Subgenre Sampler
Sales > Classics > Comedy: 52 films to Buy
- Too Many Crooks (1959)
- Four incompetent, would–be criminals make a meal of a kidnapping–ransom plot in this farcical crime caper from the Rank Organisation.
- DVD $14.95
- A King in New York (1957)
- Mild satire, in which Chaplin plays the leader of 'Estrovia' whose visit to NYC is beset by witchhunts, noise, and 1950s conservatism.
Has often…
- DVD
$19.95 $14.95
- Leave It to Beaver (TV Series) (1957)
- One of the most beloved family sitcoms of its time set around the mischief–making exploits of young Theodore 'Beaver' Cleaver.
- DVD $49.95
- Bus Stop (1956)
- Marilyn Monroe excels in this comedy/drama as a distraught southern showgirl who becomes the object of desire and marriage for an obsessive and naive…
- DVD
$20 $15
- Artists and Models (1955)
- Bubbly, brain–addled comedy with comic–artist Dean Martin getting his ideas from roommate Jerry Lewis’ wild nocturnal mutterings. Rated…
- DVD
$19.95 $14.95
- Father Knows Best (TV Series) (1954-1960)
- Cloying sitcom bathed in the idealised glow of 50's apple–pie America, centred on a suburban family and their typically patriarchal upbringing.…
- DVD $39.95, $39.95
- Norman Wisdom Collection, The (Trouble in Store, Up in the World, On the Beat.) (1953-1962)
- Collection of three comedies – Trouble in Store, Up in the World and On the Beat – from admired British slapstick comedian Norman Wisdom,…
- DVD
$25 $18.75
- Pygmalion (1938)
- Leslie Howard trains Wendy Hiller to be a lady, in an excellent version of the G B Shaw play.
- DVD $19.95
- Storm in a Teacup (1937)
- Capra–lite comedy set in Scotland with Harrison as a journalist falling for a local politicians daughter.
- DVD $34.95
- Steamboat Bill Jr (1928)
- One of Buster Keaton's best films begins as sly farce, with his wimpish city–slicker meekly tussling with a thuggish steamboat–captain…
- DVD
$29.95 $19.95