Edward F. Cline — Director (9)
On Again—Off Again (1937) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
On Again—Off Again
other title: On Again-Off Again
This wacky vaudeville-style romp casts the irreverent comedy team as feuding co-owners of a drug company, William “Willy” Hobbs and Claude Augustus Horton, who agree to wrestle each other for the sole ownership of the business. The winner will take the company and the loser must become the other’s valet for a year. But when Hobbs loses, he sends his wife to Florida and schemes to trick Horton. What follows are hilarious hijinks as only Wheeler and Woolsey can pull off!
My Little Chickadee (1940) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
My Little Chickadee
director: Edward F. Cline actor: Mae West / W.C. Fields
other title: Mon petit poussin chéri / Mi pequeño gorrión
On her way by stagecoach to visit relatives out west, Flower Belle Lee is held up by a masked bandit who also takes the coach's shipment of gold. When he abducts Flower Belle and they arrive in town, Flower Belle is suspected of being in collusion with the bandit.
Behind the Eight Ball (1942) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Behind the Eight Ball
director: Edward F. Cline actor: Al Ritz / Jimmy Ritz
The story takes place at a summer theater in the Berkshire Mountains, where heroine Joan Barry (Carol Bruce) is staging a Broadway-bound musical comedy. Only one problem: two guest stars are shot and killed on two successive evenings, right in front of the audience. Hoping to solve the mystery, detective William Demarest demands that everyone -- actors and theatergoers alike -- return the following weekend to restage the show. But with no major performer willing to assume the fatal guest-star slot, Joan is forced to hire the Three Jolly Jesters (Al, Harry and Jimmy Ritz), Manhattan washroom attendants with showbiz aspirations.
Crazy House (1943) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Crazy House
director: Edward F. Cline actor: Ole Olsen / Chic Johnson
other title: Fantasmas rumberos / Symphonie loufoque
Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson are Broadway stars who return to Universal Studios to make another movie. The mere mention of Olsen and Johnson's names evacuates the studio and terrorizes the management and personnel. Undaunted, the comedians hire an assistant director and unknown talent, and set out to make their own movie.
Never Give a Sucker an Even Break (1941) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Never Give a Sucker an Even Break
director: Edward F. Cline actor: W.C. Fields / Gloria Jean
other title: Lad tåberne tabe / Gib einem Trottel keine Chance
Never Give a Sucker an Even Break is a 1941 film about a man who wants to sell a film story to Esoteric Studios. On the way he gets insulted by little boys, beaten up for ogling a woman, and abused by a waitress. W. C. Fields' last starring role in a feature-length film.
See My Lawyer (1945) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
See My Lawyer
director: Edward F. Cline actor: Ole Olsen / Chic Johnson
other title: Voyez mon avocat
Ole and Chic are comedians employed in a nightclub, but seeking to be released from their contracts to take a better job. But the prissy nightclub owner, B. J. Wagonhorn, refuses to let them go. In reprisal, they start hurling insults at the nightclub patrons… a ploy that soon has them facing multiple lawsuits… to the delight of three struggling attorneys, Charlie Rodman, Bettty Wilson and Arthur Lane.