Comedies

Bruce Foster (Tom Brown) is a small-town reporter who dreams of landing the big scoop that will gain him entry into the ranks of big-city journos. His dream comes true in nightmare fashion when local resident/world-famous banker George Ferguson (Purnell...

Draft dodger Corky Jones (Dennis Morgan) lands a job at the Lockheed aircraft plant in Burbank, California. Needing a place to stay, Corky moves in with his old pal Brad (Jack Carson) and his wife, Roma (Ann Sheridan), to Brad's delight and Roma's...

Adapted from the smash-hit Broadway play of the same name, Janie tells the tale of a small town invaded by a camp of army recruits, but it's the GIs who'd best beware as the town's schoolgirls proceed to go gaga over the boys in uniform. Local newsman...

Lovable rogue Willie Hale (Ronald Colman) has frittered away another fortune in British East Africa, so he auctions off his belongings and returns to England. While Lord Leland (Frederick Kerr), Willies father, fumes about Willies latest failure, Willie...

Boxing manager Honest Skip Davis (Walter Catlett) is desperate when his latest prospect turns out to be more of a mug than a pug. While drowning his sorrows, he makes his latest discovery - singing waiter Steve Nelson (John Payne) - after the singer...

City slicker Lucky Wilson (Robert Montgomery) likes to play fast and loose with the ladies and the law, but when the cops crack down on a protection racket in which he took part, his luck finally runs out. Wounded and on the lam, Lucky retreats to the...

It's like father, unlike son in this screwball comedy reteaming Miriam Hopkins and Joel McCrea. Ex-millionaire B.J. Nolan (Charles Winninger) has frittered away his fortune on one mad scheme after another while his millionaire son, Kenneth (McCrea), is...

William Keighley directs this frothy comedy that came out just as the Production Code was ending glimpses into high-society bedrooms. What's good for the gander is good for the goose in this roundelay of romance and romp centered on a smart-set quartet...

Screwball comedy queen Carole Lombard stars in this romantic-comedy crime caper about a gold digger with grit determined to make the path to matrimony as crooked as possible. Showgirl Mary has her sights set on big-lug mob boss Shoots Magiz (Nat...

The grand mouth of mirth himself, Joe E. Brown, gets to show off his astounding athleticism as well as his vaudevillian chops in this sports comedy about a pitcher who brings the heat while looking to douse the fire. Smokey Joe Grant (Brown), contented...

Produced, directed and written by Robert Youngson, most famous for reacquainting the moviegoing public with the titans of the silent era in The Golden Age of Comedy (1957) and When Comedy Was King (1960), this compilation documentary begins,...

Prohibition's over and bombastic bootlegger Remy Marko is heading for the straight-and-narrow, the up-and-up, the strictly legit. But in the new booze-friendly legit world, the beer baron's brew is a big bust and all his troubles with creditors, coppers,...