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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How to Steal a Million (1966)
7.6/10
Director: William Wyler
Starring: Audrey Hepburn, Peter O'Toole, Eli Wallach, Hugh Griffith
The daughter (Audrey Hepburn) of a wealthy Frenchman (Hugh Griffith) who creates counterfeit art learns that her father is in danger of being exposed... Read more
How to Steal a Million (Blu-ray) (1966)
7.5/10
Director: William Wyler
Starring: Audrey Hepburn, Eli Wallach, Hugh Griffith, Peter O'Toole
The daughter (Audrey Hepburn) of a wealthy Frenchman (Hugh Griffith) who creates counterfeit art learns that her father is in danger of being exposed... Read more
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (1967)
7.3/10
Director: David Swift
Starring: Michele Lee, Rudy Vallee, Robert Morse
Robert Morse recreated his Tony-winning stage role in this filming of the Pulitzer Prize-winning musical. Window washer J. Pierpont Finch applies the... Read more
Hue and Cry (1947)
6.9/10
Director: Charles Crichton
Starring: Alastair Sim, Jack Warner, Frederick Piper
This, the first comedy from the Ealing Studios - has a group of rowdy youngsters turning the tables on crooks who've been using their newspaper to pas... Read more
I Love You, Alice B. Toklas (1968)
6.3/10
Director: Hy Averback
Starring: Peter Sellers, Jo Van Fleet, Leigh Taylor-Young
Razor-sharp satire from co-writers Paul Mazursky and Larry Tucker, with Peter Sellers as a fuddy-duddy lawyer who, after leaving his fiancee at the al... Read more
I Married a Witch (1942)
7.2/10
Director: Rene Clair
Starring: Cecil Kellaway, Fredric March, Susan Hayward, Veronica Lake, Robert Warwick, Rob...
Based on the unfinished novel by Thorne Smith (later filmed as 'Bell, Book and Candle' and the 'Bewitched' TV series), this saucy romantic comedy star... Read more
I Thank You (1941)
6/10
Director: Marcel Varnel
Starring: Felix Aylmer, Arthur Askey
The perils, humiliations and humour of trying to run a second-rate theatrical company are further compounded when financial aid, given by the former f... Read more
I Was a Male War Bride (1949)
7.1/10
Director: Howard Hawks
Starring: Cary Grant, Ann Sheridan, Randy Stuart, Kenneth Tobey
After falling in love with french army officer Henry Rochard (Cary Grant), American WAC Lieutenant Catherine Gate (Ann Sheridan) is ordered back to th... Read more
I'm All Right Jack (1959)
7.3/10
Director: John Boulting
Starring: Ian Carmichael, Peter Sellers, Richard Attenborough
Britain's great comic talents join forces in this hilariously witty spoof of the absurdities of the labour movement. Starring Peter Sellers and Ian Ca... Read more
Indiscreet (1958)
6.8/10
Director: Stanley Donen
Starring: Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Cecil Parker, Phyllis Calvert, David Kossoff, Megs J...
Ingrid Bergman and Cary Grant are perfectly cast in this witty comedy, adapted by Norman Krasna from his own stageplay, 'Kind Sir'. Bergman is a weal... Read more