Subgenre Sampler
Comedy: 5561 Films to Buy & Rent
Hole in the Head, A (1959)
- Dir. Frank Capra
Feat. Frank Sinatra, Edward G. Robinson, Eleanor Parker…
- One of dir. Capra's (IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE) final efforts stays true to the redemptive themes of his classic works.
Sinatra runs a threadbare…
I'm All Right Jack (1959)
- Dir. John Boulting
Feat. Ian Carmichael, Peter Sellers, Terry-Thomas…
- Brilliant satire of labour and class relations, makes a glorious mockery of unions and management alike as upperclass twit Ian Carmichael joins the…
It Happened to Jane (1959)
- Dir. Richard Quine
Feat. Doris Day, Jack Lemmon, Ernie Kovacs
- Ordinary folk take on corporate bullying in this under–rated rom–com starring Doris Day as a widowed small–business woman and…
Mouse That Roared, The (1959)
- Dir. Jack Arnold
Feat. Peter Sellers
- Slapstick/satire combo in which Peter Sellers inhabits three roles, primarily as the head of a tiny state that declares war on the U.S. on the…
Operation Petticoat (1959)
- Dir. Blake Edwards
Feat. Cary Grant, Tony Curtis
- Submarine Capt. Cary Grant and First Mate Tony Curtis excel in this seaborne comedy.
Pillow Talk (1959)
- Dir. Michael Anderson
Feat. Doris Day, Rock Hudson, Tony Randall
- Party–line adversaries Rock Hudson and Doris Day conduct a hilarious romance of deception in this imaginative sex comedy. With Rock as the…
Shaggy Dog, The (1959)
- Dir. Charles Barton
Feat. Fred MacMurray, Jean Hagen, Tommy Kirk…
- Fred MacMurray excels in this Disney live–actioner, playing a postman whose son accidentally transforms himself into a talking sheepdog with…
Some Like It Hot (1959)
- Dir. Billy Wilder
Feat. Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, Marilyn Monroe
- One of the great comedies, in which Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon dress as women and join an all–girl travelling jazz band in order to escape the…
Square Peg, The (1959)
- Dir. John Paddy Carstairs
Feat. Norman Wisdom, Honor Blackman, Edward Chapman…
- Chaotic comedy with Wisdom as an an inept council workman whose road mending gets him into conflict with the Army. Arguably Wisdom's best film with…
Too Many Crooks (1959)
- Dir. Mario Zampi
Feat. Terry-Thomas, George Cole, Sid James…
- Four incompetent, would–be criminals make a meal of a kidnapping–ransom plot in this farcical crime caper from the Rank Organisation.