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 League of Gentlemen (1960)
7.5/10
Director: Basil Dearden
Starring: Richard Attenborough, Jack Hawkins, Nigel Patrick, Roger Livesey, Kieron Moore,...
A humorous, tension-filled heist film about a former British Army officer who organises a group of his somewhat dodgy friends to pull off a 1,000,000... Read more
Some Like It Hot (1959)
8.3/10
Director: Billy Wilder
Starring: Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, George Raft, Pat O'Brien, Joe E Brown
Perhaps the funniest American film of the 1950's, Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon play two second rate musicians on the run from the Chicago mob, who take... Read more
Cary Grant Collection - Arsenic and Old Lace / North by Northwest / Night and Day / Destination Tokyo / Cary Grant: A Class Apart (2004)
Director: Alfred Hitchcock, Delmer Daves, Frank Capra, Michael Curtiz, Robert Trachtenberg
Starring: Cary Grant, Raymond Massey, Jack Carson, Peter Lorre, Eva Marie Saint, James Mas...
'Arsenic & Old Lace' - Two lovable sisters are spinster pillars of Brooklyn society until their nephew discovers they are poisoning male callers with... Read more
What's New Pussycat? (1965)
6.2/10
Director: Clive Donner
Starring: Peter Sellers, Peter O'Toole, Romy Schneider, Woody Allen
Disturbed fashion editor Peter O'Toole goes to psychiatrist Peter Sellers for help with his romantic problems, but Sellers is even crazier than he. Th... Read more
Ealing Studio Classic Collection: Whisky Galore (1949) / It Always Rains On Sunday (1947) / The Maggie (1954) (1944)
Director: Alberto Cavalcanti, Alexander Mackendrick, Robert Hamer
Starring: Basil Radford, Edward Chapman, Googie Withers, Gordon Jackson, Jack Warner, Jame...
A Box Set of four classics from Ealing Studios. 'Whisky Galore' - When 50,000 cases of Whiskey are stranded on ship which runs aground, The Inhabitant... Read more
The Thin Man (1934)
8.1/10
Director: W S Van Dyke
Starring: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Maureen O'Sullivan
This madcap blend of screwball comedy and murder mystery marked the first pairing of what was to become one of the movies great romantic teams, Willia... Read more
Heavens Above! (1963)
6.8/10
Director: John Boulting
Starring: Isabel Jeans, Cecil Parker, Peter Sellers, Ian Carmichael, Bernard Miles, Brock...
Peter Sellers, in an unusually low-key performance stars as a young vicar whose tendencies to interpret Christian doctrine in his own individualistic... Read more
Mr Deeds Goes To Town (1936)
8/10
Director: Frank Capra
Starring: Gary Cooper, Jean Arthur, George Bancroft
Gary Cooper is Longfellow Deeds who inherits 20 million dollars and wants to give it away to needy people. Director Capra won an Oscar for this irresi... Read more
The Million Pound Note (1953)
Director: Ronald Neame
Starring: Gregory Peck, Jane Griffiths, Ronald Squire
From the Mark Twain fable about an American receiving a one million pound note and the ensuing turmoil. This well-acted tale stars Gregory Peck, Jane... Read more
The Adventures of Ma and Pa Kettle: The Egg and I / Ma and Pa Kettle / Ma and Pa Kettle Go To Town / Ma and Pa Kettle Back on the Farm (1951)
Director: Charles Lamont, Chester Erskine, Edward Sedgwick
Starring: Claudette Colbert, Percy Kilbride, Fred MacMurray, Marjorie Main, Richard Long
First, the hillbilly husband and wife played by Marjorie Main and Percy Kilbride are introduced in the all-time favourite barnyard comedy 'The Egg and... Read more