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Comedy Classics
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Raising The Wind
(1961) [G]
Amusing British comedy tale which revolves around five students of music who venture into all kinds of get-rich-quick schemes to help pay their rent.
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Murder At The Gallop
(1963) [PG]
The old and wealthy Mr. Enderby dies of a heart attack but the ever suspicious Miss Marple has her doubts. Who or what gave him a heart attack? Enderby's poor relatives gather at the The Gallop, a combined boarding-house and riding school. Miss Marple also gets there to find out if any of them... More
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Murder She Said
(1961) [PG]
When Miss Marple (Margaret Rutherford) witnesses a murder on a passing train carriage the lack of a body means the police won't take her story seriously. Of course, she begins her own investigation. The killing took place while the train was passing Ackenthorpe Hall, so Miss Marple poses as a... More
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Murder Ahoy
(1964) [G]
Jane Marple (Margaret Rutherford) is a trustee overseeing a fund used to rehabilitate young criminals. When one of her fellow trustees is murdered, Miss Marple goes aboard the ship that is used to train the youngsters in her search for information. Despite the distress of the Captain (Lionel... More
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The Marx Brothers: Go West
(1940) [G]
Embezzler, all around confidence man S. Quentin Quale (Groucho) is heading west to find his fortune; he meets the crafty but simple brothers, Joseph and Rusty Panello (Chico and Harpo), in a train station, where they steal all his money. They're heading west, too, because they've heard you can... More
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Bananas
(1971) [PG]
Woody Allen's second film as a director, co-writer and star takes parody to the extreme with a brilliant send-up of everything from relationships to dictatorships. An early example of what Allen called his 'slapdash' approach to comedy, Bananas' broad, fast humor and rapid-fire witticisms form a... More
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The Graduate
(1967) [M]
Benjamin is home from school, having graduated with honors from college with no idea of what to do with his life. Mrs. Robinson, a close family friend old enough to be his mother, tells him that she's "available." As Ben begins the affair, he finds that it fills his time, but depresses him. Under... More
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Mr. Smith Goes To Washington
(1939) [G]
James Stewart, Jean Arthur and Claude Rains star in this award-winning 1939 classic about an idealistic, small town senator who heads to Washington and suddenly finds himself single-handedly battling ruthless politicians out to destroy him. More
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Born Yesterday
(1951) [PG]
Judy Holliday won the 1950 Best Actress Oscar for her brilliant and funny role as Billie Dawn, the "dumb blonde" girlfriend of Harry Brock (Broderick Crawford), a corrupt millionaire junk dealer. Brock, a man with social ambitions and a willingness to do anything to fulfill them, is embarrassed... More
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The Man In The White Suit
(1951) [G]
The most satirical of Ealing's comedies, played as a farce and put together with meticulous cinematic counterpoint. Alec Guinness, by now the most ubiquitous of Ealing faces, plays a would-be research chemist who invents a fabric which will never soil or wear out. Before the threatened unions and... More
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It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
(1963) [G]
It's a mad, mad, mad, mad film! A dying gangster tells eight vacation-bound motorists the location of a fortune in stolen cash he has buried. The hapless dupes then speed off in a mind-bending, car-wrecking race for the loot in the craziest, funniest epic in the history of the world. With an... More
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Heavens Above
(1963) [PG]
Oh Brother! Socialist parson Peter Sellers has been appointed to the parish of an upper-class village by mistake. When he converts the aristocrats to ridiculous charity work, the whole country is in an uproar. The bishop must act before the reputation of the church becomes an even bigger laughing... More
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Carry On Henry
(1971) [M]
More hilarity from the 'Carry On' team in this escapade will make historians tear their hair out. It is the (almost) true story of the life of King Henry VIII. More
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Carry On Up The Khyber
(1968) [M]
Classic British comedy from the "Carry On" team. Sir Sidney Ruff-Diamond (Sid James) is the man in charge of a remote Victorian outpost in colonial India - but the treacherous Khasi of Khalabar (Kenneth Williams) would like to see the back of him... Memorable for its climactic dinner-party... More
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White Christmas
(1954) [G]
White Christmas is a treasury of Irving Berlin classics, among them "Count Your Blessings Instead of Sheep," "Sisters," "Blue Skies," and the beloved holiday song, "White Christmas." Two talented song-and-dance men (Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye) team up after the war to become one of the hottest... More
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The Pink Panther (2 Disc Set)
(1964) [PG]
The first in Blake Edwards's series of enormously successful Pink Panther films, it introduced Peter Sellers in the role of epic bumbler Inspector Jacques Clouseau. Ultrasuave jewel thief Sir Charles Lytton (David Niven), aka the Phantom, is in hot pursuit of the Pink Panther, one of the world's... More
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The Pink Panther Strikes Again
(1976) [PG]
In the fourth film of the long-running series, bumbling Inspector Jacques Clouseau's (Peter Sellers) long-suffering boss, Dreyfus (Herbert Lom), finally has been driven to a nervous breakdown by the detective and has been hospitalized in an asylum. Meanwhile, the hapless Clouseau has taken over... More
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Road To Utopia
(1946) [G]
The laughter reaches even into the chilly Alaskan Yukon when Bob Hope and Bing Crosby get together for Road to Utopia, the hilarious fourth entry in the "Road" picture series. The fun begins with Bing and Bob, rascals from the very beginning, get caught up in a race to stake their claim to the... More
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Road To Morocco
(1943) [PG]
A screen pantomime romping through the torrid heat of the desert - with the indefatigable duo of Bob Hope and Bing Crosby at the head of a camel train! The boys find themselves in hot water (or rather hot sand), coping with the Bedouin and a beautiful Arab princess. Dorothy Lamour, the face that... More
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Road To Singapore
(1940) [G]
This is the one that started it all, the first of the famous "Road" pictures starring Bob Hope and Bing Crosby as a team of irrepressible bachelors who end up in the most exotic places! This time it's Singapore, and the scenery gets steamy with the addition of Dorothy Lamour as the beautiful... More
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Desk Set
(1957) [G]
Bunny Watson (Katharine Hepburn) heads up the research department at the Federal Broadcasting Company, a major TV network. And she does her job very well, thank you very much. Assigned by the network president to introduce computers into some of the department’s functions, Richard Sumner... More
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Topkapi
(1964) [G]
A “skillful blend of romance and comedy” (The Hollywood Reporter), Topkapi shimmers with hilarity, action and great performances! Fun-filled and suspenseful, it’s “an incredibly ingenious affair [and] a considerable pleasure to watch” (Newsweek)! Trouble brews beneath the exotically... More
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The Ladykillers (1955)
(1955) [PG]
Alexander Mackendrick's last Ealing comedy and certainly one of the best for which William Rose received an Oscar nomination for Best Original Screenplay. Alec Guinness stars in one of his most vivid disguises, in this killingly funny black comedy gem. The Villains plot to kill the old lady who... More
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Don Camillo (The Little World of Don Camillo)
(1952) [G]
In a village of the Po valley where the earth is hard and life miserly, the priest and the communist mayor are always fighting to be the head of the community. If in secret, they admired and liked each other, politics still divided them as it is dividing the country. And when the mayor wants his... More
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Houseboat
(1958) [G]
This Academy Award-nominated film has the legendary Cary Grant as a government attorney who can't seem to shake his bad fortune. Living on a houseboat, widowed and left with three unruly kids, he hires Sophia Lauren as a governess. The magnetic Loren and the charming Grant add up to a cheeky,... More
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Sailor Beware (UK-1956)
(1956) [G]
A much-loved British classic, from the stage play and bringing across its great and talented mouthy star, Peggy Mount, as the loud-voiced matriarch Emma, terrorising her ferret-loving husband Henry (a brilliant performance from Cyril Smith), her sister-in-law Edie (the wonderful Esma Cannon), and... More
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High Society
(1956) [G]
The Philadelphia Story has jazz- and Bing, Grace, Satchmo and The Voice! The rich are generally different. But in matters of the heart, they're just as scatterbrained as the rest of us. Heiress Tracy Lord (Grace Kelly) is engaged to one man (John Lund), attracted to another (Frank Sinatra) and,... More
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Jabberwocky
(1977) [PG]
Gadzooks! These be terrible times in the kingdom of Bruno the Questionable! At the darkest hour of the Dark Ages, the dreaded Jabberwock roams the land. His eyes aflame, his talons bared - a bone-crushing horror! Which brave knight shall slay the beast and save the kingdom? Who shall win the hand... More
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Silent Movie
(1976) [PG]
'Silent Movie' is director Mel Brooks's comic tribute to the golden days of the silent screen. A movie within a movie, 'Silent Movie' stars Brooks as Mel Funn, a filmmaker who has seen better days. When his best friends (Marty Feldman and Dom DeLuise) rescue him from despair and convince him to... More
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The Marx Brothers: A Night At The Opera
(1935) [G]
The Marx Brothers take on high society. Two lovers who are both in opera are prevented from being together by the man's lack of acceptance as an operatic tenor. Pulling several typical Marx Brothers' stunts, they arrange for the normal tenor to be absent so that the young lover can get his chance. More
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