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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Trial and Error ( The Dock Brief ) (1962)
5.7/10
Director: James Hill
Starring: Richard Attenborough, Peter Sellers, Beryl Reid
Aka 'The Dock Brief'.After nearly 40 years of waiting for his big chance, incompetent barrister Morgenhall (Peter Sellers) gets a "dock brief" to defe... Read more
Waltz Of The Toreadors (1962)
5.9/10
Director: John Guillermin
Starring: Peter Sellers, Dany Robin, Margaret Leighton
In this robust adaptation of the Jean Anouilh play, Peter Sellers is General Fitzjohn, whose pursuit of a sexy Parisian is thwarted by his put upon wi... Read more
The Wrong Arm of the Law (1962)
6.8/10
Director: Cliff Owen
Starring: Bernard Cribbins, Lionel Jeffries, Peter Sellers, Nanette Newman, John Le Mesuri...
Features many of the cast who had previously appeared in 'Two Way Stretch'. Pearly Gates (Peter Sellers) is a Cockney thief, head of the gang responsi... Read more
Jack Rosenthal At ITV (1961)
Director: Mike Newell
Disc 1: Another Sunday and Sweet F.A.: Two amateur football teams clash in a local needle match. Ready When You Are, Mr. McGill: It's a great day in t... Read more
The Second Time Around (1961)
6.5/10
Director: Vincent Sherman
Starring: Debbie Reynolds, Steve Forrest, Andy Griffith
In 1911, a widow with two children leaves New York City for territorial Arizona and becomes a ranch hand and later gets herself elected sheriff. A gam... Read more
On the Double (1961)
6.5/10
Director: Melville Shavelson
Starring: Danny Kaye, Dana Wynter
At the time of the Invasion of Normandy, an American soldier is asked to impersonate a British General in order to confuse the Nazi spies and assassin... Read more
Flower Drum Song (1961)
7/10
Director: Henry Koster
Starring: Nancy Kwan, James Shigeta, Juanita Hall, Benson Fong, Jack Soo
Nominated for five Academy Awards including Best Music for Rodgers and Hammerstein, this classic, musical comedy-romance stars Nancy Kwan as a young C... Read more
The Errand Boy (1961)
6.5/10
Director: Jerry Lewis
Starring: Jerry Lewis, Brian Donlevy, Dick Wesson
Le Grand Goofee, Jerry Lewis, is a film studio gopher who turns Tinseltown upside down one hilarious misadventure after another. Read more
The Ladies Man (1961)
6.5/10
Director: Jerry Lewis
Starring: Jerry Lewis, Helen Traubel, Kathleen Freeman
Jerry Lewis at his zany best plays a woman-hating houseboy at a Hollywood home for wayward girls. Strangely enough, women fawn all over him! Helen Tra... Read more
One, Two, Three (1961)
8/10
Director: Billy Wilder
Starring: James Cagney, Arlene Francis, Horst Buchholz
James Cagney's 'retirement' film was this hilarious comedy about a Coke executive in contemporary West Berlin freaking out when the boss's visiting da... Read more