Comedies

Take one gloomy mansion in the Louisiana bayou, add a group of relatives gathered for a will reading and marked for elimination by a mysterious killer, and sprinkle in some classic Bob Hope one-liners, and you get this lively updating of the "old dark...

Scathing social satire stars Roddy McDowall as Alan Musgrave, a brilliant high schooler who helps sexy classmate Barbara Ann Greene (Tuesday Weld) get whatever she wants. Among the wishes he "grants" her are high grades, a starring role in a beach party...

Tough Chicago reporter Ernie Souchak (John Belushi) winds up in the hospital after being roughed up while investigating a corrupt city official. Sent out of town for his own safety, Ernie travels to the Colorado Rockies to do a story on ornithologist Dr...

Rip-roaring comic yarn stars Bob Hope as wisecracking vaudeville penguin trainer Larry Haines, whose railroad ride to a Chicago gig finds him being charmed by beautiful Brit Karen Bentley (Madeleine Carroll). He learns way too late that she's actually an...

Radio crime show host Larry Lawrence (Bob Hope) went on the run after getting mixed up in the murder of a mobster (Anthony Quinn), and wound up sharing a stateroom with Cuba-bound heiress Mary Carter (Paulette Goddard). On the island, the pair encounters...

When glib stockbroker Steve Bennett (Bob Hope) challenges the dubious ethics of his boss (Edward Arnold), the old man responds with a $10,000 bet that Steve can't go 24 hours without telling a lie. Steve swallows hard and takes the wager-and, spending...

Hilarious service comedy stars Bob Hope as arrogant but gun-shy Hollywood star Don Bolton, who schemes to evade the draft by wooing and wedding gorgeous Antoinette Fairbanks (Dorothy Lamour), the daughter of an Army colonel. Seeing through the plan, she...

Lively Ernst Lubitsch comedy, based on a 1921 French stageplay, stars Gary Cooper as pampered millionaire Michael Brandon, who's gone through seven marriages and is eager to make poor French shopgirl Nicole (Claudette Colbert) his next bride. Coaxed by...

In order to nab a wealthy husband, French golddigger Claire Ledoux (Marlene Dietrich) lands in 1840s New Orleans and fakes an illness at the opera. Her act draws the attention of a rich businessman, whom she plans to marry, but a rugged sea captain who...

Molly leads a gang of thieves in the San Francisco underworld whose current scheme is coning tourists who visit their sham bar. However when they try to con a dapper gentleman visitor he turns the tables by pretending to be a detective so he can squeeze...

Adapted from Woody Allen's Broadway play and directed by Howard Morris, this riotous comedy of errors follows the plight of an American family on vacation in Europe, trapped at an American embassy behind the Iron Curtain when their plane makes an...

Seven men, one woman... but wow, what a woman! This racy comedy from director Vittorio de Sica ("The Bicycle Thief") stars Shirley MacLaine as seven very different adulterous women. Through a series of vignettes, MacLaine portrays such cheating...