1943 Comedy Movies

166 movies found (page 1/6):

Heaven Can Wait(1943)

1h 52min | Fantasy, Drama, Comedy, Romance / Love

3.5/5 (with 90 votes)

Spoiled playboy Henry van Cleve dies and arrives at the entrance to Hell, a final destination he is sure he deserves after living a life of profligacy. The devil, however, isn't so sure Henry meets Hell's standards. Convinced he is where he belongs, Henry recounts his life's deeds, both good and bad, including an act of indiscretion during his 25-year marriage to his wife, Martha, with the hope that "His Excellency" will arrive at the proper judgment.

Directed by Ernst Lubitsch - With Gene Tierney, Don Ameche, Charles Coburn, Louis Calhern, Spring Byington, Marjorie Main, ...

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El Circo(1943)

1h 30min | Comedy

3.9/5 (with 20 votes)

A cobbler gets a job in a Circus as a janitor, recommended by the beautiful girl rider of the show. But later, he gets in trouble when he involves in dangerous acts, such as the trapeze. Obviously, our friend will risk his life by the love of his new girlfriend.

Directed by Miguel M. Delgado - With Cantinflas, Gloria Lynch, Estanislao Shilinsky Bachanska, Eduardo Arozamena, Tito Novaro, Leonid Kinskey, ...

The Dancing Masters(1943)

1h 3min | Comedy

3.0/5 (with 10 votes)

The Dancing Masters is a 1943 Laurel and Hardy feature film. The plot involves the team running a ballet school, and getting involved with an inventor. A young Robert Mitchum has an uncredited cameo role as a fraudulent insurance salesman.

Directed by Malcolm St. Clair - With Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Trudy Marshall, Bob Bailey, Matt Briggs, Margaret Dumont, ...

Jitterbugs(1943)

| 1h 15min | Comedy

2.9/5 (with 16 votes)

The two-man Laurel and Hardy Zoot Suit Band find themselves fronting a scam for "gasolene pills" in wartime oil-short America. They are however soon on the side of the angels helping recover $10,000 for an attractive young lady whose family have themselves been swindled.

Directed by Malcolm St. Clair - With Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Vivian Blaine, Anthony Caruso, David Torrence, Douglas Fowley, ...

It Ain't Hay(1943)

| 1h 20min | Comedy

3.3/5 (with 6 votes)

Abbot and Costello must find a replacement for a woman's horse they accidentally killed after feeding it some candy. They head for the racetrack, find a look-a-like and take it. They do not realize that the nag is "Tea Biscuit," a champion racehorse.

Directed by Erle C. Kenton - With Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Grace McDonald, Shemp Howard, Cecil Kellaway, Eugene Pallette, ...

The Yankee Doodle Mouse(1943)

8min | Animation, Music, Kids & Family

3.4/5 (with 22 votes)

As Tom and Jerry stage their typical fight sequences, the patriotic soldier theme of the title is evidenced by such things as a carton of eggs labeled "Hen Grenades"; Jerry dropping light bulbs from an airplane like bombs; and Jerry sending a telegram with the message "Sighted Cat - Sank Same." Musical phrasings from various patriotic war songs are heard throughout.

Directed by William Hanna, Joseph Barbera

Hit the Ice(1943)

| 1h 22min | Comedy

3.2/5 (with 9 votes)

Flash Fulton (Bud Abbott) and Weejie McCoy (Lou Costello) take pictures of a bank robbery. Lured to the mountain resort hideout of the robbers and accompanied by Dr. Bill Elliott (Patric Knowles) and Peggy Osborn (Elyse Knox), they also meet old friend Johnny Long (Johnny Long) and his band and singer Marcia Manning (Ginny Simms). Dr. Elliott and Peggy are being held in a remote cabin by the robbers, but Weejie rescues them by turning himself into a human snowball that becomes an avalanche that engulfs the crooks.

Directed by Charles Lamont - With Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Ginny Simms, Patric Knowles, Elyse Knox, Sheldon Leonard, ...

Hi Diddle Diddle(1943)

| 1h 12min | Comedy, Romance / Love

3.8/5 (with 4 votes)

When the bride's mother is supposedly swindled out of her money by a spurned suitor, the groom's father orchestrates a scheme of his own to set things right. He is aided by a cabaret singer, while placating a jealous wife.

Directed by Andrew L. Stone - With Adolphe Menjou, Martha Scott, Pola Negri, Dennis O'Keefe, Billie Burke, Richard Hageman, ...

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The Sky's the Limit(1943)

| 1h 29min | Comedy, Romance / Love, Music

3.1/5 (with 9 votes)

Flying Tiger Fred Atwell sneaks away from his famous squadron's personal appearance tour and goes incognito for several days of leave. He quickly falls for photographer Joan Manion, pursuing her in the guise of a carefree drifter.

Directed by Edward H. Griffith - With Fred Astaire, NONE OF YOUR BUSSINES, Robert Benchley, Robert Ryan, Elizabeth Patterson, Marjorie Gateson, ...

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Ghosts on the Loose(1943)

| 1h 7min | Comedy

2.3/5 (with 10 votes)

The East Side Kids try to fix up a house for newlyweds, but find the place next door "haunted" by mysterious men.

Directed by William Beaudine - With Ava Gardner, Bela Lugosi, Huntz Hall, Jack Mulhall, Leo Gorcey, Wheeler Vivian Oakman, ...

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Romeo y Julieta(1943)

1h 40min | Comedy

3.1/5 (with 13 votes)

Verona's peace is disturbed by the rivalry between noble families: the Montesco and the Capuleto, irreconcilable enemies. The two families have continued fighting to make life unbearable in the Italian town. The Prince of Verona informs the chiefs that the two families respond with their lives if there are new struggles. At a ball in honor of Juliet, the daughter of Capuleto, incidentally meets Romeo, son of Montesco. Both fall in love immediately, not knowing that their love is impossible.

Directed by Miguel M. Delgado - With Cantinflas, María Elena Marqués, Ángel Garasa, Andrés Soler, Emma Roldán, José Baviera, ...

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My Learned Friend(1943)

1h 14min | Comedy, Thriller

2.7/5 (with 6 votes)

An insane murderer is on the loose, and gunning for the men who put him away. Will Hay is on the list, and co-opts Claude Hulbert to try and stop him from meeting a grisly end.

Directed by Basil Dearden, Will Hay - With Ronald Shiner, Charles Victor

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Capitán Veneno(1943)

1h 26min | Drama

A widow who lives with her two daughters, takes care of an officer who hates women. They will change him.

Directed by Henri Martinent - With Luis Sandrini, Rosa Rosen, Bertha Moss, Gregorio Verdi, Aline Marney, Héctor Quintanilla, ...

Eclipse de sol(1943)

1h 23min | Comedy

3.2/5 (with 2 votes)

A vaudeville singer secretly marries a wealthy landowner, who soon returns to his ranch, fearing the rejection of his snobbish family. To teach him a lesson, she shows up at his estancia pretending to be a maid.

Directed by Luis Saslavsky - With Libertad Lamarque, George Rigaud, Angelina Pagano, Pedro Quartucci, Alita Román, Juana Sujo, ...

The Meanest Man in the World(1943)

| 57min | Comedy

3.1/5 (with 1 vote)

Compassionate small-town lawyer Richard Clarke moves to New York City to seek his fortune, but is unsuccessful until he takes a friend's advice and tries to convince the world he's a ruthless heel. Suddenly he's the most popular lawyer in town -- but he could lose his fiancée.

Directed by Sidney Lanfield - With Jack Benny, Priscilla Lane, Eddie Anderson, Edmund Gwenn, Anne Revere, Margaret Seddon, ...

They Stooge to Conga(1943)

| 18min | Comedy, War

3.5/5 (with 3 votes)

The stooges are repairmen who get a job fixing the doorbell in large house which is the secret headquarters of some Nazi spies. They manage to ruin most of the house while working on the wiring and then subdue the spies and sink an enemy submarine by remote control.

Directed by Del Lord - With Moe Howard

Around the World(1943)

| 1h 20min | Comedy, Music

2.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Bandleader Kay Kyser takes his troupe of nutty musicians, goofball comics and pretty girl singers on a tour around the world to entertain the troops during World War II.

Directed by Allan Dwan - With Kay Kyser, Mischa Auer, Joan Davis, Alan Carney, Claire Carleton

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A Stranger in Town(1943)

1h 7min | Crime, Romance / Love

3.2/5 (with 6 votes)

In the small town of Crownport local attorney Bill Adams is trying to break up the ring of corrupt town officials by running for mayor. The cards seemed stacked against him when he gets help from a visiting hunter who, unknown to Adams and the rest of the town, is actually vacationing supreme court justice John Josephus Grant.

Directed by Roy Rowland - With Frank Morgan, Richard Carlson, Jean Rogers, Andrew Tombes, Chill Wills, Donald MacBride, ...

The Peddler and the Lady(1943)

1h 35min | Drama, Comedy

3.7/5 (with 6 votes)

Peppino, a fishmonger on Campo de' Fiori, a famous Roman marketplace, works alongside Elide, a greengrocer, who has a soft spot for him, despite the fact they argue all day long... But neither Peppino, nor his friend Aurelio, the barber, are interested in getting married. Until he meets the beautiful Elsa...

Directed by Mario Bonnard - With Aldo Fabrizi, Anna Magnani, Peppino De Filippo, Caterina Boratto, Olga Solbelli, Rina Franchetti, ...

Spies(1943)

| 4min | Comedy, Animation, War

3.3/5 (with 11 votes)

The doltish but self-confident and self-congratulatory Private Snafu is in possession of a military secret during World War II. Over the course of the day, spouting rhymed couplets, he divulges the secret a little at a time to listening Axis spies. He tells his mom some of the secret when he calls her from a phone booth; the rest he spills to a dolly dolly spy who plies him with liquor. Snafu's loose lips put himself at risk.

Directed by Chuck Jones - With Mel Blanc

Air Raid Wardens(1943)

| 1h 7min | Action, Adventure, Comedy, War

3.5/5 (with 7 votes)

Two bumblers, failures as businessmen and air raid wardens, stumble across a nest of Nazi saboteurs bent on blowing up the local magnesium plant.

Directed by Edward Sedgwick - With Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Edgar Kennedy, Jacqueline White, Stephen McNally, Nella Walker, ...

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Gildersleeve's Bad Day(1943)

| 1h 2min | Comedy

3.1/5 (with 1 vote)

Gildersleeve has jury duty.

Directed by Gordon Douglas - With Harold Peary

Whistling in Brooklyn(1943)

| 1h 27min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Romance / Love

3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Radio crime show host "The Fox" finds himself on the trail of a serial killer while a suspect himself.

Directed by S. Sylvan Simon - With Red Skelton, Ann Rutherford, Jean Rogers

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So's Your Uncle(1943)

| 1h 4min | Adventure, Comedy, Music, Romance / Love

2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

Circumstances arise that result in a man impersonating his uncle. As the "uncle", he finds himself pursued by his girlfriend's aunt, who does not approve of their relationship.

Directed by Jean Yarbrough - With Billie Burke

Dixie Dugan(1943)

| 1h 3min | Comedy

2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

Roger Hudson, a wealthy businessman who has moved to Washington to work for the government as a "dollar a year man," is late for a radio broadcast about his new department, the Mobilization of Woman Power for War. He takes a cab driven by Dixie Dugan, who hopes that being a cabbie while the country's men are away fighting will help the war effort. Her incompetent driving, however, results in an accident for which Roger must take responsibility in order to reach the radio station in time. Dixie then returns home, where she lives with her father Timothy, who is constantly practicing his air raid warden duties, her mother Gladys, an aspiring Red Cross worker, and cousin Imogene, who studies incessantly to become a "quiz kid." The Dugans rent out their spare rooms to Dixie's fiancé, Matt Hogan, and to blustering Judge J. J. Lawson. Matt, who works in a munitions factory, wants Dixie to settle down and marry him, but Dixie is determined to help her country.

Directed by Otto Brower - With Lois Andrews

Chatterbox(1943)

1h 16min | Comedy

While shooting a western on location, a Hollywood "cowboy" star--whose offscreen image is exactly the opposite of his onscreen one--is saved from disaster by a gregarious local girl. She winds up becoming not only his leading lady in the movie but, because of a set of nutty offscreen circumstances, his fiancé in real life.

Directed by Joseph Santley - With Joe E. Brown

Super-Rabbit(1943)

| 8min | Animation, Comedy

3.2/5 (with 14 votes)

Bugs Bunny becomes a superhero who does battle with a rabbit hating cowboy and horse.

Directed by Chuck Jones

The Lucky Star(1943)

1h 30min | Romance / Love, Comedy

4.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Auguste, a somewhat simple-minded Provençal fisherman, loves and admires Mireille. This concerns only Maurice, son of an important wholesaler, whom scruples do not stifle. Seduced and abandoned, Mireille moves Auguste who tries to mend his poor happiness. The local priest, with wise words, leads Mireille to offer her hand to Auguste.

Directed by Jean Boyer - With Andrex, Charles Blavette, Clairette Oddera, Édouard Delmont, Fernandel, Frédéric Mariotti, ...

Som du vill ha mej(1943)

1h 21min | Comedy

The architect Gösta complains to Dr. Holm about his wife Gunilla's introverted character. Holm proposes a drug that will make her more outgoing.

Directed by Gösta Cederlund - With Karin Ekelund

Footlight Glamour(1943)

| 1h 9min | Comedy

3.9/5 (with 2 votes)

Mr. Dithers is trying to encourage a businessman to build a war-time manufacturing plant on land he owns while Dagwood tries to prevent the businessman from learning his daughter is involved in a local theatre production.

Directed by Frank R. Strayer - With Penny Singleton

1943 Comedy Movies

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Heaven Can Wait(1943)

El Circo(1943)

The Dancing Masters(1943)

Jitterbugs(1943)

It Ain't Hay(1943)

The Yankee Doodle Mouse(1943)

Hit the Ice(1943)

Hi Diddle Diddle(1943)

The Sky's the Limit(1943)

Ghosts on the Loose(1943)

Romeo y Julieta(1943)

My Learned Friend(1943)

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Capitán Veneno(1943)

Eclipse de sol(1943)

The Meanest Man in the World(1943)

They Stooge to Conga(1943)

Around the World(1943)

A Stranger in Town(1943)

The Peddler and the Lady(1943)

Spies(1943)

Air Raid Wardens(1943)

Gildersleeve's Bad Day(1943)

Whistling in Brooklyn(1943)

So's Your Uncle(1943)

Dixie Dugan(1943)

Chatterbox(1943)

Super-Rabbit(1943)

The Lucky Star(1943)

Som du vill ha mej(1943)

Footlight Glamour(1943)

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