Comedy

<p>Legendary Warner Bros. character actor Barton MacLane dazzles in a rare leading-man role as a hardened blue-collar employee who works his way up the corporate ladder. Steel-mill foreman Chris Bennett (MacLane) is well-liked by his coworkers and knows the ins and outs of the...

<p>Comedian Frank McHugh and bombshell Joan Blondell star in this grand farce about a luckless writer with a knack for picking winners. Erwin Trowbridge (McHugh) is a greeting- card poet who daydreams by picking horses and keeping track of his imaginary winnings in a...

<p>Covina columnist Harold Teen's (Hal Le Roy) courtship of his longtime sweetheart, high school senior Lillums Lovewell (Rochelle Hudson), hits a snag thanks to his two left feet. Alienating her affections at a dance and facing competition from a newly arrived wealthy banker, Snatcher...

<p>Death is only the beginning in this fun-filled, family-focused romantic fantasy ably anchored by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer mainstay Frank Morgan (The Wizard of Oz). Shipbuilder Sam Griggs (Morgan) suffers a fatal coronary while struggling to ensure his family's future with a shaky, secret real-estate investment he...

<p>Forty-eight-year-old Manhattanite Mel Edison just lost his job. Soon he'll lose his wardrobe, temper, self-respect and maybe his mind. In urban life's grueling guerrilla war, Mel just became The Prisoner of Second Avenue. Adapting his 1971 stage hit, Neil Simon develops Mel's anxiety-ridden plight...

<p>Forty-eight-year-old Manhattanite Mel Edison just lost his job. Soon he'll lose his wardrobe, temper, self-respect and maybe his mind. In urban life's grueling guerrilla war, Mel just became The Prisoner of Second Avenue. Adapting his 1971 stage hit, Neil Simon develops Mel's anxiety-ridden plight...

<p>Eight oddball friends at Benedict Arnold Middle School can't avoid getting into trouble as they navigate through the uncertainty and angst of adolescence, always ending up in after-school detention. Join the gang -- Shareena (voiced by Tara Strong, Teen Titans GO!), conspiracy nut Emmitt...

<p>In early 20th-century New York, former heavyweight champion Roy "Slag" McGurk (Wallace Beery) considers himself the "King of the Bowery." The truth is, Slag is hired muscle for local saloonkeeper Mike Glenson (Edward Arnold) and a kept man, thanks to the generosity of local...

<p>Deep in the forest, far away from everywhere, Princess Paw Paw (voiced by Susan Blu) leads her tribe of mighty little critters in a sacred mission to protect the small and the weak. Aided by her father, Wise Paw (voiced by John Ingle), and...

<p>A naive young woman named Jennie Jones (Marie Wilson) has a $1,000 inheritance and instructions from her grandfather to purchase a racehorse named Firefly, the direct lineage to a prize racehorse Jennie's grandfather raised. Unfamiliar with the racing world, Jennie counts on a pair...

<p>Jackie "Butch" Jenkins (My Brother Talks to Horses) stars as the mischievous title character, a young army brat facing some painful life lessons, in this early feature from celebrated director Fred Zinnemann (High Noon, A Man for All Seasons). Dubbed the "best battery captain...

<p>This heartfelt paean dedicated to the inhabitants of New York's Lower East Side serves up laughter and tears along with the chicken soup. Mendel Marantz (George Sidney) may be a lackluster plumber, but he's a first-rate inventor -- at least in secret! Forbidden from...

<p>Charming ne'er-do-well playboy Neil McGill (Robert Young) has a recurring problem: He keeps missing his own wedding! Mortified by his two no-shows, Neil's father cuts him off from the family fortune. His mother (Billie Burke) concocts an absurd excuse -- he's got amnesia! --...

<p>Mum is a sitcom by two-time BAFTA winner Stefan Golaszewski. It follows Cathy (Academy Award nominee Lesley Manville), a woman rebuilding her life after the death of her husband. Set across a year, starting with her sixtieth birthday and ending on Bonfire Night, the...

<p>This tuneful sports comedy-drama follows a college football star who must choose between preserving his health and playing in the big game. Wealthy Carlton College alumnus Grant Haines makes a secret pact with the college president (Douglas Wood) that he will bequeath his fortune...

<p>In this crackling pre-Code caper, RKO takes us on a behind-the-scenes look at the adrenaline-fueled lives of the headline hunters. Daredevil newsreel photographer Bill Allen (William Gargan) has shaky ethics, while newspaper reporter Jane Mallory (Frances Dee) is a straight arrow. But when the...

<p>When American heiress Pearl Saunders (Constance Bennett) marries Sir George Grayston (Alan Mowbray), everyone thinks it's a brilliant match. Sir George is delighted with Pearl's money, and Pearl is in love with her new husband's title in director George Cukor's adaptation of W. Somerset...

<p>Comedy legend Groucho Marx paired up with his friend, the great screenwriter Norman Krasna (Bachelor Mother, Mr. and Mrs. Smith), to pen this fairy-tale romance that is full to the brim with both cynical quips and unabashed romance. Even though he's young and rich,...

<p>Struggling to finish the third act of his play, and under the stress of a tight deadline, Alan Tanner hightails it for the peace and quiet of his farmhouse in wintery Connecticut. The play's producer (Porter Hall), distrustful of Tanner, dispatches Tanner's ex-wife Alice...

<p>When football scout Rusty Walker (William Demarest) signs Harry Lynn (Bert Wheeler), an all-star bush-league player from the backwoods of Montana, he makes it a package deal to include Harry's boss and object of adoration, Maizie Williams (Marie Wilson). While the Chicago Packers' coach,...

<p>The lives of three women who grew up together in an orphanage cross again in this remake of the pre-Code classic Three on a Match. Childhood friends Isabel Dowling (Margaret Lindsay) and Connie Todd (Marie Wilson) bail out the third in their trio --...

<p>The Star Witness is a gripping crime thriller by way of courtroom drama in this early talkie directed by cinema titan "Wild Bill" William A. Wellman. The Leeds family (mother Abby, father George and their four children) have just sat down for dinner with...

<p>When young Betty Braley (Bernice Claire) returns home at 5 a.m. in the company of mysterious newcomer Steve Alden (Lawrence Gray), her father (Ford Sterling, a Mack Sennett veteran) is furious! Steve is banished from the grounds of the family estate while the rest...

<p>Father-and-son comedy veterans J.C. Nugent (Remote Control) and Elliott Nugent (The Male Animal) adapt and costar in this screen adaptation of their hit stage farce, Kempy. The Bence women are rapidly outspending retired Dad Bence's (J.C. Nugent) remaining savings. Dad's financial hopes are pinned...

<p>City-slicker carnival barker Windy (William Haines) thinks he got all the angles covered when he swindles a group of cowboys with a rigged roulette wheel while running a sideshow out West. But Windy didn't count on two things -- getting robbed by his leading...

<p>Andrew is an accidental bigamist. He never planned to lead a double life but as a serial "people pleaser" he has managed to acquire two families in the one city --and neither knows of the other family's existence! For 15 years Andrew's job as...

<p>John, aka Lord Teylesmore (Ralph Forbes), thinks he's found a way to get popular London stage actress Elsie Hilary (Ruth Chatterton) to marry him after she's turned down his daily proposals for a year -- he'll announce their engagement in all the papers! Shocked...

<p>Adam, Pete, Jenny, Karen and David have returned all singing and dancing. Adam has won Tina's heart, the question is, can he keep it? Pete's come a long way since teetering on the edge and his new outlook on life has given Jenny the...

<p>Jack Oakie stars as Bill Martin, an egotistical actor who gets carried away with a role and tries to solve real-life crimes in this comedy-mystery. The always delightful Ann Sothern plays studio publicist Mary Strand, who gently assists the amateur sleuth while smoothing over...

<p>Ginger Rogers has never been lovelier than she is in this tantalizing, romantic melodrama. Rogers, aptly enough, portrays popular film star Carol Corliss, who is stricken with a severe phobia of crowds after she is mauled by her eager fans. She becomes so afraid...

<p>Alice's ninth and final season serves up the bitter with the sweet alongside Mel's infamous chili as life leads the ladies and gentlemen who frequent the diner to say au revoir to their corner of Phoenix. But there's plenty of laughs to come before...

<p>"I lost $750 million," Arthur says. "Of course, that was when $750 million was a lot of money." His loss is your entertainment gain in this delightful riches-to-rags-to-riches sequel directed by comedy veteran Bud Yorkin (All in the Family). Effervescent Dudley Moore takes up...

<p>The laughs continue in season five of The Wayans Bros. as Shawn and Marlon Wayans carry on their irreverent and gag-filled physical-comedy series about two brothers, Shawn and Marlon Williams, who share a brownstone in New York City and disagree about virtually everything. As...

<p>Change is coming for substitute-teach extraordinaire Mark Cooper (Mark Curry). Gal pal Robin has moved out, so Mark and remaining roomie Vanessa (Holly Robinson Peete) have combined resources to purchase Robin's share of the house. While ex-investment exec Vanessa worries about their mortgage, Mark...

<p>Tahiti may be as close to paradise as we have on Earth, but you'd never know it by looking at the Tuttles, the island's most eccentric clan. With scarcely a penny to their name, the prodigious clan (14 at last count!) jaunts from one...

<p>Marley Wise (Sarah Alexander, Coupling) has a rare gift, one that comes with mixed blessings. Marley can talk to the dead, which sadly now includes both her husband Adam (John Hannah, The Mummy, Four Weddings and a Funeral), her lover Michael, as well as...

Oh, boy!" Popeye says when he and Olive Oyl embark on a quest for hidden gold. "We'll be wealthy millionaires -- and rich too!" Vol. 2 of the mighty mariner's spinach-fortified exploits offers riches aplenty: 31 original, remastered and uncut cartoons, plus a sea...

<p>Greetinks, mates! Welcome back to Popeye's world, where pocket change can get you a burger and a cuppa joe. And where, if you cross the Sailor Man's sense of fair play, he'll throw in a sock to the jaw for free! That sense gets...

Ginger Rogers stars as Glory Eden, a radio pitchwoman whose squeaky-clean image hides her true desire to walk on the dark side of life. Her sponsor -- the "Ippsie-Wippsie Wash Cloth" company -- needs Glory to be stain-free, so the company decides to set...

<p>He's a new strain of hero. He's one cell of a guy. He's Osmosis Jones! This infectiously funny live-action/animated caper kicks off in the "real" world as Frank (Bill Murray) ingests a villainous virus named Thrax (Laurence Fishburne). Now, deep inside the spectacular, animated...

<p>In the fourth season, the normally boisterous Foster-Lambert household is shocked when Frank (Patrick Duffy) and Carol (Suzanne Somers) unload a little surprise on the family: She's pregnant! Carol and Frank are going to have a child of their own -- the first one...

<p>Edith (Alison Steadman) and Phil (John Cleese) are retired and in love. When she finally agrees to marry him, they're all set to move to a place in the sun. But then Edith's son Roger (Jason Watkins) crashes back into their lives. Fifty going...

<p>Here comes the fuzz! Starsky takes the wheel, Hutch rides shotgun, and comedy runs wild in this hilarious twist on the landmark buddy-cop TV show. Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson bring a playful chemistry to the roles of undercover detectives Starsky and Hutch. Todd...

The fourth season of this upbeat comedy opens with Holly (Amanda Bynes) in Florida, stranded after her cramped back-seat car ride. It's now or never for Holly, and she puts her heart on the line, telling Vince (Nick Zano) her true feelings. This time,...

<p>Dapper old rascal and park-bench regular Julius (Laurence Olivier) wants to make a place in our jumbled world for A Little Romance. Specifically, he aids and abets Diane Lane and Thelonious Bernard as 13-year-olds in Paris whose genius IQs are no match for the...

<p>With their unique blend of classic physical comedy and hip humor, comedians Shawn Wayans and Marlon Wayans continue to create high-energy laughs in season four of The Wayans Bros., an outrageous show about two brothers sharing a brownstone in New York City. Guest stars...

<p>After a hunting mishap lands some buckshot in his backside, millionaire playboy Tony Brown (Peter Lawford) is taken to the hospital he supports to the tune of $100,000 a year. Anxious to have their benefactor receive the best possible care, the hospital administrator assigns...

<p>Convicted of a murder she didn't commit, Ann Gray (Maureen O'Sullivan) is on the way to the big house when a freak car accident sets her free. The now-fugitive Ann finds unlikely sanctuary with playboy attorney Tony Baxter (Joel McCrea), who already had eyes...

<p>Ambitious young Texan oilman Tim Kelly (James Ellison) fails in his bid to secure a desired parcel of land in Argentina for his employer, oil baron George Hastings (Robert Middlemass). When he runs into fellow Hastings employee Duke Ferrel (Buddy Ebsen) at the racetrack...

<p>Lost at sea for decades -- this set collects the first two Technicolor seasons of Popeye's animated theatrical shorts (1943-44 and 1944-45), making them available for the first time ever on home video: complete, intact and outrageously funny. What else would you expect from...