1928 Comedy Movies

188 movies found (page 1/7):

Steamboat Willie(1928)

| 8min | Animation, Music, Comedy, Kids & Family

3.7/5 (with 211 votes)

Mickey Mouse, piloting a steamboat, delights his passenger, Minnie, by making musical instruments out of the menagerie on deck.

Directed by Walt Disney, Ub Iwerks

The Circus(1928)

1h 12min | Comedy, Romance / Love

4.0/5 (with 325 votes)

Charlie, a wandering tramp, becomes a circus handyman - soon the star of the show - and falls in love with the circus owner's stepdaughter.

Directed by Charlie Chaplin - With Al Ernest Garcia, Merna Kennedy, Henry Bergman, Charlie Chaplin, Tiny Sandford, Albert Austin, ...

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Plane Crazy(1929)

6min | Animation, Comedy

3.2/5 (with 61 votes)

Inspired by Lindbergh's flight from New York to Paris, Mickey builds a plane to take Minnie for a trip.

Directed by Walt Disney

Show People(1928)

1h 23min | Comedy, Romance / Love

3.8/5 (with 17 votes)

Peggy Pepper arrives in Hollywood, from Georgia, to become a great dramatic star. Things do not go entirely according to plan.

Directed by King Vidor - With William Haines, Marion Davies, Polly Moran, Dell Henderson, Renée Adorée, Eleanor Boardman, ...

Speedy(1928)

| 1h 25min | Comedy, Kids & Family

3.7/5 (with 34 votes)

Speedy loses his job as a soda jerk, then spends the day with his girl at Coney Island. He then becomes a cab driver and delivers Babe Ruth to Yankee Stadium, where he stays to see the game. When the railroad tries to run the last horse-drawn trolley (operated by his girl's grandfather) out of business, Speedy organizes the neighborhood old-timers to thwart their scheme.

Directed by Ted Wilde - With Harold Lloyd, Ann Christy, Bert Woodruff, Babe Ruth, Jack Hill, Sam Lufkin, ...

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Steamboat Bill, Jr.(1928)

| 1h 10min | Comedy, Kids & Family, Romance / Love

3.9/5 (with 137 votes)

The just out of college effete son of a no-nonsense steamboat captain comes to visit his father whom he's not seen since he was little.

Directed by Charles Reisner - With Buster Keaton, Ernest Torrence, Joe Keaton, Tom McGuire, Marion Byron

Champagne(1928)

1h 33min | Comedy, Drama

2.6/5 (with 36 votes)

Betty, the rebellious daughter of a millionaire, decides to marry the penniless Jean—against her father's will—and runs away to France and lives a life of luxury on the profits from her father's business. Pretending his business is crashing, her father finally puts a stop to her behavior, which forces Betty to support herself by getting a job in a night club.

Directed by Alfred Hitchcock - With Alexander D'Arcy, Betty Balfour, Jean Bradin, Gordon Harker, Ferdinand von Alten, Vivian Gibson, ...

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Lonesome(1928)

1h 10min | Romance / Love, Drama

3.7/5 (with 34 votes)

Two lonely people in the big city meet and enjoy the thrills of an amusement park, only to lose each other in the crowd after spending a great day together. Will they ever see each other again?

Directed by Paul Fejos - With Barbara Kent, Glenn Tryon, Fay Holderness

We Faw Down(1928)

20min | Comedy

2.9/5 (with 13 votes)

Stan & Ollie attempt to fool their wives by sneaking out to a poker game, but instead get involved with two flirty ladies, one of whom is the girlfriend of a jealous boxer.

Directed by Leo McCarey - With Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Vivien Oakland, Bess Flowers, Kay Deslys, Dorothy Coburn, ...

You're Darn Tootin'(1928)

| 20min | Comedy

2.8/5 (with 19 votes)

Members of a municipal band, Stanley and Oliver seem to be always following someone else's lead, rather than that of the temperamental conductor.

Directed by Edgar Kennedy - With Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Charlie Hall, Ham Kinsey, Otto Lederer, Rolfe Sedan, ...

From Soup to Nuts(1928)

18min | Comedy

3.2/5 (with 15 votes)

Inexperienced waiters (Laurel & Hardy) are hired for a swank dinner party.

Directed by Edgar Kennedy - With Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Anita Garvin, Dorothy Coburn, Edna Marion, Gene Morgan, ...

The Gallopin' Gaucho(1928)

6min | Western, Comedy, Animation, Kids & Family

2.8/5 (with 19 votes)

Mickey rides up to a cantina and does a tango with Minnie. When a big cat steals her away, Mickey gives chase, riding a drunken ostrich. At the hideout, Mickey has a swordfight with the cat.

Directed by Walt Disney

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Two Tars(1928)

| 21min | Comedy

3.3/5 (with 21 votes)

Two sailors shore leave rent a car and go on a drive with their dates, but soon get involved in a huge traffic jam with dozens of ill-tempered motorists. A minor collision sets off an escalating series of retaliations.

Directed by James Parrott - With Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Charlie Hall, Edgar Kennedy, Charley Rogers, Baldwin Cooke, ...

The Finishing Touch(1928)

19min | Comedy

3.5/5 (with 17 votes)

Stan and Ollie are hired to build a house in just one day. When they are done, a bird lands on the house and it collapses. Naturally, the owner wants his money back.

Directed by Clyde Bruckman - With Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Dorothy Coburn, Edgar Kennedy, Sam Lufkin

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The House on Trubnaya(1928)

1h 25min | Comedy

3.4/5 (with 8 votes)

Life is short and full of oppression, but that doesn't mean Parasha can't find love and laughter when she leaves her country home to take a job as a maid in the overcrowded, overworked, and underpaid world in the big city.

Directed by Boris Barnet - With Vera Maretskaya, Sergei Komarov, Vladimir Batalov, Vladimir Fogel

Oh Kay!(1928)

1h | Comedy, Romance / Love

On the eve of her wedding Lady Kay Rutfield runs off aboard her sloop. A storm carries her out to sea and she is rescued by a passing rumrunner bound for the Long Island Sound. Once they arrive in the States, Kay makes her escape and hides in the deserted mansion of Jimmy Winter. Jimmy is due to marry the following day. He comes home to the mansion unexpectedly, and finds Kay, who persuades him to let her pose for a night as his wife.

Directed by Mervyn LeRoy - With Colleen Moore, Alan Hale, Ford Sterling, Claude Gillingwater, Julanne Johnston, Percy Williams, ...

Pass the Gravy(1928)

23min | Comedy

3.0/5 (with 8 votes)

Schultz raises prize chickens and roosters that are always getting into neighbor Max Davidson's garden and eating the seeds, leading to constant feuding between the two men. When their children announce their engagement the two men decide to bury the hatchet and Davidson suggests a dinner at his house. He gives his young son, Ignatz, two dollars to buy a chicken but the boy pockets the money and kills Schultz' first place rooster instead. Once seated at the table all but Schultz discover what they are eating and desperately try to hide the bad news from Schultz who is sure to kill Davidson if he knows the truth.

Directed by Fred Guiol, Leo McCarey - With Bert Sprotte, Gene Morgan, Martha Sleeper, Max Davidson, Spec O'Donnell

Their Purple Moment(1928)

22min | Comedy

3.2/5 (with 10 votes)

The boys sneak out for a night on the town, unaware that Stan's wife has switched her grocery coupons for Stan's secret stash of mad money. The boys run up a huge tab treating a couple of girls to dinner at a snazzy nightclub and much trouble ensues.

Directed by James Parrott - With Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Anita Garvin, Kay Deslys, Fay Holderness, Tiny Sandford, ...

Just Married(1928)

1h | Comedy

After many outrageous moments, a young girl marries her former acquaintance, not with her fiancee.

Directed by Frank R. Strayer - With Harrison Ford, Tom Ricketts, Lila Lee, Arthur Hoyt, Mario Carillo

The Baby Cyclone(1928)

1h 10min | Comedy

A woman thinks a small dog is an angel pet in this silent comedy.

Directed by A. Edward Sutherland - With Lew Cody

The Battle of the Sexes(1928)

| 1h 28min | Drama, Comedy

2.5/5 (with 4 votes)

Gum-chewing frizzy-haired golddigger Marie Skinner cooks up a scheme with her lover Babe Winsor, a jazz hound, to fleece a portly middle-aged real estate tycoon, William Judson. Marie moves into Judson's apartment building and contrives to meet and seduce him, plying him with compliments, music, swoons, décolletage, and batted eyes. When his loyal wife (and their two children) see him out catting with Marie at a night club, mom's devastated and confronts him. He moves out. Babe wants Marie to sell Judson worthless bonds. Will mom commit suicide? Will sis shoot the floozy? Will pops figure out he's being a fool?

Directed by D. W. Griffith - With Jean Hersholt, Phyllis Haver, Belle Bennett, Don Alvarado, Sally O'Neil, Rolfe Sedan, ...

The Home Towners(1928)

1h 4min | Comedy

The Home Towners is a 1928 American comedy film directed by Bryan Foy and starring Richard Bennett, Doris Kenyon and Robert McWade.

Directed by Fred Fox, Bryan Foy - With Richard Bennett

Pay as You Enter(1928)

55min | Comedy, Romance / Love

Trolley car conductor Clyde Jones and bus conductor "Terrible Bill" Jones are arch rivals for the hand of coffee-shop owner Mary Smith.

Directed by Lloyd Bacon - With Louise Fazenda, William Demarest, Myrna Loy, Clyde Cook

Leave 'Em Laughing(1928)

21min | Comedy

3.0/5 (with 17 votes)

Stan complains of a toothache and he and Ollie visit the dentist. Ollie gets his teeth pulled by mistake. Under the influence of laughing gas, they leave and cause much commotion on the road annoying a traffic cop.

Directed by Clyde Bruckman, Frank Butler - With Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Edgar Kennedy, Charlie Hall, Otto Fries, Dorothy Coburn, ...

Bringing Up Father(1928)

1h 10min | Comedy

1.5/5 (with 1 vote)

The wealthy Jiggs is tired of being left out of the swanky parties thrown by his social-climbing wife Maggie and their daughter. He decides to teach them a "lesson" by faking his own suicide, but things don't quite turn out the way he planned.

Directed by Jack Conway - With Marie Dressler

The Big Noise(1928)

1h 20min | Drama

John Stoval, a guard in a New York subway, thinks that Philip Hurd, who owns a concession at Coney Island, would make a good husband for his daughter Sophie. Sophie, however, has her sights set on Bill Hedges, the son of a wealthy farmer in upstate New York. Her father arranges for her to marry Hurd in exchange for a 25% interest in the concession, but matters come to a halt when John slips and falls off a subway platform and is injured.

Directed by Allan Dwan - With Chester Conklin, Alice White, Sam Hardy, Jack Egan, Ned Sparks, David Torrence, ...

Riley the Cop(1928)

| 1h 8min | Drama, Comedy

2.8/5 (with 4 votes)

In this early comedy from John Ford, Riley is a New York Irish cop sent to Germany to track down a young man who stole money from a local bakery.

Directed by John Ford - With J. Farrell MacDonald, Billy Bevan, Dell Henderson, Louise Fazenda, Robert Parrish, Rolfe Sedan, ...

Love and Learn(1928)

1h | Comedy

In love with political candidate Anthony Cowles, heroine Nancy Blair gets wind of the opposition's scheme to ruin Cowles' reputation. At the risk of her own good name, Nancy decides to turn the tables on the crooked politicos by framing Cowles' opponent in a compromising situation. Things don't go quite as planned.

Directed by Frank Tuttle - With Esther Ralston

Celebrity(1928)

| 1h 10min | Comedy, Drama

A prizefighter poses as a poet as a publicity ploy. As an actress hired to impersonate his high-class love interest, she can’t help falling for the big lug, leading to an elegantly understated climax.

Directed by Tay Garnett

The Sex Life of the Polyp(1928)

| 11min | Comedy

2.3/5 (with 5 votes)

Dr. Benchley is addressing the Ladies Club on the subject of the reproductive habits of the polyp, a small aquatic organism. Although he is not able to display his live specimens, he has prepared a series of pictures of his subjects. He explains that the subject is made more complicated by the fact that polyps are able to change their sex from time to time. Then he presents some of the pictures of his specimens and the experiments that he has done with them.

Directed by Thomas Hardie Chalmers - With Robert Benchley

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1928 Comedy Movies

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Steamboat Willie(1928)

The Circus(1928)

Plane Crazy(1929)

Show People(1928)

Speedy(1928)

Steamboat Bill, Jr.(1928)

Champagne(1928)

Lonesome(1928)

We Faw Down(1928)

You're Darn Tootin'(1928)

From Soup to Nuts(1928)

The Gallopin' Gaucho(1928)

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Two Tars(1928)

The Finishing Touch(1928)

The House on Trubnaya(1928)

Oh Kay!(1928)

Pass the Gravy(1928)

Their Purple Moment(1928)

Just Married(1928)

The Baby Cyclone(1928)

The Battle of the Sexes(1928)

The Home Towners(1928)

Pay as You Enter(1928)

Leave 'Em Laughing(1928)

Bringing Up Father(1928)

The Big Noise(1928)

Riley the Cop(1928)

Love and Learn(1928)

Celebrity(1928)

The Sex Life of the Polyp(1928)

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