Comedies

Hilarious, naughty pre-Production Code farce featuring Mae West as Tira, an unscrupulous carnival entertainer who takes a turn as a lion-tamer in order to get her boyfriend and fellow con artist out of a jam. Along the way Tira also falls for a suave...

When the Trappist monastery where he's spent his life gets threatened with shutdown, Brother Ambrose (Marty Feldman, who directed and co-wrote) ventures into the outside world to raise the needed funds. His journey takes him to Hollywood Boulevard, where...

Retired pug Joe Anton (George Raft) had finally opened his own nightclub, and was itching to show that he had developed class... especially to gorgeous debutante Jerry Healy (Constance Cummings). He hires proper matron Mabel Jellyman (Alison Skipworth)...

Director-co-writer-star Marty Feldman hangs the classic desert adventure out to dry in this outrageous satire, as dashing swashbuckler Beau Geste (Michael York) and "identical" twin brother Digby (Feldman) join the French Foreign Legion and try to clear...

TV's beloved bawdy Brit, Benny Hill, made his screen debut in this slapstick Cold War thriller, a late effort from the famed Ealing Studios. Ice rink sweeper-turned-private detective Hugo (Hill) gets mixed up in a wacky adventure involving a...

The poor residents of a small New Mexico town had lost hope when developers diverted the local water access. One frustrated farmer (Chick Vennera), though, stumbled on a means of irrigating his crops... and found himself becoming a local hero and...

Saloon singer Cleo Borden (Mae West) suddenly finds herself one very wealthy lady when her oilman swain loses a shoot-out-and she's his only beneficiary. Though she takes a shine to Edward Carrington (Paul Cavanagh), the administrator appointed to handle...

Down-and-out Weslake (Donald Sutherland) was reduced to minding the counter at the San Francisco pawn shop of crusty Garvey (Jack Warden) when he tumbled onto a scheme by some of the boss's disgruntled misfit clients to rob the place. Rather than blow...

With few curtain calls and lots of creditors, traveling theater impresario Marc Anthony "The Great" McGonigle (W.C. Fields) stakes his troupe's fortunes on letting a wealthy, stage-struck-and untalented-widow (Jan Duggan) join up. Will he be able to deal...

Struggling painter Paul Sloane (Dick Van Dyke) was about to chuck bohemian life in Paris and go home to his fianc?e (Angie Dickinson) when he jumped into the Seine to rescue a young woman (Elke Sommer). Presuming Paul dead, roommate Casey (James Garner)...

Wacky romantic comedy stars Gene Hackman as George Dupler, the frustrated manager of an all-night drugstore, who tries to convince his son (Dennis Quaid) to end his affair with housewife Cheryl Gibbons (Barbra Streisand). But it's George who unexpectedly...

Jim Sanders (Michael E. Knight), a young man about to get married, finds a beautiful surprise in his swimming pool. It's not a mermaid or a mannequin, but a grounded angel (Emmanuelle B?art)! What's the sultry seraph really doing on Earth, and what will...