Comedies

Alastair Sim shines in this British dark comedy, playing Harry Hawkins, a meek watch repairman who moonlights as an assassin-for-hire, happily bumping off society's most annoying people. Hawkins' latest job-eliminating an insufferable politician at a...

In this mix of laughs and scares, unsuccessful mortician Waldo Trumbull (Vincent Price) and sleazy assistant Felix Gillie (Peter Lorre) resort to murder in order to drum up some much-needed business. But the joke may be on them when it turns out their...

There's little to do with Poe's poem in this classic horror spoof written by Richard Matheson and directed by Roger Corman. The story concerns Dr. Erasmus Craven (Vincent Price), a sorcerer who agrees to aid a fellow magic man (Peter Lorre) who's been...

Henpecked husband and layabout Egbert Sous? (W.C. Fields) finally got a job offer after he inadvertently foiled a bank robbery-and the grateful business hired him as the new guard. He wheedles teller and prospective son-in-law Og Oggilby (Grady Sutton)...

For bookish UCLA student Jonathan Moore (Anthony Edwards), his passion for playing paintball tag provided the full extent of the thrills in his life. That would change on his vacation to Paris, where he hooked up with the gorgeous and mysterious "older...

A sudden windfall let's struggling grocer Harold Bissonnette (W.C. Fields) bid adieu to his aggravating customers, pull up stakes, and pursue his dream of running a California orange grove. He'll be the one getting squeezed by his angry family after they...

Former ad executive Pete (George Peppard) had chucked it all for the loft life of a cynical Bohemian artiste. He'd soon have his outlook brightened, though, courtesy of an inadvertently imported toucan, bearing a strange virus leaving those infected with...

Two veteran LAPD cops-hard-nosed alcoholic Sgt. A.M. Valnikov (Robert Foxworth) and female detective Sgt. Natalie Zimmerman (Paula Prentiss)-become reluctant partners-and willing lovers-in this comedic crime thriller from scripter Joseph Wambaugh ("The...

In order to keep elderly employer Miss Victoria Woodworth (Edith Evans) from learning that she's broke, loyal butler Claude "Fitzwilly" Fitzwilliam (Dick Van Dyke) enlists the aid of the household staff to commit a series of robberies. Things get...

In their first screen team up, Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau (in a Best Supporting Actor Oscar-winning performance) star in Billy Wilder's hilarious, cynical fable. Lemmon is TV cameraman Harry Hinkle, who is injured while shooting a football game...

Jewel thief Madeleine de Beaupre (Marlene Dietrich) uses American car designer Tom Bradley (Gary Cooper) to carry the pearls she lifted in Paris past Spanish customs agents. Romance ensues between the two strangers, leading to Madeleine going straight...

When elegant newspaper photographer Katherine Grant (Claudette Colbert) gets sent to cover a tunneling project below the Hudson, her presence causes an on-site dust-up that costs average-Joe laborer Jim Ryan (Fred MacMurray) his job. Feeling responsible,...