List of the best Ernie Kovacs movies: Five Golden Hours(1961), Wake Me When It's Over(1960), Strangers When We Meet(1960), North to Alaska(1960), It Happened to Jane(1959), Operation Mad Ball(1957), Our Man in Havana(1960), Bell, Book and Candle(1958), Pepe(1961) ... ...
Comedy
1961
90 Minutes
Aldo Bondi
Ernie Kovacs Cyd Charisse George Sanders Kay Hammond Dennis Price John Le Mesurier Finlay Currie Reginald Beckwith Avice Landone Sydney Tafler Martin Benson
con artist baroness widow amusing cheeky rome italy mental institution deception death romance stocks bad behavior love pursuit 1960s
A professional mourner (Ernie Kovacs) bilks bereaved widows to bail out a broke baroness (Cyd Charisse).
Comedy
1960
126 Minutes
Ernie Kovacs Dick Shawn Margo Moore Jack Warden Nobu McCarthy Don Knotts Robert Strauss Noreen Nash Parley Baer Marvin Kaplan Robert Emhardt
A GI (Dick Shawn) talks his captain (Ernie Kovacs) into building an island resort out of war surplus.
Drama
USA
1960
117 Minutes
Roger Altar
Kirk Douglas Kim Novak Ernie Kovacs Barbara Rush Walter Matthau Virginia Bruce Kent Smith
architect wife lover neighbor author melodramatic brooding los angeles suburbia family home unhappy marriage suburban life affair family dysfunction alcohol rape forbidden love discovery 1960s
A suburban architect loves his wife but is bored with his marriage and with his work, so he takes up with the neglected, married beauty who lives down the street.
Comedy, Western
USA
1960
122 Minutes
Frankie Canon
John Wayne Stewart Granger Ernie Kovacs Fabian Capucine Mickey Shaughnessy Joe Sawyer John Qualen
prospector prostitute con artist brother fiancée offbeat witty alaska gold rush confusion love triangle fortune adventure love 1900s
During the Alaska gold rush, prospector George sends partner Sam to Seattle to bring his fiancée but when it turns out that she married another man, Sam returns with a pretty substitute, the hostess of the Henhouse dance hall.
Comedy
USA
1959
98 Minutes
Harry Foster Malone
Doris Day Jack Lemmon Ernie Kovacs Steve Forrest Russ Brown Walter Greaza Parker Fennelly Philip Coolidge Mary Wickes Casey Adams Dick Crockett
small-business owner railroad tycoon lawyer reporter amusing charming lighthearted playful maine new york city small town accidental death lawsuit love triangle small business big business opposites attract love rivalry underdog
Jane Osgood runs a lobster business, which supports her two young children. Railroad staff inattention ruins her shipment, so with her lawyer George, Jane sues Harry Foster Malone, director of the line and the "meanest man in the world".
Comedy
USA
1957
105 Minutes
Capt. Paul Lock
Jack Lemmon Kathryn Grant Ernie Kovacs Arthur O'Connell Mickey Rooney Dick York James Darren Roger Smith William Leslie Sheridan Comerate L.Q. Jones
private nurse captain corporal sergeant colonel hilarious madcap france hospital countryside inn secret ball deception rules and regulations world war ii romance love quest
In post-WW2 France, U.S. Army hospital private Hogan and Captain Lock try to outwit one another on issues such as wooing pretty nurses, accounting for missing medical supplies, organizing unauthorized dances and influencing their C.O.
Comedy, Mystery & Thriller
UK
1960
107 Minutes
Capt. Segura
Alec Guinness Burl Ives Maureen O'Hara Ernie Kovacs Noel Coward Ralph Richardson Jo Morrow Paul Rogers Gregoire Aslan Jose Prieto Duncan Macrae
expatriate secret agent double agent director secretary salesman cool amusing suspenseful havana, cuba london city apartment government offices store city espionage communism father/daughter relationship patriotism deception
Jim Wormold, who is a vacuum cleaner salesman, participates as an Agent in the British Secret Service. But he soon realizes that his plans by lying are going to get him into trouble.
Comedy
1958
103 Minutes
Sidney Redlitch
James Stewart Kim Novak Jack Lemmon Ernie Kovacs Hermione Gingold Elsa Lanchester Janice Rule Philippe Clay Bek Nelson Howard McNear Wolfe Barzell
witch publisher fiancée author warlock mentor amusing lighthearted new york city greenwich village apartment art gallery love triangle love spell engagement witchcraft jealousy revenge love rivalry
A witch's (Kim Novak) warlock brother (Jack Lemmon) helps a San Francisco publisher (James Stewart) break a love spell.
Musical, Comedy
1961
157 Minutes
Immigration Inspector
Cantinflas Dan Dailey Shirley Jones Carlos Montalban Vicki Trickett Matt Mattox Hank Henry Suzanne Lloyd Stephen Bekassy Ernie Kovacs William Demarest
mexican ranch hand executive frank sinatra jimmy durante horse hilarious heartwarming madcap mexico small town bullring ranch hollywood, calif. road horses class distinctions greed human-animal friendship fame
A poor Mexican (Cantinflas) with a white horse brings luck to a down-and-out Hollywood director (Dan Dailey).