Comedies

Comedian/author/playwright/pundit Lewis Black stars in his second HBO solo special, an all-new hour of frenetic, take-no-prisoners stand-up comedy, taped before a live audience at the Warner Theatre in Washington, DC. Lewis Black: Red, White & Screwed...

Ginger Rogers has never been lovelier than she is in this tantalizing, romantic melodrama. Rogers, aptly enough, portrays popular film star Carol Corliss, who is stricken with a severe phobia of crowds after she is mauled by her eager fans. She becomes...

The 80's... It was a time when everybody was doing the big bucks, but f. Ross Johnson, CEO of R.J. R. Nabisco has every intention of making a fortune. When Johnson (James Garner) decides to buy out the Nabisco shareholders and take over his company, no...

Both Marion Davies and Billie Dove were one-time Ziegfeld chorus girls, so they became a natural fit as pals and romantic rivals when Davies chum, two-time Academy Award winner Frances Marion (with input on dialogue from Gentlemen Prefer Blondes author...

RKO mined its library for this popular series of pastiches, weaving together numbers from musicals and comedy short subjects with new framing sequences. Jack Paar and Hans Conried anchored ?Variety Time÷ (1948), which offers shorts from Leon Errol and...

Tahiti may be as close to paradise as we have on Earth, but you'd never know it by looking at the Tuttles, the island's most eccentric clan. With scarcely a penny to their name, the prodigious clan (14 at last count!) jaunts from one escapade to the next...

From the director of ' 'Made in America' ' and ' 'The Money Pit' ' comes a hilarious look at one of the most expensive blunders in military history. Over 17 years and almost as many billion dollars have gone into devising the B.F.V. There's only one...

Manhattan police captain Mike Harmon (Rock Hudson) was pleased to meet with the daughter of a late colleague after she flew in from Italy...and even more pleased to discover that she had matured into a stunner (Claudia Cardinale). However, she has a bit...

Myrna Loy is merely the bridesmaid while Rosalind Russell assumes the bridal honors to partner with Myrna's former flame Walter Pidgeon on this occasion. But perennial screen wife Myrna is not one to take also-ran status without many a brittle barb - or...

From the producers of "Notting Hill" and "Four Weddings and a Funeral" an all-star cast including Dame Judi Dench, Sir Ian Holm, Olympia Dukakis Leslie Caron and Dame Cleo Laine return to the stage for one more night of music and glory in this hilarious...

Billie Dove and Rod La Rocque star in this risque part-talkie comedy, once believed to be lost but now restored. Relentlessly pursued by gold digger Viola Hatfield (Gwen Lee), millionaire Michel Towne (La Rocque) decides to put her off through a marriage...

Alec Guinness and Gina Lollobrigida lead an international cast in this sparkling Gallic comedy, originally written by French dramatist Georges Feydeau and Maurice Desvallieres. The lavish setting is the gilded fin de siecle era known as La Belle Epoque...