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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The Fuller Brush Girl (1950)
6.7/10
Director: Lloyd Bacon
Starring: Lucille Ball, Eddie Albert
Scatterbrained Sally Elliott tries to get a job as a Fuller brush girl and desperate for money she borrows her friend's kit without permission and her... Read more
Burt Lancaster: Local Hero / The Flame and the Arrow / Executive Action / Seven Days in May (1950)
5.5/10
Director: Bill Forsyth, David Miller, Jacques Tourneur, John Frankenheimer
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Fredric March, Kirk Douglas, Peter Riegert, Robert Ryan, Virgini...
Burt Lancaster Box Set. 'Local Hero' (1983) - Burt Lancaster and Peter Riegert star in the wonderfully whimsical comedy of an oil company's planned bu... Read more
Father Of The Bride (1950)
7.2/10
Director: Vincente Minnelli
Starring: Joan Bennett, Elizabeth Taylor, Spencer Tracy, Don Taylor, Billie Burke, Leo G C...
This comic, sentimental gem stars Spencer Tracy as a dad, coping with one emergency after another, as daughter Elizabeth Taylor prepares to walk down... Read more
The Golden Age of Comedy Collection (1950)
Starring: Jack Benny, Groucho Marx, Buster Keaton, Lucille Ball, Bob Hope, Lou Costello, D...
Laugh out loud with some of the best and funniest live comedy moments from the 1950s and '60s, a time when a wildly creative group of comedic talents... Read more
Doris Day Collection: The Pajama Game (1957) / Please Don't Eat the Daisies (1960) / The Glass Bottom Boat (1966) / Love Me Or Leave Me (1955) / Billy Rose's Jumbo (1962) / Young Man With A Horn (1950)
Director: Charles Vidor, Charles Walters, Frank Tashlin, George Abbott, Michael Curtiz
Starring: Doris Day, David Niven, Rod Taylor, Kirk Douglas, James Cagney, Jimmy Durante, L...
This collection of classics featuring America's sweetheart Doris Day includes: 'Please Don't Eat The Daisies' - Doris in a house of 4 boys and drama-c... Read more
At War with the Army (1950)
5.8/10
Director: Hal Walker
Starring: Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Polly Bergen
In this, their first starring feature, Dean Martin plays a sergeant in girl trouble who tries to get Private First Class Jerry Lewis to help him out.... Read more
Harvey (1950)
8/10
Director: Henry Koster
Starring: James Stewart, Josephine Hull, Victoria Horn
This beloved comedy stars James Stewart as a good-hearted inebriate whose constant companion is a six foot, invisible rabbit named Harvey that only he... Read more
Born Yesterday (1950)
7.6/10
Director: George Cukor
Starring: Judy Holliday, William Holden, Broderick Crawford
Excellent movie version of the Broadway success. Judy Holliday won an Oscar for her hilarious performance as Billie, the dumb blonde to end all dumb b... Read more
Utopia (1950)
8.5/10
Director: Leo Joannon
Starring: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Suzy Delair, Max Elloy
Aka 'Atoll K'. Laurel and Hardy's last film has the boys inheriting a South Seas island, only to discover that their paradise is rich in uranium. Read more
Jour De Fete ( Blu-ray ) (1949)
7.4/10
Director: Jacques Tati
Starring: Guy Decomble, Paul Frankeur
In his enchanting debut feature, Jacques Tati stars as a fussbudget of a postman who is thrown for a loop when a traveling fair comes to his village.... Read more