Comedy

<p>Yesterday, Dr. Jason Love was an English country physician. Now he's an international agent with all the gadgetry a spy could want: a signal-emitting dental insert, a pen that injects poison, rendezvous passwords, a radio wristwatch and a ring that works like a stun...

<p>With a twinkle of his eye and a twirl of his moustache, Tony Randall steps into the patent leather pumps of Hercule Poirot - and joins the ranks of Charles Laughton, Albert Finney, Peter Ustinov, David Suchet and more distinguished actors who've charmed generations...

<p>The lecherous boss, the hot secretary, an era that proclaims anything goes -- The Wild Affair captures the mid 60s in all its groovy glory. The story follows beautiful Marjorie Lee, who's looking for a bit of fun before she settles down to married...

<p>Meet "Cano-sapien" the next, heroic step in the evolution of man's best friend! After the evil General Parvo unleashes Professor Shepherd's inventions upon the world, mutating dogs into monsters, Professor Shepherd recruits an international team of canines and "transdogmafies" them into super-heroic, humanoid crime-fighters....

<p>Twelve-year-old Kathleen wishes her widowed father would pay more attention to family life, such as finding her a stepmother. Her father complies, getting himself engaged to an imperious beauty. It's hate at first sight for Kathleen and her new mom-to-be, who believes children should...

<p>All they want is to say I do. But just to prove who's in charge, Cupid throws two lovebirds nothing but screwballs on their way to the altar. A few months after her wedding to John Agar, 18-year-old Shirley Temple stars as an on-screen...

<p>The mind-blowing adventures of America's favorite morons take a surreal turn in this cartoon spin-off of the smash success comedy movie Dumb and Dumber. With Harry and Lloyd brought to vocal life by Bill Fagerbakke (Coach, Spongebob Squarepants) and Matt Frewer (Max Headroom, Gargoyles),...

<p>The laughter never stops in this riotous collection starring the comedy team of Wally Brown and Alan Carney in four of their funniest features. The Adventures of a Rookie (1943): In their first comic outing, Brown and Carney star as Jerry Miles and Mike...

<p>Oscar -winner* Johnny Mercer gets into the swing of things as he co-writes the songs and makes his only screen appearances in this snappy double feature of RKO musicals. In Old Man Rhythm, a businessman (George Barbier) hears his son (Charles Buddy Rogers) is...

<p>"I don't want hits, I want flops." So says Robert Hunt (Jerome Cowan), Broadway's crookedest producer. Raising more money than he needs, Hunt stages surefire duds and pockets the surplus cash. About to produce his latest bomb, the musical revue New Faces, Hunt skips...

<p>A genteel ladies' art institute is definitely no place for a free thinker. So the school boots independent-minded Dinah Sheldon (Shirley Temple) back to Baltimore. There, the scandalized townsfolk don't know which is more shocking, that Dinah is a suffragist or that she painted...

<p>People who live in glass houses...should shut the curtains, okay? Especially if red-haired, on-the-make window washer Ginger (Victor Henry) is on the job. The incessant amorous pursuits of Ginger and his pal Dwyer (Jack Shepherd) are coupled with opportunities for either or both to...

<p>With its assets In a sling, a panicked business group decides to solve its tax problems by creating a gargantuan entertainment flop and using it as a tax write-off. Before all you film buffs shout out the name of the famed comedy The Producers,...

<p>A dose of Brit humor for what ails you! Terry-Thomas leads a cast of British wits and wags in a zany whodunit set in a posh spa. He plays private eye J. Barker-Rynde, hired by a wealthy dowager to investigate mysterious goings-on at Green...

<p>Deep in the Ozarks, wrestling promoter Ed Hatch comes up with a great idea: pit his muscle-bound meathead of a wrestler against the local blacksmith, an Amazon named Sadie. Think of the publicity! Think of the ticket sales! This is the break Ed's been...

<p>Hugh Grant, James Caan and Jeanne Tripplehorn star in this romantic comedy about an English-born Manhattan art dealer whose impending marriage is threatened after his fiance reveals that her father is in the Mafia.</p>

<p>Golden Globe-nominee and Emmy Award-winner Steve Martin stars as a charming, silver-tongued mob informant who, when relocated to a small California town under the Federal Witness Protection Program, turns the community upside down, making life difficult not only for the townsfolk, but for the...

<p>Jerry O'Connell (TV's "Sliders," "Stand By Me") is fresh off the bus from Iowa and just trying to make it in New York, but he's got no job, no girl and, worst of all, no place to live. But life's about to change when...

<p>She makes a grand musical entrance on stage atop a silver salver, carried by three virile attendants. For the next two hours of her live concert, outrageous superstar Bette Midler sings ... struts ... weeps ... laughs ... minces ... and woos the audience....

<p>Widowed, world-famous neurosurgeon Michael Hfuhruhurr (Steve Martin) is trapped in a loveless marriage with Dolores Benedict (Kathleen Turner),who is interested only in Hfuhruhurr's money. On a trip to Vienna to attend a medical conference, Hfuhruhurr falls in love with a bottled brain (voiced by...

<p>Academy Award winners William Hurt and Geena Davis star with Kathleen Turner in this touching story of a travel writer who hates to travel, a man who lives a well-ordered life in his well-ordered world until suddenly everything changes for the Accidental Tourist. When...

<p>Chevy Chase, Sigourney Weaver and Gregory Hines star as a team of ruthless arms dealers who will do anything to sell second-rate weapons to third world countries . . . until they get the chance to close a deal between a giant U.S. defense...

<p>A broadway nightclub waiter falls in love with a crippled singer who selfishly accepts his help without loving him in return.</p>

<p>Academy Award-winner Jane Fonda ("Klute," "On Golden Pond") and Golden Globe-winner Donald Sutherland ("A Time to Kill," "Outbreak") star in this story about a zany group of free-wheeling outcasts set out to buck the establishment by stealing an old World War II bomber, robbing...

<p>Errol Flynn ("The Adventures of Robin Hood," "Captain Blood") stars in this fun-filled biography of 19th-century boxing champion Jim Corbett. Co-starring Ward Bond ("My Darling Clementine," "It's a Wonderful Life").</p>

<p>A small-town minor league baseball player from the "wrong side of the tracks," struggling to make sense of his life, falls in love with a wealthy girl in this modernized take on "Romeo and Juliet." Eventually he must decide between his burgeoning baseball career...

<p>Boxoffice superstar Chevy Chase ("National Lampoon's Vacation" series, "Funny Farm") stars in this hilarious fantasy about a man who is accidentally turned invisible and then drafted by the CIA. Clever special effects dominate this wild comedy, as well as an all-star cast including Daryl...

<p>Academy Award-winner Gene Kelly ("Singin' in the Rain," "An American in Paris"), Oscar-nominee Dan Dailey ("The Pride of St. Louis"), and 5-time Tony-winner dancer/choreographer Michael Kidd ("Seven Brides for Seven Brothers," "Hello Dolly!") star as three WWII comrades who meet again during a ten-year...

<p>The star of a third-rate theatrical troupe in Miami catches the attention of a Broadway songwriter.</p>

The steps of the studio set towered before her like a pyramid. All Doris Day had to do was dance up and down those steps wearing a flowing gold lame dress. "You've got to be out of your minds," Day exclaimed in a voice...

<p>Dirk Bogarde stars as celebrated war hero Charles Coward in the incredible-but-true WWII adventure The Password is Courage. It's every soldier's duty to escape. So says Charlie Coward (Bogarde), a British sergeant major in the notorious German prison camp Stalag VIII-B. So when the...

<p>"Why be good when it's so much more thrilling to be bad?" asked the ad campaign for this slightly naughty and oh-so-knowing silent-movie celebration of the flapper era. The star of Flaming Youth - vivacious Colleen Moore - again captures the rebellious flamboyance of...

<p>Back in the days before "the Code" forced Hollywood to walk away from its wild side, the silver screen enticed escape-craving Depression Era audiences with salacious slices of life. Hungers and thirsts that would shortly become taboo for a generation and more were on...

<p>She plays the cello. He plays the field She's coltishly young. He's worldly and mature Lovestruck conservatory student Ariane knows she's not like millionaire American playboy Frank Flanagan. But if she pretends to be just as much a cosmopolitan lover as he is, maybe...

<p>"If you had it all to do over again, would you have married me?" Yes, guys, there is a right answer. That's something David Smith learns the hard way when bubbly better- half Ann queries him over breakfast. Also right are radiant Carole Lombard...

<p>One day you're a career 9-to-5er with a pending marriage The next, you chuck it all for beads, bell-bottoms and free love That's how things are for Harold Fine, a dedicated lawyer about to become a more dedicated dropout. Like the brownies served by...

<p>Hafiz, the jovial King of Beggars, dons new garments and slips into the royal palace to woo his regal "Lady of the Moonlight." Meanwhile, Bagdad's new Caliph carries out his own masquerade, posing as a gardener's son and roaming the city where he falls...

<p>Julie Andrews and James Garner star in a black comedy about honor, cowardice and unexpected heroism written by Paddy Chayefsky. Stationed in London during World War II, American Lieutenant Commander Charles E. Madison (Garner) has become an expert in avoiding hazardous duty. But he...

<p>Double trouble: Winsocki Military Institute cadet Bud Hooper has two dates for the prom: his best girl - and publicity-seeking glamour girl Lucille Ball, who unexpectedly says yes to starstruck Bud's invitation. Comedy puts its Best Foot Forward in this snappy frolic based on...

<p>A town of Blaine, Missouri is preparing for celebrations of its 150th anniversary. Corky St.Clair, an off-off-off-off-off-Broadway director is putting together an amateur theater show about the town's history, starring a local dentist, a couple of travel agents, a Dairy Queen waitress, and a...

<p>James Cagney and Pat O'Brien give Hollywood an affectionate chuck under the chin (and a comic kick in the keister) in this filmmaking spoof based on the same-titled 669-performance Broadway hit by Bella and Samuel Spewack (My Favorite Wife, Kiss Me, Kate) and zestily...

<p>The brothers O'Hara are beat cop Pat, boxing promoter Danny and fireman Mike: all Irish and all living under the same roof, except Pat wants to leave the familial hearth to marry his sweetheart, Lucille. Cupid may have other ideas when Lucille and Danny...

<p>Based on the farcical stage play written by Pulitzer Prize-winning* writer Elmer Rice, Oh. Sailor. Behave! is a movie musical with a split personality. Nanette Dodge (Irene Delroy) falls for newspaper reporter Charlie Carroll (Charles King) who is on assignment in Venice to land...

<p>On their way from the boards of vaudeville to becoming bona fide comedy legends, the men who would be Stooges did a spell as second bananas for Ted Healy on the soundstages of MGM. Along the way they had to sub one sibling for...

<p>Dollar-a-year-man Ed Browne (Sonny Tufts) may be skilled at building bombers, but he's a nincompoop about navigating wartime Washington. Good thing he has a livewire secretary with plenty of bureaucratic moxie to get him out of (but sometimes into) hot water. Of course the...

<p>From comedy master Blake Edwards comes this classic, riotous all-star farce. It is the turn of the previous century, and American automakers are worried about how to sell their new product to an uneducated public.Professional daredevil and all-around good guy, The Great Leslie,convinces the...

<p>U.S. Revenue Agent Frank Long knows that good ol' boy Son Martin has brewed up barrels and barrels of premium corn liquor, and Long also knows precisely what he needs to do: get those barrels of booze for himself so that he can make...

<p>Pardon the malaprop above, but it's time to celebrate in the style of Terence Aloysius "Slip" Mahoney (Leo Gorcey) because with this fourth and final volume the entire record-breaking run of The Bowery Boys films are available at last. To sweeten the pot, this...

<p>It began as a simple convent election. Then came the illegal buggings. the bungled break-in, the hasty cover-up and the exorbitant payoffs. The result is a sinfully hilarious tale of immaculate deception! In a suspiciously profitable convent near Pittsburgh, the abbess has just died....

<p>Joe E. Brown scores laughter and hits a grand slam in the baseball comedy Elmer, the Great, based on play by Ring Lardner and George M. Cohan. The pride of Gentryville, Indiana, small town slugger Elmer Kane (Brown) is the king of batters, celebrated...