1953 Comedy Movies

215 movies found (page 1/8):

Monsieur Hulot's Holiday(1953)

| 1h 27min | Comedy

3.5/5 (with 182 votes)

Monsieur Hulot, Jacques Tati’s endearing clown, takes a holiday at a seaside resort, where his presence provokes one catastrophe after another. Tati’s masterpiece of gentle slapstick is a series of effortlessly well-choreographed sight gags involving dogs, boats, and firecrackers; it was the first entry in the Hulot series and the film that launched its maker to international stardom.

Directed by Jacques Tati - With Jacques Tati, André Dubois, Lucien Frégis, Michèle Brabo, Raymond Carl, René Lacourt, ...

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The Return of Don Camillo(1953)

1h 55min | Comedy

3.6/5 (with 82 votes)

Energetic priest Don Camillo returns to the town of Brescello for more political and personal duels with Communist mayor Peppone.

Directed by Julien Duvivier - With Fernandel, Gino Cervi, Paolo Stoppa, Arturo Bragaglia, Leda Gloria, Pina Gallini, ...

Beat the Devil(1953)

| 1h 29min | Adventure, Comedy

3.2/5 (with 53 votes)

A group of con artists stake their claim on a bogus uranium mine.

Directed by John Huston - With Humphrey Bogart, Jennifer Jones, Gina Lollobrigida, Peter Lorre, Robert Morley, Marco Tulli, ...

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El señor fotógrafo(1953)

1h 40min | Comedy, Thriller

4.2/5 (with 30 votes)

Cantinflas, a traveling photographer, is captured by some gangsters while trying to get some flowers for his girlfriend. The gangsters have confused him with the assistant of Dr. Penongo, a scientist who has discovered the formula of a new atomic bomb. Meanwhile, Penongo has suffered a car accident and has lost his memory ...

Directed by Miguel M. Delgado - With Cantinflas, Rosita Arenas, Ángel Garasa, Wolf Ruvinskis, Eduardo Alcaraz, Ada Carrasco, ...

The Caddy(1953)

| 1h 35min | Comedy

3.2/5 (with 18 votes)

Although the son of a skilled golfer and an outstanding player in his own right, Harvey Miller is too nervous to play in front of a gallery, so he acts as coach and caddy for Joe Anthony, his girlfriend's brother.

Directed by Norman Taurog - With Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Donna Reed, Barbara Bates, Joseph Calleia, Fred Clark, ...

Money from Home(1953)

1h 40min | Comedy, Music

2.8/5 (with 11 votes)

Herman owes a lot of gambling debts. To pay them off, he promises the mob he'll fix a horse, so that it does not run. He intends to trick his animal-loving cousin Virgil, an apprentice veterinarian, into helping him. Of course, he doesn't tell Virgil what he is really up to. Mistaken identities are assumed, while along the way, Virgil meets a female vet and Herman falls for the owner of the horse.

Directed by George Marshall - With Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Marjie Millar, Pat Crowley, Robert Strauss, Richard Haydn, ...

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Welcome Mr. Marshall!(1953)

1h 18min | Comedy

3.7/5 (with 44 votes)

A small Spanish town, Villar del Río, is alerted to the upcoming visit of American diplomats and its ruling townsmen begin preparations to impress the American visitors, in the hopes of benefiting under the Marshall Plan. Hoping to demonstrate the side of Spanish culture with which the visiting foreign officials would be more familiarized, the Castilian citizens don unfamiliar Andalusian costumes, hire a renowned flamenco performer, and re-decorate their town in Andalusian style, meantime waiting for their uncertain arrival.

Directed by Luis García Berlanga - With José Isbert, Manolo Morán, Elvira Quintillá, Félix Fernández, Lolita Sevilla, Fernando Rey, ...

Neapolitan Turk(1953)

1h 30min | Comedy

3.7/5 (with 45 votes)

Naples/Sorrento, mid 20s. A couple of small thieves conceive a scam whereby one of them dresses up as a eunuch Turk to care for the women of the family of a wealthy man. They end up messing everything up, with lots of gags and funny events in the meantime.

Directed by Mario Mattoli - With Totò, Aldo Giuffrè, Carlo Campanini, Isa Barzizza, Vinicio Sofia, Mario Castellani, ...

Abbott and Costello Go to Mars(1953)

1h 17min | Comedy, Fantasy, Science Fiction

2.8/5 (with 21 votes)

Lester and Orville accidentally launch a rocket which is supposed to fly to Mars. Instead it goes to New Orleans for Mardi Gras. They are then forced by bank robber Mugsy and his pal Harry to fly to Venus where they find a civilization made up entirely of women, men having been banished.

Directed by Charles Lamont - With Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Mari Blanchard, Dudley Dickerson, Martha Hyer, Anita Ekberg, ...

Bully for Bugs(1953)

| 7min | Animation, Action, Comedy

3.6/5 (with 39 votes)

Bugs Bunny once again making that "wrong turn at Albuquerque" burrows into a bullring, where a magnificent bull is making short work of a toreador. The bull bucks Bugs out of the arena, prompting the bunny to declare "Of course you realize, this means war!" The deft Bugs' arsenal comes plenty packed, as he uses anvils, well-placed face slaps and the bull's horns as a slingshot. The bull fights back, using his horns as a shotgun barrel. The bull's comeback is short-lived; just after Bugs makes out his will, he lures the bull out of the arena, just in time to set up a rube-like device that leads to the bull's defeat.

Directed by Chuck Jones

Johann Mouse(1953)

| 8min | Animation, Comedy, Kids & Family

3.3/5 (with 23 votes)

At the home of Viennese composer Johann Strauss lived Johann Mouse. Whenever the composer played his waltzes, the mouse would dance to the music, unable to control himself. One day, when Strauss was away, the house cat played his master's music. When word got out about a piano-playing cat and a dancing mouse, they were commanded to perform for the emperor.

Directed by William Hanna, Joseph Barbera

Duck! Rabbit, Duck!(1953)

| 7min | Animation, Action, Comedy

3.7/5 (with 44 votes)

The final installment of the "Hunting Trilogy" once again has Elmer out hunting, while Bugs and Daffy try to con him into shooting the other.

Directed by Chuck Jones

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The Titfield Thunderbolt(1953)

1h 24min | Comedy

3.5/5 (with 22 votes)

When British Railways announce the closure of the Titfield to Mallingford branch line a group of local residents make a bid to run it themselves, backed by a monied member of the community who is attracted by the complete lack of licensing hours on trains. Unfortunately the local bus company starts to use methods that can hardly be seen as fair competition.

Directed by Charles Crichton - With Stanley Holloway, George Relph, Naunton Wayne, John Gregson, Hugh Griffith, Gabrielle Brune, ...

South Sea Woman(1953)

1h 39min | Adventure, Comedy, Romance / Love, War

2.7/5 (with 3 votes)

Marine Sergeant James O'Hearn is being tried at the San Diego Marine base for desertion, theft, scandalous conduct and destruction of property in time of war. He refuses to testify or plead guilty or not guilty to the charges. Showgirl Ginger Martin takes the stand against his protest. She testifies O'Hearn won't talk because he is protecting the name of his pal, Marine Private Davey White. Ginger tells how she, broke and stranded, met the two marines in Shanghai two weeks before Pearl Harbor.

Directed by Arthur Lubin - With Burt Lancaster, Virginia Mayo, Arthur Shields, Barry Kelley, Chuck Connors, Hayden Rorke, ...

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The Wild Oat(1953)

1h 43min | Comedy

3.6/5 (with 7 votes)

A small village is torn apart by a quarrel between the baker and the italian grocery tenant, mother of a pregnant young girl. She accuses the baker's son, doing his military service in Algeria, to be the father of the would be child. Offended, the baker refuses to deliver bread to the villagers standing on the mother's side.

Directed by Henri Verneuil - With André Carnège, Antonin Berval, Edmond Ardisson, Fernand Sardou, Fernandel, Francis Linel, ...

Genevieve(1953)

1h 26min | Comedy

3.3/5 (with 18 votes)

Two friends driving in the London to Brighton vintage car rally bet on which of them will be the first to arrive back home.

Directed by Henry Cornelius - With Dinah Sheridan, John Gregson, Kay Kendall, Kenneth More, Geoffrey Keen, Arthur Wontner, ...

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Never Wave at a WAC(1953)

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

2.4/5 (with 4 votes)

A divorced socialite decides to join the Army because she hopes it will enable her to see more of her boyfriend, a Colonel. She soon encounters many difficulties with the Army lifestyle. Moreover, her ex-husband is working as a consultant with the Army, and he uses his position to disrupt her romantic plans by making her join a group of WACs who are testing new equipment.

Directed by Norman Z. McLeod - With Rosalind Russell

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The Captain's Paradise(1953)

1h 34min | Romance / Love, Comedy, Drama

2.8/5 (with 8 votes)

Mediterranean ferryboat captain Henry St James has things well organized - a loving and very English wife Maud in Gibraltar, and the loving if rather more hot-blooded Mistress, Nita in Tangiers. A perfect life. As long as neither woman decides to follow him to the other port.

Directed by Anthony Kimmins - With Alec Guinness, Celia Johnson, Yvonne De Carlo

Loose in London(1953)

1h 2min | Comedy, Action, Adventure

2.8/5 (with 2 votes)

The Bowery Boys take on British crooks when one of them thinks he's inherited a title.

Directed by Edward Bernds - With Leo Gorcey

Julietta(1953)

1h 36min | Comedy, Romance / Love

3.1/5 (with 2 votes)

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Directed by Marc Allégret - With Dany Robin, Jean Marais, Jeanne Moreau, Denise Grey, Alain Terrane, Bernard Lancret, ...

Napoleon Road(1953)

1h 30min | Comedy

3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

A greedy advertising executive wants to attract the tourists into a small village:he claims Napoleon slept in the local inn on his was back from Elbe island.

Directed by Jean Delannoy - With Anne Roudier, Bréols, Claude Laydu, Denise Prêcheur, Eugène Frouhins, Fernand Sardou, ...

The Twonky(1953)

| 1h 24min | Comedy, Science Fiction

2.0/5 (with 2 votes)

A college professor, left alone by his wife for the weekend, discovers his new TV set is not only alive, but determined to take control of his entire life.

Directed by Arch Oboler - With Hans Conried, Gloria Blondell, Billy Lynn

The Father Is Training(1953)

1h 14min | Comedy

5.0/5 (with 1 vote)

A widowed taverna owner tries to improve himself in order to please the aristocratic family of his son's wife. He manages to change things and ends up training everyone else instead.

Directed by Nikos Tsiforos

Innocents in Paris(1953)

1h 42min | Comedy

2.4/5 (with 4 votes)

Romantic comedy about a group of Britons flying to Paris for the weekend.

Directed by Gordon Parry - With Alain Bouvette, Alastair Sim, Albert Dinan, Albert Michel, André Numès Fils, André Philip, ...

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Off Limits(1952)

| 1h 29min | Comedy

3.0/5 (with 7 votes)

Wally Hogan has things going his way. He is the manager-trainer of Bullet Bradley, a fighter who has just won the lightweight championship. However, life suddenly takes a not-so-happy turn when Bullet gets drafted.

Directed by George Marshall - With Bob Hope, Mickey Rooney, Marilyn Maxwell, Jack Dempsey, Marvin Miller, Carolyn Jones, ...

Me traes de un ala(1953)

1h 30min | Comedy

3.0/5 (with 4 votes)

To conquer the beautiful vedette Rosita, journalist Tin Tan is subject to her whims. Fired along with his friend Narciso from the newspaper they worked, Tin Tan trying to sell a movie plot. A woman looking to buy it and Tin Tan will visit her in a gloomy mansion where a mess is unleashed.

Directed by Gilberto Martínez Solares - With Germán Valdés, Silvia Pinal, Marcelo Chávez, Maruja Grifell, Wolf Ruvinskis, Francisco Reiguera, ...

Lo scocciatore(1953)

1h 28min | Drama, Comedy

3.2/5 (with 3 votes)

A bored civil servant accepts an invitation to visit a glamorous young lady. When she doesn't answer the door, then is later found murdered he panics!

Directed by Giorgio Bianchi - With Peppino De Filippo, Alberto Sordi, Giulietta Masina, Arlette Poirier, Carlo Dapporto, Leopoldo Trieste, ...

Time, Gentlemen, Please!(1952)

1h 22min | Comedy

4.0/5 (with 2 votes)

Because of its high productivity and "almost" 100 per cent employment, the town of Hayhoe, England is expecting a visit from the Prime Minister. The "almost" is because of Dan Dance (Eddie Byrne), an old rogue who would rather drink and philosophize than work. The Village Council are determined to have a perfect record so they connive to have the old man put into the alms-house which has been unoccupied for many years, where he must abide by rules laid down 400 years ago. A new Vicar arrives and discovers that, because of the circumstances created by the Council, Dan Dance is entitled to 6,000 pounds a year at the expense of the village.

Directed by Lewis Gilbert - With Eddie Byrne, Hermione Baddeley

Isn't Life Wonderful!(1954)

1h 20min | Comedy

2.8/5 (with 2 votes)

Around the turn of the century, in England, alcoholic Uncle Willie is the bane of his family, of which his brother-in-law is the family spokesman. It is decided to let Uncle Willie buy a bicycle shop in order to impress Virginia van Stuyden, an American heiress in love with Frank. This pleases Uncle Willie's young nephew, Charles. Complications arise when stuffy lord, Sir George Probus, at whose home Virginia is staying, becomes shocked when she attends a carnival.

Directed by Harold French - With Cecil Parker, Eileen Herlie, Donald Wolfit, Peter Asher

Annaluise & Anton(1953)

1h 31min | Kids & Family, Drama, Comedy

3.6/5 (with 3 votes)

Despite their social differences Luise, called Pünktchen, a girl from rich parentage befriends Anton, a boy who has to earn his own money in order to afford life for his sick mother and himself. Together they undergo different adventures, even preventing a theft in Pünktchens home.

Directed by Thomas Engel - With Sabine Eggerth, Peter Feldt, Hertha Feiler, Paul Klinger, Heidemarie Hatheyer, Annie Rosar, ...

1953 Comedy Movies

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Monsieur Hulot's Holiday(1953)

The Return of Don Camillo(1953)

Beat the Devil(1953)

El señor fotógrafo(1953)

The Caddy(1953)

Money from Home(1953)

Welcome Mr. Marshall!(1953)

Neapolitan Turk(1953)

Abbott and Costello Go to Mars(1953)

Bully for Bugs(1953)

Johann Mouse(1953)

Duck! Rabbit, Duck!(1953)

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The Titfield Thunderbolt(1953)

South Sea Woman(1953)

The Wild Oat(1953)

Genevieve(1953)

Never Wave at a WAC(1953)

The Captain's Paradise(1953)

Loose in London(1953)

Julietta(1953)

Napoleon Road(1953)

The Twonky(1953)

The Father Is Training(1953)

Innocents in Paris(1953)

Off Limits(1952)

Me traes de un ala(1953)

Lo scocciatore(1953)

Time, Gentlemen, Please!(1952)

Isn't Life Wonderful!(1954)

Annaluise & Anton(1953)

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