Movies Similar to Red Skelton: America's Greatest Clown

The Wing or the Thigh?(1976)

Charles Duchemin, a well-known gourmet and publisher of a famous restaurant guide, is waging a war against fast food entrepreneur Tri- catel to save the French art of cooking. After having agreed to appear on a talk show to show his skills in naming food and wine by taste, he is confronted with two disasters: his son wants to become a clown rather than a restaurant tester and he, the famous Charles Duchemin, has lost his taste!

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For Goodness Cake!(2023)

A bumbling father attempts to improve his teenage son’s birthday after no one shows up to his party.

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If the Father and the Son(1955)

After Clown Teddy lost his son, he lost his gift for laughter. He opened a joke shop and lives above the shop. His landlady has had a foster son since birth, and Teddy decides to raise the child, who always believed that Teddy was his father. When the mother suddenly appears five years later and wants her son, Teddy decides to run away with the child and goes back onstage with his son. Will the family catch up with them, or will the mother never get her son back?

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Delicatessen(1991)

In a post-apocalyptic world, the residents of an apartment above the butcher shop receive an occasional delicacy of meat, something that is in low supply. A young man new in town falls in love with the butcher's daughter, which causes conflicts in her family, who need the young man for other business-related purposes.

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The Clown Wars(2022)

When Claudia Clodetti's venerable clown school invites applicants to show their skills in keeping quiet, Konny and Dimples begin an epic duel between fantasy and reality.

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Secret Agent Dingledorf and His Trusty Dog Splat(2021)

Overcoming bullies and his own loser mentality, 10-year-old Bernie Dingledorf must destroy Dr. Chuckles’s diabolical Laugh Generator before it sends the world into uncontrollable fits of laughter.

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Air Bud(1997)

A lonely boy befriends a stray dog who has a natural talent for basketball and together they experience the highs and lows of life as their friendship remains solid through a series of escapades.

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Shakes the Clown(1991)

Shakes plods about his duties as party clown, and uses all of his free time getting seriously drunk. Binky, another clown, wins the spot on a local kiddie show, which depresses Shakes even more, and his boss threatens him with unemployment if he can't get his act under control.

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Out of the Dark(1988)

A deranged killer wearing a clown mask begins preying on a group of young women working at a phone-sex company.

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Glumov's Diary(1923)

Filmic insert to Eisenstein's modernized, free adaptation of Ostrovskiy's 19th-century Russian stage play, "The Wise Man" ("Na vsyakogo mudretsa dovolno prostoty"). The anti-hero Glumov tries to escape exposure in the midst of acrobatics, derring-do, and farcical clowning. Several members of Eisenstein's troupe at the legendary "Proletkult" stage theatre in Moscow briefly appear in this little film.

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Surprise(1923)

Koko is trying to rescue his sweetheart, who is trapped atop a rugged mountain. However, when Max Fleischer runs out of ink, how will he draw the ladder for Koko to climb?

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Vaudeville(1924)

An "Out of the Inkwell" cartoon featuring Ko-Ko the Clown.

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Famous Scenes from Pagliacci(1934)

Scenes from Ruggero Leoncavallo's opera with Canio, the clown, introducing actors who are seen in pantomime while the operatic voices are heard off-screen. Canio discovers his wife has been unfaithful but carries on with his performance.

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Drive Thru(2007)

A high-school student must save townspeople from a murderous clown who works at a fast-food place.

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Shree 420(1955)

The story of a small-town man who comes to make it big in the city, where he is almost instantly relieved of all his possessions. Homeless and penniless, he is taken in by a woman who looks after him.

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Guard Dog(2004)

Why do dogs bark at such innocent creatures as pigeons and squirrels... what are they afraid of? This film answers that eternal question. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive.

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Gags the Clown(2019)

It's been eight days since the clown first showed up in Green Bay, WI. Now, over the course of one night, four different groups of people cross paths with the clown everyone calls "Gags" and his true intentions are finally revealed.

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Clown(2019)

A drug dealing Clown has a mix up during a drug deal.

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Killer Klowns from Outer Space

Remake of the 1988 film.

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Santa and the Night He Disappeared(2024)

On the night when Santa Claus is kidnapped by Usula and Eddy, Mrs. Claus decides to send three girls, Sabrina, Jill, and Natalie, to rescue him.

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