Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Comedy: 5458 Films to Rent
To Paris with Love (1955)
- Dir. Robert Hamer
Feat. Alec Guinness, Odile Versois, Vernon Gray…
- Widowed aristocrat Guinness takes his estranged son to Paris where romantic entanglements await. Tepid romantic comedy fails to rise to the standard…
We're No Angels (1955)
- Dir. Michael Curtiz
Feat. Humphrey Bogart, Aldo Ray, Peter Ustinov…
- Moderately interesting Hollywood comedy concerns three convicts (Bogart, Ray and Ustinov) who escape from Devils Island and have to transform into…
3 Coins in the Fountain (Three Coins in the Fountain) (1954)
- Dir. Jean Negulesco
Feat. Clifton Webb, Dorothy McGuire, Jean Peters…
- Likeable, but modest classic in which three women throw coins into the Fountain of Trevi in Rome, to try their romantic luck. Great tourist locales…
Belles of St. Trinian's, The (1954)
- Dir. Frank Launder
Feat. Alastair Sim, Joyce Grenfell, George Cole…
- Classic pre–CARRY ON hi–jinks set in a seedy girl's school and based on Ronald Searle's cartoon series. Alastair Sim (in drag) plays…
Doctor in the House (1954)
- Dir. Ralph Thomas
Feat. Dirk Bogarde
- First and best of a series in which Doctors and Nurses exchange fleeting glances and banter for comic effect while training at a med school. Dirk…
Dov'e La Liberta...? (Where Is Freedom?) (1954)
- Dir. Roberto Rossellini
Feat. Toto, Vera Molnar, Nita Dover
- Legendary Italian comic Toto plays a barber who cannot abide the hypocritical society he is thrust into after spending two decades in prison, and…
Father Knows Best (TV Series) (1954-1960)
- Dir. Peter Tewksbury
Feat. Sarah Selby, Jane Wyatt, Billy Gray
- Cloying sitcom bathed in the idealised glow of 50's apple–pie America, centred on a suburban family and their typically patriarchal upbringing.…
Knock on Wood (1954)
- Dir. Melvin Frank, Norman Panama
Feat. Danny Kaye, Mai Zetterling, Torin Thatcher…
- Danny Kaye plays a ventriloquist who is comically unlucky in love due to his jealous dummy, who manages to sabotage every relationship he has right…
Lesson in Love, A (1954)
- Dir. Ingmar Bergman
Feat. Eva Dahlbeck, Gunnar Bjornstrand, Harriet Andersson…
- Eva Dahlbeck and Gunnar Bjornstrand play a couple who have recently separated, following the doctor husband's affair with a patient. When they…
Living It Up (1954)
- Dir. Norman Taurog
Feat. Jerry Lewis, Dean Martin, Janet Leigh…
- One of the funnier Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis comedies of the 17 they made together. Jerry Lewis plays a stationmaster from provincial New Mexico…