Comedy

<p>Racing champion Stroker Ace (Burt Reynolds) is one of the most respected NASCAR-circuit drivers. So how come everybody's laughing? Could it be that chicken suit he's wearing, maybe? Reynolds rejoins director Hal Needham (Hooper, Smokey and the Bandit) for another engine block-buster. When Stroker...

<p>The incredible untold story of the greatest outlaw of all time. Yahoo Serious stars in this wildly offbeat retelling of the one of Australia's greatest legends. The real-life late-19th century bandit Ned Kelly is reincarnated as the hip, contemporary Reckless Kelly. Ned Kelly (Serious...

<p>What's stuntman Sonny Hooper's reaction when he learns the record for a fall is 223 feet? "I'll go 224," he says. Burt Reynolds plays Hooper, at work on The Spy Who Laughed at Danger. His wife (Sally Field) hopes it's his last film. The...

It was a time of heroes. Well, almost. They were hearty men in those days. Men who, like Bartholomew Hunt and Leslie Edwards, made sure that when adventure called, it got a wrong number. Chris Farley and Matthew Perry team with director Christopher Guest...

<p>Fay Wray stars in this south-of-the-border fable about a noble bandito who comes to the romantic rescue of an innocent senorita. El Capitan Thunder (Hungarian silent-screen star Victor Varconi) is a caballero whose love of life, liquor and ladies is only surpassed by his...

<p>A pet snake is loose in the house. A teen daughter thinks "no" is an insufficient response to her desire to get a belly button ring (okay, how about "NO!" ). Welcome to the Pearson home, where dad Bill, a family counselor, finds that...

<p>The (guest) stars shine bright on Alice's seventh season. Joel Grey (as himself) saves the day when Mel takes over as producer of a local show after Alice (Linda Lavin) lands the lead. Tommy (Philip McKeon) has moved out to attend Arizona State College...

<p>After covering a golf tournament in Los Angeles, sportswriter Mike Hagen returns to his New York home with a tan. And with a fashion-designer wife he scarcely knows. Romantic pitfalls surface gleefully in this Vincente Minnelli-directed comedy featuring an Oscar -winning* script and Manhattanites...

<p>Dennis O'Keefe stars as Thomas Brandon, an in-it-to-win-it shyster battling the "soulless corporation" that runs his city's streetcars. With the aid of his expert pal Phil (Nat Pendleton), and dipsomaniac doc, Prescott (Lewis Stone), Brandon looks around the edges of the law for the...

<p>Legendary "tough guy" director Raoul Walsh (High Sierra, White Heat) helms this crime comedy caper that places perpetual milquetoast Charles Butterworth at the center of the action. Butterworth plays Willie Harrington, mild-mannered spouse of socially ambitious Millicent (Una Merkel). Pushed by Millie to be...

<p>Acting luminary Charles Laughton stars as stalwart Anzac soldier Jocko Wilson in this saga set between the World Wars. The bighearted Jocko impulsively adopts a pair of war orphans in the closing days of World War I, intending to raise them with his singing...

<p>Boxing manager "Honest" Skip Davis (Walter Catlett) is desperate when his latest prospect turns out to be more of a mug than a pug. While drowning his sorrows, he makes his latest discovery -- singing waiter Steve Nelson (John Payne) -- after the singer...

<p><strong>The Devil’s Brother:</strong> Is a laugh-filled adaptation of the Auber operetta in which “Stanlio” and “Ollio” tangle with a notorious robber baron.</p>

<p>Groucho, Chico, Harpo -- all certifiably wacko in a double-dip of comedies. The Marxmen Go West to where the sun always shines and the fun never sets, and where they outwit a land grabber. Highlights include the $1 scam, the stagecoach ride, Chico and...

<p>Westward, ho-ho-ho! There's a wagonload of sundries and snake oil rolling toward Red Mesa, and -- since Larry, Shemp and Moe hold the horses' reins -- there's also a load of slaphappy shenanigans, in the way-out Western Gold Raiders. Barrel-chested cowboy icon George O'Brien...

<p>Whether serving their country in wartime or serving multicourse mealtime mayhem, Laurel and Hardy serve up laughs in this classic twofer. First, the nation calls out in its hour of need, Stan and Ollie answer...and Uncle Sam changes his mind. Rejected by the military,...

<p>Buzz (Bud Abbott) and Abercrombie (Lou Costello) work in a Tinseltown hair salon, where they usually just take a little off the side. But why not take 10% off the top instead? So the fellas become movie talent agents, setting in motion the lights-camera-comedy...

<p>Unflappable ad executive "Pat" Patton (Robert Young) hits upon the idea of a lifetime (or so he thinks) while getting fired for kissing Mary Elizabeth Allenby (Betty Furness), the daughter of his boss. While admonishing the apoplectic Colonel Allenby (Claude Gillingwater) to "calm yourself,"...

<p>Crane's Colossal Carnival receives a radical downsizing after rubes rise up and the carnival's assets are repossessed, leaving ace pitchman "Honest" Bill Hogan (Robert Armstrong), owner Jeffrey Crane (Edmund Gwenn) and Crane's daughter Betty (Betty Furness) in desperate need of funds. Venturing to the...

<p>Season four of this beloved sitcom sees distant cousins Larry (Mark Linn-Baker) and Balki (Bronson Pinchot) become best friends as they learn to find success in work and life. However, they still grapple with money issues as they learn that playing poker, buying lottery...

<p>Starring Queen Latifah (Khadijah), Kim Coles (Synclaire), Erika Alexander (Maxine), John Henton (Overton), T.C. Carson (Kyle) and Kim Fields (Regine), Living Single celebrates the lives of four women bonded by friendship and laughter. In the final season of the series, Overton and Synclaire begin...

Joan Blondell and Glenda Farrell team up to play a pair of gold diggers with hearts of gold in this tale of manicurists on the run from the mob. When Rosie Sturges (Blondell, Blonde Crazy) loses her diamond engagement ring from mobster Dynamite Carson...

<p>Small-town lass Winnie Wharton (real-life Ziegfeld Follies star Wini Shaw) is gifted with a golden voice and gumption to boot. Thanks to the assistance of her streetwise manager, Lucky Lorimer (Lyle Talbot), she rises to the top on Broadway as a torch singer. It's...

<p>Bruce Foster (Tom Brown) is a small-town reporter who dreams of landing the big scoop that will gain him entry into the ranks of big-city journos. His dream comes true in nightmare fashion when local resident/world-famous banker George Ferguson (Purnell Pratt) is found murdered,...

<p>Hayseed farmhand Jerry O'Connor (Dennis O'Keefe) dreams of breaking into the high-speed leagues of professional auto racing but has little hopes of doing so, even with the help of Buddy (Nat Pendleton), his dimwitted pal who's a savant in auto repair. When a racer...

<p>Suzanne Somers and Patrick Duffy star as two mismatched single parents who fall in love, marry and move in together with all their kids. Now, they hope it's only a matter of time until they all come to love their new life. Until then,...

<p>Lovable rogue Willie Hale (Ronald Colman) has frittered away another fortune in British East Africa, so he auctions off his belongings and returns to England. While Lord Leland (Frederick Kerr), Willie's father, fumes about Willie's latest failure, Willie buys a dog with his last...

<p>It's like father, unlike son in this screwball comedy reteaming Miriam Hopkins and Joel McCrea. Ex-millionaire B.J. Nolan (Charles Winninger) has frittered away his fortune on one mad scheme after another while his millionaire son, Kenneth (McCrea), is quite tight with his fortune. Unless...

<p>Produced, directed and written by Robert Youngson, most famous for reacquainting the moviegoing public with the titans of the silent era in The Golden Age of Comedy (1957) and When Comedy Was King (1960), this compilation documentary begins, appropriately enough, in the 1920s and...

<p>A theatrical costume company is center stage for this pre-Code look at the business of Broadway. Doris Roberts (Winnie Lightner) is the super-efficient operations manager of the Roberts Costume Company, a firm she cofounded with her husband, John (Walter Miller). Doris has all the...

<p>Screwball comedy queen Carole Lombard stars in this romantic-comedy crime caper about a gold digger with grit determined to make the path to matrimony as crooked as possible. Showgirl Mary has her sights set on big-lug mob boss "Shoots" Magiz (Nat Pendleton) and prods...

<p>Get Nick! Big shot Steve Case knows only one man can shape up his troubled banana-republic plantation -- fireball foreman Nick Butler. But Nick may be a little distracted. He's just met stranded American Lee Donley, a chanteuse who can hold her own at...

<p>Ten dollars a pound is the going rate for freight, so charter pilot Steve Collins figures he's owed $1,150, cash on delivery. His cargo is Joan Winfield, an heiress whose elopement with a musician is kiboshed when Steve kidnaps her so he can fly...

<p>Season three of this sitcom classic brings some changes and some new faces. Larry (Mark Linn-Baker) escapes the discount store and lands a new job as an assistant at the Chicago Chronicle newspaper. Cousin Balki (Bronson Pinchot) comes to visit Larry at work and,...

<p>When he dons an ancient Nordic mask, Stanley Ipkiss moves at warp speed, knows your every desire, satisfies your every whim and dances like a dapper demon. Based on the film The Mask, this animated series tells the story of sweet, socially inept bank...

<p>Who's that in the frilly cap and apron, toting the tea tray? Not a pert French maid, but spinster sleuth Miss Marple in disguise. And it's not Darjeeling that's caught her interest -- it's murder! British national treasure Margaret Rutherford makes her first appearance...

<p>Okay, we told you they're sick, and we're not talking about a hospital show. The Oblongs isn't for everyone. Might be peachy for you though. Welcome to the toxic, twisted world of the Oblongs, a perversely funny, satirical animated series inspired by characters in...

<p>Single working mom Christine Campbell has just learned that her ex is dating a much younger woman with the same first name. To avoid any confusion, the new girlfriend is dubbed New Christine, which leaves her with the un-fortunate nickname Old Christine. Julia Louis-Dreyfus'...

<p>Miss Marple navigates treacherous waters to catch a maritime killer! One of Britannia's ships is manned by a crew of delinquents trying to build new lives. But it's their old lives that figure into this cunning mystery: Someone aboard ship wants to hone the...

<p>Season four of this fan-favorite sitcom focusing on young singles who share a brownstone picks up where the third season left us hanging -- as Overton (John Henton) finally puts a ring on it when Synclaire (Kim Coles) accepts his wedding proposal. The rest...

<p>When Steve and Dot have a meet-cute (she accidentally steals his opera box seats and drops her purse on his head), her sense and sensibility, along with her You Can’t Take It with You-style clan prove the tonic that Steve needs to escape his...

<p>Jingles Collins (Jack Carson) and Bob Grant (Robert Hutton) are Tin Pan Alley's greatest pair of undiscovered and unpublished songmen. So much so that Bob has decided to pack it in and head back to Small Town, USA. Meanwhile, on the other side of...

<p>Imagine a world with no cell phones, no Internet and no rock 'n' roll. It's not science fiction it's Mayberry R.F.D.! This 1968 spin-off of the popular series The Andy Griffith Show stars Ken Berry (Mama's Family, F-Troop) as widowed farmer Sam Jones, who's...

<p>A chance meeting on a foggy London street presages the sundering of an inseparable bond during World War One in this pre-Code wartime romance. Jack Ingleside (Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.) is on his way to meet his literal brother-in-arms Tom Ingleside (Anthony Bushell) in a...

<p>A reporter dares to expose the Chicago underworld in this blistering crime drama penned by famed pulse-pounding screen scribes John Monk Saunders (Wings, Dawn Patrol) and W.R. Burnett (Little Caesar). Ripped from the headlines, this pre-Code crime corker delivers the goods in its tale...

<p>Celebrated women's novelist Ken Bixby (Warren William) has made his fortune "understanding women," but he's ill-prepared when a forgotten flame (Genevieve Tobin) returns, prepared to scorch his fame and reputation with the consummation of her "purple passion." Ken barely recalls the now-married Julie, but...

<p>Ne'er-do-well, peripatetic playboy Larry O'Brien (Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.) gets ejected from one Latin American country only to land hip-deep in romance and intrigue in its neighbor. While deciding where to wreak havoc next post-deportation, Larry catches the eye of the lovely Diane Forsythe (Loretta...

<p>This fast-paced medieval funfest centers on two headstrong characters: Gerrando (Tony Curtis), a stubborn feudal lord determined to bend a woman to his will, and Boccadoro (Monica Vitti), a spitfire who wants to bestow her ample favors out of love, not obedience. Gerrando, recently...

<p>Filmmaker Richard Linklater (Boyhood, Before Midnight) explores the lives of young Americans at a crossroads in subUrbia, adapted by Eric Bogosian (Talk Radio) from his play. It rocks with soundtrack music by Sonic Youth, Beck, Skinny Puppy, Butthole Surfers, Elastica and more of the...

<p>A lot of things can test a marriage, but Lorenzo and Susan Vega unwittingly put their five-year union to the ultimate test: They go camping. And Susan's guardian angel, seen only by Susan, joins them. TV's I Love Lucy was in its fifth season...