The Russians Are Coming the Russians Are Coming (1966)
Synopsis: At the height of the Cold War era between the USSR and USA, a Russian submarine appears on the coast of a small New England town. Fearing for their […]
Tag Archives: Comedy
Films designed to draw out laughter from the viewers
April Fool’s Day (1986)
Synopsis: A wealthy young woman invites nine classmates to her mansion located on a private island. A fun weekend with friends turns into a hellish nightmare when an unnamed assailant starts killing guests […]
The April Fools (1969)
Synopsis: In New York, an unhappily married stockbroker, Howard Brubaker (Jack Lemmon, The Apartment), falls for a beautiful woman (Catherine Deneuve, Repulsion) he meets at a party. The lady turns […]
The Brother from Another Planet (1984)
Synopsis: A mute black man from outer space (Joe Morton, Terminator 2: Judgement Day) crashlands his spaceship into the Hudson River, New York, and somehow ends up in Harlem. “The […]
Good Sam (1948)
Synopsis: Gary Cooper (The Pride of the Yankees and High Noon) plays a good-hearted man whose efforts to help others annoy most people, his wife (Ann Sheridan, They Drive by Night […]
Love with the Proper Stranger (1963)
Synopsis: A Macy’s sales associate, Angie Rossini (Natalie Wood, Splendor in the Grass), has a one-night stand with a narcissist musician, Rocky Papasano (Steve McQueen, Bullit). Angie becomes pregnant and she asks […]
Footsteps in the Dark (1941)
Synopsis: Unbeknownst to both his wife (Brenda Marshall, The Sea Hawk) and mother-in-law (Lucile Watson, Watch on the Rhine), Francis Warren (Errol Flynn, The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex) leads […]
The Prince and the Showgirl (1957)
Synopsis: In 1911, during the coronation of the King of England George V., the Prince Regent of Carpathia (Laurence Olivier, Wuthering Heights) tries to kill time by seducing a chorus […]
The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars and Motor Kings (1976)
Synopsis: In a bold move, the biggest star of the Negro Baseball League, pitcher Bingo Long (Billy Dee Williams, The Empire Strikes Back), decides to seek out a more diversified […]
The Bette Davis Project: June Bride (1948)
Synopsis: Foreign correspondent, Carey Jackson (Robert Montgomey, Night Must Fall), who is desperate for an assignment, agrees to write an article for ‘Home Life,’ a popular women’s magazine. Jackson soon […]
Robert Louis Stevenson’s St. Ives (1998)
Synopsis: In 1813, during the Napoleonic War Era, a French Captain (Jean Marc Barr, Dogville) is captured by the British army, and is sent to a P.O.W. camp in Scotland, […]
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (2008)
Synopsis: In pre-World War II London, England, a prudish and penniless governess, Miss Guinevere Pettigrew (Frances McDormand, Fargo), finds herself working for a high-spirited, sophisticated American singer-actress, Delysia Lafosse (Amy Adams, […]
Innerspace (1987)
Synopsis: Dennis Quaid (Breaking Away) is a test pilot working on an experiment in which he would be miniaturized and injected into a laboratory animal. However, everything goes wrong when […]
Director’s Spotlight: Alfred Hitchcock’s Champagne (1928)
Synopsis: A spoiled champagne heiress (Betty Balfour, Croquette) is tricked by her own father (Gordon Harker, The Ring and The Farmer’s Wife) into believing that she’s no longer rich. The socialite’s father hopes […]
Director’s Spotlight: Alfred Hitchcock’s The Farmer’s Wife (1928)
Synopsis: A recently widowed farmer (Jameson Thomas, The Pleasure Garden) decides to remarry, but he encounters numerous problems as he tries to find a wife in his village. It takes […]
Designing Woman (1957)
Synopsis: A sportswriter (Gregory Peck, To Kill a Mockingbird) marries a fashion designer (Lauren Bacall, The Fan) he hardly knows, and their incompatible lifestyles create all sorts of funny complications. […]
The Pirate Movie (1982)
Synopsis: In a nod to The Wizard of Oz, Kristy McNichol (Little Darlings) plays a dorky young woman who passes out and dreams of being an 18th century damsel in […]
Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 hours 11 minutes (1965)
Synopsis: In 1910, a British newspaper mogul, played by the inimitably Robert Morley (The African Queen), offers a small fortune to the winner of a flying race from London to […]
The Iron Petticoat (1956)
Synopsis: A Soviet female pilot, Captain Vinka Kovelenko (Katharine Hepburn, The Philadelphia Story), defects to the West because she is tired of gender inequality in the Soviet army. An American […]
