Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Comedy: 5452 Films to Rent
Days of Thrills and Laughter (1961)
- Dir. Various
Feat. Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Charles Chaplin…
- The third in Robert Youngson's trilogy of definitive compilations of silent comedy, this time with swashbuckling action to match the outrageous…
Double Bunk (1961)
- Dir. C.M. Pennington-Richards
Feat. Ian Carmichael, Janette Scott, Sid James…
- Newlyweds Ian Carmichael and Janette Scott purchase a rickety houseboat, set sail for France in this buoyant and occasionally bawdy Brit comedy.
Errand Boy, The (1961)
- Dir. Jerry Lewis
Feat. Jerry Lewis, Brian Donlevy, Howard McNear…
- Lewis plays his perennial bumbler, here recruited as an oddjob man on a Hollywood Studio lot who must also spy on employee activities. Contains some…
Great Impostor, The (1961)
- Dir. Robert Mulligan
Feat. Tony Curtis, Karl Malden, Edmond O'Brien…
- Tony Curtis bluffs his way though society in this comic caper based on the true story of Ferdinand Demara who successfully passed himself off as a…
Ladies Man, The (1961)
- Dir. Jerry Lewis
Feat. Jerry Lewis, George Raft
- A handyman at an academy for aspiring actresses, Jerry Lewis must grapple with a vast, split–level set in one of his best comedies.
Lover Come Back (1961)
- Dir. Delbert Mann
Feat. Doris Day, Rock Hudson, Tony Randall
- Doris Day and Rock Hudson spar away as rival ad–execs – Day is the ethical virgin, Hudson the unscrupulous lady–killer, while Tony…
Mr. Ed (TV Series) (Mister Ed) (1961-1966)
- Feat. Alan Young
- Golden age television sitcom centred around a talking horse who lives in the backyard stable of a husband and wife, but is only conversant with the…
On the Double (1961)
- Dir. Melville Shavelson
Feat. Danny Kaye, Dana Wynter, Wilfrid Hyde-White
- Zany action–comedy set during the Invasion of Normandy, where an American soldier and talented mimic (Danny Kaye) impersonates a British high…
One, Two, Three (1961)
- Dir. Billy Wilder
Feat. James Cagney, Horst Buchholz, Pamela Tiffin
- James Cagney is marvellous as a zealous Coke executive in Germany, keen on penetrating the Russian market, but mortified when his boss's daughter…
Only Two Can Play (1961)
- Dir. Sidney Gilliat
Feat. Peter Sellers, Mai Zetterling, Richard Attenborough…
- One of Peter Seller's earlier films sees him in rare semi–dramatic part, playing a librarian in a small Welsh town who has an affair. Dryly…