Movies: Red Skelton

Radio sleuth Wally 'The Fox' Benton travels to Georgia with his fiancé Carol to be married; and to help Carol's college chum, Ellamae Downs, solve a mystery involving a murdered man, old Fort Dixon, and buried treasure....

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Pirdy is accident prone. He has been denied insurance from every company in town because he is always getting hit or hurt in some way. On the day that he meets the lovely Ellen of the Yellow Cab Co., he also meets the crooked lawyer named Creavy. Pir...

Radio crime show host 'The Fox' along with his fiancée and ex-girlfriend are kidnapped by a larcenous cult who demand that he help them plan a perfect murder....

A celebrity lineup selected by a “specially conducted nationwide survey” entertains....

A Texas carnival showmen team is mistaken for a cattle baron and his sister....

Swindlers con a lunchroom clerk into doing them a favor, supposedly on behalf of the FBI....

In 1915, Kansas theatre usher Merton Gill is a rabid silent-movie fan. When he brings Mammoth Studios free publicity by imitating star Lawrence Rupert's heroics, they bring him to Hollywood to generate another headline; he thinks he'll get a movie co...

Chaos is brought to a family when daughter marries a brash young man met on a blind date....

An all-star cast joins Red Skelton in this lavish 60-minute salute to circus clowns....

Faye Dunaway hosts a behind-the-scenes look at the Hollywood star-making machine....

When he is fired from his job, Red puts a hex on his boss. That evening, the boss goes to a nightclub and discovers that the hex worked....

John Calvert performs an array of tricks inspired by celebrated escape artist and magician Harry Houdini....

Bob Hope's 2 1/2 hour star-spangled salute to America... "Honor America Day" as aired on July 4, 1970 on WTOP Channel 4 Washington. Billed as a non-partisan, rally around the flag event, it was really an effort to help out his buddy Nixon and prop u...

Red Skelton inherits a dude ranch and must live there for six months, far from the bright lights of New York City....

Television special for the American Bicentennial starring Red Skelton, featuring the America on Parade pageant at Disneyland....

Freddie the Freeloader sets out to have Xmas dinner in a very expensive New York restaurant with his good friend, the Professor. Along the way he stops in a hospital to entertain some children on Xmas. Red Skelton does a couple of songs on his own &a...

This performance was recorded live on Red Skelton's 70th Birthday on 18 July 1983 and released on the pay cable channel HBO on 22 April 1984. The recording took place before the Royal Family at London's Royal Albert Hall and before a packed house of ...