Comedy - DVD

<p>Preston Sturges's Academy Award-winning screenplay provides the spark for The Great McGinity, a satirical comedy that also marked his directorial debut. Depression-era bum Dan McGinty (Brian Donlevy), intrigued by the offer of quick cash for ballot stuffing, makes himself a fortune while securing a...

<p>Albert Finney directs and stars in Charlie Bubbles, an offbeat comedy-drama featuring Liza Minnelli in her first major role. Charlie Bubbles (Finney), a fabulously rich but unhappy writer whose bored with his great success, lives in a large London townhouse where he wastes away...

<p>Bing Crosby, Fred MacMurray and Donald O'Conner star in Sing You Sinners, a charming musical comedy about family sticking together. Joe (Crosby), David (MacMurray) and Mike (O'Conner) are three brothers who disagree about everything and could not be more different from each other. As...

<p>Bing Crosby stars alongside Gloria Jean in If I Had My Way, a musical comedy about taking responsibility when you least expect it! Buzz Blackwell (Crosby) is a construction worker finds himself taking care of Patricia, (Jean), the young daughter of a friend who...

<p>Superstar Bing Crosby stars in Double or Nothing, an outrageously funny comedy about four people on a mission to get rich. A singer (Crosby), a burlesque dancer (Martha Raye), a tramp (Andy Devine) and a gambler (William Frawley) are four strangers honest enough to...

<p>In God We Trust, an audacious and comedic look at organized religion, stars Marty Feldman, Peter Boyle, Louisse Lasser and comedy legend Andy Kaufman. Brother Ambrose (Feldman) is sent on a quest to come up with $5,000 to save his monastery. He travels to...

<p>Academy Award-winner Richard Dreyfus stars in The Big Fix, an offbeat, intricate thriller about a group of former Berkeley students who become entangled in a web of post-protest era politics, personal revenge and murder. A former student activist turned private detective, Moses Wine (Dreyfuss)...

<p>Make way for The Big Broadcast of 1938 with a plethora of Hollywood's brightest stars, including W.C. Fields, Martha Raye, Dorothy Lamour and Bob Hope in his feature film debut. T. Frothingill Bellows (Fields) and S.B. Bellows (Fields again!) take sibling rivalry to new...

<p>Put Bob Hope, George Burns, Gracie Allen, Martha Raye, Edward Everett Horton, Betty Grable, Jackie Coogan and Robert Cummings in the same film and what do you get? College Swing, an all-star musical and one of the most entertaining comedy casts ever assembled! In...

<p>Bob Hope's got his hands full trying to keep track of the truth in the outrageous comedy, Nothing But the Truth. Stockbroker Steve Bennett (Hope) is being pressured to lie to his clients, but his better moral judgment just won't let him. So, when...

<p>The war of the sexes heats up when a sleek businessman attempts to seduce an attractive psychiatrist who seems immune to his charms.</p>

<p>Never come between a woman and her prey in the wickedly entertaining drama, The Female Animal! Hollywood star Vanessa Windsor (Hedy Lamarr) is saved from a terrible on-set accident by handsome studio extra, Chris Farley (George Nader). In appreciation of his skills and good...

<p>Deanna Durbin shines in 100 Men and a Girl, a delightful story of an inventive and determined young woman who will stop at nothing to get what she wants. The daughter of an unemployed musician, Patricia Cardwell (Durbin), decides she will persuade conductor Leopold...

<p>No excuses, no apologies, no compromises. Wild child Rebecca Wright (Kate Walsh; Grey's Anatomy, Private Practice) knows how to have a good time, but she also happens to be one of LA's toughest and most respected criminal court judges. She has a reputation for...

<p>Starring Fredric March and Sylvia Sidney, Merrily We Go to Hell is a gripping Pre-Code drama about a rich young woman who falls in love with an abusive alcoholic. Reporter Jerry Corbett (March) aspires to be a playwright but finds himself drinking more than...

<p>Screen legends Mae West and Cary Grant star in the sizzling pre-code comedy, I'm No Angel about a carnival performer with greater aspirations wealthy men! In addition to circus acts, Tira (West) performs some questionable business maneuvers and takes a job as a lion...

<p>Screen legend Mae West shines as a saloon girl turned devilish debutante in her first western comedy, Goin' to Town. Bride-to-be Cleo Borden (West) suddenly becomes the benefactor of her fiance's ranch and oil business after a fatal shootout. Now a rich woman, she...

<p>Screen legend Mae West stars in the screwball comedy Go West Young Man about a frustrated actress whose amorous desires keep getting her in trouble! Movie star Mavis Arden (West) is bound by a contract stating that she cannot marry for five years which...

<p>George C. Scott and Joanne Woodward star in the touching comedy They Might Be Giants about a retired judge who believes he is Sherlock Holmes. Set in modern-day New York City, Justin Playfair (Scott) is committed by his brother and sister-in-law who believe him...

<p>Maurice Chevalier and Claudette Colbert light up the screen in this charming musical comedy The Smiling Lieutenant directed by Ernst Lubitsch. While on patrol, Lieutenant Nikolaus "Niki" von Preyn (Chevalier) winks at his beautiful love interest, Franzi (Colbert). However, a frumpy princess named Anna...

<p>Henry Fonda and Margaret Sullavan shine as newlyweds - and strangers - in the classic screwball comedy, The Moon's Our Home. An author (Fonda) and an actress (Sullavan) meet by chance and decide to marry without realizing that the other is famous. Chaos ensues...

<p>Set in the old dark Winslow house, The Black Cat is a frightening mystery thriller starring Basil Rathbone, Bela Lugosi and Alan Ladd. A wealthy but embittered matriarch makes a deathbed recovery only to be murdered by someone in the greedy clan gathered for...

<p>Join everyones favorite country family in The Further Adventures of the Kettles collection. First, Ma Kettle (Marjorie Main) and her kids pay a visit to their relative Sedge Kettle (Arthur Hunnicutt) and help him out of a jam involving bootleggers and an illegal moonshine...

<p>Starring Yvonne De Carlo, Philip Friend and Elsa Lanchester, Buccaneer's Girl is an exciting adventure filled with romance and intrigue. When brave Boston stowaway Deborah McCoy (De Carlo) is captured by the notorious pirate Frederic Baptiste (Friend), she stealthily escapes to New Orleans and...

<p>Screen legends Marlene Dietrich and Gary Cooper star in this comedic drama Desire about a crime spree that leads to love. In the most elaborate jewel heist in European history, the beautiful and conniving "Countess" Madeline (Dietrich) embezzles a small fortune of pearls. As...

<p>Donald O'Connor stars as a bumbling shopkeeper's apprentice who finds his true calling on the South Seas in the comedy adventure Double Crossbones. When Davey Crandall (O'Connor) and his coworker, Tom Botts (Will Geer), are falsely accused of dealing in stolen treasure, they try...

<p>Tony Curtis stars in the incredible but true story of the world's greatest big-time masquerader, Ferdinand Waldo Demara, Jr. in The Great Impostor. First shown as a school teacher placed under arrest by state troopers, the story recounts how the untrained, uneducated yet brilliant...

<p>The glamorous Mae West stars as a "kept" woman who flees to Alaska and the Gold Rush of the 1890s in Klondike Annie. After the beautiful Rose Carlton (West) escapes from the clutches of the wealthy and possessive Chan Lo (Harold Huber), she finds...

Comedy legend Bob Hope stars in the deliciously funny tale of political pandemonium, Louisiana Purchase. Jim Taylor (Hope), a partner in the Louisiana Purchasing Company, becomes the target of a Senate investigation when he is framed by his associates who are bribing public officials....

<p>Two-time Academy Award winner Peter Ustinov wrote, directed and stars in Romanoff and Juliet with the unforgettable Sandra Dee. Set during the Cold War, this charming comedy based on Shakespeare's classic love story follows a tiny European country's President (Ustinov) who holds the deciding...

<p>Hollywood legends Claudette Colbert and Ray Milland light up the screen in the charming screwball comedy Skylark. Lydia Kenyon (Colbert) is frustrated by the behavior of her insensitive, workaholic husband, Tony (Milland). When she finally loses her temper and leaves, Lydia soon finds herself...

<p>Showcasing some of the biggest stars in movie history, Star Spangled Rhythm is a hilarious story of a young sailor trying to impress his pals with the glitz and glamour of Hollywood! Whenever Jimmy Webster (Eddie Bracken) calls his father at Paramount Studios, the...

<p>Real-life father and daughter John and Hayley Mills star in the swashbuckling romp The Truth About Spring. Tommy Tyler (John Mills), an easy-going Caribbean sailor, is searching for sunken treasure with his tomboy daughter, Spring (Hayley Mills). Things get complicated in their houseboat when...

<p>Newlywed Deborah Chandler Clark (Ida Lupino) discovers on her honeymoon that her husband (Stephen McNally) may have murdered her father for business reasons and now wants to kill her. Photographed by Academy Award-winning cameraman William H. Daniels (The Naked City, 1948) for veteran director...

<p>The Brink's Job is a high-spirited account of a gang of small time crooks who manage to pull off one of the most infamous heists in history. Mastermind Tony (Peter Falk) assembles a team of petty criminals, decked out in Halloween masks, to rob...

<p>Screen legends Bing Crosby and Carole Lombard join George Burns and Gracie Allen in the musical comedy We're Not Dressing. When the yacht of the rich and beautiful Doris Worthington (Lombard) is shipwrecked, the survivors find themselves stranded on a deserted tropical island. The...

<p>Starring Paul Newman in one of his rare comedy roles, The Secret War of Harry Frigg tells the story of a good-for-nothing goldbrick whose only talent is escaping from the Army stockade. Sent behind enemy lines to free five Allied generals held prisoner in...

<p>Nominated for a Best Picture Academy Award(r), Ruggles of Red Gap stars Charles Laughton as a stuffy British butler, Marmaduke Ruggles, who is traded in a poker game from an English Duke (Roland Young) to a wealthy and rowdy American, Egbert Floud (Charlie Ruggles)....

<p>W.C. Fields plays the President of Klopstokia, a bankrupt European country that makes a bid for fame and fortune by entering its top athletes in the 1932 Summer Games in Los Angeles. Directed by Edward Cline (The Bank Dick, 1940) and co-written by Joseph...

<p>Comedic genius Will Ferrell stars as has-been scientist Dr. Rick Marshall, who gets more than he bargained for when his expedition takes a wrong turn into the Land of the Lost. Now, Marshall, his crack-smart research assistant Holly (Anna Friel) and a redneck survivalist...

<p>Male nurse Greg Focker (Ben Stiller) is all set to propose to his girlfriend, Pam (Teri Polo), during a weekend at her parents' home. But there's a catch: Jack Byrnes (Robert De Niro), Pam's intimidating, cat-loving, ex-CIA father, takes an immediate dislike to his...

<p>Meg Tilly and Christine Lahti star as two mismatched wanderers in Leaving Normal - a captivating comedy about the choices we all have to make, at one time or another. After Marianne (Tilly) walks out on another failed marriage and cynical cocktail waitress Darly...

<p>Bing Crosby is in top form in the musical comedy Here Come the Waves co-starring Betty Hutton as identical twins! Johnny Cabot (Crosby) is a swell and stylish entertainer who gets enlisted by Uncle Sam to serve in the Navy, despite being turned down...

<p>The Wild Life stars Christopher Penn, Eric Stoltz, Lea Thompson, Jenny Wright and Ilan Mitchell-Smith as teens on the verge of adulthood who discover that playing grown-up can be a confusing game. Older men, singles apartments, all-night parties and falling in love bring heartbreak...

<p>Singing sensation Deanna Durbin stars an American schoolteacher who pretends she is the widow of a wealthy sailor to escape war-torn China with eight orphans in The Amazing Mrs. Holliday. Academy Award winner Barry Fitzgerald co-stars as the hilarious first mate who helps Mrs....

<p>Tillie and Augustus Winterbottom are thought to be missionaries when they arrive to find Phineas Pratt trying cheat the Sheridans out of her father's inheritance, including a ferry franchise and a boat. The only way to keep the franchise is to win a race...

<p>Starring Claudette Colbert and Fred MacMurray, The Bride Comes Home (1936) is a screwball comedy set against the backdrop of Chicago during the Depression. At the center of a romantic triangle is Jeanette Desmereau (Colbert), a socialite left penniless by the stock market crash...

<p>Hollywood legends Carole Lombard and Fred MacMurray star in the classic screwball comedy Hands Across the Table. Regi Allen (Lombard) is a marriage-minded manicurist employed in a swanky hotel barbershop where she hopes to find herself a wealthy husband. She soon meets charming playboy...

<p>Ruby Carter (Mae West), the night club sensation of St. Louis, relocates to New Orleans and becomes the prize attraction of "The Sensation Club." West's risque brand of humor and naughty musical numbers enliven a plot that involves jewel thieves, a fixed boxing match...

<p>Dick Powell stars as a hardboiled PI with a taste for kibble in the over-the-top screwball comedy You Never Can Tell. When an eccentric tycoon leaves six million dollars to his faithful dog King, trustee Ellen Hathaway (Peggy Dow) is besieged by fortune hunters...