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Comedy Classics
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Step Lively
(1944) [PG]
Gordon Miller is rehearsing a musical comedy in the penthouse suite of Gribble's hotel...on credit. The mounting bill is driving Gribble frantic. Chaos increases when playwright Glen Russell, whose dramatic play he thinks Miller is producing, arrives. But it turns out Russell can sing like... More
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The Millionairess
(1960) [G]
Based on a play by George Bernard Shaw about an immensely wealthy woman who falls for the charms of a poor Indian doctor. Sophia Loren plays a spoilt heiress able to buy anything she wants. When she meets an Indian doctor (Peter Sellers) whose sole concern is to help the poor and needy, she knows... More
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The Ruling Class
(1972) [M]
Based on Peter Barnes’ hit play, this caustic, hilarious and irreverent black comedy has rightly become a cult classic. The House of Gurney has a family problem - namely the 14th Earl of Gurney (Peter O’ Toole) who thinks he is Jesus Christ and when restored to ‘normalcy’ turns into Jack... More
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A King In New York
(1957) [G]
Shot entirely in England - having been expelled from his adopted homeland - Chaplin plays the exiled King Shahdov of Estrovia, who arrives in New York after he is deposed in his homeland. Sensing an opportunity, a shrewd TV personality (Dawn Addams) hoists the bumbling ex-monarch on to... More
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Limelight
(1952) [PG]
Chaplin's final American film tells the story of a fading music hall comedian's effort to help a despondent ballet dancer learn both to walk and feel confident about life again. The highlight of the film is the classic duet with Chaplin's only real artistic film comedy rival, Buster Keaton. More
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Caddyshack
(1980) [M]
Michael O'Keefe must win the scholarship awarded by the Bushwood Golf Club to the season's best caddy. On the exclusive greens hindering and helping him are funnymen Chevy Chase and Rodney Dangerfiel. While they score the holes in one, he only scores with the girls in the 'Fore'play comedy with... More
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The Adventures Of Barry McKenzie
(1972) [M]
Directed by Bruce Beresford, back in 1972 The Adventures of Barry McKenzie shocked the Australian Government with its portrayal of Aussies as drinking, shagging, vomiting, urinating vulgarians. The Pommies meanwhile were equally horrified with being depicted as upper-class perverts, lezzas,... More
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A Shot In The Dark (Pink Panther series)
(1964) [PG]
When rich M. Ballon's spanish driver is found shot dead, Inspector Jacques Clouseau is the first official on the scene. All evidence suggests Maria Gambrelli, the maid, to be the murderer. But Clouseau, being attracted to the beautiful girl, is convinced that she is hiding something. So, he has... More
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Inspector Clouseau
(1968) [G]
Part of the Pink Panther collection in which Alan Arkin plays the part of the bumbling Inspector Clouseau who is sent to London to try to investigate the aftermath of the Great Train Robbery. More
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Ghost In The Noonday Sun
(1973) [G]
A pirate crewman kills his captain after learning where he has hidden his buried treasure. However, as he begins to lose his memory, he relies more and more on the ghost of the man he just murdered to help him find the loot. More
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Oz - A Rock And Roll Road Movie
(1976) [M]
It's 1976 Dorothy is a groupie... The Scarecrow is a surfie... The Tin Man is a mechanic... The Cowardly Lion is a bikie... The Wicked Witch drives a semi... The Good Fairy is gay... The Wizard is a rock superstar in OZ! Take a trip down the highway with country runaway Dorothy (Joy Dunstan), as... More
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Boys Will Be Boys
(1935) [G]
Will Hay is a teacher in a prison, who applies for the Headship of Narkover, a public school. This is the first screen appearance of Hay in his famous schoolmaster role, in a story based on Dr Smart-Alec, the character created by John Cameron, Andrieu Bingham and Michael Morton. More
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The Great St Trinian's Train Robbery
(1966) [G]
St. Trinian's High School meets the highwaymen. And it's high-class laughs all the way to the bank. After the hijack of the century, crooks infiltrate St. Trinian's High Society - the site where they've highlighted to hide their loot. But the high-spirited schoolgirls decide to take on the... More
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Carry On Cruising
(1962) [G]
About to set sail, Captain Crowther discovers that some of his crew have been replaced by inexperienced men. Like the doctor who has never sailed; the cook who can't cook; the steward who doesn't know how to mix a drink. With a crew like this, you are in for an uproarious time.
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Carry On Spying
(1964) [G]
The misadventures of a group of inept trainee spies on the trail of a secret formula misappropriated by a subversive organization known as S.T.E.N.C.H. It is a battle of halfwits; our heroes versus The Fat Men, The Head Waiter, Lila, the beautiful "agent provocateur" in the pay of S.N.O.G.... More
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Blue Murder At St Trinian's
(1956) [PG]
If only those uncontrollable St Trinian's pupils had brushed up on Latin grammar. Because the notorious schoolgirls have won a UNESCO prize trip to Rome. But while learning the Italian for Lacrosse, they get mixed up with a jewel thief on the lam. And their blackboard bungling makes him wish he'd... More
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Blithe Spirit
(1945) [PG]
David Lean's classic screen version of Noel Coward's supernatural comedy. Rex Harrison plays novelist Charles Condomine who is plagued by the ghost of his sexy first wife Elvira (Kay Hammond). Second wife Ruth (Constance Cummings) doesn't believe him and brings in eccentric medium Madam Arcati... More
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A Date With Judy
(1948) [G]
Developed from a radio program which began in 1941, hyperactive teenager Judy challenges and is challeged by her overly proper parents, pest of a brother Randolph and boyfriend Oogie More
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Simon And Laura
(1955) [G]
In the 1950's days of only BBC television, a wet-behind-the-ears producer has the idea of basing a family drama series on a real-life happily married actor couple. Unfortunately he chooses the Fosters, who need the money and so do the show. Actors they may be, but happily married they most surely... More
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The Million Pound Note
(1953) [G]
In this classic adaptation of Mark Twain’s story, two old and extremely wealthy brothers draw a currency note for a million pounds from their bank. They need it to settle an argument. One of them believes that such a note would be useless to any poverty-stricken man, the other believes that... More
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The Card
(1952) [G]
Alec Guinness stars as Denry, a young man determined to be the master of his own destiny. After giving his exam results a slight ‘lift’, he climbs his way up the employment and social ladder, charming everyone as he goes. His affectionate personality soon earns him the name ‘The Card’ and... More
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Guys And Dolls
(1955) [G]
All the hot gamblers are in town, and they're all depending on Nathan Detroit to set up this week's incarnation of "The Oldest Established Permanent Floating Crap Game in New York"; the only problem is, he needs $1000 to get the place. Throw in Sarah Brown, who's short on sinners at the mission... More
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Wonderman
(1945) [PG]
An outrageous farce in which Danny Kaye plays the dual role of a scholarly bookworm, and his twin brother, a song-and-dance man with gangster troubles. More
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The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty
(1947) [G]
This wacky comedy-adventure is probably the ultimate fantasy movie. The irrepressible Danny Kaye stars as Walter Mitty, a mild-mannered mouse who spends his time imagining himself as a number of daredevil heroes - an RAF pilot, a seafaring swashbuckler, a riverboat gambler. But then Walter meets... More
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Paper Moon
(1973) [PG]
Ryan O'Neal teams up with his daughter Tatum in this very bright, very warm and very funny period film for which Tatum won an Oscar in her first film role. Ryan O'Neal plays the smooth-talking con man Moses Pray, driving through depression-era Kansas with a carload of deluxe bibles, a gold tooth... More
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Jack And The Beanstalk / Who's On First?
(1952) [G]
This classic fairy tale gets the Abbot & Costello buffoon treatment as the comedy duo take on a babysitting job. Jack, played by Lou Costello, starts reading "Jack and the Beanstalk" to his charge, Donald, but fails to pronounce the big words. Donald then takes over, whilst reading Jack falls... More
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A Song Is Born
(1948) [G]
Kaye plays an innocent professor in this musical comedy which features performances by Benny Goodman, Tommy Dorsey, Lionel Hampton and Louis Armstrong. More
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Those Magnificent Men In Their Flying Machines
(1965) [G]
An international air race means sky-high adventure and fun! This extraordinary comic version of the historic 1910 London-to-Paris air race features the greatest aviators from around the world. They all come together when a stuffy, but very rich, newspaper publisher decides to sponsor an airplane... More
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