Ma and Pa Kettle (1949) more movies like this

directed by Charles Lamont
featuring Marjorie Main, Percy Kilbride, Richard Long, Meg Randall, Patricia Alphin

The title couple and their enormous brood of bumpkins made their movie debut in the film version of Betty McDonald's humorous book The Egg and I (1947) where they appeared as supporting characters. Audiences found them funny and so the characters got their own long-running series of B movies. Ma and Pa Kettle is the first in that series and ...

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Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy (1955) more movies like this

directed by Charles Lamont
featuring Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Marie Windsor, Michael Ansara, Dan Seymour

Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy is the last of the team's vehicles for Universal-International. Stranded in Egypt, Bud and Lou hire themselves out as travelling companions to archeologist Kurt Katch. Before long, Katch is murdered by a group of cultists, and a medallion, embossed with a map which leads to a sacred burial site, is accidentally ...

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Ring of Bright Water (1969) more movies like this

directed by Charles Lamont, Jack C. Couffer
featuring Bill Travers, Virginia McKenna, Peter Jeffrey, Roddy McMillan, Jameson Clark

When a man buys an otter for a pet, he gets more than he bargained for as he tries to keep the animal in his bathtub. He and his pet soon find life in London is not the place for such and animal, so the two head for the coast. The man enlists the help of a local female doctor to help in the care and feeding of his beloved otter in this family ...

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Abbott and Costello Go to Mars (1953) more movies like this

directed by Charles Lamont
featuring Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Mari Blanchard, Robert Paige, Horace McMahon

They don't really go to Mars, they go to Venus, but first they go to New Orleans. While working at a missile base, Bud Abbott and Lou Costello inadvertently launch a rocket ship with themselves aboard. After a wild ride around New York City (the Statue of Liberty ducks when the rocket heads her way), Bud and Lou land in the outskirts of New ...

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Ma and Pa Kettle on Vacation (1953) more movies like this

directed by Charles Lamont
featuring Marjorie Main, Percy Kilbride, Ray Collins, Bodil Miller, Sig Rumann

This fifth entry in Universal's "Ma and Pa Kettle" series finds the Kettle family taking a trip to Paris (courtesy of the Universal back lot). All the standard "innocents abroad" gags are in attendance, including Pa Kettle's (Percy Kilbride) efforts to extinguish a flaming serving of crepes suzettes, and Ma's (Marjorie Main) entanglement with a ...

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Ma and Pa Kettle at Home (1954) more movies like this

directed by Charles Lamont
featuring Marjorie Main, Percy Kilbride, Alan Mowbray, Alice Kelley, Brett Halsey

This sixth in the "Ma and Pa Kettle" series produced by Universal stars (as usual) Marjorie Main as Ma and Percy Kilbride as Pa. After a whirlwind international tour, the contest-winning rustics and their fifteen children return to their old farm. The eldest Kettle son (Brett Halsey) has a chance of winning a scholarship prize to a prestigious ...

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Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Town (1950) more movies like this

directed by Charles Lamont
featuring Marjorie Main, Percy Kilbride, Richard Long, Meg Randall, Gregg Martell

The second of Universal's "Ma and Pa Kettle" series, Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Town stars, as ever, Marjorie Main and Percy Kilbride. This time, the Kettles win a letter-writing contest, which offers as first prize an all-expense-paid trip to New York City. Once in Manhattan, the huge Kettle brood raises all sorts of Holy Ned, culminating in an ...

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Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man (1951) more movies like this

directed by Charles Lamont
featuring Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Nancy Guild, Arthur Franz, Adele Jergens

The best of Universal-International's followups to Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein, Abbott & Costello Meet the Invisible Man casts Bud and Lou as mail-order private eyes. The boys champion the cause of boxer Arthur Franz, who has been framed for murder. Utilizing the formula created by Claude Rains in the original Invisible Man (1933), Franz ...

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The Kettles in the Ozarks (1956) more movies like this

directed by Charles Lamont
featuring Marjorie Main, Arthur Hunnicutt, Una Merkel, Ted de Corsia, Olive Sturgess

The Kettles in the Ozarks was the eighth of Universal's "Ma and Pa Kettle" series--minus "Pa" (actor Percy Kilbride had left the series). Carrying on without the Kettle paterfamilias, Ma Kettle (Marjorie Main) and her large brood of children head for the Ozarks to visit her brother-in-law Sedge (Arthur Hunnicutt). She spends a good portion of the ...

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Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1953) more movies like this

directed by Charles Lamont
featuring Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Boris Karloff, Craig Stevens, Helen Westcott

This was the last in a string of spoofs that found the comedy duo tangling with various classic Universal Studios monsters. In this case, Slim (Bud Abbott) and Tubby (Lou Costello) play American detectives who cross wits with Dr. Henry Jekyll (Boris Karloff) in Edwardian-era London when they visit to compare techniques with their British ...

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Abbott & Costello in the Foreign Legion (1950) more movies like this

directed by Charles Lamont
featuring Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Patricia Medina, Walter Slezak, Douglas Dumbrille

Bud Abbott and Lou Costello play wrestling promoters whose star attraction, Wee Willie Davis, skips town to return to his home in Arabia. While scouring the desert in search of Davis, Bud and Lou inadvertently purchase slave girl Patricia Medina, and with equal inadvertence join the Foreign Legion. In their own bumbling, inept fashion, our heroes ...

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August Week-End (1936) more movies like this

directed by Charles Lamont
featuring Valerie Hobson, Paul Harvey, Betty Compson, Claire McDowell

Chesterfield Films, one of the busiest (though not necessarily one of the best) poverty-row operations of the 1930s, was responsible for the amiable comedy August Week-End. 19-year-old Valerie Hobson is top-billed, but the film's real star is G. P. Huntley Jr., playing a British business entrepreneur. Deciding that he's outgrown his bourgeois wife ...

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Shadows over Shanghai (1938) more movies like this

directed by Charles Lamont
featuring James Dunn, Ralph Morgan, Linda Gray, Robert H. Barrat, Paul Sutton

The bloom of youth had long faded on actor James Dunn when he starred in Shadows Over Shanghai. Even so, he is fairly convincing as hotshot newspaperman Johnny McGinty, on assignment in war-torn China (courtesy of the General Service Studios backlot). McGinty is one of several interested parties involved in a stolen Chinese amulet, which allegedly ...

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Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd (1952) more movies like this

directed by Charles Lamont
featuring Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Charles Laughton, Hillary Brooke, Bill Shirley

Though out of favor with many Abbott and Costello buffs, Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd is actually a lot of fun, so long as the viewer parks logic and dignity at the door. Captain Kidd is played by no less than Charles Laughton, who reportedly agreed to sign up for this film because he wanted to learn how to perform a comedy double-take. ...

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Salome, Where She Danced (1945) more movies like this

directed by Charles Lamont
featuring Yvonne De Carlo, Rod Cameron, David Bruce, Walter Slezak, Albert Dekker

This campy little drama launched the career of B-girl Yvonne De Carlo. It is set during the Franco-Prussian war and chronicles the exploits of Salome, a beautiful Viennese dancer who falls for an American reporter and for him gets involved in cloak-and-dagger activities involving the Bismarck, before returning to Arizona with him. There, she uses ...

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Sons of Steel (1935) more movies like this

directed by Charles Lamont
featuring Charles Starrett, Polly Ann Young, William Bakewell, Walter Walker, Aileen Pringle

In this drama, two disparate brothers use radically different methods to raise their sons. The brothers co-own a successful steel mill, but that is about all they have in common. One of them is a social climber while the other is a hard worker. The trouble begins because the fathers insist on raising the boys to become spitting images of ...

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Lady Luck (1936) more movies like this

directed by Charles Lamont
featuring Patricia Farr, William Bakewell, Duncan Renaldo, Iris Adrian

In this drama, a manicurist is mistaken for the winner of a large sweepstakes and finds herself pursued by fortune hunters. One of them wants to marry her for the publicity and a stage contract. The trouble really begins when the real winner shows up. She is more than happy to let the manicurist get all the attention, provided she gets the money. ...

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The Lady in Scarlet (1935) more movies like this

directed by Charles Lamont
featuring Reginald Denny, Patricia Farr, Claudia Dell, James Bush, Dorothy Revier

Lawyer Oliver Keith (Reginald Denny) in love with his secretary Ella Carey (Patricia Farr), but refuses to do anything about it during office hours. Thus, it's up to Ella to ardently pursue Oliver in her spare time. Their romance is temporarily shelved when Oliver and Ella combine forces to solve two seemingly unrelated murders. Lady in Scarlet is ...

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Lay That Rifle Down (1955) more movies like this

directed by Charles Lamont
featuring Judy Canova, Robert Lowery, Jill Jarmyn, Jacqueline De Wit, Richard Deacon

In this musical comedy, a young woman endures the drudgery of working as a charwoman in her aunt's hotel. She is not paid much for her hard work. To make her drab existence a little more exciting, she enrolls in a correspondence charm course, which unbeknownst to her is a scam. Soon the swindlers show up and plan to use her to help them con her ...

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Love, Honor and Oh Baby! (1940)

directed by Charles Lamont

In this drama, a despondent fellow contemplates suicide after he is abandoned by his last girlfriend. To ensure that his poor sister will receive maximum benefits from his life insurance policy, he hires a hitman to assassinate him. Unfortunately, he meets a new girl and changes his mind. Unfortunately, the killer, whom the hero has never met, ...

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The Long Shot (1939) more movies like this

directed by Charles Lamont
featuring Gordon Jones, Marsha Hunt, George Meeker, Harry Davenport

A racetrack melodrama, The Long Shot features Marsha Hunt and Gordon Jones as trainers of a thoroughbred horse. Despite the rivalries of their parents, the couple prepares to jointly enter the Santa Anita handicap. The odds are against their entry, but Hunt and Jones have every confidence of winning. Just before the starting bugle, gangsters ...

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The Girl Who Came Back (1935) more movies like this

directed by Charles Lamont
featuring Shirley Grey, Noel Madison, Matthew Betz

Shirley Grey plays The Girl Who Came Back in this Chesterfield Pictures "special". Grey is cast as Gilda, a former gun moll who turns her back on her crooked past and heads west to start life anew. Under an assumed name, she gets a job as a bank teller, only to be reunited with her former gangland cohorts (Noel Madison and Matthew Betz) during a ...

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False Pretenses (1935) more movies like this

directed by Charles Lamont
featuring Irene Ware, Sidney Blackmer, Russell Hopton, Betty Compson, Edward Gargan

Former Miss America Irene Ware stars in the standard Chestefield Pictures social drama False Pretenses. Ware is cast as lunch-counter waitress Mary Beekman, who intends to crash society and land a wealthy husband. She is helped along by affable millionaire Kenneth Alden (Sidney Blackmer), who loves Mary but won't admit it. Our heroine winds up ...

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Ring Around the Moon (1936) more movies like this

directed by Charles Lamont
featuring Donald Cook, Ann Doran, Alan Edwards, Douglas Fowley

Ring Around the Moon was based on the once-popular novel by Vera Hobart. The story endeavors to invite comparisons between the high-toned romantic adventures of wealthy Gloria Endicott (Erin O'Brien-Moore) and more earthy amours of low-born Kay Duncan (Ann Doran). Caught between both ladies is confused hero Ross Graham (Donald Cook). In her first ...

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Tomorrow's Youth (1935) more movies like this

directed by Charles Lamont

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