The Mouse That Roared (1959), Operation Petticoat (1959), The Secret War of Harry Frigg (1968), Buck Privates (1941), The Flying Deuces (1939), Stripes (1981), Operation Mad Ball (1957), The Troops on Vacation (1970) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Military Comedy movies.
Storyline: Bertram Oliphant West (also known as Bo West) wants to clear his unjustly smeared reputation. He joins the Foreign Legion, with Simpson his manservant in tow. But the fort they get posted to is full of eccentric legionnaires, and there is trouble brewing with the locals too. Unbeknown to Bo, his lady love has followed him in disguise...—Simon N. McIntosh-Smith <Simon.N.Smith@cs.cf.ac.uk>
Plot Keywords: comedy, adventure, british film, parody, military, desert, humour ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Lt. Cmdr. Tom Dodge is assigned as Captain to the USS Stingray, an old diesel driven submarine that has seen better days. With a crew that consists only of weird guys (and a gal), he's headed against the atomic powered USS Orlando, with the mission to destroy a dummy battleship.
Plot Keywords: comedy, military, submarine, adventure, action, american film, 1990s ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: 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.—Snow Leopard
Plot Keywords: comedy, romance, military, women, 1950s, american film, black and white ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Ex-WAVE encounters four fun-loving, work-hating men, all of whom want to marry her.
Plot Keywords: comedy, romance, military, world war ii, retirement, female lead, romantic comedy ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In this hilarious romp starring Tom Ewell, Sheree North and Rita Moreno, a middle-aged ex-serviceman who plans to re-enlist (Ewell) is shocked to learn that not only did he fail his medical exam, his wife (North) has enlisted - and is really making the grade in the Air Force. Unhappy to be a "house husband," he flies to Hawaii to be near her - and also to hatch a scheme to get her discharged.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: comedy, romance, military, gender roles, 1950s, american film, 20th century fox ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: When the details of a secret torpedo are destroyed by an incompetent seaman, the crew of the ship rally round, when the Admiral needs the plans to show to a visiting scientist.
Plot Keywords: comedy, british film, black and white film, nautical, farce, 1960s, classic comedy ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: John Randall is an Army cadet at West Point. His younger brother Paul is a midshipman at the Naval Academy. John contrives to help Paul's timid romantic interest in Nancy Wayne by pretending to be interested in her himself. Paul, however, takes offense, and determines to beat his brother in the Army-Navy football game on purely personal grounds. Meanwhile, Paul and fellow midshipman Albert Price are hazed and tormented by upperclassmen.—Jim Beaver <jumblejim@prodigy.net>
Plot Keywords: silent film, comedy, romance, military, war, american film, black and white ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Captain Vinka Kovalenko defects from Russia, but not for political reasons. She defects because she feels discriminated against as a woman. Captain Chuck Lockwood gets the order to show her the bright side of capitalism, while she tries to convince him of the superiority of communism. Naturally, they fall in love, but there's still the KGB, which doesn't like the idea of having a defected Russian officer running around in London.—Stephan Eichenberg <eichenbe@fak-cbg.tu-muenchen.de>
Plot Keywords: comedy, romance, cold war, military, political satire, american film, british film ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In the midst of WWII, a group of half-witted soldiers led by a slightly smarter sergeant, battle the Germans and especially Von Kraut in the desert.—Steve Richer <sricher@sympatico.ca>
Plot Keywords: war, comedy, action, adventure, military, world war ii, satire ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: An astronaut goes into space with a chimpanzee. When they return to Earth after their orbit, it is discovered that the chimp has the brains of the astronaut, and the astronaut has the brains of the chimp. Complications ensue.
Plot Keywords: comedy, war, military, humor, american, 1960s, black and white ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The U.S. government wants to build a missile silo inside a Tennessee mountain, but the backwoods hillbillies who own it refuse to lease it to them. Josh (Elvis Presley), a relative of the owners and a G.I. scout, is sent in to try to reason with them, but he soon runs afoul of his identical cousin, Jodie (also Presley), who hates his city-bred lookalike and everything he stands for. Meanwhile, troops begin moving into the area, and are seduced by a host of country beauties.
Plot Keywords: musical, comedy, romance, country music, elvis presley, 1960s, american film ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Horace Pope (Alfred Lynch) is just an everyday street peddler when the authorities pick him up for practicing his trade. Not wanting to go to jail, Pope invents a story about enlisting in the military, which convinces the judge to send him to the Royal Air Force instead of prison. Since it happens to be during World War II, Pope pulls every scheme and scam he can -- with the help of his new soldier friend, Pedlar Pascoe (Sean Connery) -- to avoid actual work, but he can't shirk his duty forever.
Plot Keywords: comedy, war, british film, black and white, 1960s, military, humour ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: When three small town National Guardsmen bound for Iraq are unknowingly dropped into Mexico, their confusion leads them to "liberate" a small village from a band of corrupt Federales
Plot Keywords: comedy, action, military, adventure, war, humor, absurd ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A Connecticut couple (Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward) are called to action by a sexpot (Joan Collins) and a hush-hush Army project in their midst.
Plot Keywords: comedy, romance, military, family, suburban life, cold war, marriage ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A new Navy officer (Gary Cooper) leads recruits on an untested steam-powered patrol boat dubbed the USS Teakettle.
Plot Keywords: war, navy, comedy, military, submarine, training, chaos ...
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