comedy;crime

<p>Two army buddies down on their luck open up a gas station and get involved in a price war - in a somewhat underhanded way.</p>

<p>Every citizen on Broadway knows "Feet" Samuels (Joe E. Brown) as an honest-but-unlucky gambler. So when he winds up owing $500 to a gangster known as the Brain (Alan Dinehart), it never crosses his mind to welch. Dumped by Hortense (Alice White), his gold-digging...

<p>Soviet streetcar conductor Theodore (Hedy Lamarr) is as lovely as a Botticelli angel and as forbidding as a Moscow winter. American reporter McKinley B. "Mac" Thompson is as hunky and self-confident as Clark Gable (who happens to play the role). In pre-World War II...

<p>Here's the recipe. Start with a Grade-A cast (Peter Falk, Dianne Wiest, Emily Lloyd leading a smart ensemble). Add crisp one-liners by writers Nora Ephron (Julie and Julia) and Alice Arlen (Silkwood). Combine with the stylish zest of director Susan Seidelman (Desperately Seeking Susan)...

<p>In its Golden Age, Hollywood boasted many delightful actresses who could play beautiful, smart, funny working girls. But when it came to beautiful, smart, funny career women, Rosalind Russell was the ideal choice. In this polished romantic comedy, she portrays a judge wooed by...

<p>There's only one thing faster than wiseacre Sandy Norton's motor mouth -- his swell new speedboat! Brash, high-spirited William Haines takes the helm in a snappy action-comedy about an ex-sailor with a nifty boat-engine design who talks his way into a job with a...

<p>When a traveling soap salesman arrives in a desolate Chinese town, a crime occurs and sets the strange residents against each other with tragicomic results. FREE AND EASY is a refreshing, farcical take on the traditional crime narrative. Geng Jun's direction creates a bizarre...

<p>When a traveling soap salesman arrives in a desolate Chinese town, a crime occurs and sets the strange residents against each other with tragicomic results. FREE AND EASY is a refreshing, farcical take on the traditional crime narrative. Geng Jun's direction creates a bizarre...

<p>Happy days are here again! Marie Dressler takes command in the war between men and women as widow Hattie Burns, who runs for mayor of a city corrupted by illegal gin and slick pols who "could bring tears to a glass eye." The womenfolk...

<p>Prohibition's over and bombastic bootlegger Remy Marko is heading for the straight-and-narrow, the up-and-up, the strictly legit. But in the new booze-friendly legit world, the beer baron's brew is a big bust -- and all his troubles with creditors, coppers, a fugitive mobster carrying...

<p>An inept criminal gang plans a daring train robbery in this hilarious Euro-comic caper starring Raquel Welch, Robert Wagner and Edward G. Robinson. When deported Chicago mobster Cesare Celli (Vittorio De Sica) is kidnapped by five amateur thieves (including Welch, Wagner and Godfrey Cambridge),...

<p>What would you do if a blackmailer showed up peddling nudie pictures of your sweet wife? Why, plug the scoundrel and bury him under the backyard gazebo, of course! Delightful screen farceurs Glenn Ford and Debbie Reynolds are up to their corpus delicti in...

<p>A $50,000 life-insurance sale puts mild-mannered Henry Twinkle on the fast track at Ajax Insurance Company. Now he can marry his girl and climb the corporate ladder -- just as long as the insured party, Gus Fender, enjoys a long life. Unfortunately, it turns...

<p>Boston judge Tom Bailey (Alexander Knox) has position, security and a lovely home on Beacon Hill. He also has a disagreeable wife, a selfish daughter and a nagging suspicion that somehow his life has gone terribly wrong. Then one day Bailey falls ill and...

<p>Finders keepers. Amid the comings and goings at Union Depot, on-the-grift Chic and his pal Scrap Iron retrieve a dropped baggage-claim ticket. They redeem it for a violin case -- and open it to find a fortune in cash. Now Chic can put on...