Block-Heads (1938), Buck Privates (1941), Mrs Henderson Presents (2005), Roman Scandals (1933), Kid Millions (1934), Strike Me Pink (1936), Whoopee! (1930), The Night They Raided Minsky's (1968) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Burlesque movies.
Storyline: It's 1938, but Stan doesn't know the war is over; he's still patrolling the trenches in France, and shoots down a French aviator. Oliver sees his old chum's picture in the paper and goes to visit Stan at the Soldier's Home. Thinking Stan is disabled (it's just that he's sitting on his leg), Oliver takes pity on him and takes him home for a nice home-cooked meal. But Oliver's wife has other ideas and leaves him to fend for himself. After blowing up the kitchen, Oliver is helped by his next-door neighbor, Mrs. Gilbert... until the big-game hunting Mr. Gilbert comes home unexpectedly, carrying a shotgun.—Paul Penna <tterrace@wco.com>
Plot Keywords: comedy, classic, black and white, american film, 1930s, slapstick, humor ...
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: comedy, musical, world war ii, slapstick, dance, song and dance, broadway style ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Recently widowed well-to-do Laura Henderson is at a bit of a loose end in inter-war London. On a whim she buys the derelict Windmill theatre in the West End and persuades impresario Vivian Van Damm to run it, despite the fact the two don't seem to get on at all. Although their idea of a non-stop revue is at first a success, other theatres copy it and disaster looms. Laura suggests they put nudes in the show, but Van Damm points out that the Lord Chamberlain, who licenses live shows in Britain, is likely to have something to say about this. Luckily Mrs Henderson is friends with him.
Plot Keywords: musical, comedy, drama, historical, biographical, world war ii, theater ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A kind-hearted young man is thrown out of his corrupt home town of West Rome, Oklahoma. He falls asleep and dreams that he is back in the days of olden Rome, where he gets mixed up with court intrigue and a murder plot against the Emperor.
Plot Keywords: musical, comedy, golden age of hollywood, satire, ancient rome, slapstick, pre-code hollywood ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A musical comedy about a Brooklyn boy (Eddie Cantor) who inherits a fortune from his archaeologist father, but has to go to Egypt to claim it.—Alessandro Martini <alemartini@geocities.com>
Plot Keywords: musical, comedy, 1930s, black-and-white, inheritance, song and dance, slapstick ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: After helping a numbskull graduate college, a nebbish blunders into a job running an amusement park. There he wards off a variety of con artists and other miscreants while he pursues a nightclub singer.—Andrei Blok
Plot Keywords: comedy, musical, musical film, black and white, classic film, american film, 1930s ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Western sheriff Bob Wells is preparing to marry Sally Morgan; she loves part-Indian Wanenis, whose race is an obstacle. Sally flees the wedding with hypochondriac Henry Williams, who thinks he's just giving her a ride; but she left a note saying they've eloped! Chasing them are jilted Bob, Henry's nurse Mary (who's been trying to seduce him) and others.—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
Plot Keywords: musical, comedy, romance, western, pre-code hollywood, song and dance, mischief ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Rachel arrives in New York from her Amish community intent on becoming a dancer. Unfortunately Billy Minsky's Burlesque is hardly the place for her Dances From The Bible. But the show's comedian Raymond sees a way of wrong-footing the local do-gooders by announcing the new Paris sensation "Mme Fifi" and putting on Rachel's performance as the place is raided. All too complicated, the more so since her father is scouring the town for her and both Raymond and his straight-man Chick are falling for Rachel.—Jeremy Perkins {J-26}
Plot Keywords: musical, comedy, drama, historical, american film, 1960s, burlesque ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Jimmy Durante is jungle star Schnarzan the Conqueror, but the public is tiring of his fake lions. So when Baron Munchausen comes to town with real man-eating lions, Durante throws a big party with so that he might use the lions in his next movie. His film rival sneaks into the party to buy the lions before Durante.—Tony Fontana <tony.fontana@spacebbs.com>
Plot Keywords: comedy, musical, song and dance, classic, hollywood, 1930s, black and white ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The unemployed Cindy Campbell is hired to work in a cursed house as caretaker of an old lady and meets the ghost of a boy. Meanwhile, the teenager son Robbie and the young daughter Rachel of his next door neighbor and crane operator Tom Ryan are spending the weekend with their loser father. Cindy and Tom meet and fall in love for each other, but when Giant Tripods invade Earth, Tom escapes with Robbie and Rachel; Cindy travels to a village, trying to find the answer to a riddle to save the world; and the president of USA organizes the defense of the planet in UN under his intelligence and leadership.
Plot Keywords: comedy, parody, horror, humor, absurd, satire, hilarious ...
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