1930 Comedy Movies

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Animal Crackers(1930)

3.5/5 (with 116 votes)

The well-known explorer and hunter Captain Spaulding has just returned from Africa, and is being welcomed home with a lavish party at the estate of influential society matron Mrs. Rittenhouse when a valuable painting goes missing. The intrepid Captain Spaulding attempts to solve the crime with the help of his silly secretary Horatio Jamison, while sparring with the anarchic Signor Emanuel Ravelli and his nutty sidekick The Professor.

Directed by Victor Heerman - With Groucho Marx, Zeppo Marx, Margaret Dumont, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx, Lillian Roth, ...

Brats(1930)

| 21min | Comedy

3.6/5 (with 28 votes)

Stanley and Oliver are trying to spend a relaxing night at home playing checkers, but the antics of their mischievous sons keep interrupting their recreation.

Directed by James Parrott - With Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy

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Blotto(1930)

| 25min | Comedy

3.6/5 (with 17 votes)

Stan fakes receiving a telegram so he can go to a club with Ollie and a bottle of his unsuspecting wife's liquor, but she overhears his plans.

Directed by James Parrott - With Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Anita Garvin, Tiny Sandford, Baldwin Cooke, Charlie Hall, ...

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Laughter(1930)

| 1h 25min | Romance / Love, Comedy

2.5/5 (with 4 votes)

Zeigfeld Follies beauty Peggy marries an older man, C. Morton Gibson. Although she soon grows tired of their sedate life, she refuses the attentions of her longtime friend, the volatile sculptor Ralph Le Saint. When pianist Paul Lockridge arrives from Paris, he begs Peggy to run away with him to France, where they can share adventure and a full life -- but complications arise for Peggy when Gibson's attractive daughter visits.

Directed by Harry d'Abbadie d'Arrast - With Fredric March, Nancy Carroll, Frank Morgan, Glenn Anders, Leonard Carey

Feet First(1930)

| 1h 31min | Comedy

3.3/5 (with 10 votes)

An ambitious shoe salesman, Harold, unknowingly meets the boss' daughter and tells her he is a leather tycoon. The rest of the film he spends hiding his true circumstances, in the store and later on a ship. Trying to deliver a letter, he later finds himself dangling high above the street on a building's scaffolding.

Directed by Clyde Bruckman - With Barbara Kent, Robert McWade, Harold Lloyd, Arthur Housman, Jimmy Finlayson

Night Owls(1930)

| 21min | Comedy

3.7/5 (with 17 votes)

Policeman Edgar Kennedy is told by his chief he better stop a string of burglaries that have been happening on his watch or else he will get the sack. He persuades vagrants Stan and Ollie to rob the chief's house so he can regain his reputation by catching them. The policeman promises to later get the boys off. Things do not go as planned.

Directed by James Parrott - With Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Edgar Kennedy, Jimmy Finlayson, Baldwin Cooke, Anders Randolf, ...

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Another Fine Mess(1930)

| 29min | Comedy

3.5/5 (with 26 votes)

Two homeless vagabonds hide out in a vacant mansion and pose as the residents when prospective lessees arrive and try to rent it.

Directed by James Parrott - With Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Jimmy Finlayson, Thelma Todd, Bobby Burns, Harry Bernard, ...

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Below Zero(1930)

| 20min | Comedy

3.3/5 (with 26 votes)

Street musicians Stan and Ollie have no success earning money in the dead of winter in a bad neighborhood. Their instruments are destroyed in an argument with a woman, but their luck seems to turn when Stan finds a wallet.

Directed by James Parrott - With Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Tiny Sandford, Charlie Hall, Baldwin Cooke, Jack Hill, ...

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Up the River(1930)

| 1h 25min | Comedy, Crime

2.9/5 (with 13 votes)

Daily life at men and women's prison units where baseball and the marching band are serious business. Two prisoners escape in order to help paroled Steve from being blackmailed by his girlfriend's ex-partner-in-crime.

Directed by John Ford - With Spencer Tracy, Claire Luce, Warren Hymer, Humphrey Bogart, Bob Burns, Edythe Chapman, ...

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Hog Wild(1930)

| 19min | Comedy

3.5/5 (with 27 votes)

Ollie can't find his hat, much to the amusement of his wife and maid. Then Ollie and Stan attempt to install a rooftop radio antenna.

Directed by James Parrott - With Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Fay Holderness, Dorothy Granger

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Shivering Shakespeare(1930)

20min | Comedy

2.6/5 (with 2 votes)

The gang is participating in a program sponsored by the Golden Age Dramatic League. They present their own fractured version of Quo Vadis. Things go from bad to worse when the neighborhood tough kids disrupt the show. The pie fight is given a new twist by use of some slow motion sequences.

Directed by Robert A. McGowan - With Norman Chaney

Under the Roofs of Paris(1930)

1h 32min | Music, Drama, Romance / Love

3.4/5 (with 23 votes)

In the tenement slums of Paris between the world wars, impoverished street singer Albert yearns for beautiful Romanian immigrant Pola. Pola's boyfriend, local hoodlum Fred, grows jealous of Albert's constant attention to his woman and frames the hapless musician for one of his own petty crimes. But while Albert is in prison for Fred's misdeed, Pola ends up falling for Albert's faithful best friend, Louis.

Directed by René Clair - With Albert Préjean, Pola Illéry, Gaston Modot, Delphine Abdala, Edmond T. Gréville, Édouard Francomme, ...

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Free and Easy(1930)

| 1h 32min | Comedy, Music

3.2/5 (with 3 votes)

Gopher City Kansas hosts a beauty contest. The winner, Elvira Plunkett, and her mother go to Hollywood. The Chamber of Commerce also provides Elvira with an agent, Gopher City's own Elmer J. Butz. Elmer likes Elvira and the shy Elvira likes him, but Mrs. Plunkett, a formidable woman, has little use for hapless Elmer. On the train west, they meet movie star Larry Mitchell, who takes a shine to Elvira and helps her meet MGM directors once they get to Tinsel Town. Elmer, meanwhile, wants to help Elvira with her career and he also wants to be her man. Movie stardom does come to the Gopher City entourage, but to whom is a surprise. And who will win the lovely Elvira's hand?

Directed by Edward Sedgwick - With Buster Keaton, Anita Page, Robert Montgomery, Fred Niblo, Gwen Lee, John Miljan, ...

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Raffles(1930)

1h 12min | Adventure, Crime, Romance / Love

3.0/5 (with 4 votes)

A distinguished English gentleman has a secret life--he is the notorious jewel thief the press has dubbed "The Amateur Cracksman". When he meets a woman and falls in love he decides to "retire" from that life, but an old friend comes to him with a predicament that entails him committing one last job.

Directed by George Fitzmaurice - With Ronald Colman, Kay Francis, Bramwell Fletcher, Virginia Bruce, David Torrence, Alison Skipworth, ...

Remote Control(1930)

1h 5min | Comedy, Drama

2.4/5 (with 3 votes)

A radio announcer gets caught up with a fake clairvoyant and his gang of thieves.

Directed by Edward Sedgwick, Nick Grinde, Malcolm St. Clair - With William Haines, Charles King, Polly Moran, Edward Brophy, Mary Doran, John Miljan, ...

The Royal Family of Broadway(1930)

1h 22min | Comedy

2.9/5 (with 6 votes)

Julie Cavendish comes from a family of great Broadway actors. Her mother Fanny staunchly continues acting. Her boisterous brother Tony is fleeing a breach of promise suit in Hollywood. Her daughter Gwen must decide between going on stage, or settling down in a conventional marriage. Julie is just thinking that it would be nice to retire and get married, when who should turn up but her old beau, Gilmore Marshal, the platinum magnate from South America.

Directed by George Cukor, Cyril Gardner - With Ina Claire, Fredric March, Mary Brian, Charles Starrett, Frank Conroy, Arnold Korff, ...

Way Out West(1930)

1h 11min | Western, Comedy, Drama

3.0/5 (with 4 votes)

Wise-guy carnival barker Windy bilks a group of cowboys out of their money, gets caught and is forced into working off the debt on their ranch. He falls in love with Molly, the pretty owner of the ranch, but runs afoul of foreman Steve, who also loves Molly.

Directed by Fred Niblo - With William Haines, Leila Hyams, Polly Moran, Francis X. Bushman, Jr.

Teacher's Pet(1930)

20min | Kids & Family, Comedy

3.6/5 (with 4 votes)

Jackie prepares a series of elaborate jokes for his new teacher.

Directed by Robert F. McGowan - With June Marlowe, Jackie Cooper, Allen Hoskins, Norman Chaney, Mary Ann Jackson, Bobby Hutchins, ...

Lightnin'(1930)

| 1h 36min | Comedy

1.9/5 (with 2 votes)

Lightnin' and Mary Jones are co-owners of a hotel built right on a state border, used by divorcing wives so they can pretend to be in California while establishing residency in Nevada. When Lightnin' refuses to sell his share of the hotel to a gang of crooks, Mary is coerced into divorcing her husband so that she can sign over the deed herself.

Directed by Henry King - With Bess Flowers, Frank Campeau, J. M. Kerrigan, Jason Robards, Joel McCrea, Joyce Compton, ...

The Golden Calf(1930)

1h 9min | Comedy

0.5/5 (with 1 vote)

In this pygmalionesque musical, a drab secretary leads a boring life until a good friend intervenes. The friend begins a total make-over upon her friend. First she slathers her in mud-packs, and then she encases her in lovely silk dresses. Soon the plain woman is transformed into an extraordinary beauty. It is no surprise that her boss, not knowing her true identity, falls hopelessly in love with her. Singing, dancing and romancing ensues. Songs include: "A Picture No Artist Can Paint," "You Gotta Be Modernistic," "I'm Telling the World About You," "Maybe Someday," and "Can I Help It.".

Directed by Millard Webb

Farewell(1930)

1h 20min | Comedy, Drama, Romance / Love

3.2/5 (with 2 votes)

Hella lives in a boarding house and has various romantic adventures before settling down with vacuum cleaner salesman Winkler.

Directed by Robert Siodmak - With Brigitte Horney, Aribert Mog, Emilia Unda, Martha Ziegler, Vladimir Sokoloff, Erwin Bootz, ...

Our Blushing Brides(1930)

1h 42min | Drama

3.2/5 (with 5 votes)

Three department store girls--Connie, Franky, and Gerry--share an apartment on West 91st Street in New York City. Each earns little more than 20 dollars per week. Gerry is the sensible one, but the others throw themselves at amoral rich men in an attempt to hook one and better themselves. They end up being hurt and disappointed despite Gerry's attempts to warn them.

Directed by Harry Beaumont - With Joan Crawford, Anita Page, Dorothy Sebastian, Robert Montgomery, Hedda Hopper, Edward Brophy, ...

The Gorilla Mystery(1930)

7min | Animation

3.0/5 (with 15 votes)

A gorilla has escaped; Mickey, panicked, calls Minnie, but she plays a song to show she is not afraid. That is, until the gorilla comes up behind her and grabs her. Mickey rushes right over to save her.

Directed by Burt Gillett

Check and Double Check(1930)

| 1h 17min | Comedy

3.1/5 (with 3 votes)

Amos and Andy trying to make a go of their "open-air" taxi business while they get caught up in a society hassle, involving driving musicians to a fancy party.

Directed by Melville W. Brown - With Charles Correll

Love in the Rough(1930)

1h 24min | Comedy, Music, Romance / Love

2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

When a shipping clerk is recruited by his employer to help his golf game, his boss insists he conceal his humble identity at the country club.

Directed by Charles Reisner - With Allan Lane, Catherine Moylan, Clarence Wilson, Dorothy Jordan, J. C. Nugent, Robert Montgomery, ...

Heads Up(1930)

| 1h 16min | Music, Comedy

Jack Mason of the Coast Guard Academy meets Mary at the graduation ball and falls in love with her, though the girl's mother finds wealthy Rex Cutting a more proper choice for her daughter. On a yachting cruise arranged by Mrs. Trumbull, Jack is not invited. Meanwhile, Mary suspects Rex of picking up contraband beyond the 12-mile limit and refuses his proposal of marriage, while Betty, her impish sister, drives Skippy to distraction in the galley, where he has installed an automatic kitchen that does most of his work. Jack smuggles himself aboard but is forcibly ejected at port by a coast guard, and Mrs. Trumbull discourages his attempt to elope with Mary; but on a subsequent cruise, he hides himself in a lifeboat with two aides. When the captain stops to take on a cargo of rum, Jack and his aides take over the vessel, and a battle ensues. The yacht is wrecked on an island, and Jack proves his heroism, while Rex reveals his true colors and is identified as a fugitive bootlegger.

Directed by Victor Schertzinger - With Charles Rogers

The Cohens and the Kellys in Africa(1930)

| 1h 10min | Comedy

Cohen and Kelly families go to Africa to buy elephant tusks.

Directed by Vin Moore - With George Sidney

All for love(1930)

Comedy

Matej Krópal and his wife farm on a Haná farm. Their niece Vera is coming to stay with them for the holidays. In a small traffic accident, Vera meets her acquaintance, the engineer Peters, who is engaged to the emancipated Olga. However, he is so tempted by Vera's wealth that he begins to court her.

Directed by Martin Frič - With Valentin Šindler, Suzanne Marwille, Jan W. Speerger, Marie Pavlíková, František Klika, Marie Běhavá, ...

Honey(1930)

1h 15min | Comedy

A once-wealthy sister and brother rent out their Southern mansion and stay on as cook and butler.

Directed by Wesley Ruggles - With Nancy Carroll

Doughboys(1930)

| 1h 19min | Comedy, War

3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Elmer, rich society loafer, falls for Mary, but she'll have nothing to do with him until (mistakenly thinking that he's hiring a new chauffeur) he accidentally volunteers for the army. Luckily, Mary's signed up to entertain the troops. Unluckily, Elmer's sergeant likes Mary, too. And worst of all, they're all about to ship out for France.

Directed by Edward Sedgwick - With Buster Keaton, Cliff Edwards, Edward Brophy, Sally Eilers, Frank Mayo, Ann Sothern, ...

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1930 Comedy Movies

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Animal Crackers(1930)

Brats(1930)

Blotto(1930)

Laughter(1930)

Feet First(1930)

Night Owls(1930)

Another Fine Mess(1930)

Below Zero(1930)

Up the River(1930)

Hog Wild(1930)

Shivering Shakespeare(1930)

Under the Roofs of Paris(1930)

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Free and Easy(1930)

Raffles(1930)

Remote Control(1930)

The Royal Family of Broadway(1930)

Way Out West(1930)

Teacher's Pet(1930)

Lightnin'(1930)

The Golden Calf(1930)

Farewell(1930)

Our Blushing Brides(1930)

The Gorilla Mystery(1930)

Check and Double Check(1930)

Love in the Rough(1930)

Heads Up(1930)

The Cohens and the Kellys in Africa(1930)

All for love(1930)

Honey(1930)

Doughboys(1930)

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