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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The Prince And The Showgirl (1957)
6.7/10
Director: Laurence Olivier
Starring: Marilyn Monroe, Laurence Olivier, Sybil Thorndike
A handsomely mounted romantic comedy of a suave European prince and a simple chorus girl who meet in London during the 1911 Coronation. Fascinating pe... Read more
The Producers (1968)
7.7/10
Director: Mel Brooks
Starring: Zero Mostel, Gene Wilder, Kenneth Mars, Dick Shawn
Mel Brook's hilarious hit about a producer who comes up with a surefire scheme for making money... on a musical production that he is absolutely cert... Read more
The Reivers (1969)
6.9/10
Director: Mark Rydell
Starring: Steve McQueen
An episodic jaunt from rural Mississippi to Memphis, Tennessee, provides laughs and adventure for a young boy, a scampish farmhand (Steve McQueen) and... Read more
The Roof ( Il Tetto ) (1956)
7.3/10
Director: Vittorio De Sica
Starring: Gabriella Pallotta, Giorgio Listuzzi
De Sica once again returns to poor, post-war Italy to tell the small and unpretentious story of a young newly-wed couple. Having no money, they first... Read more
The Runaway Bus (1954)
6.3/10
Director: Val Guest
Starring: Frankie Howerd, Margaret Rutherford, Petula Clark, George Coulouris
This offbeat British comedy/thriller features Frankie Howerd, in his first starring role, as Percy Lamb, a bus driver who finds himself in a difficult... Read more
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947)
7.1/10
Director: Norman Z McLeod
Starring: Danny Kaye, Virginia Mayo, Boris Karloff
This fine adaptation of James Thurber's short story stars Danny Kaye as the harried milquetoast proofreader who daydreams of manly prowess and heroic... Read more
The Secret of Santa Vittoria (1969)
7.5/10
Director: Stanley Kramer
Starring: Anna Magnani, Anthony Quinn, Hardy Kruger, Virna Lisi
When German soldiers approaching a small Italian town during World War II threaten to rob the village of its cache of vintage wine, ineffectual mayor... Read more
The Seven Year Itch (1955)
7.2/10
Director: Billy Wilder
Starring: Tom Ewell, Marilyn Monroe
While Hollywood censors carefully watched the filming of this notoriously racy production, Marilyn was pure perfection as a sexy, yet innocent, starle... Read more
The Sheepman (1958)
6.9/10
Director: George Marshall
Starring: Edgar Buchanan, Glenn Ford, Leslie Nielsen, Mickey Shaughnessy, Shirley MacLaine
If there's one word in Powder Valley's cattle country that makes the locals' jaws clench and trigger-fingers twitch, here it is: sheep. But easygoing... Read more
The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw (1958)
6.1/10
Director: Raoul Walsh
Starring: Bruce Cabot, Henry Hull, Jayne Mansfield, Kenneth More, Ronald Squire
A proper English gentleman, traveling in the American West, inadvertently stops an Indian attack on the stagecoach in which he is a passenger. When th... Read more