Comedy Movies
Goggle Fishing Bear (1949)
Barney has a dive mask and swim fins to help with his pursuit of fish. First, though, he needs to get the anchor set, despite an overly helpful little seal….
Helter Skelter (1949)
A detective gets involved with a wealthy socialite who can’t seem to stop hiccuping.
Warning to Wantons (1949)
Featuring an early role for accomplished French actress Anne Vernon alongside Mary Poppins star David Tomlinson, this effervescent comedy charts the romantic adventures of a young woman who swaps her…
Three Daughters (1949)
David Gottlieb, a longtime accountant at a New York firm run by Abe Zablinsky and his partner, is concerned about the future of his three daughters and worries that he…
Symphony in Spinach (1948)
Singer Olive Oyl needs an accompanist, and both Popeye and Bluto apply for the job.
Mexican Hayride (1948)
Two con men selling phony stock flee to Mexico ahead of the law, where they run into a woman friend from their earlier days, who is now a bullfighter.
Every Girl Should Be Married (1948)
Anabel Sims is determined to find the perfect husband. She thinks she’s found her man in Madison Brown, a handsome pediatrician. She then prepares an elaborate scheme to trap him…
Unfaithfully Yours (1948)
Before he left for a brief European visit, symphony conductor Sir Alfred De Carter casually asked his staid brother-in-law August to look out for his young wife, Daphne, during his…
The Boy with Green Hair (1948)
Peter, an orphaned boy, is adopted by Gramp Frye after his parents are killed in Europe while doing war relief work. The boy feels safe with his new caretaker, but…
Another Shore (1948)
A young Irishman comes up with an unusual plan to get the money to emigrate to Tahiti. One of the Ealing comedies.
The Cat That Hated People (1948)
A much-abused cat really hates living with people, so decides to go to the moon for some peace and quiet.
That Wonderful Urge (1948)
When an heiress finds out that the friendly young man she’s met at Sun Valley is really an investigative reporter, she ruins his career by falsely claiming they’re married.
Robin Hood-Winked (1948)
Popeye is Robin Hood; he’s got a sidekick, Little John. Bluto is the tax collector, and Olive is the owner/barmaid at the local pub. Bluto comes to the pub to…
Luxury Liner (1948)
Capt. Jeremy Bradford has a particularly exciting luxury liner cruise in store when he’s charged with transporting a troupe of opera singers to Rio de Janeiro. Anxious to become a…
June Bride (1948)
A magazine’s staff, including bickering ex-lovers Linda and Carey, cover an Indiana wedding, which goes slightly wrong.
You Gotta Stay Happy (1948)
Indecisive heiress Dee Dee Dillwood is pushed into marrying her sixth fiancée, but unable to face the wedding night, she flees into the adjacent hotel room of commercial pilot Marvin…
A Song Is Born (1948)
The story of seven scholars in search of an expert to teach them about swing music. They seem to have found the perfect candidate in winsome nightclub singer Honey Swanson….
Apartment for Peggy (1948)
Professor Henry Barnes decides he’s lived long enough and contemplates suicide. His attitude is changed by Peggy Taylor, a chipper young mother-to-be who charms him into renting out his attic…
The Luck of the Irish (1948)
Following American reporter Stephen Fitzgerald from Ireland to New York, a grateful leprechaun acts as the newsman’s servant and conscience.
Snow Place Like Home (1948)
Popeye and Olive are relaxing in the water off Miami when a hurricane hits. It carries them to the North Pole. Fortunately, a penguin comes by advertising Pierre’s Trading Post;…
For the Love of Mary (1948)
Young girl gets a job at the White House as a switchboard operator and gets mixed up in politics.
Good Sam (1948)
Sam Clayton has a good heart and likes to help out people in need. In fact, he likes to help them out so much that he often finds himself broke…
That Lady in Ermine (1948)
Circa 1861, Angelina, ruling countess of an Italian principality, is at a loss when invaded by a Hungarian army. Her lookalike ancestress Francesca, who saved a similar situation 300 years…
A Foreign Affair (1948)
In occupied Berlin, a US Army Captain is torn between an ex-Nazi cafe singer and the US Congresswoman investigating her.
Mr. Peabody and the Mermaid (1948)
As told to a psychiatrist: Mr. Peabody, a middle-aged Bostonian on vacation with his wife in the Caribbean, hears mysterious, wordless singing on an uninhabited rock in the bay. Fishing…
Julia Misbehaves (1948)
Julia and William were married and soon separated by his snobbish family. They meet again many years later, when their daughter he has raised invites her mother to her wedding,…
A Southern Yankee (1948)
Red Skelton plays Aubrey Filmore, a feather-brained but lovable bellboy who dreams of becoming an agent for the Union’s secret service during the Civil War.
One Touch of Venus (1948)
A window dresser’s kiss brings a statue of the Roman goddess of love to life.
A Date with Judy (1948)
Best friends Judy and Carol compete for the affection of an older man during their high school dance. As Carol tries to rekindle Judy’s relationship with Carol’s bumbling brother, Oogie,…
Pluto’s Purchase (1948)
Mickey Mouse sends Pluto to buy sausage at the butcher shop, but Butch schemes to steal it.
The Emperor Waltz (1948)
At the turn of the 20th century, travelling salesman Virgil Smith journeys to Vienna in the hope he can sell a gramophone to Emperor Franz Joseph, whose purchase of the…
Oliver Twist (1948)
When 9-year-old orphan Oliver Twist dares to ask his cruel taskmaster, Mr. Bumble, for a second serving of gruel, he’s hired out as an apprentice. Escaping that dismal fate, young…
Jinx Money (1948)
A man wins $50,000 in a card game with gamblers, but is soon found dead and the money missing. Slip and Sach find the money near where the body was…
Romance on the High Seas (1948)
Georgia Garrett is sent by jealous wife Elvira Kent on an ocean cruise to masquerade as herself while she secretly stays home to catch her husband cheating. Meanwhile equally suspicious…
Popeye Meets Hercules (1948)
The first Olympics, starring Hercules (looking, but not quite sounding, like a really pumped-up Bluto), who challenges anyone to do the same feats as him. Popeye takes that challenge, of…
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)
Baggage handlers Bud and Lou accidentally stumble upon Frankenstein’s Monster, Dracula and the Wolf Man.
The Pirate (1948)
A girl is engaged to the local richman, but meanwhile she has dreams about the legendary pirate Macoco. A traveling singer falls in love with her and to impress her…
The Fuller Brush Man (1948)
Poor Red Jones gets fired from every job he tries. His fiancée gives him one last chance to make good when he becomes a Fuller Brush man. His awkward attempts…
The Dude Goes West (1948)
Daniel Bone is aiming for success. A Brooklyn gunsmith by trade, he figures the place to be is where the guns are. So off he goes into the West and…
On an Island with You (1948)
A young navy lieutenant is brought in as technical adviser on a song-dance-and-swim film being made by screen star Rosalind Reynolds. Having once done a number with her at a…