Director: Ronald Neame

Starring: Valerie Hobson, Glynis Johns, Alec Guinness

About a young man's transformation from penniless hustler to provincial power. Entertaining, very clever comedy with fun lead by Alec Guinness and scr... Read more

7.3/10

Director: Elliott Nugent

Starring: Bob Hope, Gale Sondergaard, Paulette Goddard, George Zucco, Douglass Montgomery,...

The Cat and The Canary, Elliot Nugents 1939 horror, has a lot more comedy in mind than its silent Paul Leni-directed 1927 original or even the stage... Read more

6.8/10

Director: Charlie Chaplin

Starring: Charlie Chaplin

The Champion - Charlie (Charles Chaplin) wins boxing matches by placing a horseshoe in his glove. Between Showers - A stolen umbrella causes chaos fo... Read more

7.2/10

Director: Joseph Stanley, Robert Florey

Starring: Kay Francis, Margaret Dumont, Oscar Shaw, The Marx Brothers, Mary Eaton

In the Marx Brothers' first feature film, Groucho portrays a hotel owner who tries to fleece everyone, from innocent bellboys and bellgirls to wealthy... Read more

Starring: Burt Lancaster, Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Rosemary Clooney

'The Colgate Comedy Hour' (1950-1955) was a favourite with audiences for six years, providing viewers with classic sketches by hosts Dean Martin and J... Read more

6.8/10

Director: Jacques Tourneur

Starring: Basil Rathbone, Boris Karloff, Peter Lorre, Vincent Price, Joyce Jameson, Joe E...

Waldo Trumbull (Vincent Price) is running his father-in-law's (Boris Karloff) funeral home business...straight into the ground! Hounded by his landlor... Read more

7.9/10

Director: Melvin Frank, Norman Panama

Starring: Glynis Johns, Danny Kaye, Basil Rathbone, Angela Lansbury

Danny Kaye has one of his best roles in this beloved comedy classic which rates as one of the funniest comedies of all time. To help restore the thron... Read more

7.8/10

Director: William Dieterle

Starring: Walter Huston, Edward Arnold, James Craig, Anne Shirley, Simone Simon

Stephen Vincent Benet's "New Englandized" Faust story. A young 19th-century farmer (James Craig) sells his soul to Mr. Scratch (Walter Huston) for sev... Read more

6.4/10

Director: Frank Tashlin

Starring: Glenda Farrell, Jerry Lewis, Everett Sloane, Kathleen Freeman, Susan Oliver

Slapstick comedy starring Jerry Lewis as Jerome Littlefield, a squeamish and very clumsy medical student who drops out of college and gets a job in an... Read more

Director: Alexander Mackendrick, Charles Crichton, Henry Cornelius, Robert Hamer

Starring: Alastair Sim, Alec Guinness, Basil Radford, Ian Carmichael, James Robertson Just...

The legendary Ealing Studios were home to some of Britain's most enduring - and endearing - comedies. It is the oldest continuously-working studio fac... Read more