Subgenre Sampler
Comedy: 5567 Films to Buy & Rent
Monty Python's Flying Circus - Personal Best (TV Series) (1969-1974)
- Dir. John Howard Davies, Terry Gilliam, Ian Macnaughton
Feat. John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Eric Idle…
- Britain's most infamous comic ensemble, the Phython alumni, collate their personal favourites from four years of sketches on the Flying Circus TV…
Over the Hill Gang, The (1969)
- Dir. Jean Yarbrough
Feat. Walter Brennan, Edgar Buchanan, Pat O'Brien…
- Laidback reunion for various horse–opera stars of old cleaning up a lawless town in the old west. Telemovie doesn't quite have a script worthy…
Red Lion (Akage) (1969)
- Dir. Kihachi Okamoto
Feat. Toshiro Mifune, Shiwa Iwashita
- A fine samurai comedy from dir. Okamoto (KILL!), has a luckless soldier (Toshiro Mifune) don a brilliant red hairpiece (thus impersonating a…
Reivers, The (1969)
- Dir. Mark Rydell
Feat. Steve McQueen, Sharon Farrell, Ruth White…
- Amiable coming–of–age lark set in 1905 Mississippi with a mischievous McQueen hitting the road with his employer's prized automobile and…
Secret of Santa Vittoria, The (1969)
- Dir. Stanley Kramer
Feat. Anthony Quinn, Anna Magnani, Hardy Kruger…
- Bombastic war comedy with Quinn as a wine sodden local buffoon who through a number of contrivances becomes town mayor. When the townsfolk learn of a…
Slogan (1969)
- Dir. Pierre Grimblat
Feat. Jane Birkin, Serge Gainsbourg
- Vivacious French romance about a reckless advertising director who throws caution to the wind and abandons his preggers wife to embark on a worldwide…
Sonny and Cher - The Ultimate Collection (1969-1974)
- Feat. Cher, Sonny Bono
- An exhaustive compilation of episodes and moments from the TV careers of hip 70s couple Sonny and Cher, at that point happily creating together. This…
Staircase (1969)
- Dir. Stanley Donen
Feat. Rex Harrison, Richard Burton, Cathleen Nesbitt
- Sitting somewhere between farce and melancholy, a pair of aging barbers bicker over the possibility of ending their loving but often volatile…
Support Your Local Sheriff (1969)
- Dir. Burt Kennedy
Feat. James Garner, Joan Hackett
- The definitive Western spoof stars James Garner as a reluctant sheriff ordained to restore law and order to a village struck by goldrush fever.
Take a Girl Like You (1969)
- Dir. Jonathan Miller
Feat. Hayley Mills, Oliver Reed
- A rare adult role for child star Hayley Mills, playing a school teacher in a small British town who is reckoning with the attentions of multiple…