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Movies Like Don't Tell the Wife

If you liked Don't Tell the Wife (1937), a comedy movie directed by Christy Cabanne, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.

  1. 1Support Your Local Gunfighter

    Support Your Local Gunfighter (1971)

    ★ 6.6/10Also comedy

    A con artist arrives in a mining town controlled by two competing companies. Both companies think he's a famous gunfighter and try to hire him to drive the other out of town.

  2. 2Way Out West

    Way Out West (1937)

    ★ 7.1/10Also comedy

    Stan and Ollie try to deliver the deed to a valuable gold mine to the daughter of a dead prospector. Unfortunately, the daughter's evil guardian is determined to have the gold mine for himself and his saloon-singer wife.

  3. 3The Apple Dumpling Gang

    The Apple Dumpling Gang (1975)

    ★ 6.6/10Also comedy

    A roving bachelor gets saddled with three children and a wealth of trouble when the youngsters stumble upon a huge gold nugget. They join forces with two bumbling outlaws to fend off the greedy townspeople and soon…

  4. 4Go West

    Go West (1940)

    ★ 6.6/10Also comedy

    A con man heading west to search for gold teams up with a pair of scheming brothers along the way. The trio soon find themselves in the middle of a feud between two rival families and two underhanded land developers.

  5. 5Mr. Bones

    Mr. Bones (2001)

    ★ 6/10Also comedy

    A medicine man is sent looking for the son of his tribal king, and brings back an American golfer and a host of goons intent on keeping him in the golf tournament.

  6. 6Taking Care of Business

    Taking Care of Business (1990)

    ★ 6.3/10Also comedy

    An uptight advertising exec has his entire life in a filofax organizer which mistakenly ends up in the hands of a friendly convict who poses as him.

  7. 7After the Fox

    After the Fox (1966)

    ★ 6.1/10Also comedy

    A criminal mastermind sets up a phony film production as part of a plan to smuggle stolen gold.

  8. 8A-Haunting We Will Go

    A-Haunting We Will Go (1942)

    ★ 6.2/10Also comedy

    Stan and Ollie get involved with con men, crooks, a genial magician, and two interchangeable coffins with disastrous but funny results.

  9. 9The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again

    The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again (1979)

    ★ 6.4/10Also comedy

    Amos and Theodore, the two bumbling outlaw wannabes from The Apple Dumpling Gang, are back and trying to make it on their own. This time, the crazy duo gets involved in an army supply theft case -- and, of course, gets…

  10. 10Paint Your Wagon

    Paint Your Wagon (1969)

    ★ 6.3/10Also comedy

    A Michigan farmer and a prospector form a partnership in the California gold country. Their adventures include buying and sharing a wife, hijacking a stage, kidnapping six prostitutes, and turning their mining camp…

  11. 11Sneakerella

    Sneakerella (2022)

    ★ 5.9/10Also comedy

    When El, an aspiring sneaker designer from Queens, meets Kira King, the fiercely independent daughter of legendary basketball star and sneaker tycoon Darius King, sparks fly as the two bond over their mutual affinity…

  12. 12The Twelve Chairs

    The Twelve Chairs (1970)

    ★ 6.2/10Also comedy

    In 1920s Soviet Russia, a fallen aristocrat, a priest and a con artist search for a treasure of jewels hidden inside one of twelve dining chairs, lost during the revolution.

  13. 13You're Never Too Young

    You're Never Too Young (1955)

    ★ 6.6/10Also comedy

    When an aspiring barber becomes inadvertently involved in the theft of a valuable diamond, necessity forces him to masquerade as a 12 year-old child - with humorous consequences.

  14. 14Take the Money and Run

    Take the Money and Run (1969)

    ★ 7.1/10Also comedy

    Virgil Starkwell is intent on becoming a notorious bank robber. Unfortunately for Virgil and his not-so-budding career, he is completely incompetent.

  15. 15Dirty Rotten Scoundrels

    Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1988)

    ★ 7.1/10Also comedy

    Con artist Lawrence Jamieson is a longtime resident of a luxurious coastal resort, where he enjoys the lavish fruits of his deceptions -- that is, until a competitor, Freddy Benson, shows up. When the new guy's lowbrow…

  16. 16Ocean's Eight

    Ocean's Eight (2018)

    ★ 6.9/10Also comedy

    Debbie Ocean, a criminal mastermind, gathers a crew of female thieves to pull off the heist of the century at New York's annual Met Gala.

  17. 17I'm All Right Jack

    I'm All Right Jack (1959)

    ★ 6.6/10Also comedy

    Naive Stanley Windrush looks for a career in a family business. Much to his dismay, he finds work at a munitions factory where he has to start from the bottom, while both the management and the labor union use him as a…

  18. 18The Geisha Boy

    The Geisha Boy (1958)

    ★ 6.5/10Also comedy

    Gilbert Wooley is a second-rate magician who is sent to entertain the troops in the pacific. During his time in Japan he becomes attached to a little orphan boy.

  19. 19An American Tail: Fievel Goes West

    An American Tail: Fievel Goes West (1991)

    ★ 6.3/10Also comedy

    Some time after the Mousekewitz's have settled in America, they find that they are still having problems with the threat of cats. That makes them eager to try another home out in the west, where they are promised that…

  20. 20Johnny English Strikes Again

    Johnny English Strikes Again (2018)

    ★ 6.3/10Also comedy

    Disaster strikes when a criminal mastermind reveals the identities of all active undercover agents in Britain. The secret service can now rely on only one man - Johnny English. Currently teaching at a minor prep…

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