Classic Comedy
Classic Comedies in Alice's mind are those prior to 1965. All those great old movies that you may have grown up with are here for your discovery or re-discovery. Comedy Films made prior to 1926 are best found by scrolling "Silent Films". Contempory Comedies (post 1965) are best found scrolling "Comedy ". They don't make em' like they used to....
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Norman Wisdom: Volume Two - On The Beat / Press For Time / The Square Peg / A Stitch In Time / Trouble in Store / Up in the World (1953)
Director: John Paddy Carstairs, Robert Asher
Starring: Honor Blackman, Derek Bond, Edward Chapman, Peter Jones, David Lodge, Norman Wis...
Volume 2 of 2. This definitive "Norman Wisdom Collection" captures the genius of one of Britains' finest ever comics at his hilarious best. Titles inc... Read more
Nothing Sacred (1937)
7.4/10
Director: William A Wellman
Starring: Carole Lombard, Fredric March
Certain she was dying from radium poisoning, Hazel Flagg (Carole Lombard) is delighted to learn from her doctor that it was a false alarm. But when da... Read more
Ohayo ( aka Good Morning ) (1959)
7.8/10
Director: Yasujiro Ozu
Starring: Chishu Ryu, Koji Shidara, Haruko Sugimura, Kuniko Miyake, Yoshiko Kuga, Masahiko...
Ozu's hilarious Technicolor reworking of his silent "I Was Born, But...", "Ohayo" ("Good Morning") is the story of two young boys in suburban Tokyo wh... Read more
On Moonlight Bay (1951)
7.1/10
Director: Roy Del Ruth
Starring: Doris Day, Gordon McRae, Mary Wickes, Billy Gray
Booth Tarkington's Penrod stories make charming material for this Doris Day musical in which the bubbly blonde plays tomboy Marjie Wilson who moves to... Read more
On The Avenue (1937)
6.9/10
Director: Roy Del Ruth
Starring: Dick Powell, Madeleine Carroll, Alice Faye, Alan Mowbray, Cora Witherspoon
A young Broadway producer puts on a hit show mocking a New York socialite, but gets himself caught between the real (and charming) debutant and the st... Read more
On the Buses: Series 1 and 2 (1969)
7.1/10
Starring: Reg Varney, Bob Grant, Stephen Lewis, Doris Hare
The classic BBC comedy with Reg Varney as bus driver Stan, and Bob Grant as conductor Jack - a couple of middle-aged Jack-the-lads always on the looko... Read more
One, Two, Three (1961)
8/10
Director: Billy Wilder
Starring: James Cagney, Arlene Francis, Horst Buchholz
James Cagney's 'retirement' film was this hilarious comedy about a Coke executive in contemporary West Berlin freaking out when the boss's visiting da... Read more
Operation Petticoat (1959)
7.3/10
Director: Blake Edwards
Starring: Cary Grant, Dina Merrill, Gene Evans, Tony Curtis, Dick Sargent, Joan O'Brien
Directed by Blake Edwards (The Pink Panther, Victor/Victoria), Operation Petticoat moves from one hilarious situation to the next. With the USS Tiger... Read more
Orders Are Orders (1954)
5/10
Starring: Bill Fraser, Donald Pleasence, Eric Sykes, June Thorburn, Maureen Swanson, Peter...
A sleepy army barracks is about to be overrun by a film company planning to shoot a science fiction caper. And it's not long before the enticing femal... Read more
Pardners (1956)
6.3/10
Director: Norman Taurog
Starring: Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Lori Nelson, Jeff Morrow, Agnes Moorehead
Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis re-unite for another raucous comedy, this time poking fun at the Western genre. Wade Kingsley Jr (Lewis), brought up by hi... Read more