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 Best Of Bud Abbott And Lou Costello: Volume 3 (1948)
Director: Arthur Lubin, Erle C. Kenton, Edward Sutherland
Starring: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello
Get ready for big laughs with Abbott and Costello, undeniably the most popular comedy team of all time, in this hilarious collection featuring eight o... Read more
My Dear Secretary (1948)
5.7/10
Director: Charles Martin
Starring: Laraine Day, Kirk Douglas, Keenan Wynn
The battle of the sexes has never been funnier than in this zany screwball comedy focussing on skirt-chasing author Kirk Douglas. After hiring busines... Read more
Ladies of the Chorus (1948)
6.1/10
Director: Phil Karlson
Starring: Adele Jergens, Marilyn Monroe, Rand Brooks, Nana Bryant, Eddie Garr
Marilyn's second feature film casts her as dizzy burlesque queen, Peggy Martin, who gets a big break after stealing not only the show, but the heart o... Read more
Sorrowful Jones / The Paleface (1948)
Director: Norman Z McLeod, Sidney Lanfield
Starring: Bob Hope, Lucille Ball, Jane Russell, Robert Armstrong, Bruce Cabot
A Bob Hope comedy double bill. 'Sorrowful Jones' (1949) - When bookie Bob is left with a client's 5-year-old daughter, he must become a reluctant fath... Read more
The Paleface (1948)
7.6/10
Director: Norman Z McLeod
Starring: Bob Hope, Jane Russell
A Bob Hope comedy 'The Paleface' (1948) - Hope is a daffy dentist and a shaky gun; Jane Russell is the gorgeous gunslinger Calamity Jane, and together... Read more
The Sin of Harold Diddlebock (1947)
6.8/10
Director: Preston Sturges
Starring: Harold Lloyd, Jimmy Conlin, Raymond Walburn
Harold Lloyd's final film is actually a sequel to his 1925 comedy "The Freshman." After being fired from his job, staid bookkeeper Lloyd goes on a dri... Read more
Song of the Thin Man (1947)
7.1/10
Director: Edward Buzzell
Starring: Gloria Grahame, Myrna Loy, William Powell, Keenan Wynn, Dean Stockwell, Patricia...
In the sixth and final film of the series, Nick and Nora play a rousing rendition of 'Murder Musicale' when the homicide of a jazz bandleader leads th... Read more
Hue and Cry (1947)
6.9/10
Director: Charles Crichton
Starring: Alastair Sim, Jack Warner, Frederick Piper
This, the first comedy from the Ealing Studios - has a group of rowdy youngsters turning the tables on crooks who've been using their newspaper to pas... Read more
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947)
7.1/10
Director: Norman Z McLeod
Starring: Danny Kaye, Virginia Mayo, Boris Karloff
This fine adaptation of James Thurber's short story stars Danny Kaye as the harried milquetoast proofreader who daydreams of manly prowess and heroic... Read more
Road To Singapore / Road To Zanzibar / Road To Morocco / Road To Utopia (1946)
Director: David Butler, Hal Walker, Victor Schertzinger
Starring: Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, Dorothy Lamour
A deluxe box set featuring four of the best 'Road To...' films starring Bob Hope, Bing Crosby and Dorothy Lamour. "Road To Singapore" (1940) The firs... Read more