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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Whisky Galore! (1949)
7.3/10
Director: Alexander Mackendrick
Starring: Basil Radford, Joan Greenwood, James Robertson Justice, Gordon Jackson
Ranked among the most popular and best-loved of Ealing Studio's comedies. When a ship carrying 50,000 cases of whisky runs aground, the inhabitants of... Read more
It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963)
7.6/10
Director: Stanley Kramer
Starring: Spencer Tracy, Milton Berle, Sid Caesar, Buddy Hackett, Ethel Merman, Mickey Roo...
A veritable 'who's who' of film comedy were brought together in this classic slapstick extravaganza about a race to find $350,000 in hidden loot. Spen... Read more
Love in the Afternoon (1957)
7.3/10
Director: Billy Wilder
Starring: Gary Cooper, Audrey Hepburn, Maurice Chevalier, John McGiver
The winning combination of Billy Wilder and writer I.A.L Diamond ('Some Like It Hot', 'The Apartment') and acting greats Audrey Hepburn and Gary Coope... Read more
M*A*S*H (1969)
8.4/10
Director: Robert Altman
Starring: Donald Sutherland, Elliott Gould, Sally Kellerman, Robert Duvall, Gary Burghoff,...
Director Robert Altman's innovative dark comedy about the everyday escapades of an Army medical unit during the Korean War stars Elliott Gould, Donald... Read more
Alfie (1966)
7.1/10
Director: Lewis Gilbert
Starring: Michael Caine, Shelley Winters, Millicent Martin, Denholm Elliott
Full of sex and delightful charm, this quick moving film tells the poignant tragedy of a cockney playboy (Michael Caine) who finds 'birds' irresistibl... Read more
The Mouse That Roared (1959)
7/10
Director: Jack Arnold
Starring: Peter Sellers, Jean Seberg, David Kossoff
The Duchy of Grand Fenwick declares war on the United States in order to improve the welfare of the tiny nation. Unfortunately no one told Peter Selle... Read more
Topkapi (1964)
7.1/10
Director: Jules Dassin
Starring: Melina Mercouri, Peter Ustinov, Maximilian Schell
About a group of sophisticated thieves orchestrating the perfect heist, that of the gem-strewn dagger from the Topkapi Museum in Constantinople. Peter... Read more
Bell, Book and Candle (1958)
6.9/10
Director: Richard Quine
Starring: James Stewart, Kim Novak, Jack Lemmon, Ernie Kovacs, Hermione Gingold, Janice Ru...
About-to-be-married publisher James Stewart finds himself smitten with Kim Novak, but is shocked to find out she's a witch! Jack Lemmon, Hermione Ging... Read more
Houseboat (1958)
6.7/10
Director: Melville Shavelson
Starring: Cary Grant, Sophia Loren, Martha Hyer
Widower Cary Grant signs aboard Sophia Loren to care for his two children, but the two find themselves in a shipboard romance in this bouncy, romantic... Read more
The Odd Couple (1967)
7.7/10
Director: Gene Saks
Starring: Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, John Fiedler
Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau are two divorced buddies who decide to be roommates in this classic film adaptation of the Neil Simon smash hit play. Read more