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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Holiday (1938)
7.8/10
Director: George Cukor
Starring: Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Doris Nolan
Based on Philip Barry's Broadway play, 'Holiday' is stylishly directed by Oscar-winner George Cukor. This classic film stars Katharine Hepburn and Car... Read more
You Bet Your Life! - The Best Episodes (1958)
Starring: Candice Bergen, Phyllis Diller, George Fenneman, Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Johnn...
Groucho Marx hosted this classic 1950s game show where he had free reign to say and do pretty much whatever he liked - with hilarious results. Collect... Read more
You Can't Take It With You (1938)
8/10
Director: Frank Capra
Starring: Jean Arthur, Lionel Barrymore, James Stewart
James Stewart, Jean Arthur and Lionel Barrymore star in this 1938 Academy Award winning nutty comedy. Based on the play by George S. Kaufman and Moss... Read more
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End ( Blu-ray ) (2007)
7.1/10
Director: Gore Verbinski
Starring: Johnny Depp, Geoffrey Rush, Keira Knightley, Orlando Bloom, Jack Davenport, Bill...
Hitting the high seas for a third time, Captain Jack is in trouble down in Davy Jones' Locker, after an incident with the Kraken; and Will and Elizabe... Read more
Woman Times Seven (1967)
6.2/10
Director: Vittorio De Sica
Starring: Shirley MacLaine, Alan Arkin, Rossano Brazzi, Michael Caine, Vittorio Gassman, P...
Vittorio De Sica directs this episodic sex comedy consisting of seven short stories each starring Shirley MacLaine. In "Funeral Possession," she plays... Read more
Auntie Mame (1958)
8/10
Director: Morton DaCosta
Starring: Rosalind Russell, Forrest Tucker, Coral Browne
Rosalind Russell re-creates her Broadway triumph as the flashy, lovably eccentric socialite who takes her orphaned nephew under her wing and shows him... Read more
Bells of Rosarita (1945)
6.7/10
Director: Frank McDonald
Starring: Dale Evans, Roy Rogers, George Gabby Hayes, Bob Nolan, Trigger The Horse
Sue Farnum inherits a circus, but her dead father's partner is trying to take it away from her. Roy and Bob Nolan are filming a movie on location at t... Read more
Elizabeth Taylor: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof / Butterfield 8 / Father of the Bride / The Sandpiper (1965)
6.7/10
Director: Daniel Mann, Richard Brooks, Vincente Minnelli
Starring: Elizabeth Taylor, Paul Newman, Richard Burton, Spencer Tracy
Elizabeth Taylor Box Set: 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof' (1958) - Tennessee Williams' Pulitzer Prize play thunders across the screen in a powerful film adapt... Read more
Anthony Quinn Triple Pack: The River's Edge, The Visit, The Secret of Santa Vittoria (1957)
Director: Bernhard Wicki, Stanley Kramer, Allan Dwan
Starring: Anthony Quinn, Ray Milland, Debra Paget, Ingrid Bergman, Anna Magnani, Virna Lis...
The River's Edge: A murderous thief on the run with stolen loot forces a poor rancher to guide him across the desert into Mexico. Accompanying them i... Read more
Abbott and Costello: The Noose Hangs High (1948)
7.4/10
Director: Charles Barton
Starring: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Joseph Calleia
Two window washers mistakenly receive, and lose, $50,000 belonging to a shady bookie, and have only forty-eight hours to retrieve the money. Read more