Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Comedy: 5452 Films to Rent
Dick Van Dyke Show, The (TV Series ) (1962-1966)
- Dir. Carl Reiner
Feat. Dick Van Dyke, Mary Tyler Moore
- Seminal sitcom set around a New York comedy writer and his family. Van Dyke's wife was played by Mary Tyler Moore in her first major…
Divorce Italian Style (1962)
- Dir. Pietro Germi
Feat. Marcello Mastroianni, Stefania Sandrelli
- Italy’s archaic marital laws – where divorce was still illegal in the sixties – are the star in this devious satire of an unhappy…
Five Weeks in a Balloon (1962)
- Dir. Irwin Allen
Feat. Red Buttons, Fabian, Barbara Eden…
- Predictable but entertaining adaptation of Jules Verne's tale about a professor (Hardwicke) who plans to fly across Africa in a balloon and ends up…
Gypsy (1962)
- Dir. Mervyn LeRoy
Feat. Rosalind Russell, Natalie Wood, Karl Malden
- Eye–catching musical comedy–drama based on the memoir of burlesque entertainer Gypsy Rose Lee, whose career was driven by her aggressive…
If a Man Answers (1962)
- Dir. Henry Levin
Feat. Sandra Dee, Bobby Darin, Micheline Presle…
- Very light comedy with Sandra Dee as a rich socialite conspiring with her mother in an attempt to make new hubby Bobby Darin jealous.
It's Only Money (1962)
- Dir. Frank Tashlin
Feat. Jerry Lewis, Zachary Scott
- Comedy with Jerry Lewis playing a hapless TV repairman who aspires to be a private detective, but ends up getting confused for the man he is trying…
Lucy Show, The (TV Series) (1962-1968)
- Feat. Lucille Ball, Gale Gordon
- Lucille Ball's followup to I LOVE LUCY (without husband Desi Arnaz) was a longrunning classic in its own right, with many of the Ball offspring…
McHale's Navy (TV Series) (1962-1965)
- Feat. Ernest Borgnine, Joe Flynn, Tim Conway
- Predating MASH, Borgnine and Flynn engage in naval nonsense in this fondly remembered maritime comedy of hierarchical hi–jinks and seaman…
Mr Hobbs Takes a Vacation (1962)
- Dir. Henry Koster
Feat. James Stewart, Maureen O'Hara, Fabian…
- James Stewart, Maureen O'Hara, and a gaggle of kids take the holiday from hell in this early, jovial precursor to NATIONAL LAMPOON'S VACATION.
Road to Hong Kong, The (1962)
- Dir. Norman Panama
Feat. Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Joan Collins…
- Last in the series of 'Road' movies starring Hope and Crosby, this time the mad–cap duo play a pair of con–men who accidentally learn of…