Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Comedy: 5458 Films to Rent
Down Argentine Way (1940)
- Dir. Irving Cummings
Feat. Carmen Miranda, Betty Grable, Don Ameche
- A horse mad New Yorker falls for a wealthy Argentine rancher in this fluffy technicolor musical, but is hampered by the longstanding feud between…
Go West (1940)
- Dir. Edward Buzzell
Feat. Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx
- The Marx Brothers take on the Wild West armed with one–liners and slapstick in a tamer effort from their later career.
Great Dictator, The (1940)
- Dir. Charles Chaplin
Feat. Charles Chaplin
- Chaplin's brave subversive satire in which he inhabits dual roles – dictator Adenoid Hynkle and a Jewish barber – for his damning…
Great McGinty, The (1940)
- Dir. Preston Sturges
Feat. Brian Donlevy, Akim Tamiroff, William Demarest…
- The first film with Preston Sturges both scripting and directing, this dryly wacky political satire sees cynical bum Donlevy rise to the heights of…
His Girl Friday (1940)
- Dir. Howard Hawks
Feat. Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell, Ralph Bellamy
- Fast and furious comic masterpiece with Cary Grant in superb form as a conniving newspaper editor whose ex–wife happens to be his star…
It All Came True (1940)
- Dir. Lewis Seiler
Feat. Ann Sheridan, Jeffrey Lynn, Humphrey Bogart
- A crime–themed musical comedy featuring Ann Sheridan as a fledgling singer in her first starring role as well as Humphrey Bogart as a fugitive…
Let George Do It! (1940)
- Dir. Marcel Varnel
Feat. George Formby, Phyllis Calvert, Garry Marsh
- Ealing Studios comedy sees George Formby star as a ukulele player who unwittingly takes the wrong boat and finds himself mistaken for a British…
Little Nellie Kelly (1940)
- Dir. Norman Taurog
Feat. Judy Garland, George Murphy
- Filmed version of the hit Broadway musical comedy from 1922 about Irish–American immigrants starring Judy Garland, who was fresh to…
My Favourite Wife (1940)
- Dir. Garson Kanin
Feat. Irene Dunne, Cary Grant, Randolph Scott
- Witty marital mixup comedy with the seven–years–shipwrecked Irene Dunne returning home to discover husband Cary Grant about to embark on…
My Little Chickadee (1940)
- Dir. Edward Cline
Feat. Mae West, W.C. Fields
- Mae West and W.C. Fields profitably co–exist in this formula story of marital shenanigans in the Wild West, garlanded with lunatic gags, dirty…