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 Disorderly Orderly (1964)
6.4/10
Director: Frank Tashlin
Starring: Glenda Farrell, Jerry Lewis, Everett Sloane, Kathleen Freeman, Susan Oliver
Slapstick comedy starring Jerry Lewis as Jerome Littlefield, a squeamish and very clumsy medical student who drops out of college and gets a job in an... Read more
Kiss Me, Stupid (1964)
7/10
Director: Billy Wilder
Starring: Dean Martin, Kim Novak, Ray Walston, Felicia Farr
The story plays out in Climax, Nevada, a name not lost on the sleazy Vegas entertainer, Dino (played to a tee by sleazy Vegas entertainer, Dean Martin... Read more
Topkapi (1964)
7.1/10
Director: Jules Dassin
Starring: Melina Mercouri, Peter Ustinov, Maximilian Schell
About a group of sophisticated thieves orchestrating the perfect heist, that of the gem-strewn dagger from the Topkapi Museum in Constantinople. Peter... Read more
Ride The Wild Surf (1964)
5.8/10
Director: Don Taylor
Starring: Fabian, Tab Hunter, Barbara Eden, Anthony Hayes
Columbia attempted to catch the "beach party film" wave with this more serious look at three surf bums in Hawaii whose ambitions revolve around surfin... Read more
The Wheeler Dealers (1963)
6.5/10
Director: Arthur Hiller
Starring: Lee Remick, James Garner, Phil Harris, Chill Wills, Jim Backus
A big-time Texas wheeler-dealer (who's actually Ivy league-educated, but plays dumb) runs out of money, and goes to New York City to raise $1.5 millio... Read more
Take Her, She's Mine (1963)
6.4/10
Director: Henry Koster
Starring: James Stewart, Sandra Dee, Audrey Meadows, Robert Morley
A father's attempts to protect his college-age daughter from trouble backfire and he finds himself in the middle of scandal after scandal. Read more
The Man from the Diners' Club (1963)
6.2/10
Director: Frank Tashlin
Starring: Danny Kaye, Martha Hyer
An employee at Diner's Club issues a credit card to a well-known mobster and has to retrieve it in order to keep his job. Read more
Summer Holiday (1963)
6.1/10
Director: Peter Yates
Starring: Cliff Richard, David Kossoff, Ron Moody, The Shadows, Una Stubbs, Melvyn Hayes,...
Borrowing a double-decker bus for a mobile home, four young mechanics search for fun in the sun from London to Athens. Bachelor boy Cliff Richard dons... 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
Move Over Darling (1963)
7/10
Director: Michael Gordon
Starring: Chuck Connors, Don Knotts, Doris Day, James Garner, Polly Bergen, Thelma Ritter
Originally planned as the Marilyn Monroe vehicle "Something's Got to Give," this remake of 1940's "My Favorite Wife" was revamped for Doris Day. Retur... Read more