Comedies

With boundless enthusiasm and enough jive to meld '20s flapper giddiness with '40s swing, 1947's Good News - the feature directing debut of Charles Walters (Easter Parade, the Unsinkable Molly Brown) and screenwriting debut of Betty Comden and Adolph...

Clifton Webb reprised his "Sitting Pretty" role in this fun follow-up, as the supercilious and self-taught scholar Lynn Belvedere finds out that he can't claim a large cash testimonial unless he has a college degree. Determined to earn his diploma in one...

Heroes and villains of DC Comics square off in the two-part, live-action, made-for-TV (with a laugh track!) smackdowns of Legends of the Super Heroes. The Challenge: Batman and Robin (Adam West and Burt Ward of the live-action Batman TV series) lead The...

A Wall Street corporate raider attempts to acquire an 81-year-old New England wire & cable company but finds himself embroiled in the fight of his life against the company CEO, his assistant and an attractive N.Y. attorney, Penelope Ann Miller...

Star-struck Marcia (Olivia de Havilland) could care less that famed thespian Basil Underwood (Leslie Howard) is vain and discourteous while staying at her family's mansion. What are manners? she exclaims. Little rules for little people. She doesn't know...

What's she got? Kings over queens? Four aces? Straight flush? Whatever the beautiful blonde holds, watch out! Henry Fonda, Joanne Woodward and Jason Robards headline this sly, sassy Old West caper about a Texas town's humdinger of a poker game. A...

His own soda pop machine. Air conditioning. The finest cotton underwear. Someone else doing the work. That's M/Sgt. Maxwell Slaughter's (Jackie Gleason) game ' and man, can he play it. Just ask Supply Sgt. Eustis Clay (Steve McQueen), who idolizes the...

Felix Farmer's (Richard Mulligan) latest movie flops - and lots of Hollywood types spring into action. Agents are called. Lawyers are retained. Statements are issued. It's what master comedy director Blake Edwards calls 'Standard Operating Bull,' the...

Produced and directed by comedy veteran Bud Yorkin, Start the Revolution Without Me broke ground for a comedy revolution. It takes the tumultuous 'let them eat cake' days of the French Revolution and gives everyone a figurative pie in the face. Two sets...

Academy Award-nominee Johnny Depp Academy Award-winner Faye Dunaway and the legendary Jerry Lewis headline this offbeat psychodrama about a group of people drawn together in a desert town.

Abbott. Costello. Laughton. Three stars boasting one Oscar? between them deliver the yo-ho-ho-ho-ing of this merry musical-comedy tale of pirates and buried treasure. Casting an acclaimed actor renowned for gravitas in a knockabout romp may seem unusual...

George Segal, Jacqueline Bisset and Robert Morley top the bill of fare in this food- and fun-filled mystery garnished with wit. Segal plays a glib fast-food tycoon and Bisset is his ex-wife, a pastry chef who may become the last course in an enigmatic...