Subgenre Sampler
Classics > Comedy: 912 Films to Buy & Rent
Six Dates with Barker (6 Dates with Barker) (1971)
- Feat. Ronnie Barker
- A six–part showcase for the comedic talents of Ronnie Barker, this one–off series revolved around half–a–dozen situation…
Skin Game (1971)
- Dir. Paul Bogart
Feat. James Garner, Louis Jr. Gossett, Susan Clark…
- Beguiling comedy about a pair of con–artists who pose as master and slave to deceive unsuspecting rednecks in the post–civil war era.
Stork (1971)
- Dir. Tim Burstall
Feat. Bruce Spence, Graeme Blundell, Jackie Weaver
- True blue Aussie classic with the hyper–gangly Bruce Spence whose bawdy misadventures in work, life and love are fueled by booze and a twisted…
Support Your Local Gunfighter (1971)
- Dir. Burt Kennedy
Feat. James Garner, Suzanne Pleshette
- James Garner again plays a con–man, this time mistaken for a notorious gunfighter. Good natured, entertaining satire.
They Call Me Trinity (1971)
- Dir. Enzo Barboni
Feat. Terence Hill, Bud Spencer
- The film that triggered the careers of B–movie icons Terence Hill and Bud Spencer is an engaging spaghetti–western spoof. Something of a…
They Might Be Giants (1971)
- Dir. Anthony Harvey
Feat. George C. Scott, Joanne Woodward, Jack Gilford…
- A delightfully goofy comic mystery starring George C. Scott as a psychiatric patient who is convinced he is Sherlock Holmes at a Manhattan hospital…
Up Pompeii (1971)
- Dir. Bob Kellett
Feat. Frankie Howerd, Sir Michael Hordern, Barbara Murray…
- Frankie Howerd's bawdy comedy with a Roman slave inadvertently becoming the possessor of a scroll naming the proposed assassins of the Emperor Nero.
Woody Allen Collection, The (Annie Hall, Bananas, Interiors, Love and Death, Manhattan, Sleeper, Everything You Wanted to Know about Sex) (1971-1979)
- Dir. Woody Allen
Feat. Woody Allen
- Seven Woody Allen classics all, bar one, from his earlier, funnier period – "Annie Hall", "Bananas", "Interiors", "Love and Death",…
Bombay Talkie (1970)
- Dir. James Ivory
Feat. Shashi Kapoor, Zia Mohyeddin
- Probably the most visually distinguished Merchant–Ivory film, this semi–satiric swirl through the 'Bollywood' film industry works as both…
Doctor in Trouble (1970)
- Dir. Ralph Thomas
Feat. Leslie Phillips, Robert Morley, Harry Secombe…
- In this round of the British comedy series, the dear doctor (Phillips) hides himself aboard an ocean liner to pursue a marriage prospect. A strong…