Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Comedy: 5472 Films to Rent
Abbott & Costello: The Naughty Nineties, The Time of Their Lives (1945-1946)
- Dir. Jean Yarbrough, Charles Barton
Feat. Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Alan Curtis…
- A double feature of slapstick shenanigans
"Naughty Nineties": A captain is swindled out of his riverboat by a trio of gamblers and stage show…
Blithe Spirit (1945)
- Dir. David Lean
Feat. Rex Harrison
- Novelist Rex Harrison jestingly arranges a seance, and inadvertently conjures up the ghost of his first wife, who then wittily haunts his new…
Captain Kidd (1945)
- Dir. Rowland V Lee
Feat. Charles Laughton, Randolph Scott, Barbara Britton…
- Charles Laughton has a great time playing the 17th century English pirate, who swindles King William III. Rollicking production is a nicely comic…
Harvey Girls, The (1945)
- Dir. George Sidney
Feat. Judy Garland, John Hodiak, Ray Bolger…
- A much–loved, if rather formless musical about the heyday of the railroad in the Old West and the Harvey House restaurants which sprang up…
I Know Where I'm Going! (1945)
- Dir. Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Feat. Dame Wendy Hiller, Roger Livesey, George Carney
- A headstrong Wendy Hiller seeks marriage and wealth on the Scottish Hebrides, but is sidetracked by true romance. The powerful landscapes and lyrical…
Thin Man Goes Home, The (1945)
- Dir. Richard Thorpe
Feat. William Powell, Myrna Loy, Lucile Watson…
- Nick and Nora's reputation precedes them as they wrap up another murder mystery while visiting Nick's parents. The penultimate film in the popular…
Wonder Man (1945)
- Dir. Bruce Humberstone
Feat. Danny Kaye, Virginia Mayo, Vera-Ellen…
- A typically zany fairy–tale for Danny Kaye, as a mild–mannered student persuaded by the ghost of his dead twin to seek out his murderer.…
Can't Help Singing (1944)
- Dir. Frank Ryan
Feat. Deanna Durbin, Robert Paige, Akim Tamiroff
- Sugary sweet technicolour western musical based on the book "Girl of the Overland Trail" by Samuel J. and Curtis B. Warshawsky. Set during the…
Hail The Conquering Hero (1944)
- Dir. Preston Sturges
Feat. Eddie Bracken, Ella Raines, William Demarest…
- Crazed comedy from dir. Sturges, with Bracken starring as a WW2 soldier, who never actually saw any action because of his hay fever, but who upon…
Miracle of Morgan's Creek, The (1944)
- Dir. Preston Sturges
Feat. Eddie Bracken, Betty Hutton, Diana Lynn…
- Madcap screwball comedy from genius writer–director Preston Sturges (THE LADY EVE), following a small–town girl from the Midwest (Betty…