Subgenre Sampler
Classics > Comedy: 912 Films to Buy & Rent
What Price Glory? (1952)
- Dir. John Ford
Feat. James Cagney, Dan Dailey, Corinne Calvet
- Soldiers James Cagney and Dan Dailey take time out from the trenches of WWI for some zesty romantic rivalry over local attraction Corrinne Calvet.
Appointment with Venus (1951)
- Dir. Ralph Thomas
Feat. David Niven, Glynis Johns, Kenneth More
- Bizarre war drama based on a true story about a small recently occupied British isle with a very important prize cow living on it that the War Office…
As Young As You Feel (1951)
- Dir. Harmon Jones
Feat. Marilyn Monroe
- A young Marilyn Monroe has a support role in this affable corporate satire about a printing employee who won’t sit still for retirement. Based on a…
Green Grow the Rushes (1951)
- Dir. Derek Twist
Feat. Richard Burton, Honor Blackman, Roger Livesey…
- Minor comedy, of the English variety, set in a brandy–soaked Kent village.
Let's Make It Legal (1951)
- Dir. Richard Sale
Feat. Claudette Colbert, Macdonald Carey, Marilyn Monroe
- Marilyn Monroe has an ornamental role in this light ‘divorcee’ comedy.
Man in the White Suit (1951)
- Dir. Alexander Mackendrick
Feat. Alec Guinness, Joan Greenwood, Cecil Parker
- Lab–worker Alec Guinness invents a fabric that never wears out or gets dirty, only to have it suppressed by industry and unions alike. More…
On The Riviera (1951)
- Dir. Walter Lang
Feat. Danny Kaye, Gene Tierney, Corinne Calvet…
- Talented Broadway veteran Danny Kaye stars in this musical comedy, playing an American entertainer who develops a skit impersonating a wealthy…
People Will Talk (1951)
- Dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Feat. Cary Grant, Jeanne Crain, Hume Cronyn
- Enjoyable and sophisticated allegory, disguised as a standard Hollywood romantic comedy, in which a humanitarian doctor (Grant) must contend with the…
Stooge, The (1951)
- Dir. Norman Taurog
Feat. Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Polly Bergen
- Comedy set in the world of 1930's vaudeville, where an egotistical but struggling Broadway performer (Dean Martin) finds success when he hires a…
At War with the Army (1950)
- Dir. Hal Walker
Feat. Jerry Lewis, Dean Martin
- The first of many films Martin and Lewis made together, here the duo go from one mishap to another in an army training camp in World War II.