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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Cactus Flower (1969)
7.2/10
Director: Gene Saks
Starring: Goldie Hawn, Ingrid Bergman, Jack Weston, Walter Matthau, Rick Lenz
A delightful comedy sparked by crazy, mixed-up situations and a kooky, Academy Award-winning debut performance from Goldie Hawn (Best Actress in a Sup... Read more
What's So Bad About Feeling Good (1968)
6.8/10
Director: George Seaton
Starring: George Peppard, Mary Tyler Moore, Don Stroud
A new infection that simply makes people feel happy is treated as a threat by the authorities while its "victims" work to spread it to others. Read more
The Party ( Blu-ray ) (1968)
7.6/10
Director: Blake Edwards
Starring: Claudine Longet, Peter Sellers
Peter Sellers is a disaster-prone actor from India who is at first thrown off the set by the producer of a film then invited to his posh Hollywood par... Read more
Buona Sera, Mrs Campbell (1968)
6.8/10
Director: Melvin Frank
Starring: Gina Lollobrigida, Janet Margolin, Lee Grant, Peter Lawford, Phil Silvers, Shell...
With her long-held secret about to emerge, ravishing and resourceful Carla Campbell (Gina Lollobrigida) is in a fix. It seems that during World War II... Read more
The Night They Raided Minsky's (1968)
6.1/10
Director: William Friedkin
Starring: Bert Lahr, Britt Ekland, Denholm Elliott, Elliott Gould, Forrest Tucker, Harry A...
A flavourful comedy, set in the Burlesque years, about an Amish girl (Britt Ekland) who comes to N.Y.C., gets involved with a comic (Jason Robards), a... Read more
With Six You Get Eggroll (1968)
6.4/10
Director: Howard Morris
Starring: Doris Day, Brian Keith, Pat Carroll, Barbara Hershey, George Carlin
A Doris Day favourite in which she plays a widow with three sons. She starts dating a man with a teenage daughter but when they announce their marriag... Read more
Inspector Clouseau (1968)
5/10
Director: Bud Yorkin
Starring: Alan Arkin, Frank Finlay, Patrick Cargill, Delia Boccardo, Beryl Reid
When Peter Sellers refused to play Clouseau for a third time, Alan Arkin stepped up to the plate - not his best career move, though a bold one. Patri... Read more
That Riviera Touch (1968)
5.8/10
Director: Cliff Owen
Starring: Eric Morecambe, Ernie Wise, Suzanne Lloyd
Legendary British comedy duo Morecambe and Wise star in this hilarious farce as unpopular traffic wardens, fleeing for what they hope are friendlier s... Read more
For Love of Ivy (1968)
6.3/10
Director: Daniel Mann
Starring: Sidney Poitier, Abbey Lincoln, Beau Bridges, Nan Martin, Lauri Peters, Carroll O...
Ivy (Abbey Lincoln) has been housekeeper and loyal confidante to the Austin family for nine years. When she surprises everyone by announcing that she... Read more
I Love You, Alice B. Toklas (1968)
6.3/10
Director: Hy Averback
Starring: Peter Sellers, Jo Van Fleet, Leigh Taylor-Young
Razor-sharp satire from co-writers Paul Mazursky and Larry Tucker, with Peter Sellers as a fuddy-duddy lawyer who, after leaving his fiancee at the al... Read more