Leo McCarey — Director (17)
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Ruggles of Red Gap (1935) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Ruggles of Red Gap
director: Leo McCarey actor: Charles Laughton / Mary Boland …
other title: Il maggiordomo / Ein Butler in Amerika …
In this comedy of an Englishman stranded in a sea of barbaric Americans, Marmaduke Ruggles - a gentleman's gentleman and butler to an Earl - is lost in a poker game to an uncouth American cattle baron. Ruggles' life is turned upside down as he's taken to the USA, is gradually assimilated into American life, accidentally becomes a local celebrity, and falls in love along the way.
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Six of a Kind (1934) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Six of a Kind
director: Leo McCarey actor: Charles Ruggles / Mary Boland …
other title: Viaje de placer / Poker Party …
The Whinneys share expenses for their trip to Hollywood with George and Gracie and their great Dane. A clerk in Whinney's bank has put fifty thousand dollars in a suitcase, hoping to rob Whinney on the road, but instead Whinney takes another road and is himself arrested in Nevada.
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Belle of the Nineties (1934) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb
Belle of the Nineties
director: Leo McCarey actor: Mae West / Roger Pryor …
other title: No es pecado / Ce n'est pas un péché …
Nightclub entertainer Ruby Carter moves from St. Louis to New Orleans to escape Tiger Kid. At Ace Lamont's club, she gains fame but faces drama with Ace's ex Molly. A jewel theft and fixed fight lead to confrontations.
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The Milky Way (1936) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Milky Way
director: Leo McCarey actor: Harold Lloyd / Adolphe Menjou …
other title: La via lattea / Ausgerechnet Weltmeister …
Timid milkman, Burleigh Sullivan, somehow knocks out a boxing champ in a brawl. The fighter's manager decides to build up the milkman's reputation in a series of fixed fights and then have the champ beat him to regain his title.
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Looking for Sally (1925) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Looking for Sally
director: Leo McCarey actor: Charley Chase / Katherine Grant …
Jimmie Jump is returning from Europe to the USA. His parents and an old girl-friend, Sally - whom he hasn't seen for years, are expecting him at the dock. But, due to some unfortunate coincidences they are mistaken about the identity of each other, but meet unbeknownst to that fact. Jimmie decides that he has to find that girl. Finally, after having annoyed a policeman, and a great fraction of the female population, he finds her working as a temperance worker. To get her attention, he dresses up in rags to meet her. But his way of introduction causes more confusion.
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Wrong Again (1929) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Wrong Again
director: Leo McCarey actor: Stan Laurel / Oliver Hardy …
other title: Stanlio e Ollio - Un cavallo per un quadro / Dick und Doof - Blinde Wut …
Stable hands Stan and Ollie are tending a thoroughbred named "Blue Boy." But when they overhear two men talking about a $5000 reward for the return of the stolen "Blue Boy," they miss the part about it being the painting, not the horse. They take the horse to the owner's house to claim the reward. The owner instructs them to put "Blue Boy" on the piano and Ollie explains, "these millionaires are peculiar."
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Liberty (1929) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Liberty
director: Leo McCarey actor: Stan Laurel / Oliver Hardy …
other title: Libertà / Dick und Doof - Die Sache mit der Hose …
While changing clothes in a getaway car, escaped convicts Stan and Ollie mistakenly put on each other's pants. They spend the rest of the film trying to exchange pants in various unlikely settings.
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Pass the Gravy (1928) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Pass the Gravy
director: Leo McCarey / Fred Guiol actor: Max Davidson / Martha Sleeper …
other title: Und ein stolzer Hahn dazu
Schultz raises prize chickens and roosters that are always getting into neighbor Max Davidson's garden and eating the seeds, leading to constant feuding between the two men. When their children announce their engagement the two men decide to bury the hatchet and Davidson suggests a dinner at his house. He gives his young son, Ignatz, two dollars to buy a chicken but the boy pockets the money and kills Schultz' first place rooster instead. Once seated at the table all but Schultz discover what they are eating and desperately try to hide the bad news from Schultz who is sure to kill Davidson if he knows the truth.
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Love Affair (1939) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Love Affair
director: Leo McCarey actor: Irene Dunne / Charles Boyer …
other title: Un grande amore / Ruhelose Liebe …
A French playboy and an American former nightclub singer fall in love aboard a ship. They arrange to reunite six months later, if neither has changed their mind.
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The Uneasy Three (1925) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Uneasy Three
director: Leo McCarey actor: Charley Chase / Fred Kelsey …
Often hysterical spoof of Tod Browning's THE UNHOLY THREE (and several others of his crime movies) has Charley Chase playing the mastermind of a dimwitted trio of thieves who plan on stealing a priceless jewel.
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Good Sam (1948) [Movie] NeoDB TMDB
Good Sam
director: Leo McCarey actor: 加里·库珀 / Ann Sheridan …
other title: 굿 샘 / A Felicida Bate à Sua Porta …
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 and unable to help his own family buy the things they need--like a house.
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Make Way for Tomorrow (1937) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB IMDb WikiData Douban Skybridge
Make Way for Tomorrow
director: Leo McCarey actor: Victor Moore / Beulah Bondi …
other title: Cupo tramonto / A Cruz dos Anos …
At a family reunion, the Cooper clan find that their parents' home is being foreclosed. "Temporarily," Ma moves in with son George's family, Pa with daughter Cora. But the parents are like sand in the gears of their middle-aged children's well regulated households. Can the old folks take matters into their own hands?
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Going My Way (1944) [Movie] TMDB
Going My Way
director: Leo McCarey actor: Bing Crosby / Barry Fitzgerald …
other title: La mia via / O Bom Pastor …
Youthful Father Chuck O'Malley led a colorful life of sports, song, and romance before joining the Roman Catholic clergy. After being appointed to a run-down New York parish, O'Malley's worldly knowledge helps him connect with a gang of boys looking for direction, eventually winning over the aging, conventional Parish priest.
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Duck Soup (1933) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Duck Soup
8.6 (5 ratings) director: Leo McCarey actor: Groucho Marx / Harpo Marx …
other title: La guerra lampo dei fratelli Marx / En tosset diktator …
Rufus T. Firefly is named president/dictator of bankrupt Freedonia and declares war on neighboring Sylvania over the love of wealthy Mrs. Teasdale.