Comedies

The New York police have decided to throw a testimonial in Charlie Chans (Warner Oland) honor, but the Honolulu detective just can't seem to go anywhere without murder following him. It seems that a Manhattan nightclub singer has been murdered, and it is...

After finishing up a case in Egypt, Charlie Chan goes to Shanghai with his Number One Son Lee for a well-deserved vacation. There's no rest for the weary, though, as Chan is recruited by the local police to help them topple an international drug...

Whoopi Goldberg, Ted Danson, Nia Long and Will Smith star in a comedy about finding yourself by finding your family-even if that family is not what you expected. When 18-year-old Zora (Long), the daughter of a very independent, single mother and proud...

Zany goings-on aboard a Navy ship fly when a girl reporter stows away and an Indian crew member brings a live turkey aboard, throwing the entire Navy into confusion.

Set in Victorian England, The Wrong Box is a British black comedy with a splendid cast including John Mills, Ralph Richardson, Michael Caine, Peter Cook, Dudley Moore and last, but definitely not least, Peter Sellers. A strange rule of inheritance allows...

In CHARLIE CHAN IN RIO, the master detective (Sidney Toler) is hot on the trail of a murderess. But when someone else gets to her first, and the woman he's about to arrest is found dead, it's up to Charlie to discover who killed his killer.

Based on the play by Julius J. Epstein, Emily Heffernan (Eleste Holm) struggles to keep the household running by renting out rooms to boarders, while her husbands spends all their earnings on get-rich-quick schemes.

After young Mary Whitman shows up in Reno for a divorce from her husband Curtis, another young woman, Jeanne Bently, is found slain. Bently had also been seeking a divorce and the local sherriff, Fletcher, thinks that Mary or her husband may be...

A struggling artist's life is turned upside down by an afternoon romance with a beautiful stranger.

An eager, would-be swabbie wants to join the Navy in WWII, but is unable to due to a medical condition. He enlists the help of a slightly loopy genie who seems to be able to place him in any historical situation except WWII.

Rex Harrison, Susan Hayward and Cliff Robertson headline this deliciously witty story about an eccentric millionaire who tricks his three former mistresses into believing that he is on his deathbed.

In this mystery set against World War II, Chan poses as a U.S. government employee to foil a sabotage plot aimed at the Panama Canal, through which a Navy fleet would be trapped on it's way to maneuvers in the Pacific. Chan weeds out a man who plans to...