Don Giovanni (1979), Ruggles of Red Gap (1935), A Chump at Oxford (1940), Delusions of Grandeur (1971), Buck Privates (1941), Mad About Music (1938), The Valet (2006), Unconditional Love (2002) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Valet movies.
Storyline: Screen adapatation of Mozart's greatest opera. Don Giovanni, the infamous womanizer, makes one conquest after another until the ghost of Donna Anna's father, the Commendatore, (whom Giovanni killed) makes his appearance. He offers Giovanni one last chance to repent for his multitudinious improprieties. He will not change his ways So, he is sucked down into hell by evil spirits. High drama, hysterical comedy, magnificent music!—<frankpat@ix.netcom.com>
Plot Keywords: don juan, noblewoman, valet, fiancé, womanizer, ex-lover, brooding ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: While visiting Paris in 1908, upper class Lord Burnstead loses his butler playing poker. Egbert and Effie Floud bring Ruggles back to Red Gap, Washington. Effie wants to take advantage of Ruggles' upper class background to influence Egbert's hick lifestyle. However, Egbert is more interested in partying and he takes Ruggles to the local 'beer bust'. When word gets out that "Colonel Ruggles is staying with his close friends" in the local paper, the butler becomes a town celebrity. After befriending Mrs. Judson, a widow who he impresses with his culinary skills, Ruggles decides to strike out on his own and open a restaurant. His transition from servant to independent man will depend on its success.—Gary Jackson <garyjack5@cogeco.ca>
Plot Keywords: valet, earl, rancher, wife, neighbor, amusing, paris ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: With Stan in drag, the boys get jobs as a married butler and maid for a dinner party at the Vandeveres. When that ends in disaster, they're reduced to sweeping streets, and accidentally capture a bank robber. The grateful bank president sends them to Oxford for a proper education. There they become victims of student pranks, getting lost in the university's Maze, and taking over the Dean's quarters as their own; but, then a knock on the head turns Stan "back" into the famed Lord Paddington, scholar and athlete extraordinaire. Suddenly erudite and supercilious, he retains Oliver as his valet, "Fatty."—Paul Penna <tterrace@wco.com>
Plot Keywords: banker, lord, college student, dean, valet, frenetic, unrestrained ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Don Salluste, a petty tyrant in his own home and minister of the King of Spain, falls from grace. Wanting revenge, he tries to compromize the Queen with his valet Blaze, introduced as his cousin. But poor Blaze gets stuck with a rather repulsive duenna, who is madly in love with him and very keen on getting her way. This wild comedy takes off at a dashing pace set by the De Funes, Montand and Sapritch trio.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: tax collector, valet, queen, king, nephew, hilarious, spectacular ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Bud and Lou enlist in the army in order to escape being hauled off to jail, and soon find themselves in basic training. To their dismay, the company's drill instructor is none other than the cop who was all set to run them off to the hoosegow in the first place! The boys end up having a whale of a time getting under the skin of their humourless nemesis.—Alfred Jingle
Plot Keywords: salesman, soldier, drill instructor, hostess, playboy, valet, hilarious ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A young woman at a girl's school in Switzerland makes up stories about and writes herself letters from an imaginary explorer-adventurer father; and is eventually put in a position where she has to produce him. Interesting things happen as she talks a visiting Englishman into helping her out.—Sonya Roberts <sonya_roberts@geocities.com>
Plot Keywords: schoolgirl, celebrity, composer, valet, mother, classmate, amusing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Pierre Lavasseur (Daniel Auteuil), a wealthy tycoon, faces disaster when a paparazzo snaps a picture of him with his longtime mistress (Alice Taglioni). Since Pierre's wife (Kristin Scott Thomas) owns a majority share of their corporation, Pierre must avoid a divorce at all costs. At his lawyer's suggestion, Pierre hires Francois Pignon (Gad Elmaleh), a parking attendant who is also in the photograph, to pose as his lover's "real" boyfriend and thus hide the affair from his wife.
Plot Keywords: valet, wealthy man, model, wife, lover, goofy, hilarious ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: After her husband unexpectedly leaves her, Grace Beasley (Kathy Bates) spontaneously travels to Great Britain to attend the funeral of Victor Fox (Jonathan Pryce), a singer she adored. There, she meets the lover of the dead pop star, Dirk Simpson (Rupert Everett), and convinces him to return to Chicago, Illinois with her to find Victor's killer. Guest appearances by Dame Julie Andrews and Barry Manilow.
Plot Keywords: housewife, lawyer, valet, serial killer, amusing, engaging, chicago ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Jim's father wants to marry Eugenia, but her sister Netta refuses to allow it. When Jim sees Ann at a club, he falls for her even though she is with Lord Priory. He meets her the next day at the riding path, but she quickly loses him. He searches all over for her, not knowing that his father's fiancée is her Aunt. As his caricature work suffers as he searches, he is fired from his paper. But he makes a comeback with the comics 'Rags to Riches,' which is based upon the aunt's family. This upsets them so much that they go back to New York, and he follows, being careful not to let them know that he is the one who draws the strip that parodies them.—Tony Fontana <tony.fontana@spacebbs.com>
Plot Keywords: cartoonist, father, valet, fiancée, sister, wealthy woman, playful ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A telephone operator at an opulent hotel falls in love with a young man who turns out to be a rich oil millionaire.
Plot Keywords: young woman, millionaire, valet, amusing, endearing, spirited, hotel ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Broadway partners Vicky Lane and Dan Christy have a tiff over Christy's womanizing. Jealous Vicky takes up with her old flame and former dance partner, Victor Price, and Dan's career takes a nosedive. In hopes of rekindling their romance and getting Vicky back on the boards with him, Dan follows her to a ritzy resort in the Canadian Rockies, where she and Victor are about to open their new act. But things get complicated when Dan wakes after a bender to find that he's hired an outlandish Latin secretary, Rosita Murphy, which makes Vicky think he's just up to his old tricks again.—Paul Penna <tterrace@wco.com>
Plot Keywords: dancer, broadway star, secretary, valet, ex-lover, partner, charming ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: McKinley B. "Mac" Thompson, American reporter in Moscow, smuggles out uncensored news under the alias "Comrade X," but hotel valet Vanya discovers his secret. Vanya fears for the safety of his daughter Golubka ("Theodore") and blackmails Mac into helping her leave the country. Mac is happier about his task once he meets lovely Theodore, but can he convince her of his sincerity? The anti-communist humor becomes alternately grim and farcical.—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
Plot Keywords: journalist, valet, lighthearted, playful, patriotic, moscow, father/daughter relationship ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: American GI Ernie Williams (Danny Kaye), admittedly weak-kneed, has an uncanny resemblance to British Colonel MacKenzie (Danny Kaye). Williams, also a master of imitation and disguise, is asked to impersonate the Colonel, ostensibly to allow the Colonel to make a secret trip East. What Williams is not told is that the Colonel has recently been a target of assassins. After the Colonel's plane goes down, the plan changes and Williams maintains the disguise to confuse the Nazis about D-Day.—Jerry Milani <jmilani@ix.netcom.com>
Plot Keywords: private, lady, wife, valet, colonel, captain, general ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Ann Sothern wishes to marry a man her rich father disapproves of, so she concocts a scheme to get him on her side. She hires Raymond to act like an obnoxious French count, then pretends to take an interest in him in front of her father, hoping he will agree her first choice is better than the brash, selfish, insulting count.—dictracy23
Plot Keywords: young woman, impersonator, divorcée, valet, airy, amusing, madcap ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Sergeant Victor comes to the French Foreign Legion after taking the blame for his brother's crime. Cigarette falls in love with him though Major Doyle is in love with her. Doyle sends Victor on dangerous assignments to be rid of him. He falls in love with Lady Venetia Cunningham, a visitor to the garrison.—Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu>
Plot Keywords: sergeant, major, love interest, lounge singer, valet, engaging, melodramatic ...
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