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 Great Race (1965)
7.3/10
Director: Blake Edwards
Starring: Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis, Natalie Wood, Peter Falk, Denver Pyle
Follows a pack of wacky racers including capital fellow Tony Curtis, dastardly villain Jack Lemmon, and femme fatale Natalie Wood, on a 22.000-mile ro... 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
Tom Jones (1963)
6.7/10
Director: Tony Richardson
Starring: Albert Finney, Hugh Griffith, Susannah York, Edith Evans, Joan Greenwood, Diane...
A magnificent adaptation of Henry Fielding's novel about the bawdy exploits of a rustic playboy in 18th Century England. Spirited performances and ima... Read more
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
Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
8.1/10
Director: Robert Hamer
Starring: Alec Guinness, Dennis Price, Joan Greenwood, Valerie Hobson
A superb black comedy about a man who ruthlessly eliminates eight of his relatives (all played to perfection by Alec Guinness) in order to inherit a t... Read more
I'm All Right Jack (1959)
7.3/10
Director: John Boulting
Starring: Ian Carmichael, Peter Sellers, Richard Attenborough
Britain's great comic talents join forces in this hilariously witty spoof of the absurdities of the labour movement. Starring Peter Sellers and Ian Ca... Read more
Barefoot in the Park (1967)
7/10
Director: Gene Saks
Starring: Charles Boyer, Jane Fonda, Robert Redford, Mildred Natwick
Jane Fonda and Robert Redford star in this breezy film adaptation of the Neil Simon comedy about newly weds living in a five-story walk-up apartment.... Read more
Dr Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb ( Blu-ray ) (1963)
8.4/10
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Starring: George C Scott, James Earl Jones, Keenan Wynn, Peter Bull, Peter Sellers, Slim P...
A commie-hating, paranoid American general launches a flight of B-52 bombers at the Soviet Union with nuclear annihilation in mind. Since he is the on... Read more
Jour De Fete (1949)
7.4/10
Director: Jacques Tati
Starring: Jacques Tati, Guy Decomble, Paul Frankeur
Jacques Tati's first feature film, which introduced some of the finest mime and slapstick humour since the days of Chaplin and Keaton. Tati is the vil... Read more
Arabesque (1966)
6.6/10
Director: Stanley Donen
Starring: Gregory Peck, Sophia Loren, Alan Badel, Kieron Moore
This Bondian adventure stars Gregory Peck as a language professor hired to decipher a secret code. He and Sophia Loren must outwit hired gunmen and cu... Read more