Subgenre Sampler
Classics > Comedy: 913 Films to Buy & Rent
Shot in the Dark, A (The Pink Panther II) (1964)
- Dir. Blake Edwards
Feat. Peter Sellers, Elke Sommer, George Sanders…
- The second Inspector Clouseau film, in which the bumbling detective becomes convinced a beautiful woman is innocent of murder, despite the evidence…
Topkapi (1964)
- Dir. Jules Dassin
Feat. Melina Mercouri, Peter Ustinov, Maximilian Schell…
- A classy comic–romantic spin on the director’s RIFIFI shot on location in Turkey and Greece, that climaxes with another brilliantly exacted…
What a Way to Go! (1964)
- Dir. J. Lee Thompson
Feat. Shirley Maclaine, Paul Newman, Robert Mitchum…
- Stacked, big–budget comedy has fun at the expense of a cursed Shirley MacLaine: she plays a wealthy widow whose $200 million fortune has been…
World of Henry Orient, The (1964)
- Dir. George Roy Hill
Feat. Peter Sellers, Paula Prentiss, Angela Lansbury…
- An irreverant and oddly unique Sellers comedy, in which the 'Pink Panther' plays a NYC concert pianist who is 'stalked' by two teenage devotees,…
Yellow Rolls-Royce, The (1964)
- Dir. Anthony Asquith
Feat. Ingrid Bergman, Rex Harrison, Omar Sharif…
- Star–studded omnibus following three consecutive owners of a cute Rolls Royce Pantom II. An English aristocrat, a Chicago gangster and a…
4 For Texas (Four for Texas) (1963)
- Dir. Robert Aldrich
Feat. Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Ursula Andress…
- Frivolous comedy–western in which "Rat Pack–ers" Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin play friendly rivals who each make a bid for a waterfront…
A New Kind of Love (1963)
- Dir. Melville Shavelson
Feat. Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Thelma Ritter…
- Husband–and–wife team Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward star in this Paris–set rom–com about a womanizing reporter and a…
Billy Liar (1963)
- Dir. John Schlesinger
Feat. Tom Courtenay, Julie Christie
- Tom Courtenay daydreams his way out of a dull office job, to entertaining yet damaging effect, eventually ending up engaged to two fiances at the…
Dinner for One (Der 90. Geburtstag (The 90th Birthday)) (1963)
- Dir. Heinz Dunkhase
Feat. Freddie Frinton, May Warden
- A classic two–hand comedy sketch staged by German TV in its original English language (written by British author Lauri Wylie), with a short…
Donovan's Reef (1963)
- Dir. John Ford
Feat. John Wayne, Lee Marvin, Jack Warden…
- One of dir. Ford’s more comically inclined efforts with ex–Navy buddies John Wayne, Lee Marvin and Jack Warden raising hell on the remote…