Classic Comedy
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Marriage Italian Style
One of the most famous and funniest Italian comedies of all time, MARRIAGE ITALIAN STYLE received nominations for Best Foreign Language Film and Best Actress for Sophia Loren at the Academy Awards®. Marcello Mastroianni co-stars as the irrepressibly carnal businessman...Watch Movie
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Charade
Audrey Hepburn and Cary Grant return to work with director Stanley Donen in the stylish and serpentine CHARADE, a blend of espionage thriller and romantic comedy that is today frequently described as the best movie Alfred Hitchcock never made. Bored and rich Reggie Lampert (Audrey Hepburn)...Watch Movie
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Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
Winner of the Best Foreign Language Film at the 1964 Academy Awards®, YESTERDAY, TODAY AND TOMORROW is a sparklingly original comedy that casts Marcello Mastroianni and Sophia Loren in three different stories throughout Italy. In Naples, they are poor but resourceful, selling...Watch Movie
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Bimbo's Initiation
One of the all-time-great commercial cartoon mixes of the surreal and the silly, this Fleischer Studios short featuring Betty Boop's canine friend Bimbo has been a longtime favorite amongst animators, cinephiles and lovers of the simply strange. Minding his own business while...Watch Movie
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Nothing Sacred
He's an unscrupulous newspaperman eager to exploit the story of a young woman's death by radium poisoning. She knows she's not really dying but can't pass up a free trip to New York with all the trimmings. So begins William Wellman's wonderful black comedy NOTHING SACRED, starring Frederic March...Watch Movie
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The Man Who Could Work Miracles
Roland Young stars in H.G. Wells' light-hearted comedy about what happens when some bored celestials decide to give "an ordinary little fellow" the power to work miracles just to see what he will do with it. George, a draper's assistant, is suddenly endowed with the mystical...Watch Movie
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Ladies Who Do
Whilst financier James Ryder (Harry H. Corbett) discusses a potential takeover deal, he is unaware that Mrs. Cragg (Peggy Mount) is busy polishing the floor beneath his desk. After Ryder leaves, Mrs. Cragg retrieves an unsmoked cigar from the wastepaper bin, wraps it in a crumpled telegram and...Watch Movie
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Wot a Night
Tom and Jerry (not the later cat-and-mouse duo but a Mutt and Jeff-type pair of button-nosed, humanoid pals) are taxi drivers who pick up a couple of beardos at the train station. They take these passengers to a creepy castle where they end up trapped themselves as skeletons cavort and spirits...Watch Movie
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Then Came the Yawn
Parody trailers are a dime-a-dozen now but they were a real novelty when this short from Educational Pictures ("The spice of the program!") appeared in movie houses. Its satire of "coming attractions" hyperbole encompasses hillbillies singing "She'll Be Comin' Round the...Watch Movie
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The Girl Swappers
A free-wheeling Air Force corporal has a series of romantic flings while stationed in England. His love for gambling on the horses lands him in big trouble when he racks up enormous debts. The only way to pay them is to go AWOL but, in doing so, knocks out a sergeant....Watch Movie
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Double Bunk
When newlyweds Jack (Ian Carmichael) and Peggy (Janette Scott) face eviction, they are tricked into buying a rundown houseboat. After rebuilding the engine they take their old friends Sid (Sid James) and Sandra (Liz Fraser) on a local trip down the river to Folkestone. But as the fog gets thicker...Watch Movie
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The Silent Partner
Comedic genius Buster Keaton plays a former silent-film star named Kelsey Dutton. Dutton watches the Academy Awards® on television in a bar; in flashbacks, Keaton re-enacts Dutton's silent comedies. The silent-film parody is close enough to Keaton's old work to be poignant and...Watch Movie
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A Night in a Dormitory
Top-billed Ginger Rogers, three years before her initial career-making teaming with Fred Astaire, was just dipping her tapping toes in the movies when she made this Pathé melody comedy. Having already conquered vaudeville and Broadway, she is introduced here under her own name...Watch Movie
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Something to Sing About
Though one of Warner Brothers' most popular stars, James Cagney was often at odds with his studio, complaining that they worked him harder and paid him less than many smaller box-office names. Walking out during one contract dispute in 1938, he made two independent features,...Watch Movie
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The Gay Dog
Jim Gay is a northern miner with an obsession for greyhound racing. Having seen Raving Beauty romp to first place at short odds because everybody had backed it, Jim decides to increase its odds for the big race by pretending that Raving Beauty is ill and unlikely to finish. But keeping this a...Watch Movie
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The Taming of the Shrew
This "talkie" is the only film co-starring Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks. This print is from the 1966 re-release and it is faithful to the original except that new music and new sound effects were added by Marty Kemp of the Mary Pickford Company during his painstaking...Watch Movie
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If I Were Rich
This caper comedy revolves around the astonishing effect that $100,000 in cash has on various characters, something that can be explained by remembering that in 1932 Britain (like the U.S.) was in the grips of a serious economic depression. Robert Donat plays a "humble electrician" dispatched to...Watch Movie
