Subgenre Sampler
Comedy: 5561 Films to Buy & Rent
Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (1963)
- Dir. Vittorio De Sica
Feat. Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni
- A compendium of three stories starring Sophia Loren in her luscious prime in three very different roles. Together with Marcello Mastroianni, it…
40 Pounds of Trouble (Forty Pounds of Trouble) (1962)
- Dir. Norman Jewison
Feat. Tony Curtis, Suzanne Pleshette, Phil Silvers…
- Tony Curtis plays a harangued casino manager dodging outstanding alimony payments while caring for an abandoned six–year–old girl.…
Billy Rose's Jumbo (1962)
- Dir. Charles Walters
Feat. Doris Day, Stephen Boyd, Jimmy Durante…
- Cracking musical extravaganza based around the real–life Billy Rose stageshow and doctored with brilliant Rodgers and Hart songs, plus dance…
Boccaccio '70 (1962)
- Dir. Vittorio De Sica, Luchino Visconti, Federico Fellini
Feat. Anita Ekberg, Romy Schneider, Marisa Solinas…
- Naughty for the time, this all–star portmanteau film is loosely based on updated versions of the bawdy stories of 14th century writer Giovanni…
Courtship of Eddie's Father, The (1962)
- Dir. Vincente Minnelli
Feat. Glenn Ford, Ron Howard, Shirley Jones
- Wholesome family comedy, wherein widower Glenn Ford is prodded into romance by his six–year son Ron Howard (who went on to become the…
Dick Van Dyke Show, The (TV Series ) (1962-1966)
- Dir. Carl Reiner
Feat. Dick Van Dyke, Mary Tyler Moore
- Seminal sitcom set around a New York comedy writer and his family. Van Dyke's wife was played by Mary Tyler Moore in her first major…
Divorce Italian Style (1962)
- Dir. Pietro Germi
Feat. Marcello Mastroianni, Stefania Sandrelli
- Italy’s archaic marital laws – where divorce was still illegal in the sixties – are the star in this devious satire of an unhappy…
Five Weeks in a Balloon (1962)
- Dir. Irwin Allen
Feat. Red Buttons, Fabian, Barbara Eden…
- Predictable but entertaining adaptation of Jules Verne's tale about a professor (Hardwicke) who plans to fly across Africa in a balloon and ends up…
Gigot (1962)
- Dir. Gene Kelly
Feat. Jackie Gleason, Katherine Kath
- Splendidly poignant comedy made in part as a tribute to Charlie Chaplin, about a mute vagabond who befriends the little daughter of a prostitute.…
Gypsy (1962)
- Dir. Mervyn LeRoy
Feat. Rosalind Russell, Natalie Wood, Karl Malden
- Eye–catching musical comedy–drama based on the memoir of burlesque entertainer Gypsy Rose Lee, whose career was driven by her aggressive…