Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Comedy: 5458 Films to Rent
A Home of Your Own (1964)
- Dir. Jay Lewis
Feat. Ronnie Barker, Richard Briers, Peter Butterworth…
- Classic 1960s slapstick about a cavalier construction team working on a new housing estate, this began a fruitful trend for 'wordless' English film…
Addams Family, The (TV Series) (1964-1966)
- Feat. John Astin, Carolyn Jones, Ted Cassidy…
- Macabre 1960s sitcom about a family whose gothic lifestyle and trappings make for a mordant contrast with 'apple–pie' America.
22 episodes…
Bargee, The (1964)
- Dir. Duncan Wood
Feat. Harry H. Corbett, Hugh Griffith, Eric Sykes…
- Mildly sexist, politically incorrect Brit comedy from the writers of STEPTOE AND SON follows a womanising barge worker (Corbett) and his fellow…
Beyond the Fringe (1964)
- Feat. Dudley Moore, Peter Cook, Alan Bennett…
- The West End / Broadway comedy sketch show that paved the way for satirical revue shows, with four of Britain's top comedians performing a variety of…
Brass Bottle, The (1964)
- Dir. Harry Keller
Feat. Tony Randall, Burl Ives, Barbara Eden…
- Agreeably daffy comedy that inspired I DREAM OF JEANNIE with Tony Randall accidentally releasing of a long trapped genie who predictably causes all…
Captain Newman, M.D. (1964)
- Dir. David Miller
Feat. Gregory Peck, Tony Curtis, Angie Dickinson…
- Drama/comedy set during World War II, starring Gregory Peck as a psychiatrist in a military hospital in Arizona. Based on a novel by Leo Rosten,…
Disorderly Orderly, The (1964)
- Dir. Frank Tashlin
Feat. Jerry Lewis
- Jerry Lewis creates comic havoc in a hospital as an inept and over–sympathetic orderly. Mixed bag of wild slapstick and mushy pathos.
Father Came Too (1964)
- Dir. Peter Graham Scott
Feat. Leslie Phillips, Ronnie Barker, James Robertson-Justice…
- Jovial slapstick comedy reunites THE FAST LADY's cast for a showdown between homemaking newlyweds and an overbearing father determined to have his…
Father Goose (1964)
- Dir. Ralph Nelson
Feat. Cary Grant, Leslie Caron, Trevor Howard
- Wartime situational comedy with Cary Grant in his penultimate role as an uncouth South Sea beachcomber who becomes a coast watcher for the Allies,…
Gilligan's Island (TV Series) (1964-1965)
- Feat. Bob Denver, Alan Hale, Jim Backus…
- The classic fluffy American sitcom, follows the adventures of the crew of the SS Minnow when they are marooned on a desert island. Due to an…