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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Two Way Stretch (1959)
7/10
Director: Robert Day
Starring: Peter Sellers, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Liz Fraser
A fast and funny British farce about three convicts who break out of jail to rob a Maharajah and then break back in again, all in the same night. Star... Read more
Viva Maria! (1965)
6.4/10
Director: Louis Malle
Starring: Brigitte Bardot, Jeanne Moreau, George Hamilton
Who doesn't want to see Jeanne Moreau and Brigitte Bardot costarring as turn-of-the-century vaudevillians who get mixed up with Mexican revolutionarie... Read more
Waltz Of The Toreadors (1962)
5.9/10
Director: John Guillermin
Starring: Peter Sellers, Dany Robin, Margaret Leighton
In this robust adaptation of the Jean Anouilh play, Peter Sellers is General Fitzjohn, whose pursuit of a sexy Parisian is thwarted by his put upon wi... Read more
We're No Angels (1955)
7.5/10
Director: Michael Curtiz
Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Aldo Ray, Peter Ustinov, Leo G Carroll, Basil Rathbone, Joan Be...
This entertaining black comedy would be the last collaboration of Humphrey Bogart with director Michael Curtiz. Not best-known for his comedic work, B... Read more
We're Not Married! (1952)
6.4/10
Director: Edmund Goulding
Starring: Ginger Rogers, Fred Allen, Marilyn Monroe
Grand comedy served up in several episodes as six married couples discover their weddings weren't legal! Superb cast includes Ginger Rogers, Marilyn M... Read more
Week-End in Havana (1941)
6.6/10
Director: Walter Lang
Starring: Alice Faye, Carmen Miranda, John Payne, Cesar Romero
Nan Spencer is on a boat bound for Havana which runs aground. The man sent to rescue her is engaged and she doesn't understand his disinterest. Gamble... Read more
What a Carve Up (1962)
Director: Pat Jackson
Starring: Dennis Price, Donald Pleasence, Kenneth Connor, Shirley Eaton, Sid James
Ernie's Uncle Gabriel has just dies, but to claim his inheritance he must spend the night in the ancestral family home with the rest of his rather ecc... Read more
What A Way To Go! (1964)
7/10
Director: J Lee Thompson
Starring: Shirley MacLaine, Dick Van Dyke, Gene Kelly, Paul Newman, Dean Martin, Robert Cu...
This exuberant '60s comedy stars Shirley MacLaine as Louisa May, a woman who, despite her best efforts to marry for love, always winds up with a man w... Read more
What Did You Do In the War, Daddy? (1966)
6.7/10
Director: Blake Edwards
Starring: Aldo Ray, Carroll O'Connor, Dick Shawn, Harry Morgan, James Coburn, Giovanna Ral...
James Coburn is the leader of a misfit group of soldiers stationed in Italy during World War II. Coburn is joined by a superior officer (Dick Shawn) w... Read more
What's New Pussycat? (1965)
6.2/10
Director: Clive Donner
Starring: Peter Sellers, Peter O'Toole, Romy Schneider, Woody Allen
Disturbed fashion editor Peter O'Toole goes to psychiatrist Peter Sellers for help with his romantic problems, but Sellers is even crazier than he. Th... Read more