Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Comedy: 5458 Films to Rent
My Favourite Brunette (1947)
- Dir. Elliott Nugent
Feat. Bob Hope, Peter Lorre, Lon Jr. Chaney
- A spoof of Chandler–style detective novels with Bob Hope as a photographer who gets mixed up with mobsters. With Peter Lorre, Lon Chaney.
Perils of Pauline, The (1947)
- Dir. George Marshall
Feat. Betty Hutton, John Lund, Billy DeWolfe…
- Showbiz melodrama in which Hutton plays true–life actress Pearl White, who graduated from being a lowly–paid seamstress to queen of the…
Sin of Harold Diddlebock, The (Mad Wednesday) (1947)
- Dir. Preston Sturges
Feat. Harold Lloyd
- Harold Lloyd’s last film transplants his go–getting character from the silent film ‘The Freshman’ into the rather different comic…
Song of the Thin Man (1947)
- Dir. Edward Buzzell
Feat. William Powell, Myrna Loy, Keenan Wynn…
- The Thin Man legacy is stretched out to a sixth film, with Nick and Nora busting one last case involving a dispute over owed money to a two–bit…
Cluny Brown (1946)
- Dir. Ernst Lubitsch
Feat. Jennifer Jones, Charles Boyer, Sir C. Aubrey Smith…
- Jennifer Jones is radiant (and a hoot, to boot) as the makeshift plumber to a leaky high society household. Ernst Lubitch’s splendid…
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
- Dir. Frank Capra
Feat. James Stewart
- A down–on–his–luck Jimmy Stewart is rescued from suicide by a Guardian Angel who shows him the virtues of his life gone by. This…
Night in Casablanca, A (1946)
- Dir. Archie Mayo
Feat. The Marx Brothers
- The Marx Brothers bring their revered and anarchic energy to this "post–war spoof of wartime intrigue" set in the Hotel Casablanca. Though it…
Road to Utopia (1946)
- Dir. Hal Walker
Feat. Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, Dorothy Lamour
- The final and perhaps wackiest of the "Road to...' series, this time in the Klondike goldrush. Many goofy gags and a few cliches too.
Abbott & Costello: The Naughty Nineties, The Time of Their Lives (1945-1946)
- Dir. Jean Yarbrough, Charles Barton
Feat. Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Alan Curtis…
- A double feature of slapstick shenanigans
"Naughty Nineties": A captain is swindled out of his riverboat by a trio of gamblers and stage show…
Blithe Spirit (1945)
- Dir. David Lean
Feat. Rex Harrison
- Novelist Rex Harrison jestingly arranges a seance, and inadvertently conjures up the ghost of his first wife, who then wittily haunts his new…