Comedies

THE HOSPITAL - At a rundown Manhattan teaching hospital, chief of staff Herb Bock (George C. Scott) was already mired in multiple personal and professional crises-and now, he was faced with a string of sudden and inexplicable fatalities among his staff...

Hapless nightclub hatcheck boy Red Skelton loves glamorous chanteuse Lucille Ball. Handsome hoofer Gene Kelly loves her too. And Lucy? Lucy loves money. Then Red mistakenly gulps down a Mickey Finn and dreams he's in 18th-century France. Before you can...

With equal parts of Kafka and Fritz Lang, Woody Allen tells the darkly comic tale of a '20s European town being terrorized by a strangler, and how Kleinman (Allen)-a hapless local rousted into joining a vigilante posse-is turned by circumstance into the...

Clark Gable was re-teamed with the beautiful Jean Harlow for the sixth time, in this delightful M-G-M romantic comedy. On screen, Jean Harlow was pure platinum: white-blonde, rare glamourous and tough. But she was fragile off screen, succumbing to kidney...

A "richly nostalgic" (Leonard Maltin) and star-studded portrait of the 1940s, Woody Allen's Radio Days weaves together a young boy's comical memories with zany stories from the golden age of radio, to create a delightful tapestry of heartwarming and...

Woody Allen's playful poke at 19th-century Russian literature and Ingmar Bergman movies casts him as scholar and avowed coward Boris Grushenko, who becomes celebrated for his accidental heroism in the Napoleonic Wars. He returns home to an unhappy...

One of the best movies about movies ever made (Time Magazine), Woody Allen's The Purple Rose of Cairo slips through the looking glass of cinematic convention to create a magical, "intoxicating" (Cosmopolitan) comic fable about life, love, illusion and...

Writer-director-co-star Woody Allen ran with Dr. David Reuben's 1969 pop phenomenon intimacy manual as the loose inspiration for this raucous anthology that takes a frantically fractured look at sexual manners. From seductive sheep to paratrooper sperm...

Woody Allen's second film as a director, co-writer and star takes parody to the extreme with a brilliant send-up of everything from relationships to dictatorships. An early example of what Allen called his 'slapdash' approach to comedy, Bananas' broad,...

The "Lubitsch Touch" is evident in these witty comedies from Ernst Lubitsch. First, "The Oyster Princess" details the plight of Ossi (Ossi Oswalda), the American daughter of an oyster magnate who promises to find her a prince to wed. A marriage broker...

Compassion and comedy intersect as Woody Allen masterfully ponders God, guilt, and life's not-so-little ironies. A respected ophthalmologist (Martin Landau) must decide whether to ice his boisterous mistress (Anjelica Huston), while a documentary...

Nominated for two Academy Awards½, Broadway Danny Rose is a "wickedly funny" (Playboy) and irreverent tribute to the zany world of New York lounge acts. A "delectable" (Variety) combination of dry wit, hilarious slapstick and biting philosophical...