Comedies

In his second 'talkie' the immortal Buster Keaton displays his comic genius in full regalia. The addition of his deep, rich voice only serves to make his numerous pratfalls and outrageous mishaps all the funnier. World War I is underway and young men are...

Phoebe transforms her looks and poses as carefree younger Livvy after her beau Dr. Gray returns home after 10 years and is disappointed that faithful Phoebe appears worn and unattractive.

Romantic-comedy icon Cary Grant and film-debuting Betsy Drake team in this frothy funny paean to postwar domesticity. The sparkle between the two is delightful - and genuine: Soon after the film premiered they became real-life husband and wife.

Robert Morse and George Maharis star in Quick, Before It Melts, a cool comedy about love and defection, based on the novel by The New York Times reporter Philip Benjamin. To prove he's worthy of his editor's daughter (Yvonne "Batgirl" Craig), milquetoast...

James Coburn Lynn Redgrave and Robert Hooks star as a raw-edged trio housed in a rundown mansion during an incessant rain - and knotted with racial and sexual animosities. Based on the Seven Descents of Myrtle.

Immortal film clown Buster Keaton (The General, Our Hospitality, etc.) ignites a big city free-for-all in this riotous 'talkie' costarring Anita Page (The Broadway Melody) and Cliff Edwards (Girl of the Golden West). in a hilariously hapless attempt to...

James Cagney and Pat O'Brien give Hollywood an affectionate chuck under the chin (and a comic kick in the keister) in this filmmaking spoof based on the same-titled 669-performance Broadway hit by Bella and Samuel Spewack (My Favorite Wife, Kiss Me,...

Wealthy New York party girl Joan Prescott (Joan Crawford) has lassoed herself a cowboy! Not that she plans to when she heads west to her family's Montana ranch. But she steps off the train at a nowhere town to elude an on-board lothario, meets a handsome...

Sick of city life, primo-stoner Charlie and his up-tight cousin Eddie decide it's time to reconnect with their home-grown roots. Taking off in a beat-up Ford they spark it up on a spiritual journey across to find and return a sacred stone. To succeed...

Two of comedy's greatest masters, Buster Keaton and Jimmy Durante, appear together in this effervescent and irreverent slapstick about a couple of regular guys trying to cash in on the end of Prohibition. Durante is a barber who talks Keaton, his dim...

True wit meets marital grit in this timeless Noel Coward comedy about two bon vivants who can't live without ' or with ' each other. Having barely survived the warefare of their wedlock, Amanda (Norma Shearer) and Elyot (Robert Montgomery) decide the...

When a European diplomat is named ambassador to the United States, he relocates to Washington, D.C., with his niece, Princess Maria, where he hopes shell meet an eligible American bachelor. On a side trip by plane to San Francisco, Maria takes a...