)

A woman's marriage is on the rocks ; to avenge herself, she decides to take a lover for one night .So she buys all his stock from a balloon man and flies them through the Parisian sky ; all her balloons carry a message :"I will be alone after midnight" (hence the title); a lot a suitors comme to the rendezvous : a fisherman, a soldier, a traveler , a gentleman cambrioleur (a nod to Arsène Lupin?) and others ,much to Michel, a young man in love with her's displeasure.

Directed by Jacques de Baroncelli - With Georges Bever, Joë Hamman, Louis Kerly, Marcel Carpentier, Maurice Rémy, Mireille Perrey, ...

Shipmates(1931)

1h 12min | Comedy, Romance / Love, Drama

2.3/5 (with 1 vote)

A sailor falls in love with the admiral's daughter but finds they can't marry because of his lowly rank.

Directed by Harry A. Pollard - With Robert Montgomery, Ernest Torrence, Hobart Bosworth, Cliff Edwards, Gavin Gordon, Joan Marsh, ...

Up Pops the Devil(1931)

| 1h 14min | Comedy

2.1/5 (with 2 votes)

The marriage of an advertising man is jeopardized when he gets a chance to sell a novel he's been working on and quits his job to concentrate on writing. In order to support the family, the wife is forced to take a job as a dancer in a Broadway show. As the marriage begins to fall apart, complications ensue when she discovers that she's pregnant.

Directed by A. Edward Sutherland - With Norman Foster, Carole Lombard

Six Cylinder Love(1931)

1h 19min | Comedy

Troubles begin for the Sterlings when they buy an expensive car and friends start pressing them for rides.

Directed by Thornton Freeland - With Spencer Tracy

Huckleberry Finn(1931)

1h 20min | Comedy, Crime

5.0/5 (with 1 vote)

A year after their former exploits, Tom Sawyer's puppy love of Becky Thatcher keeps him home while Huck Finn, chafing under "civilizing" influences like school and shoes, plans to run away. His scapegrace, abusive father intervenes; Tom and black Jim help him escape; and (departing from the novel) all three raft down the Mississippi, where they're joined by two likable rogues and meet pretty orphans Ella and Mary Jane. The latter may change Huck's mind about girls...

Directed by Norman Taurog - With Jackie Coogan, Junior Durkin, Mitzi Green, Clarence Muse, Clara Blandick, Jane Darwell, ...

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1931 Comedy Movies

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City Lights(1931)

Monkey Business(1931)

Marius(1931)

Pardon Us(1931)

Blonde Crazy(1931)

Sidewalks of New York(1931)

The Front Page(1931)

Chickens Come Home(1931)

Beau Hunks(1931)

Smart Woman(1931)

Our Wife(1931)

Transatlantic(1931)

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The Millionaire(1931)

Be Big!(1931)

One Good Turn(1931)

The Neighbour's Wife and Mine(1931)

Laughing Gravy(1930)

The Guardsman(1931)

Come Clean(1931)

Newly Rich(1931)

On the Loose(1931)

Stepping Out(1931)

Baby's Laxative(1931)

Parlor, Bedroom and Bath(1931)

Reducing(1931)

I'll Be Alone After Midnight(1931)

Shipmates(1931)

Up Pops the Devil(1931)

Six Cylinder Love(1931)

Huckleberry Finn(1931)

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