Comedy - DVD

<p>Now here's a movie with as many zany people and events as a road map has destinations. Yes, it happens to be a road movie and on its zigzag route involving the search for a tucked-away stash of cash, you'll find a house blown...

<p>Can love bridge the gap between Earth and Heaven? Moviemakers have thought so for decades. And the pursuit of eternal bliss has never been so sly, engaging or magical as when Timothy Hutton and Kelly McGillis strike up a romance Made in Heaven. Deceased...

<p>It was the largest gathering of little people ever, drawn from all over to appear in the movie of a classic children's story. They weren't in Kansas anymore. They were in Hollywood, home of wide-open lifestyles and nonstop parties. This colorful screwball comedy uses...

<p>Lovely, talented, famous -- stage star Constance Shaw is everything pants presser Joe Reynolds can't have. Then one day, Constance decides to get back at her two-timing beau by marrying Joe. The film's title comes from a Red Skelton catchphrase, the storyline comes from...

<p>Need a vacation? Then head south of the border for a Holiday in Mexico and say hola! to love, comedy, brilliant color and glorious music. This tale of an ambassador's teenage daughter smitten with a world-renowned and much older musician features couples young (Jane...

<p>Bobby Fine (Ryan O'Neal) teaches comparative literature at a New England university. His father Jack (Jack Warden) is a hard-luck 7th-Avenue dress merchant in heavy debt to a 7-foot loan shark (Richard Kiel). To pay up, Jack gives up the business -- and babe-in-the-woods...

<p>After his first marriage breaks up, New York psychiatrist Larry Livingston (Jeff Bridges) is about to try something even scarier: marriage #2. Alan J. Pakula wrote as well as directed this engaging slice of modern romance, using his own remarriage as an inspiration. Larry's...

<p>The West is a mighty perilous place. A man needs a good horse, a trusty shootin'-iron and steady nerve. And one more thing, according to aging cowpoke Will Lane (Buddy Ebsen): a bride. Director Burt Kennedy lassos plenty of laughs as well as action...

<p>In 1979, Gilda Radner threw a summerlong party at Broadway's Winter Garden Theatre. Everybody came: Lisa Loopner, Judy Miller, Emily Litella, Rhonda and the Rhondettes, Candy Slice, Roseanne Roseannadanna. And many thousands of cheering theatergoers celebrating Gilda's hilarious, knockout Brodway debut. Filmed by another...

<p>If there's one word in Powder Valley's cattle country that makes the locals' jaws clench and trigger-fingers twitch, here it is: sheep. But easygoing Jason Sweet won a trainload of sheep in a poker game and he aims to graze them. And rolling, green...

<p>What do you call a cowboy with his brains kicked out? A bronc rider. Ben Jones and Howdy Lewis, heaven help them, are bronc riders. Glenn Ford and Henry Fonda portray the pair who are cowboy enough to do just about any job, except...

<p>In the 1950s, America adopted Our Miss Brooks as its very own. Emmy winner Eve Arden starred as Connie Brooks in the long-running radio and TV series about a wisecracking high school English teacher. The movie provides all the TV show's charm and laughter...

<p>Ah Rome, land of amore, pasta and a whole lotta bedrooms -- if you're Ray Hunter (Dean Martin), a hotel baron who stops in to buy a luxury hotel and stays to stage-manage the romantic lives of four comely Italian sisters. Lavishly filmed on...

<p>Patsy Douglas can't get a seat on the subway until she takes home the doll her ad agency is using for the Baxter Baby Food account. Then everyone makes way for the young "mother," including a mean old frozen-face named Cyrus Baxter who melts...

<p>Film greats Kirk Douglas ("Spartacus") and Susan Hayward ("Valley of the Dolls") star in this comedy about a fiery news publisher who knows all about the past of a military diplomat. But instead of discrediting him, she ends up falling in love. Co-starring Jim...

<p>This popular film inspired two sequels: Penrod and His Twin Brother and Penrod's Double Trouble, both of which starred Billy Mauch and his twin sibling, Bobby.</p>

<p>Sales clerk Anabel Sims believes Every Girl Should be Married. And she has the target, er, groom picked out: pediatrician Madison Brown. Unfortunately, Dr. Brown is not interested in marriage or in Anabel. But not to worry -- Anabel's sure she can outmaneuver any...

<p>Nelson Eddy's rich baritone, Eleanor Powell's astonishing footwork and songs by Cole Porter -- what more could a musical fan wish for? Wrapped in a deliciously preposterous story concerning a Balkan princess, a West Point football hero, a daring solo flight across the Atlantic,...

<p>The "bad boys of magic" go over the edge in this mind-blowing, role-switching comedy murder mystery set in the dizzying world of Altlantic City casinos. In a TV interview, Penn mentions his idea of a fun practical joke: "I wish someone were trying to...

<p>Astronomer Bill Whitley is so absorbed by his discovery of a comet that he scarcely notices the heavenly body close at hand, the one that belongs to his gorgeous wife Vicky. When an astrologer tells Vicky she'll meet her dream man in two weeks,...

<p>George White's Scandals was a Broadway sensation, a series of revues bursting with comedy, music and long-stemmed American beauties. George White's Scandals the movie celebrates that tradition with knockabout comic Joan Davis and song-and-joke man Jack Haley playing Scandals stars and lovebirds separated by...

<p>Man-crazy waitress Pansy Potts (Charlotte Greenwood) offers $500 for a husband. She gets Clark Gable. Well she gets his photo, a come-on to meet penniless aerocopter inventor and all-around goofball Rusty Krouse (film-debuting Bert Lahr who, wouldn't you know, doesn't look a bit like...

<p>Booted out of boarding school for singing Mendelssohn in swing time, young Judy Bellaire returns to her wacky theatrical family and finds them teetering on the brink of ruin. Judy's brainstorm: put on a show starring herself and the family servants. Not the soundest...

<p>Soviet streetcar conductor Theodore (Hedy Lamarr) is as lovely as a Botticelli angel and as forbidding as a Moscow winter. American reporter McKinley B. "Mac" Thompson is as hunky and self-confident as Clark Gable (who happens to play the role). In pre-World War II...

<p>Angus is fat, dorky and smart, a kid with an uncool pal and a crush on a cheerleader. Angus is funny, rowdy and triumphant, a totally cool movie with a dead-on eye and ear for the hilarious, heartbreaking rite of passage called high school....

<p>The way surfer dude Mitchell Goosen sees it, there are two kinds of people: those who surf and those who don’t. So when Mitch relocates from surfside California to wintry landlocked Cincinnati, there’s just one thing he can do: put on skates and get...

<p>West Point. The pride of America, the home of glorious tradition -- unless you're a hotshot plebe named Brice Wayne. Then it's just a backdrop to personal glory. William Haines stars as Brice and Joan Crawford plays the girl he loves in a comedy-drama...

<p>Pat Harrington (Marian Davies) is the patsy in her family, the forgotten good girl who watches her flirtatious sister collect all the fellas. But when sis two-times her current beau, the dreamboat Pat secretly loves, Pat seizes her chance. She knows that to get...

<p>As soon as he sees those curves, Korean War flight commander Tank Martin (George C. Scott) is figuring the angles. All he needs to do is get rid of his equally blonde-crazy Air Force buddy Tom Ferris (Tony Curtis) and a certain gorgeous nurse...

<p>Harry Lambert likes being a crochety old codger. He gets to bark commands at his wife, complain about the younger generation and watch his waistline expand. Now all he needs is a new baby?!? Recreating their stage roles, Paul Ford and Maureen O'Sullivan portray...

<p>Book publisher Bob McKellaway is engaged to beautiful young Tiffany Richards. Everyone thinks she's perfect for him. Everyone except Bob's ex-wife Mary (Debbie Reynolds in a sparkling performance). She may know someone else who'd be even better for Bob: herself. This delightful, sophisticated marital...

<p>Live and learn, the saying goes. Japanese businessman and widower Koichi Asano (Alec Guinness) and Brooklyn widow Bertha Jacoby (Rosalind Russell) are at an age when they've done a lot of living and learning. Now, with a bit of luck, love may reenter their...

<p>That little number called Angel Face (Norma Shearer) is sure a cutie. No wonder men lose their hearts to her just before they lose their wallets! Draped in Adrian gowns and exuding saucy charm, Shearer makes her last silent film a fun one, portraying...

<p>It's start-to-finish laughs when Polly Bergen ("Making Mr. Right," "The Winds of War") is America's first female president and Fred MacMurray ("My Three Sons") is the husband who has to cope with his new title of "First Man."</p>

<p>Batten down the hatches and fluff up the pillows! Grif and Jenny Henderson are sailing for Europe -- and bound for marital mayhem. With their expected comic precision, James Garner and Debbie Reynolds play the Hendersons in a spirited romp from three masters of...

<p>"Any fool can steal. I've been embezzling." The con is on in Hot Millions, a droll caper whose wit and warmth recall the Ealing Studios romps of the 1950s. Peter Ustinov heads an engaging cast and co-scripts the Oscar-nominated screenplay about a dapper rogue...

<p>Any Wednesday you'll find slick business tycoon John Cleves (Jason Robards) cuddling up with Ellen Gordon (Jane Fonda) in what she calls her apartment and what tax-conscious John calls his company's executive suite. It's a cozy arrangement until one Wednesday is followed by that...

Oscar-winner James Cagney ("Yankee Doodle Dandy," "White Heat") stars as a dentist in turn-of-the-century Brooklyn who marries out of spite when his childhood sweetheart is betrothed to his rival. Believing he married the wrong woman, he changes his mind when he discovers his true...

<p>His fangs are bared, his hackles raised, his gin bottle nearly empty. The Male Animal is out of his lair, storming battle-of-the-sexes-bulwarks, skewering college athletics and speaking his mind when folks of narrower hat size seek to stop him. Henry Fonda plays bookish Prof....

<p>Musical biography of Marilyn Miller, who overcame heartache to become a Broadway star. Starring June Haver ("The Daughter of Rosie O'Grady") and Gordon MacRae ("Oklahoma!"). With Emmy-nominee Ray Bolger ("The Wizard of Oz"), Charles Ruggles ("Bringing Up Baby") and Rosemary De Camp (TV's "That...

<p>Spanky, Alfalfa, Buckwheat, Porky, Darla, Mickey, Waldo and Froggy have long been names to conjure with in the annals of screen comedy. They're fun-loving members of Our Gang, one of the most beloved bunches of movie kids ever. And with this fabulous 5-Disc Collection...

<p>The California Dolls are hot, young and dirty (well, muddy). But although the gorgeous tag-team wrestlers may be wallowing in a down-market mud-wrestling bout right now, they have a dream: the championship match at the MGM Grand in Reno. Director Robert Aldrich's (The Dirty...

<p>Welcome to New York's posh Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. Your suite is waiting -- and so are romance, glamour, comedy and drama played with great flair by an all-star cast. A remake of Grand Hotel updated to the waning days of World War II, Week-end at...

<p>Here is the most far-out courtroom thriller you'll ever see. The setting is outer space, the defendant is all of us and the issue is whether we should be allowed to survive. Defending counsel, the Spirit of Man (Ronald Colman), says yes. Prosecuting counsel,...

<p>"Notoriously pretty and wearing her dancing tights with aplomb" (Newsweek), Elizabeth Taylor makes her screen transition from junior miss to romantic ingenue in this frothy frolic directed by Stanley Donen (Singin' in the Rain). Taylor plays small-town dance instructor Stacie Macaboy, who travels to...

<p>With spacious skies, amber fields and alabaster cities gleaming, with E Pluribus Unum and red, white and bally-hoo, It's a Big Country celebrates the USA with a star-studded array of eight slice-of-life vignettes. Among highlights: a train passenger (William Powell) sets another traveler (James...

<p>As a pouty Kentucky belle with a penchant for bourbon and dangerous liaisons, Elizabeth Taylor packs power as well as pulchritude in this star-packed remake of the classic melodrama A Free Soul. She plays Jean Latimer, whose father Steve (William Powell in one of...

<p>With Cynthia, Elizabeth Taylor left the film world of dogs, horses and childhood to play a lovely miss on the brink of womanhood -- and put herself on the brink of a remarkable career as one of Hollywood's great beauties and stars. Taylor plays...

<p>With charisma, outsized singing and a fast horse, Al Jolson rides home a winner in this opened-up screen version of one of his biggest stage hits. The dynamic entertainer puts on blackface makeup to portray likable Gus, a stableman-turned-jockey who overcomes adversity and wins...

<p>George Segal, Jacqueline Bisset and Robert Morley top the bill of fare in this food- and fun-filled mystery garnished with wit. Segal plays a glib fast-food tycoon and Bisset is his ex-wife, a pastry chef who may become the last course in an enigmatic...