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 Party (1968)
7.6/10
Director: Blake Edwards
Starring: Peter Sellers, Claudine Longet, Marge Champion
Peter Sellers in one of his best roles plays a clumsy Indian bit player who has just destroyed a remake of 'Gunga Din', and finds himself at a posh pa... Read more
The Producers (1968)
7.7/10
Director: Mel Brooks
Starring: Zero Mostel, Gene Wilder, Kenneth Mars, Dick Shawn
Mel Brook's hilarious hit about a producer who comes up with a surefire scheme for making money... on a musical production that he is absolutely cert... Read more
Jules Verne's Rocket to the Moon (1967)
Director: Don Sharp
Starring: Burl Ives, Terry-Thomas, Lionel Jeffries, Dennis Price, Troy Donahue, Hermione...
In Victorian England, an American showman uses a wealthy Frenchman's finances to build a German explosives expert's giant cannon designed to fire a pe... Read more
Playtime ( Blu-ray ) (1967)
8/10
Director: Jacques Tati
Starring: Barbara Dennek, Jacqueline Lecomte, Jacques Tati
Jacques Tatis gloriously choreographed, nearly wordless comedies about confusion in an age of high technology reached their apotheosis with PlayTime.... Read more
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Charlie Bubbles (1967)
6.5/10
Director: Albert Finney
Starring: Albert Finney, Billie Whitelaw, Colin Blakely, Liza Minnelli
Albert Finney both directs and stars in the "alienation" comedy-drama Charlie Bubbles. The eponymous Bubbles (Finney) is a trendy and fabulously wealt... Read more
A Guide for the Married Man (1967)
6.8/10
Director: Gene Kelly
Starring: Carl Reiner, Inger Stevens, Jack Benny, Jayne Mansfield, Joey Bishop, Lucille Ba...
Gene Kelly directs this delicious farce that finds faithful husband Walter Matthau contemplating stepping out on wife Inger Stevens. To get lessons in... Read more
The Flim-Flam Man (1967)
7/10
Director: Irvin Kershner
Starring: George C Scott, Harry Morgan, Michael Sarrazin, Slim Pickens, Sue Lyon
George C. Scott plays Mordecai C. Jones (self-styled "M.B.S., C.S., D.D. - Master of Back-Stabbing, Cork-Screwing and Dirty-Dealing!"), a drifting con... Read more
The Honey Pot (1967)
7/10
Director: Joseph L Mankiewicz
Starring: Capucine, Cliff Robertson, Maggie Smith, Rex Harrison, Susan Hayward
Rex Harrison stars as international playboy Cecil Fox, who decides to pretend he's dying in order to find out what his three old flames will do. He su... Read more
The Thief of Paris (1967)
6.9/10
Director: Louis Malle
Starring: Genevieve Bujold, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Marie Dubois, Francoise Fabian
Set in turn-of-the-century Paris, Georges Randal (Jean-Paul Belmondo) is shocked to learn that the uncle who raised him has not only squandered the yo... Read more
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (1967)
7.3/10
Director: David Swift
Starring: Michele Lee, Rudy Vallee, Robert Morse
Robert Morse recreated his Tony-winning stage role in this filming of the Pulitzer Prize-winning musical. Window washer J. Pierpont Finch applies the... Read more