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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.... Rght: Lobbycard for "Bringing Up Baby".

The Trouble With Harry (1955)

7.1/10
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Starring: Edmund Gwenn, John Forsythe, Shirley MacLaine

The trouble with Harry is that he is dead. The trouble with his peers is that each one thinks they did it! The sharp Alfred Hitchcock humour and spect... Read more

The Vivien Leigh Anniversary Collection ( Fire Over England / Dark Journey / Storm in a Teacup / Sidewalks of London ) (1937)

Director: William Howard, Victor Saville, Ian Dalrymple, Tim Whelan
Starring: Vivien Leigh, Laurence Olivier, Charles Laughton, Rex Harrison

Four classic Vivien Leigh films made prior to her legendary performance as Scarlett O'Hara in 'Gone With the Wind'. In celebration of the 100th annive... Read more

The Wheeler Dealers (1963)

6.5/10
Director: Arthur Hiller
Starring: Lee Remick, James Garner, Phil Harris, Chill Wills, Jim Backus

A big-time Texas wheeler-dealer (who's actually Ivy league-educated, but plays dumb) runs out of money, and goes to New York City to raise $1.5 millio... Read more

The Wrong Arm of the Law (1962)

6.8/10
Director: Cliff Owen
Starring: Bernard Cribbins, Lionel Jeffries, Peter Sellers, Nanette Newman, John Le Mesuri...

Features many of the cast who had previously appeared in 'Two Way Stretch'. Pearly Gates (Peter Sellers) is a Cockney thief, head of the gang responsi... Read more

The Wrong Box (1966)

7/10
Director: Bryan Forbes
Starring: Ralph Richardson, Michael Caine, Peter Sellers, Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, John M...

Some of Britain's best known comics appear in this screwball farce about two zany families who battle over an inheritance in Victorian England. John M... Read more

The Yellow Rolls-Royce (1964)

6.6/10
Director: Anthony Asquith
Starring: Alain Delon, George C Scott, Ingrid Bergman, Jeanne Moreau, Omar Sharif, Rex Har...

An all-star cast highlights this Terrence Rattigan ("The Browning Version") drama that follows a Phantom II Rolls Royce on a series of adventures thro... Read more

There's a Girl in My Soup (1970)

5.7/10
Director: John Boulting, Roy Boulting
Starring: Diana Dors, Goldie Hawn, Peter Sellers

Self-absorbed British cooking show host Robert Danvers (Peter Sellers) went through women as often as he went through serviettes. He thought he'd foun... Read more

There's No Business Like Show Business (1954)

6.5/10
Director: Walter Lang
Starring: Ethel Merman, Dan Dailey, Donald O'Connor, Marilyn Monroe, Johnnie Ray, Mitzi Ga...

Dan Dailey and Ethel Merman head a performing family that includes Marilyn Monroe, Donald O'Connor, Mitzi Gaynor and Johnny Ray. They all like to sin... Read more

Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines (1965)

7/10
Director: Ken Annakin
Starring: Stuart Whitman, Sarah Miles, James Fox, Alberto Sordi, Robert Morley, Gert Frobe...

...or How I Flew From London to Paris in 25 Hours and 11 Minutes. From the opening prologue by Red Skelton, who gives a hysterical aviatic history les... Read more

Three Men in a Boat (1957)

5.7/10
Director: Ken Annakin
Starring: Laurence Harvey, Jimmy Edwards, Shirley Eaton, David Tomlinson, Jill Ireland

Escaping their dull weekday pursuits, three pals take a pleasure excursion down the Thames in a small boat. Along the way they encounter all sorts of... Read more