Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Comedy: 5459 Films to Rent
Sleuth (1972)
- Dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Feat. Michael Caine, Laurence Olivier
- A supremely cunning, self–reflexive mystery satire based on the hit West End play, with Laurence Olivier and Michael Caine as affable…
Steptoe and Son / Steptoe and Son Ride Again (1972-1973)
- Dir. Peter Sykes, Cliff Owen
Feat. Harry H. Corbett, Wilfred Brambell
- Two spinoff feature films starring the same rag–and–bone men from the classic TV Series. In STEPTOE AND SON, Harold disastrously marries…
Till Death Us Do Part (TV Series) (1972-1974)
- Feat. Warren Mitchell
- Contentious, well remembered BBC sitcom is a comedy firebrand about a narrow–minded Cockney geezer whose racist diatribes were intended to be…
Travels With My Aunt (1972)
- Dir. George Cukor
Feat. Maggie Smith, Alec McCowen, Louis Jr. Gossett…
- A young Maggie Smith ages up in this entertaining if over–stuffed whimsy based on the novel by Graham Greene about the odd–ball…
Trinity Is Still My Name (1972)
- Dir. E.B. Clucher
Feat. Bud Spencer, Terence Hill
- Equally funny sequel to spaghetti–Western THEY CALL ME TRINITY, starring duo Bud Spencer and Terence Hill.
Up the Chastity Belt (1972)
- Dir. Bob Kellett
Feat. Frankie Howerd, Nora Swinburne, Graham Crowden
- More Howerd led malarkey, set in the middle ages, with Frankie as a servant comically defending his master's daughter.
Up the Front (1972)
- Dir. Bob Kellett
Feat. Frankie Howerd, Bill Fraser, Hermione Baddeley…
- One of Frankie Howerd's bigscreen starring roles in a spinoff of the 'Up Pompeii' TV Series. Here he plays an WWII soldier who has invasion plans…
What's Up Doc? (1972)
- Dir. Peter Bogdanovich
Feat. Barbra Streisand, Ryan O'Neal, Madeline Kahn…
- Creditable homage to the screwball farces of Hawks and Sturges, with Barbara Streisand as the wildcard in the life of musicologist Ryan O’Neal.…
Where Does It Hurt? (1972)
- Dir. Rodney Amateau
Feat. Peter Sellers, Rick Lenz, Harold Gould…
- Watchable farce has Sellers playing Dr. Albert T Hopfnagel, a corrupt hospital official devoted to the art of ripping off patients.
Barbed satire…
Alfredo Alfredo (1971)
- Dir. Peitro Germi
Feat. Dustin Hoffman
- Even Dustin Hoffman is dubbed in this low–rent sex farce that only the Italians seem to find funny. Time has procured it novelty value.