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Comedy Classics
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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By The Light Of The Silvery Moon
(1953) [G]
The sequel to On Moonlight Bay with the young lovers Marjorie and Bill now engaged. Having just returned home from army service in World War 1, Bill wants to wait until he is financially secure before they get married. Unfortunately this causes friction and some jealous misunderstandings The... More
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Lucky Me
(1954) [G]
Don't step on a crack. Open an umbrella only when outdoors. Stop the show if the audience numbers 13 people. Struggling performer Candy Williams (Doris Day) has many ways to ward off bad luck. Maybe that's why the most lopsided, unlucky day of her life eventually turns out to be the luckiest.... More
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Sabrina
(1954) [PG]
Sabrina is charming, humorous and aglow with some of Hollywood's greatest stars. Humphrey Bogart, William Holden and Audrey Hepburn star in a Cinderella story directed by renowned filmmaker Billy Wilder (Sunset Boulevard, Some Like It Hot). Bogie and Holden are the mega-rich Larrabee brothers of... More
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The Horse's Mouth
(1958) [PG]
Gulley Jimson, an obsessive painter (Alec Guiness) becomes a liability to his friends. This is an amusing light study of a social outcast, with a background of the Thames River as it flows through the heart of London and its surrounding streets. More
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Steamboat Bill Jr.
(1928) [G]
STEAMBOAT BILL is William Canfield (Ernest Torrence), the larger-than-life owner of the stern-wheeler 'Stonewall Jackson' which he has operated successfully for many years with his first (and only) mate played by Tom Lewis. Almost all of the town is owned by entrepreneur and businessman J.J.King... More
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Private's Progress
(1956) [G]
When bookish, naive student Stanley Windrush (Ian Carmichael) interrupts his college education to serve his country things don't quite go according to plan. After flunking out of officer's candidate school and being demoted to private, Stanley is confronted by the cruder, ruder side of army life... More
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The Marx Brothers: Horse Feathers
(1932) [G]
Professor Quincy Adams Wagstaff has just been installed as the new president of Huxley College. His cavalier attitude toward education is not reserved for his son Frank, who is seeing the college widow, Connie Bailey. Frank influences Wagstaff to recruit two football players who hang out in a... More
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The Marx Brothers: Duck Soup
(1933) [G]
To rescue the small country of Freedonia from bankruptcy, Mrs. Teasdale agrees to donate 20 million dollars if Rufus T. Firefly is appointed its new president. Firefly is a cynical, sarcastic dictator who refuses to play politics by the book. For instance, he does reduce workers' hours~~by... More
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California Suite
(1978) [M]
California Suite is the story of five couples who come to the Beverly Hills Hotel for diverse reasons and who must all confront some rather amusing personal dilemmas. Sidney Cochran (Michael Caine) becomes the victim of wife Diana's (Maggie Smith) outrage when she misses winning an Oscar (Smith... More
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Annie Hall
(1977) [M]
Arguably the best of all of Woody Allen's movies, Annie Hall portrays with candour the fragility of relationships in an amusing and touching manner. As with Allen's other movies you don't have to look far to find the idiosyncratic neurosis that is innate in most of his work but his handling of... More
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Please Don't Eat The Daisies
(1962) [G]
Drama critic Larry McKay, his wife Kay, and their four sons move from their crowded Manhattan apartment to an old house in the country. While housewife Kay settles into suburban life, Larry continues to enjoy the theater and party scene of New York. Kay soon begins to question Larry's fidelity... More
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Marriage On The Rocks
(1965) [G]
What do you do when you have a beautiful house, two great children, and a Marriage on the Rocks? If you're bored Val Edwards (Deborah Karr), you swap your fuddy-duddy hubby Dan (Frank SInatra) for his swingin' bachelor best friend Ernie (Dean Martin) - and watch the spraks fly. Ol' Blue Eyes... More
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Take Me Out To The Ball Game
(1949) [G]
Frank Sinatra and Gene Kelly play ball in a big way as 1900s vaudevillians who spend the winter flinging the onstage blarney and the summer flinging the ol' horsehide for baseball's world champs, the Wolves. Sinatra is second sacker Dennis Ryan and Kelly is short-stop Eddie O'Brien in this Busby... More
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I'm All Right Jack
(1959) [G]
The Boulting Brothers aim their satirical gaze at British trade unionism and industrial relations in this sequel to Private's Progress. Stanley Windrush (Carmichael) returns from the war determined to carve a niche for himself in the industrial world, much to the displeasure of his Aunt Dolly... More
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