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Fit for a King

Rated: 0 | 108 Views Released Year: 1937

Genre: Classic Comedies
About: Working at a big-city newspaper, a goofball gofer (Joe E. Brown) spends his time hustling coffee for reporters and flirting with girls while dreaming of becoming a top journalist himself. His henpecked editor sends him on a fool's errand to interview a duke (Harry Davenport), but along the way, the rookie reporter falls in love with the crown princess (Helen Mack) and inadvertently gets tangled in an assassination plot.
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A Fine Madness

Rated: 0 | 118 Views Released Year: 1966

Genre: Classic Comedies
About: In this offbeat comedy, debt-ridden, down-on-his-luck discouraged poet -- and incorrigible ladies' man -- Samson Shillitoe (Sean Connery) can't seem to muster the inspiration to complete his masterpiece. Worried that his frustration will soon get the better of him, live-in friend Rhoda (Joanne Woodward) urges him to see a psychiatrist who specializes in writer's block. But in a mad world, the cure just may do more harm than good!
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The Maltese Falcon / Satan Met a Lady

Rated: 0 | 126 Views Released Year: 1931

Genre: Classic Comedies
About: Mystery abounds in the first two film adaptations of Dashiell Hammett's classic novel. In 1931's The Maltese Falcon, detective Sam Spade (Ricardo Cortez) investigates the link between his partner's murder and the search for a jewel-encrusted falcon statue. Bebe Daniels co-stars as femme fatale Ruth Wonderly. 1936's loose variation Satan Met a Lady features Ted Shayne (Warren William) and Valerie Purvis (Bette Davis) hunting an antique ram's horn.
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The Marx Brothers in a Nutshell

Rated: 0 | 118 Views Released Year: 1982

Genre: Classic Comedies
About: Screen legend Gene Kelly narrates this documentary by humor aficionado Robert Weide about the Marx Brothers, one of the funniest comedy teams ever to have graced the screen. Featuring Harpo, Groucho, Chico and Zeppo's best bits and reels of never-before-seen footage, this video offers a satisfying and side-splitting romp through comedy history. Includes interviews with Woody Allen, Dick Cavett, George Fenneman and more.
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Oh! What a Lovely War

Rated: 0 | 107 Views Released Year: 1969

Genre: Classic Comedies
About: Director Richard Attenborough's wry satire is structured around a series of evocative vignettes (some musical) that focus on the members of the Smith family (Wendy Alnutt, Colin Farrell, Malcolm McFee) during World War I. Scenes re-created include the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand and the famous Christmas meeting in no-man's land between British and German troops. Laurence Olivier won a BAFTA Award for his role as a British field marshal.
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Hootenanny A Go-Go

Rated: 0 | 90 Views Released Year: 1965

Genre: Classic Comedies
About: When a wealthy (but straitlaced) playboy from Manhattan falls for a café folk singer, he'll go to any lengths to get her -- including buying the Miami coffeehouse where she works. Beatniks and bongos abound in this musical that features Joan Rivers in her first film appearance (as part of the comic team Jim, Jake and Joan), as well as performances by the Goldebriars, the Free Wheelers and Oscar Brand.
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A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum

Rated: 0 | 105 Views Released Year: 1966

Genre: Classic Comedies
About: Indolent Roman slave Pseudolus (Zero Mostel) has one wish: to purchase his freedom. With his master and mistress away for the day, Pseudolus learns that the master's son, Hero (Michael Crawford), has fallen for a beautiful virgin in a slave merchant's house. The ever-crafty Pseudolus then cooks up a scheme that will allow him to go free if he can procure the girl for Hero. Richard Lester directed this frenetic adaptation of the stage musical.
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A Jolly Bad Fellow

Rated: 0 | 115 Views Released Year: 1964

Genre: Classic Comedies
About: Professional curmudgeon Leo McKern stars as taciturn Professor Bowles-Ottery, who grows tired of seeing the world overrun with useless people. Through experiments in his lab, he develops a gas that will take care of the problem -- permanently. But it's not all bad news for the victims of his gas: they will die amid uncontrollable laughter. Janet Munro, Duncan Macrae and Maxine Audley co-star in this pitch-black British satire.
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Never Give a Sucker an Even Break

Rated: 0 | 128 Views Released Year: 1941

Genre: Classic Comedies
About: A man with big ideas (W.C. Fields) pitches an outlandish adventure story to a dumbfounded studio exec (Franklin Pangborn) who'd much rather make a romantic comedy starring the man's pretty niece (Gloria Jean). The result is a whale of a tale involving a young girl (Susan Miller) and her millionaire mother (Margaret Dumont), a flask of gin and a gorilla -- and, of course, the man and his niece.
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Once Upon a Scoundrel

Rated: 0 | 84 Views Released Year: 1974

Genre: Classic Comedies
About: After falling for Alicia (Priscilla Garcia), greedy and powerful Mexican landowner Carlos (Zero Mostel) has her fiancé thrown in prison on a bogus charge. To trick Carlos into releasing her man, Alicia teams up with her Aunt Delfina (Katy Jurado) and tries to convince Carlos that he's a ghost. Featuring noteworthy cinematography of beautiful Mexican landscapes, this comedy also stars A Martinez, Aurora Clavel and Xavier Marc.
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