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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Make Mine a Million (1959)
6.8/10
Director: Lance Comfort
Starring: Bernard Cribbins, Kenneth Connor, Sid James, Arthur Askey, Clive Morton
An ad-man teams up with a make-up artist in a cunning plot to advertise Bonko detergent on non-commercial television. Despite the trouble it causes, t... Read more
The Ladykillers (Blu-ray) (1955)
7.7/10
Director: Alexander Mackendrick
Starring: Alec Guinness, Cecil Parker, Peter Sellers
Alec Guinness teams with Peter Sellers in this fabulous tale of a group of dumb crooks who become unhinged by a sweet old lady. An Ealing Studios gem. 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
No Limit (1936)
7.1/10
Director: Monty Banks
Starring: George Formby, Florence Desmond
'No Limit' is irrefutably a vehicle for chipmunk-cheeked British comic George Formby. He plays a provincial auto mechanic who dreams of the 'Main Chan... Read more
Red Skelton (1954)
8.1/10
Starring: Red Skelton
Paint the town red with this collection of TV show skits. Red Skelton hosted his own series for twenty years after being active in show business from... 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
The Flame Of New Orleans (1941)
6.6/10
Director: Rene Clair
Starring: Bruce Cabot, Marlene Dietrich, Roland Young
In old New Orleans, a beautiful adventuress juggles the attentions of a rich banker and a dashing sea captain. Director René Clair stated he and scree... Read more
The Geisha Boy (1958)
6.5/10
Director: Frank Tashlin
Starring: Jerry Lewis, Marie McDonald, Sessue Hayakawa
One of Jerry Lewis' funniest romps has him as a third rate magician on a tour of the Orient where he falls for a Japanese widow, befriends her young s... Read more
Buster Keaton: The Complete Short Films 1917-1923 (1917)
8.7/10
Starring: Buster Keaton, Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle
A succession of the most timeless, classic comedy shorts ever realised in a luxurious four-disc box set, on Blu-ray for the first time in the UK SY... Read more
The Naughty Nineties (1945)
7.5/10
Starring: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello
Comedy legends Bud Abbott and Lou Costello take to the river in a riotous ride up stream in The Naughty Nineties. In the 1890s, cardsharps take... Read more