Movies Like The Joke on Yellentown

If you liked The Joke on Yellentown (1914), a comedy and western movie directed by Arthur Mackley, 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
Go West (1940)
★ 6.6/10Also comedy and western
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.
2
Go West (1925)
★ 6.9/10Also comedy and western
With little luck at keeping a job in the city a New Yorker tries work in the country and eventually finds his way leading a herd of cattle to the West Coast.
3
¡Three Amigos! (1986)
★ 6.3/10Also comedy and western
A trio of unemployed silent film actors are mistaken for real heroes by a small Mexican village in search of someone to stop a malevolent bandit.
4
The Apple Dumpling Gang (1975)
★ 6.6/10Also comedy and western
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…
5
Way Out West (1937)
★ 7.1/10Also comedy and western
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.
6
Ramrod (1947)
★ 6.5/10Also western
A cattle-vs.-sheepman feud loses Connie Dickason her fiance, but gains her his ranch, which she determines to run alone in opposition to Frank Ivey, "boss" of the valley, whom her father Ben wanted her to marry. She…
7
The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again (1979)
★ 6.4/10Also comedy and western
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…
8
City Slickers (1991)
★ 6.5/10Also comedy and western
Three New York businessmen decide to take a "Wild West" vacation that turns out not to be the relaxing vacation they had envisioned.
9
Scooby-Doo! Shaggy's Showdown (2017)
★ 7.7/10Also comedy and western
When the Scooby gang visits a dude ranch, they discover that it and the nearby town have been haunted by a ghostly cowboy, Dapper Jack, who fires real fire from his fire irons. The mystery only deepens when it’s…
10
Posse Cat (1954)
★ 6.6/10Also comedy and western
Tom and Jerry are in a cabin in the wild west. Jerry's rustling food, so Tom's owner won't let him eat until he's gotten rid of Jerry.
11
Destry Rides Again (1939)
★ 7.2/10Also western and comedy
Tom Destry, son of a legendary frontier peacekeeper, doesn’t believe in gunplay. Thus he becomes the object of widespread ridicule when he rides into the wide-open town of Bottleneck, the personal fiefdom of the…
12
Support Your Local Gunfighter (1971)
★ 6.6/10Also comedy and western
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.
13
Carry On Cowboy (1965)
★ 6.3/10Also comedy and western
Stodge City is in the grip of the Rumpo Kid and his gang. Mistaken identity again takes a hand as a 'sanitary engineer' named Marshal P. Knutt is mistaken for a law marshal. Being the conscientious sort, Marshal tries…
14
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
★ 7.8/10Also western
Questions arise when Senator Stoddard attends the funeral of a local man named Tom Doniphon in a small Western town. Flashing back, we learn Doniphon saved Stoddard, then a lawyer, when he was roughed up by a crew of…
15
Support Your Local Sheriff! (1969)
★ 6.9/10Also comedy and western
In the old west, a man becomes a Sheriff just for the pay, figuring he can decamp if things get tough.
16
Rango (2011)
★ 6.9/10Also comedy and western
When Rango, a lost family pet, accidentally winds up in the gritty, gun-slinging Western town of Dirt, the theater-loving lizard suddenly finds himself the newly appointed sheriff. Welcomed as the last hope the town…
17
McLintock! (1963)
★ 6.6/10Also western and comedy
Aging rancher and self-made man, George Washington McLintock is forced to deal with numerous personal and professional problems. Seemingly everyone wants a piece of his enormous farmstead, including high-ranking…
18
The Paleface (1948)
★ 6.1/10Also comedy and western
Bob Hope stars in this laugh-packed wild west spoof co-starring Jane Russell as a sexy Calamity Jane, Hope is a meek frontier dentist, "Painless" Peter Potter, who finds himself gunslinging alongside the fearless…
19
Tom and Jerry Cowboy Up! (2022)
★ 6.9/10Also comedy and western
This time, the rivals team up to help a cowgirl and her brother save their homestead from a greedy land-grabber, and they’re going to need some help! Jerry’s three precocious nephews are all ready for action, and Tom…
20
Man Without a Star (1955)
★ 6.4/10Also western
A wandering cowboy gets caught up in a range war.