Comedy - DVD

<p>A mysterious map holds the key to billions of dollars' worth of crude oil, and some men will stop at nothing to possess it. Pat O'Brien stars as the hard-boiled, Panama-based private eye Dan Hammer, caught in the middle of a dangerous web of...

<p>In this earlier screen version of The Maltese Falcon, Bette Davis starts as a young woman embroiled in the mystery surrounding an ancient, gem-filled horn. Upon her arrival in town, Valerie (Davis) enlists a private investigator and his associate Ted Shayne (Warren William) to...

<p>Warren William and Bette Davis get out the vote in this snappy political comedy costarring Guy Kibbee. "He's the dumbest human being I ever saw. Every time he opens his mouth he subtracts from the sum total of human knowledge." So states Hal S....

<p>In a rare light comedy performance, a vivacious Bette Davis matches wits with the debonair Robert Montgomery. Linda Gilman (Davis) is a hard-boiled magazine editor who thinks she can do just fine without love - even after her old flame, flippant foreign correspondent Carey...

<p>Perky secretary Heather Halbran (Sandra Dee) is more than content with her life. She'sgot a college degree, three hot-blooded suitors (Dwayne Hickman, Dick Kallman and Bill Bixby) and a yen for her stuffy young boss (George Hamilton). So when she winds up in a...

<p>Ethel Merman reunites with her Kid Millions costar Eddie Cantor in this frothy bit of film fable from celebrated director Norman Taurog and legendary producer Samuel Goldwyn. Ol' Banjo Eyes stars as meek Eddie Pink, who, thanks to a mail-order assertiveness course, ends up...

<p>Young Eddie (Eddie Cantor), amateur historian of Ancient Rome and full-time resident of West Rome, Oklahoma, finds himself facing uncertain exile after crossing the ruthless oligarchs that run his town. Declaring that such corrupt shenanigans would never have been tolerated in the Rome of...

<p>Eddie Cantor, master of music and mirth, stars as Eddie Simpson, put-upon assistant to phony psychic Yolando (Charles Middleton). When Yoldano sets his sights upon A.B. Clark's (Spencer Charters) art deco bakery ("Glorifying the American Doughnut"), Eddie is accidentally mistaken for an efficiency expert....

<p>The music and mirth of Eddie Cantor are on ample display in his multitalented madcap masquerades as a matador down Mexico way. Thanks to some boyish mischief cooked up by college pal Ricardo (Robert Young), young Eddie Williams (Cantor) gets expelled from college. Convinced...

<p>Kids love him. TV execs adore him. Sheesh, it's enough to make out-of-work kiddie-show host Rainbow Randolph puke purple. Ever since that plush, fuchsia-hued, platitude-spouting Smoochy the Rhino started Jiggy Ziggy-dancing in Randolph's time slot, he has just one mad goal: turn the rhino...

<p>Laugh-In's Rowan and Martin scare up the laughs in this madcap horror/mystery spoof costarring Carol Lynley and Julie Newmar. Kicked out of their office for non-payment of rent, bickering buddies Ernie (Dick Martin) and Sam (Dan Rowan) move into a creepy old house where...

<p>White-collar drudge by day. Genius by night - and any other time likable, clever Stephane (Gael Garcia Bernal) dreams. Because it's on his magic carpet of dreams where Stephane headlines Stephane TV, builds a mighty cut-and-paste wonderland, pens a best seller and sweeps the...

<p><strong>Palmy Days:</strong> A young baker (Cantor) gets set up by a crew of unsavory psychics.<br />

<p>Murder becomes a laughing matter in two screwball mysteries based on the comic misadventures of attorney John J. Malone, one of the most popular fictional sleuths of the '40s and '50s. The creation of famed mystery writer Craig Rice, Malone played detective in 11...

<p>A vengeful nanny takes on the Mob in this zany farce starring Lynn Redgrave and Victor Mature in his last leading role. Nobody would be crazy enough to do something to Carmine Ganucci's kid. But when the Mafia chief (Mature) evicts Miss Pool (Redgrave)...

<p>The more things change, the more the Seavers stay the same! And they do change, as the fourth season of the beloved family favorite sees Mike (Kirk Cameron) starting college, Carol (Tracey Gold) starting to get cynical, Ben (Jeremy Miller) starting to date and...

<p>Outrageous comedian Wanda Sykes stars as Wanda Hawkins, an irreverent comic-turned-television-personality, in this no-holds-barred series of hard-hitting hilarity. Larger than life and ready for anything that comes her way, Wanda is never at a loss for words and has a voice that can't be...

<p>From the director of Drugstore Cowboy and My Own Private Idaho comes a star-studded comedy based on the best-selling novel by Tom Robbins. Uma Thurman, Lorraine Bracco and Keanu Reeves star in this magical road movie about a hitchhiker in search of the ultimate...

<p>Mystery novelist Phillip Blackwood has writer's block. He hits the courtrooms for inspiration - and is zapped with a doozy. A mysterious Romanian woman arraigned for murder arouses both his creative and amorous impulses. Is she guilty? Who are the gray-suited fellows shadowing her?...

<p>Australia's Chris Lilley -- creator, writer and star of Summer Heights High, Angry Boys and Ja'mie: Private School Girl -- brings back one of his groundbreaking characters, the rebellious 14-year-old Jonah Takalua, who was first introduced in Summer Heights High. Jonah is banished to...

<p>When you can't count on that hog mess we call "modern medicine" to fix your funny bone, SquidbiIIies is there to scrub up for surgery, y'all! North Georgia's patriot in residency, Early Cuyler, is revving up for another celebration of ill-informed ideas, spontaneous violence...

<p>NTSF:SD:SUV::, also known as the National Terrorism Strike Force: San Diego: Sport Utility Vehicle, is a clandestine team of government agents working together to protect San Diego from numerous terrorist threats coming in daily from such evil countries as Mexico, Canada, Guam, and more....

<p>Adapted from the play by George Bernard Shaw and directed by one of Shaw's foremost film interpreters, Anthony Asquith (Pygmalion), The Doctor's Dilemma fizzeswith wit and bites with intelligence. The story takes a swing at the pomposity of the medical establishment as it follows...

<p>Don't tell our beloved Queen Victoria, but prostitutes throng the streets of London, blocking access to tradesmen's shops. What to do? Her Majesty's Home Secretary has an idea: open an opulent government-run brothel and sweep the competition off the thoroughfares. Filmed with a naughty...

<p>Forget about accountants who want to fly, professors whose brains are being zapped by aliens and bored housewives passing the time. The one all-consuming problem Manhattan psychiatrist Saul Benjamin has is himself! Saul (Dudley Moore) and Chloe (Elizabeth McGovern), one of his patients, are...

<p>Yesterday, Dr. Jason Love was an English country physician. Now he's an international agent with all the gadgetry a spy could want: a signal-emitting dental insert, a pen that injects poison, rendezvous passwords, a radio wristwatch and a ring that works like a stun...

<p>With a twinkle of his eye and a twirl of his moustache, Tony Randall steps into the patent leather pumps of Hercule Poirot - and joins the ranks of Charles Laughton, Albert Finney, Peter Ustinov, David Suchet and more distinguished actors who've charmed generations...

<p>The lecherous boss, the hot secretary, an era that proclaims anything goes -- The Wild Affair captures the mid 60s in all its groovy glory. The story follows beautiful Marjorie Lee, who's looking for a bit of fun before she settles down to married...

<p>Meet "Cano-sapien" the next, heroic step in the evolution of man's best friend! After the evil General Parvo unleashes Professor Shepherd's inventions upon the world, mutating dogs into monsters, Professor Shepherd recruits an international team of canines and "transdogmafies" them into super-heroic, humanoid crime-fighters....

<p>Twelve-year-old Kathleen wishes her widowed father would pay more attention to family life, such as finding her a stepmother. Her father complies, getting himself engaged to an imperious beauty. It's hate at first sight for Kathleen and her new mom-to-be, who believes children should...

<p>All they want is to say I do. But just to prove who's in charge, Cupid throws two lovebirds nothing but screwballs on their way to the altar. A few months after her wedding to John Agar, 18-year-old Shirley Temple stars as an on-screen...

<p>The mind-blowing adventures of America's favorite morons take a surreal turn in this cartoon spin-off of the smash success comedy movie Dumb and Dumber. With Harry and Lloyd brought to vocal life by Bill Fagerbakke (Coach, Spongebob Squarepants) and Matt Frewer (Max Headroom, Gargoyles),...

<p>The laughter never stops in this riotous collection starring the comedy team of Wally Brown and Alan Carney in four of their funniest features. The Adventures of a Rookie (1943): In their first comic outing, Brown and Carney star as Jerry Miles and Mike...

<p>Oscar -winner* Johnny Mercer gets into the swing of things as he co-writes the songs and makes his only screen appearances in this snappy double feature of RKO musicals. In Old Man Rhythm, a businessman (George Barbier) hears his son (Charles Buddy Rogers) is...

<p>"I don't want hits, I want flops." So says Robert Hunt (Jerome Cowan), Broadway's crookedest producer. Raising more money than he needs, Hunt stages surefire duds and pockets the surplus cash. About to produce his latest bomb, the musical revue New Faces, Hunt skips...

<p>A genteel ladies' art institute is definitely no place for a free thinker. So the school boots independent-minded Dinah Sheldon (Shirley Temple) back to Baltimore. There, the scandalized townsfolk don't know which is more shocking, that Dinah is a suffragist or that she painted...

<p>People who live in glass houses...should shut the curtains, okay? Especially if red-haired, on-the-make window washer Ginger (Victor Henry) is on the job. The incessant amorous pursuits of Ginger and his pal Dwyer (Jack Shepherd) are coupled with opportunities for either or both to...

<p>With its assets In a sling, a panicked business group decides to solve its tax problems by creating a gargantuan entertainment flop and using it as a tax write-off. Before all you film buffs shout out the name of the famed comedy The Producers,...

<p>A dose of Brit humor for what ails you! Terry-Thomas leads a cast of British wits and wags in a zany whodunit set in a posh spa. He plays private eye J. Barker-Rynde, hired by a wealthy dowager to investigate mysterious goings-on at Green...

<p>Deep in the Ozarks, wrestling promoter Ed Hatch comes up with a great idea: pit his muscle-bound meathead of a wrestler against the local blacksmith, an Amazon named Sadie. Think of the publicity! Think of the ticket sales! This is the break Ed's been...

<p>Hugh Grant, James Caan and Jeanne Tripplehorn star in this romantic comedy about an English-born Manhattan art dealer whose impending marriage is threatened after his fiance reveals that her father is in the Mafia.</p>

<p>Golden Globe-nominee and Emmy Award-winner Steve Martin stars as a charming, silver-tongued mob informant who, when relocated to a small California town under the Federal Witness Protection Program, turns the community upside down, making life difficult not only for the townsfolk, but for the...

<p>Jerry O'Connell (TV's "Sliders," "Stand By Me") is fresh off the bus from Iowa and just trying to make it in New York, but he's got no job, no girl and, worst of all, no place to live. But life's about to change when...

<p>She makes a grand musical entrance on stage atop a silver salver, carried by three virile attendants. For the next two hours of her live concert, outrageous superstar Bette Midler sings ... struts ... weeps ... laughs ... minces ... and woos the audience....

<p>Widowed, world-famous neurosurgeon Michael Hfuhruhurr (Steve Martin) is trapped in a loveless marriage with Dolores Benedict (Kathleen Turner),who is interested only in Hfuhruhurr's money. On a trip to Vienna to attend a medical conference, Hfuhruhurr falls in love with a bottled brain (voiced by...

<p>Academy Award winners William Hurt and Geena Davis star with Kathleen Turner in this touching story of a travel writer who hates to travel, a man who lives a well-ordered life in his well-ordered world until suddenly everything changes for the Accidental Tourist. When...

<p>Chevy Chase, Sigourney Weaver and Gregory Hines star as a team of ruthless arms dealers who will do anything to sell second-rate weapons to third world countries . . . until they get the chance to close a deal between a giant U.S. defense...

<p>A broadway nightclub waiter falls in love with a crippled singer who selfishly accepts his help without loving him in return.</p>

<p>Academy Award-winner Jane Fonda ("Klute," "On Golden Pond") and Golden Globe-winner Donald Sutherland ("A Time to Kill," "Outbreak") star in this story about a zany group of free-wheeling outcasts set out to buck the establishment by stealing an old World War II bomber, robbing...

<p>Errol Flynn ("The Adventures of Robin Hood," "Captain Blood") stars in this fun-filled biography of 19th-century boxing champion Jim Corbett. Co-starring Ward Bond ("My Darling Clementine," "It's a Wonderful Life").</p>