Subgenre Sampler
Comedy: 5561 Films to Buy & Rent
McLintock! (1963)
- Dir. Andrew McLagen
Feat. John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara, Yvonne De Carlo…
- TAMING OF THE SHREW goes West in this rambunctious battle of wits between cattle rancher (Wayne) and his firebrand wife (O’Hara), in search of a…
Move Over, Darling (1963)
- Dir. Michael Gordon
Feat. Doris Day, James Garner
- Originally intended for Marilyn Monroe as 'Something's Got to Give', Doris Day and James Garner instead appear in this comedy about a long…
Nutty Professor, The (1963)
- Dir. Jerry Lewis
Feat. Jerry Lewis, Stella Stevens
- Jerry Lewis' most hilarious, certainly most personal work uses the Jekyll–and–Hyde device to exploit his comic genius as both awkward…
Son of Flubber (1963)
- Dir. Robert Stevenson
Feat. Fred MacMurray, Nancy Olson, Keenan Wynn…
- A (then) rare Disney sequel in which Fred MacMurray returns as THE ABSENT–MINDED PROFESSOR for another round of visual gags based around the…
Sparrows Can't Sing (1963)
- Dir. Joan Littlewood
Feat. James Booth, Barbara Windsor, Roy Kinnear…
- A sprightly British kitchen sink comedy about a man who returns from two years at sea to find his house demolished and his wife living with a married…
Stitch in Time, A (1963)
- Dir. Robert Asher
Feat. Norman Wisdom, Edward Chapman, Jeanette Sterke…
- More disasters befall Norman as on a trip to the hospital he meets a young girl hasn't smiled since her parents death so our kindhearted hero wrecks…
Summer Magic (1963)
- Dir. James Neilson
Feat. Hayley Mills, Burl Ives, Dorothy McGuire
- Sweetly sentimental Disney version of the Kate Wiggins novel 'Mother Carey's Chickens', about a poor Boston family who make a drafty Maine homestead…
Take Her, She's Mine (1963)
- Dir. Henry Koster
Feat. Sandra Dee, Audrey Meadows, Robert Morley…
- Lightly likable comedy with Stewart as an anguished father concerned that his college–age daughter is hanging out with the wrong crowd –…
Thrill of It All!, The (1963)
- Dir. Norman Jewison
Feat. Doris Day, James Garner
- Carl Reiner (THE JERK) wrote this mildly thrilling Doris Day vehicle, where she plays a housewife roped into a series of TV commercials.
Tom Jones (1963)
- Dir. Tony Richardson
Feat. Albert Finney, Susannah York, Hugh Griffith…
- Albert Finney inhabits the randy trou of Tom Jones, a wild and reckless young man with an eye for the ladies. A lavishly produced Oscar winner,…