Comedy - DVD

<p>In one of the strangest films of the silent era, a woman discovers a magical seed that makes men act like women, and vice versa! Director Sidney Drew also stars in this peculiar comedy that includes lots of crossdressing, surreal dream sequences, and screwball...

<p>Who would ever mistake Roy Rogers for Billy the Kid? That's exactly what happens in this action packed horse opera from Republic Pictures. Rogers arrives on the scene shortly after Pat Garrett (Wade Boteler) kills the infamous Billy the Kid (also played by Rogers)....

<p>It's Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin in their first starring vehicle! Lewis plays Alvin Korwin, a bumbler who goes from one disaster to the next, while the suave Sgt. Vic Puccinelli (Martin) tries to keep him out of trouble. Director Hal Walker, who had...

<p>James Dunn (Bad Girl, It's A Great Life) and Alice Faye (Alexander's Ragtime Band) star in this comedy about down and out movie types and the way they scheme to survive in Tinseltown. Songs include 'Give Him Love', and 'My Future Star'. For trivia...

<p>Here he is: the one, the only GROUCHO! Legendary comedian, Groucho Marx, hosts this laugh-a-minute quiz show, where three couples face off, answering questions of varying difficulty. This game show is sure to make you laugh as contestants struggle to keep up with Marx's...

<p>Roy Rogers finds himself elected sheriff in a wild Texas town after the Civil War. But can Roy handle a place under martial law? And can he save Gabby Hayes from being executed? And how many songs will he get to sing? Clear the...

<p>Ellery Queen (Eddie Quillan) finds himself in the middle of mystery involving a rare Chinese postage stamp and the murder of two men, both killed in locked rooms. Directed by three-time Oscar nominee Ralph Staub, this enthralling feature from Republic Pictures will keep you...

<p>The vaudeville team of Olson and Johnson embark on a shady moneymaking scheme in this delightful 1936 comedy from Republic Pictures. Selling worthless stock to gullible small town citizens gets these two con men nothing but a room behind bars, though they eventually learn...

<p>When the East Side Kids tangle with some West Side Crooks, it's a jillion dollar holler! The gang is befriended by a millionaire after saving him from a mugging, but when they realize the man's son was one of the criminals, they set out...

<p>Two undercover agents unwittingly stalk the same target in this 1950 drama set in Mexico. Fred MacMurray is back in tough guy mode as Johnny Macklin, a disguised agent on the trail of drug smuggler Pete Richie (Raymond Burr, the ultimate noir bad guy!)....

<p>Buster Crabbe stars as Billy the Kid, and Billy's playin' it high wide and handsome as he shoots it out with some mesa toughs! But not even the baddest men in in Arizona can stop this trigger-quick legend of the trail! Former silent screen...

<p>In 1940, on the eve of America's entry in World War II, retired Colonel Effingham (Charles Coburn) learns about a plan being hatched in his small southern town to raze an old courthouse. Using his newspaper column to rally the townspeople, he begins a...

<p>Buster Keaton is still trying to get the girl in this classy comedy from 1927. This time he's playing a bookish fellow who takes up sports in order to impress his sweetheart (Anne Cornwall). Baseball buffs will notice legendary Detroit Tiger outfielder Sam Crawford...

<p>HIS TOMBSTONE WAS SET...But Billy Refused To Die!! Billy (Buster Crabbe) thinks luck is on his side when he and two buddies are rescued from the gallows. Unfortunately, Jim Stanton (Glenn Strange), the boss of Mesa City, plans to frame them for a series...

<p>She could have had millionaires, but she turned them down for a guy who offered her love on a budget in a three room apartment! This romantic comedy from director Arthur G. Collins (Thank You, Jeeves!) stars Anne Nagel and Weldon Heyburn in a...

<p>This was Harold Lloyd's most highly regarded talkie, and also one of the last films he would appear in. He plays Burleigh Sullivan, a timid milkman who finds himself in the seedy world of prizefighting. Though he thinks his success is based on his...

<p>Gene Autry stops singing long enough to take on some nasty land developers in this old-time western from Republic Pictures. Of course, it wouldn't be a Gene Autry movie if there weren't at least a few songs, and this one comes packed with such...

<p>The luckless king of a small European nation must endure a domineering queen, a daughter who wants to flee with her boyfriend, a peasant revolt, and a devious son who wants the throne for himself. Can the spoiled prince take advantage of the crazy...

<p>Adolphe Menjou and Carol Landis star in this wacky comedy from director Hal Roach. It's all about a wealthy playboy (John Hubbard) who dodges an impending marriage by feigning insanity. Unfortunately for him, he ends up in an asylum! But knowing Hal Roach, a...

<p>The films Buster Keaton starred in at MGM during the 1930s are often dismissed as inferior to the work he did during the silent era, but the truth is that many of them are delightful. In Speak Easily he plays a shy professor who...

<p>Buster Keaton plays the son of a steamboat captain in this classic comedy from the silent era. Regarded by many as one of Keaton's best, he not only turns in a fine acting job as an effete young man trying to show his worth,...

<p>The theft of Norma Shearer's jewelry sets the plot in motion for this star studded promotional short. The production, which includes cameos by Laurel and Hardy, Buster Keaton, Edward G. Robinson and Wallace Beery, was made to raise funds for the National Variety Artists...

<p>Those roughneck rascals are running wild again! The East Side Kids tangle with former boxing star Maxie Rosenbloom in this comedy drama about Danny (Bobby Jordan) winning a 200 -dollar reward for helping to nab a wanted criminal. The boys get upset when he...

<p>Untamed maidens capture their mates! Savage in battle... primitive in love... prehistoric beauties live by the code of the jungle! This schlock epic from Jaywall Productions (Naked Africa) is about a tribe of beautiful women on the tropical island of Wongo. They discover that...

<p>Bela Lugosi and the East Side Kids team up in this crazy comedy from Monogram Pictures. Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Sunshine Sammy Morrison and the rest of the gang find themselves at a spooky mansion owned by the mysterious Nardo (Lugosi). Things get weird...

<p>Rival newspapermen see their feud go too far in this zany film from the Producers Releasing Company (PRC), a group known for quickie, low budget movies that entertained audiences throughout the war years. Starring J. Edward Bromberg, Isabel Randolph, and Frank Jenks, this laugher...

<p>In his only turn as Tarzan, 1936 Olympic decathlon champion Glenn Morris cavorts in the jungle with another Olympian, swimming star Eleanor Holm. Neither athlete pursued a movie career, so this film is a rarity in that we see them together! Also of note...

<p>Don Defore can't give Betty Hutton anything but love...Barry Fitzgerald can't give her anything but millions! They'll give you the time of your life at New York's capital of Glamour, Gaiety, Love, Laughter and Music! It's all about a hat check girl (Hutton) at...

<p>Producer Hal Roach, who had found immense success with his Our Gang series, tried to make lightning strike twice when he assembled a new group of adventurous kids called "Curly and his Gang." In this tale, Curley and his pals find themselves testifying in...

<p>This murder mystery will give you as many chuckles as chills! Horror icon Bela Lugosi stars along with Jack Haley (The Wizard of Oz) and Jean Parker (Little Women) in a tale of missing bodies, insurance schemes, and creepy mansions. It's all presented by...

<p>You may think you've seen everything, but you never saw The East Side Kids take on a gang of Japanese spies! Riled by the attack on Pearl Harbor, the boys (Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, and the rest) discover a real group of Japanese spies...

<p>In the film that many consider the best of the series, The East Side Kids find a young girl in the apartment of a murdered man. Believing her to be innocent, they hide her in their clubhouse while they try to find the real...

<p>Director Norman Z McLeod was best known for wild comedies starring the likes of Bob Hope and the Marx Brothers, but he showed his more serious side with Little Men, Louisa May Alcott's sequel to Little Women. Jo (Kay Francis) is grown and married,...

<p>Buster Keaton stars in this comic romp about a shy fellow who pretends to be a ladies man. Jeffrey Haywood (Reginald Denny) wants to marry Virginia (Sally Eilers), but Virginia won't get married unless her sister (Dorothy Christy) is married off first. Hence, Jeff...

<p>This hilarious wild and sexy ride from prolific soft-core director Chuck Vincent follows a group of rowdy teenagers as they pack their van full of beer and hit the road in search of sexual adventures. Campy and breezy, "Blue Summer" is a naughty romp...

<p>While her husband is serving in the military during World War II, a young wife starts her own advertising business. She's a success, but a hitch develops when her husband returns and expects her to become a housewife again. Director Albert Rogell(In Old Oklahoma,...

<p>The first Eagle-Lion film stars Kenny Delmar as Senator Beauregard Claghorn, his "Allen's Alley" resident-character heard on Fred Allen's radio program. Claghorn was a blustery, one-man-Chamber-of-Commerce for all things Southern, who had no tolerence for anything north of the Mason-Dixon line, although he made...

<p>Along the Mexican border, Roy joins Western novelist Dale in a search for smugglers. They discover a silver mine.</p>

<p>Typical Amos 'n Andy storyline has the boys trying to make a go of their "open-air" taxi business while they get caught up in a society hassle, involving driving musicians to a fancy party. All the regular characters are here (or mentioned), including the...

<p>Nicole has no job and is several weeks behind with her rent. Her solution to her problem is to try and snare a rich husband. Enlisting the help of her friend Gloria and the maitre'd at a ritzy New York City hotel, the trio...

<p>Cholita, after a long absence in Mexico City, is returning home to take up her duties as head of the rancho and, as everyone expects, to marry her childhood sweetheart Jose. Expectations are somewhat dashed as she shows up with Fernando to whom she...

<p>Street kids get sent to the country, where they get mixed up in murder and a haunted house.</p>

<p>Rosalind Russell stars as a divorced socialite who joins the Army to be near her boyfriend, only to learn that military life isn't for everybody. From renowned director Norman Z. McLeod (Horse Feathers, Monkey Business), this riotous comedy also features Paul Douglas and Regis...

<p>Roy Rogers and Gabby Hayes have as much action and adventure than they can handle in this wild, wild western from the glory days of Republic Pictures. Director Joseph Kane (Flame of Barbary Coast; Dakota) whips up a feisty cast that includes Jack La...

<p>The film that made Charles Laughton a star tells the story of King Henry VIII and his stormy personal life. Loughton received an Academy Award for his portrayal of the controversial king, while director Alexander Korda saw his film nominated for Best Picture. With...

<p>Famed cult director Edgar G. Ulmer (Detour, The Man From Planet X) tried something different with this interesting comedy about con men who dress as clerics to pull off a job. With a cast that includes Dick Haymes, Nina Foch, and former child star...

<p>Meet the two hilarious wizards! In Dreaming Out Loud, beloved radio characters Lum (Chester Lauck) and Abner (Norris Goff) make the leap to the silver screen. Helmed by The Scartlet Pimpernel director Harold Young, this slapstick comedy finds our wildly popular characters engaged in...

<p>This cross-dressing farce sees Jack Mitchell disguise himself as the mysterious "Madame Brown," a missing witness important to a major court case. The scam works for a while, until he attracts the romantic attention of two old geezers and a Broadway showgirl. If you...

<p>Robert Armstrong and Carol Lombard star in this early talkie about a reporter who is dealing with alcoholism and a crumbling marriage, not to mention being accused of a murder he didn't commit! Directed by two-time Oscar nominee Gregory La Cava (My Man Godfrey,...

<p>Joan Caulfield stars as Dorinda Hatch, author of a book advising women on how to resist the charms of men! But when a dashing photographer from LIFE magazine arrives to do a feature story on her, Dorinda begins to question her own advice. David...