Subgenre Sampler
Comedy: 5561 Films to Buy & Rent
Young In Heart (1938)
- Dir. Richard Wallace
Feat. Janet Gaynor, Paulette Goddard
- Comedy about a family of con artists who travel from the French Riviera to London with the police on their tail. They befriend an elderly widow with…
Angel (1937)
- Dir. Ernst Lubitsch
Feat. Marlene Dietrich, Herbert Marshall, Melvyn Douglas
- Love triangle between a distracted husband, a neglected wife and an ardent suitor set amid the rigid social norms of the…
Damsel in Distress, A (1937)
- Dir. George Stevens
Feat. Fred Astaire, George Burns, Joan Fontaine…
- A wealthy American entertainer (Astaire) must win the heart of a lovely English lady (Fontaine). His efforts to woo are drastically hindered by her…
Day at the Races, A (1937)
- Dir. Sam Wood
Feat. Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx…
- Marx Brothers' flamboyantly staged comedy in which unabridged lunacy never lets up at a sanitarium and then a racecourse. Contains some of cinema's…
Easy Living (1937)
- Dir. Mitchell Leisen
Feat. Jean Arthur, Edward Arnold, Ray Milland…
- A breathless screwball comedy from the pen of Preston Sturges that almost rivals the writer–director's best work. Spunky Jean Arthur is the…
It Happened in Hollywood (1937)
- Dir. Harry Lachman
Feat. Fay Wray, Richard Dix
- Not very good.
Keep Fit (1937)
- Dir. Anthony Kimmins
Feat. Kay Walsh, Guy Middleton, George Formby
- Snappy–yet–slight musical–comedy sees Formby play a skinny wimp who faces off against a stocky Middleton in a 'keep fit' contest in…
Nothing Sacred (1937)
- Dir. William A. Wellman
Feat. Carole Lombard, Fredric March
- Top comedy–farce rests on the charms of Carole Lombard, here at her mercurial best playing a screwy smalltown gal. Pretending to have an…
O.H.M.S (You're in the Army Now) (1937)
- Dir. Raoul Walsh
Feat. John Mills, Wallace Ford, Anna Lee…
- Broad comedy with Ford as an American gangster who evades capture by joining the British army posing as a comedian.
Oh! Mr Porter (1937)
- Dir. Marcel Varnel
Feat. Will Hay
- One of the best British comedies of the 1930s, this predates Ealing in its winning blend of whimsy, slapstick and inventiveness.
Will Hay plays a…