Subgenre Sampler
Comedy: 5570 Films to Buy & Rent
Animal House (1979)
- Feat. John Belushi, Donald Sutherland, Karen Allen…
- National Lampoon's frat–house classic with a grossly hilarious Belushi.
Buffet Froid (Cold Cuts) (1979)
- Dir. Bertrand Blier
Feat. Gerard Depardieu, Bernard Blier, Jean Carmet…
- When his lost switchblade turns up as a murder weapon, petty crim Gerard Depardieu goes on the lam in a nightmarish Paris, several disreputable…
Cactus Jack (1979)
- Dir. Hal Needham
Feat. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Kirk Douglas
- A fledgling Arnie and Kirk Douglas square–up in this comic take on the Old West.
Design For Living / Mrs. Capper's Birthday / What Mad Pursuit (The Noel Coward Collection - Disc 3) (1979-1985)
- Dir. Philip Saville, Mike Ockrent
Feat. Dandy Nichols, Patricia Hayes, Hugh Laurie…
- –Design For Living (79') Contrived comedy set in a Paris apartment where a woman and the two men she loves all live together in an awkward…
Dick Emery - Thames TV Specials (1979)
- Feat. Dick Emery
- Classic songs and sketches abound in this collection of Dick Emery comedy specials. Includes: 'The Dick Emery Comedy Hour', 'The Dick Emery Hour',…
Dimboola (1979)
- Dir. John Duigan
Feat. Bruce Spence
- Marriage, Aussie–style, gets a blokey makeover in this riotous comedy ritualising the boozed–up antics of one man's obligatory bucks…
Dukes of Hazzard, The (TV Series) (1979-1985)
- Feat. Tom Wopat, John Schneider, Catherine Bach…
- Mixing hayseed humour and car–action aplenty, this hit TV show milked Southern stereotypes for all their worth as country cousins Bo (dark) and…
Eric Sykes Collection (The Plank, Rhubarb Rhubarb!, It's Your Move, Mr H. Is Late, The Big Freeze, The Eric Sykes Show, The Likes of Sykes) (1979-1993)
- Dir. Eric Sykes
Feat. Eric Sykes, Arthur Lowe, Tommy Cooper…
- A ridiculously long list of British comic talent star in these slapstick masterpieces from the 1970s and 80s, all of which are virtually dialogue…
Frisco Kid, The (1979)
- Dir. Robert Aldrich
Feat. Harrison Ford, Gene Wilder
- Harrison Ford and Gene Wilder cross joke–strewn terrain in this comedy Western.
I'm For the Hippopotamus (1979)
- Dir. Italo Zingarelli
Feat. Bud Spencer, Terence Hill, Joe Bugner
- Spencer and Hill take umbrage with a German tyrant, selling all of the African wildlife to Canadian Zoo's! Slim and Tom must teach this guy a lesson…