Mix-and-match from
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Subgenre Sampler
Strange World of Gurney Slade, The (TV Series) (1960)
- Feat. Anthony Newley
- An unpredictable, wildly inventive comedy where an actor (Anthony Newley) walks off the set of a banal sit–com and into an absurd fantasy world…
Tall Story (1960)- Dir. Joshua Logan
Feat. Jane Fonda, Anthony Perkins - A young Jane Fonda makes her screen debut in this candy–coated comedy as a bubbly co–ed with romantic yearnings for basketballer Anthony…
Two Way Stretch (1960)- Dir. Robert Day
Feat. Peter Sellers, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Bernard Cribbins… - Peter Sellers leads a jailbird trio whose plans for the ultimate heist are scuppered by the arrival of a staunch prison warden.
When Comedy Was King (1960)
- Dir. Various
Feat. Charles Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Stan Laurel… - Second anthology of priceless silent comedy from complier Robert Youngson features excerpts from the likes of Chaplin, Keaton, Laurel & Hardy,…
Where the Boys Are (1960)- Dir. Henry Levin
Feat. Dolores Hart, George Hamilton, Yvette Mimieux… - Fairly 'swingin' sixties beach romp with Hart, Hamilton and a cast of bright young co–eds on Spring Break vacation at Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.…
Zazie Dans Le Metro (Zazie in the Underground) (1960)- Dir. Louis Malle
Feat. Catherine Demongeot, Philippe Noiret - Anarchistic comedy drops the impudent 11yr old Zazie into the care of Uncle Phillipe Noiret and the whirlygig chaos of modern Paris. Adapted from…
Battle of the Sexes, The (1959)- Dir. Charles Crichton
Feat. Peter Sellers, Robert Morley, Constance Cummings… - An archly engaging comedy based upon a James Thurber story in which the head clerk (Sellers) of a tweed manufacturer resists the efforts of the…
Carlton Browne of the F.O. / Hoffman (1959-1969)- Dir. Jeffrey Dell, Roy Boulting, Alvin Rakoff
Feat. Peter Sellers - A pair of eclectic, little known comedies starring Peter Sellers on one cassette.
Don't Give Up the Ship (1959)- Dir. Norman Taurog
Feat. Jerry Lewis, Dina Merrill - Comedy with Jerry Lewis playing a Junior Navy Officer whose ship mysteriously goes missing years after WWII, and he is called upon to find it right…
Good Morning (Ohayo) (1959)- Dir. Yasujiro Ozu
Feat. Shimazu Masahiko, Koji Shidara, Chishu Ryu… - Ozu’s most accessible and scathing film amuses with its deceptively light–hearted tale of two boys’ vow of silence after being refused a…
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