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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. Right: There's Something About Mary's hairdo...

Rockets Galore (1957)

Director: Michael Relph
Starring: Jeannie Carson, Donald Sinden, Roland Culver, Noel Purcell, Ian Hunter, Gordon J...

This slightly underwhelming sequel to the excellent 'Whisky Galore' sees the locals of Todday island again at odds with the mainlanders as the British... Read more

Love in the Afternoon (1957)

7.3/10
Director: Billy Wilder
Starring: Gary Cooper, Audrey Hepburn, Maurice Chevalier, John McGiver

The winning combination of Billy Wilder and writer I.A.L Diamond ('Some Like It Hot', 'The Apartment') and acting greats Audrey Hepburn and Gary Coope... Read more

Kiss Them For Me (1957)

5.8/10
Director: Bryan Lewis
Starring: Cary Grant, Jayne Mansfield, Werner Klemperer

This light-hearted wartime comedy stars Cary Grant as a fun-loving naval pilot who finagles a furlough in San Francisco for himself and two other flyb... Read more

A King in New York (1957)

7.2/10
Director: Charlie Chaplin
Starring: Charlie Chaplin, Dawn Adams

Chaplin, working as usual on both sides of the camera, was in self-imposed exile from the United States when he launched this pie in the face at targe... Read more

The Naked Truth (1957)

6.9/10
Director: Mario Zampi
Starring: Terry-Thomas, Peter Sellers, Peggy Mount, Shirley Eaton, Dennis Price, Georgina...

Terry-Thomas is a shifty peer of the realm, Peter Sellers is a TV celebrity, Peggy Mount is a best-selling novelist, Shirley Eaton is a gorgeous model... Read more

Blue Murder at St Trinian's (1957)

6.6/10
Director: Frank Launder
Starring: Terry-Thomas, George Cole, Joyce Grenfell

The second film in the hilarious series has a diamond smuggler hiding out at the girls' school by masquerading as the new Headmistress. Alastair Sim,... Read more

The Prince And The Showgirl (1957)

6.7/10
Director: Laurence Olivier
Starring: Marilyn Monroe, Laurence Olivier, Sybil Thorndike

A handsomely mounted romantic comedy of a suave European prince and a simple chorus girl who meet in London during the 1911 Coronation. Fascinating pe... Read more

The Smallest Show on Earth (1957)

Director: Basil Dearden
Starring: Bernard Miles, Bill Travers, Margaret Rutherford, Peter Sellers, Virginia McKenn...

Jean and Bill are a struggling married couple with Bill trying to scrape a living as a writer. Out of the blue they receive a telegram informing them... Read more

Abbott and Costello: Dance With Me, Henry (1956)

7.4/10
Director: Charles Barton
Starring: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello

Bud and Lou are the owners of the amusement park Kiddieland. Bud, a compulsive gambler, gets in trouble with the mob, and Lou finds himself struggling... Read more

Private's Progress (1956)

6.6/10
Director: John Boulting
Starring: Dennis Price, Ian Carmichael, Richard Attenborough, Terry-Thomas

This splendid farce on army life tells the tale of an undergraduate with no visible talents who joins the army in WWII and soon learns the best ways o... Read more