Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Comedy: 5458 Films to Rent
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.
All in the Family (TV Series) (1971-1979)
- Dir. Norman Lear
Feat. Carroll O'Connor, Jean Stapleton, Rob Reiner
- Iconic American sitcom from the 1970's centred around the life of working–class bigot Archie Bunker and his family in Queens, New York. The…