List of the best Willie Best movies: Dangerous Money(1946), The Hidden Hand(1942), The Ghost Breakers(1940), The Face of Marble(1946), Nothing but the Truth(1941), The Red Stallion(1947), Kentucky Kernels(1934), The Bride Walks Out(1936), The Body Disappears(1941), Little Miss Marker(1934), Feet First(1930), Cabin in the Sky(1943) ... ...
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1946
64 Minutes
Chattanooga Brown
Sidney Toler Victor Sen Yung Gloria Warren Willie Best Joseph Crehan Dick Elliott Elaine Lange Amira Mousafa Joseph Allen Jr. Rick Vallin Bruce Edwards
A treasury agent on the trail of counterfeit money confides to fellow ocean liner passenger Charlie Chan that there have been two attempts on his life.
Horror
USA
1942
67 Minutes
Euustis
Craig Stevens Elisabeth Fraser Jacqueline Wells Willie Best Frank Wilcox Cecil Cunningham Ruth Ford Milton Parsons Roland Drew Tom Stevenson Marian Hall
Peter Thorne (Craig Stevens)is a young attorney who works for an eccentric old woman, Lorinda Channing (Cecil Cunningham), who uses her insane brother, John Channing (Milton Parsons), to ... See full summary »
Mystery & Thriller, Comedy
USA
1940
82 Minutes
Alex
Bob Hope Paulette Goddard Richard Carlson Paul Lukas Willie Best Pedro de Cordoba Virginia Brissac Noble Johnson Anthony Quinn Tom Dugan Paul Fix
pretty woman radio host servant adviser gangster mysterious man cheeky creepy playful new york city hotel ocean liner cuba island haunted house ghosts inheritance chance meeting travel voodoo
A radio broadcaster, his quaking manservant and an heiress investigate the mystery of a haunted castle in Cuba.
Horror
USA
1946
70 Minutes
Shadrach
John Carradine Claudia Drake Robert Shayne Maris Wrixon Willie Best Thomas E. Jackson Rosa Rey Neal Burns Donald Kerr Allan Ray
Dr. Randolph is so obsessed with reanimating the dead in his isolated old dark house and lab that he doesn't realize his wife is in love with his younger assistant.
Comedy
USA
1941
90 Minutes
Samuel
Bob Hope Paulette Goddard Edward Arnold Leif Erickson Helen Vinson Willie Best Glenn Anders Grant Mitchell Catherine Doucet Rose Hobart Clarence Kolb
stockbroker niece uncle boss partner employee amusing madcap crafty intricate yacht florida office wager schemes honesty family business money rivalry
Stockbroker T.T. Ralston has promised his niece Gwen to double it if she can raise $20,000. for charity. But he connives so those she asks refuse to give her more than the $10,000 she's ... See full summary »
Adventure
USA
1947
81 Minutes
Jackson
Ted Donaldson Jane Darwell Robert Paige Noreen Nash Ray Collins Guy Kibbee Willie Best Robert Bice Pierre Watkin Bill Cartledge
grandmother grandson horse ranch hand horse owner horse trainer emotional uplifting tender winsome horse auction horse track ranch stable family home debt horse racing training financial troubles family
A mare dies while foaling the Red Stallion. He is reared by a boy and is entered in a big race - something like the Kentucky Derby.
Comedy
USA
1934
74 Minutes
Buckshot
Bert Wheeler Robert Woolsey George "Spanky" McFarland Mary Carlisle Noah Beery Lucille LaVerne Willie Best William Pawley Louis Mason Frank McGlynn Jr. Richard Alexander
The Great Elmer and Company, two out-of-work magicians, help lovelorn Jerry Bronson adopt Spanky Milford, to distract him. When Bronson makes up and elopes, the pair are stuck with the ... See full summary »
Comedy
USA
1936
75 Minutes
Smokie
Barbara Stanwyck Gene Raymond Robert Young Ned Sparks Helen Broderick Vivien Oakland Willie Best Robert Warwick Billy Gilbert Eddie Dunn Wade Boteler
model engineer husband wife business partner millionaire amusing melodramatic new york city city hall police station household marriage poverty ambition love triangle unrequited love love transformation 1930s
Extremely proud, Michael Martin made fashion model Carolyn quit her job, after their marriage. Carolyn quickly, quietly and secretly did get another job, when she realizes Michael cannot successfully make their financial ends meet, alone.
Comedy
USA
1941
72 Minutes
William "Willie"
Jeffrey Lynn Jane Wyman Edward Everett Horton David Bruce Herb Anderson Marguerite Chapman Craig Stevens Willie Best Ivan F. Simpson Charles Halton Wade Boteler
young man fiancé young woman professor friend daughter lighthearted amusing endearing college family home mental institution operating room courtroom bachelor party race against time invisibility science practical jokes marrying for money
Comedy about an invisible man.
Comedy
USA
1934
80 Minutes
Dizzy Memphis (uncredited)
Adolphe Menjou Shirley Temple Dorothy Dell Charles Bickford Lynne Overman Frank McGlynn John Sheehan Garry Owen Willie Best Tammany Young
little girl girlfriend gangster gambler bookie father charming heartwarming uplifting playful horse track gambling house new york city chicago hospital party abandoned child starting over gambling suicide
Bookie Sorrowful Jones receives a little girl as an IOU.
Comedy
USA
1930
83 Minutes
Janitor
Harold Lloyd Robert McWade Lillian Leighton Barbara Kent Alec B. Francis Noah Young Henry Hall Arthur Housman Willie Best Buster Phelps Leo Willis
clerk secretary wealthy woman wealthy man neighbor janitor hilarious madcap charming honolulu store street airplane cruise ship san francisco courtship class conflict mistaken identity romance adventure
An ambitious shoe salesman who unknowingly meets his boss's daughter and tells her he is a leather tycoon has to try to hide his true circumstances.
Musical
USA
1943
98 Minutes
Second Idea Man
Ethel Waters Busby Berkeley Eddie Anderson Lena Horne Louis Armstrong Rex Ingram Kenneth Spencer John "Bubbles" Sublett Oscar Polk Mantan Moreland Willie Best
gambler wife sexy woman angel demon best friend amusing heartwarming playful bar church family home heaven purgatory gambling fidelity good deeds religion afterlife rivalry
A compulsive gambler dies during a shooting, but he'll receive a second chance to reform himself and to make up with his worried wife.
Mystery & Thriller, Comedy
USA
1936
66 Minutes
"High-Pockets"
Helen Broderick James Gleason Louise Latimer Owen Davis Jr. John Arledge John Carroll Leslie Fenton Christian Rub Sheila Terry Willie Best John Miltern
After Hildegarde proves that the accidental riding death on a Central Park bridle path is really murder, she's faced with a plethora of red herrings and a real killer.
Comedy
USA
1936
57 Minutes
Drowsy
Arthur Treacher David Niven Virginia Field Lester Matthews Colin Tapley John Graham Spacey Ernie Stanton Gene Reynolds Douglas Walton Willie Best Paul McVey
Erudite manservant Jeeves hopes to keep his frivolous employer Bertie out of new harrowing adventures, but a damsel in distress, carrying half of some mysterious plans, intrudes on their ... See full summary »
Comedy
USA
1935
81 Minutes
Sleepy
Bert Wheeler Robert Woolsey Betty Grable Fred Keating Evelyn Brent Hale Hamilton Arthur Aylesworth Erik Rhodes Charles Wilson Willie Best Lew Kelly
A would-be songwriter and a would-be inventor run a cigar stand and get mixed up in the murder of a song publisher.
Comedy
USA
1941
85 Minutes
Arnold
Dennis Morgan Jane Wyatt Shirley Ross Lee Patrick Jerome Cowan Una O'Connor Romaine Callender Barnett Parker Cornel Wilde Willie Best Louise Beavers
Rodney has just married the often engaged Juliette and they are both ready to leave on their honeymoon. However, Clara showed up and Rodney sneaks out to talk to her. Clara is blackmailing ... See full summary »
Musical
USA
1943
127 Minutes
Eddie Cantor Dennis Morgan Joan Leslie S.Z. Sakall Edward Everett Horton Ruth Donnelly Joyce Reynolds Richard Lane Don Wilson Henry Armetta Willie Best
theatrical producer star bus driver singer amusing madcap heartwarming stage hollywood, calif. studio movie set world war ii singing performance egoism charity identity theft quest underdog 1940s
Two producers are putting together a wartime charity show with an all-star cast but the egotism of radio personality Eddie Cantor disrupts their plans.
Crime, Drama
USA
1942
90 Minutes
Ann Sheridan Ronald Reagan Richard Whorf George Tobias Gene Lockhart Alan Hale Betty Brewer Donald MacBride Howard da Silva Willard Robertson Faye Emerson
farmer owner girl friend farmhand tense melodramatic florida atlanta farm farming worker's rights friendship framed for murder small-town life greed underdog love sacrifice 1940s
Danny and Steve are migrant farm workers who wind up in Cat Tail, Florida. Cat Tail is run by Madden Packing and Danny works for Madden while Steve works for the underdog farmer named Nick.... See full summary »
Comedy
USA
1941
87 Minutes
Adolphe Menjou Hal Roach Carole Landis John Hubbard Charles Butterworth Patsy Kelly George E. Stone Margaret Roach Polly Ann Young Edward Norris
Rich playboy Drogo Gaines is in imminent danger of marrying a gold digger, and escapes by feigning insanity. The joke's on him when he wakes up in an asylum full of comical lunatics. There ... See full summary »
Comedy
USA
1938
90 Minutes
Ginger Rogers James Stewart Jimmy Ellison Charles Coburn Beulah Bondi Frances Mercer Phyllis Kennedy Alec Craig Franklin Pangborn Grady Sutton Hattie McDaniel
professor dean wife ex-girlfriend singer charming amusing playful new york city small town romance father/son relationship jealousy secret marriage newlyweds love discovery 1930s
A professor marries a nightclub singer, much to the consternation of his family and friends back home.
Mystery & Thriller, Comedy
USA
1935
74 Minutes
Edna May Oliver James Gleason Lola Lane Chick Chandler George Meeker Dorothy Libaire Harry Ellerbe Spencer Charters DeWitt Jennings Leo G. Carroll Arthur Hoyt
A schoolteacher and amateur sleuth suspects foul play when a fellow passenger on a sea-plane gets sick and dies.
Crime, Drama
USA
1940
80 Minutes
Jeffrey Lynn Brenda Marshall John Litel Lee Patrick Henry O'Neill Roger Pryor Guinn "Big Boy" Williams Henry Kolker William Gould Edward Keane Peter Ashley
The City Trust and Savings Bank sends Vice President Dave Bennett to a branch office to check on a Charles Patterson. Charlie has greatly increased the amount of money in savings and is ... See full summary »
Drama
1940
97 Minutes
Spencer Tracy Hedy Lamarr Verree Teasdale Kent Taylor Mona Barrie Paul Cavanagh Jack Carson Louis Calhern Laraine Day Reed Hadley Frances Drake
physician patient rich girl wealthy man debutante husband tense disheartening emotional new york city clinic hospital apartment ship suicide attempt unrequited love health care class distinctions marriage sacrifice
A doctor (Spencer Tracy) marries a model (Hedy Lamarr) and quits his clinic to make enough money to please her.
Western
USA
1938
90 Minutes
George Brent Olivia de Havilland Claude Rains Margaret Lindsay John Litel Tim Holt Barton MacLane Henry O'Neill Marcia Ralston George "Gabby" Hayes Sidney Toler
farmer miner son daughter girlfriend brother engaging tense san francisco mine household office mining family feud greed rivalry transformation 1870s
Hydraulic Mining versus Sacramento Valley Farming.
Drama
USA
1941
73 Minutes
Geraldine Fitzgerald Thomas Mitchell Jeffrey Lynn Mona Maris James Stephenson Jonathan Hale David Bruce Thurston Hall Mary Gordon John Eldredge Hardie Albright
dying person husband wife gallery owner doctor professor dark gripping united states courtroom jail studio murder forgery morality wrongfully accused execution investigation fall wretched excess
An elderly professor, suffering from an aortic aneurism, confronts the problem of what to do knowing that he only has a few months to live.