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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There's No Business Like Show Business (1954)
6.5/10
Director: Walter Lang
Starring: Ethel Merman, Dan Dailey, Donald O'Connor, Marilyn Monroe, Johnnie Ray, Mitzi Ga...
Dan Dailey and Ethel Merman head a performing family that includes Marilyn Monroe, Donald O'Connor, Mitzi Gaynor and Johnny Ray. They all like to sin... Read more
Blue Murder at St Trinian's (1957)
6.6/10
Director: Frank Launder
Starring: Terry-Thomas, George Cole, Joyce Grenfell
The second film in the hilarious series has a diamond smuggler hiding out at the girls' school by masquerading as the new Headmistress. Alastair Sim,... Read more
Beat The Devil (1954)
6.6/10
Director: John Huston
Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Jennifer Jones, Gina Lollobrigida, Peter Lorre
An audacious offbeat comedy with Humphrey Bogart, Gina Lollobrigida and Peter Lorre, and screenplay by Truman Capote, about a motley group of petty th... Read more
Irma La Douce (1963)
7.4/10
Director: Billy Wilder
Starring: Shirley MacLaine, Jack Lemmon, Lou Jacobi
Jack Lemmon plays a bumbling Paris gendarme who is fired for raiding the red light district (where his chief is a customer) and becomes an equally bum... Read more
Adam's Rib (1949)
7.6/10
Director: George Cukor
Starring: Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Tom Ewell, Judy Holliday
Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn in one of their all-time great appearances as married attorneys who find themselves on opposite sides of a murder... Read more
The Sir Aliec Guinness Ealing Studios Comedy Collection: The Ladykillers / Kind Hearts and Coronets / The Man in the White Suit / The Lavender Hill Mob (1951)
Director: Alexander Mackendrick, Charles Crichton, Robert Hamer
Starring: H. Marion Crawford , Michael Gough, Joan Greenwood, Alec Guinness, Valerie Hobso...
A Box Set comedy collection from the acclaimed Ealing Studios. 'The Ladykillers' - This outrageous caper farce stars Alec Guinness as the criminal ma... Read more
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
8/10
Director: Frank Capra
Starring: Cary Grant, Priscilla Lane, Raymond Massey, Peter Lorre, Josephine Hull, Jean Ad...
An hilarious adaptation of Joseph Kesselring's hit play about two seemingly harmless old ladies who murder lonely gentlemen callers - out of the goodn... Read more
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947)
7.1/10
Director: Norman Z McLeod
Starring: Danny Kaye, Virginia Mayo, Boris Karloff
This fine adaptation of James Thurber's short story stars Danny Kaye as the harried milquetoast proofreader who daydreams of manly prowess and heroic... Read more
The Wrong Box (1966)
7/10
Director: Bryan Forbes
Starring: Ralph Richardson, Michael Caine, Peter Sellers, Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, John M...
Some of Britain's best known comics appear in this screwball farce about two zany families who battle over an inheritance in Victorian England. John M... Read more
Blithe Spirit (1945)
7.2/10
Director: David Lean
Starring: Constance Cummings, Kay Hammond, Rex Harrison, Margaret Rutherford
David Lean adapts Noel Coward once again ('This Happy Breed', 'Brief Encounter') with excellent results. Rex Harrison is an author writing a book on... Read more