Comedy
Q: How many surrealists does it take to change a light bulb? A: The fish. Much like that joke, comedy comes down to personal taste and what one finds funny or not. Some like their humour light and frothy and very generalised, while others like it to have an edge and go for a more twisted, darker humour. The motherlode of this genre can be scrolled below. Either way, we're sure there will be something for everybody in the subsections on the left.
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It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963)
7.6/10
Director: Stanley Kramer
Starring: Spencer Tracy, Milton Berle, Sid Caesar, Buddy Hackett, Ethel Merman, Mickey Roo...
A veritable 'who's who' of film comedy were brought together in this classic slapstick extravaganza about a race to find $350,000 in hidden loot. Spen... Read more
The Nutty Professor (1963)
6.7/10
Director: Jerry Lewis
Starring: Jerry Lewis, Stella Stevens, Del Moore
Jerry Lewis is a mild mannered chemistry professor who follows in the footsteps of Dr Jekyll and becomes Buddy Love, a heartless lounge lizard and hea... Read more
The Pink Panther (1963)
7.2/10
Director: Blake Edwards
Starring: Peter Sellers, David Niven, Capucine, Robert Wagner
This film established director Blake Edwards' slightly subversive point of view and heightened the diversity of Peter Sellers. Sellers is Inspector Cl... Read more
Tom Jones (1963)
6.7/10
Director: Tony Richardson
Starring: Albert Finney, Hugh Griffith, Susannah York, Edith Evans, Joan Greenwood, Diane...
A magnificent adaptation of Henry Fielding's novel about the bawdy exploits of a rustic playboy in 18th Century England. Spirited performances and ima... Read more
It's Only Money (1962)
6.4/10
Director: Frank Tashlin
Starring: Jerry Lewis, Joan O'Brien, Zachary Scott
A TV repairman dreams of being a detective and sets out to locate a missing heir. Read more
McHale's Navy: Season 1 (1962)
7.5/10
Starring: Ernest Borgnine, Tim Conway, Billy Sands, Gavin MacLeod, Carl Ballantine, Gary V...
Ernest Borgnine stars in the WWII-set comedy as maverick PT boat captain Quinton McHale, whose crack squad might be good at their jobs, but have a hab... Read more
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Billy Rose's Jumbo (1962)
6.3/10
Director: Charles Walters
Starring: Doris Day, Stephen Boyd, Jimmy Durante, Martha Raye, Dean Jagger
This Rodgers and Hart musical was nominated for an Oscar for its score, and stars Doris Day and Jimmy Durante as circus owners who are going down the... Read more
Five Weeks in a Balloon (1962)
5.8/10
Director: Irwin Allen
Starring: Red Buttons, Fabian, Barbara Eden, Cedric Hardwicke, Peter Lorre, Richard Haydn...
Irwin Allen directed and adapted the screenplay for this madcap comedy from Jules Verne's calssic novel. A group of mismatched adventurers journey by... Read more
The Beverly Hillbillies Collection (1962)
Director: Various
Starring: Buddy Ebsen, Irene Ryan, Donna Douglas, Max Baer, Nancy Kulp
"The Beverly Hillbillies" is one of the most loved series of all time, bringing back memories of fridgidaires that impressed the neighbours and televi... Read more
Billy Liar (1962)
7.4/10
Director: John Schlesinger
Starring: Julie Christie, Tom Courtenay, Wilfred Pickles
This classic Mittyesque satire stars Tom Courtenay as a British working-class Everyman who spends his time daydreaming, spinning tall tales and juggli... Read more