We're No Angels, starring Humphrey Bogart, Aldo Ray, Peter Ustinov, Leo G. Caroll, Joan Bennet, Basil Rathbone

We’re No Angels

October 18, 2020Posted inComedyTags: , , , , , , No Comments

We’re No Angels (1955) starring Humphrey Bogart, Aldo Ray, Peter Ustinov, Leo G. Carroll, Joan Bennet, Basil Rathbone

Movie review of  We’re No Angels starring Humphrey Bogart, Aldo Ray, and Peter Ustinov.   Set in 1955, around Christmas, three prisoners escape from Devil’s Island to a small French coastal town. They decide to rob a store to get some money and clothes. They plan to travel by ship to another place. They pretend to be there to fix the roof. But pretty soon they realize that the financial condition of the family Ducotel is not good. The three convicts spend Christmas night with the Ducotels.  The three are so well treated by the family that they decide to help them.

Ghostbusters (2016) starring Melissa McCarty, Kristen Wiig, Kate McKinnon, Leslie Jones, Chris Hemsworth

Ghostbusters 2016 [Melissa McCarthy]

October 1, 2020Posted inComedyTags: , , , , , No Comments

Ghostbusters (2016) starring Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Kate McKinnon, Leslie Jones, Chris Hemsworth

The good news is, Ghostbusters 2016 begins with a very strong opening scene. The bad news is it quickly goes downhill. The biggest problem with it is: as a comedy, it’s simply not funny. Why is that?

Flying High (1931) starrring Bert Lahr, Charlotte Greenwood

Flying High [Bert Lahr]

September 10, 2020Posted inComedyTags: , , , , , , No Comments

Flying High (1931) starrring Bert Lahr, Charlotte Greenwood

Flying High is Bert Lahr’s film debut – and a screwball comedy. He’s creating an early prototype of the helicopter … but needs money. Charlotte Greenwood has money, but needs a husband …

Unfaithfully Yours (1948) starring Rex Harrison, Linda Darnell

Unfaithfully Yours [Rex Harrison]

September 6, 2020Posted inComedyTags: , , , , , , , , No Comments

Unfaithfully Yours (1948) starring Rex Harrison, Linda Darnell

Unfaithfully Yours is a black comedy about a musical conductor (Rex Harrison). He suspects his younger wife (Linda Darnell) of infidelity. He literally lets his imagination run wild. Directed by Preston Sturges.

Cold Turkey (1971) starring Dick Van Dyke, Pippa Scott, Bob Newhart, Tom Poston

Cold Turkey [Dick Van Dyke]

August 23, 2020Posted inComedyTags: , , , , , , , , No Comments

Cold Turkey (1971) starring Dick Van Dyke, Pippa Scott, Bob Newhart, Tom Poston

In Cold Turkey, Norman Lear makes his directorial debut with this farce about an entire town that tries to give up smoking in order to win $25 million.

Boeing Boeing (1965) starring Tony Curtis, Jerry Lewis, Thelma Ritter

Boeing Boeing

June 11, 2020Posted inComedyTags: , , , No Comments

Boeing Boeing (1965) starring Tony Curtis, Jerry Lewis, Thelma Ritter

Boeing Boeing follows the lives of American journalist Bernard (Tony Curtis) and his competitor Robert (Jerry Lewis) in Paris. To clarify, Bernard is juggling romances with three different women who are stewardesses. And have opposite schedules; Bernard’s “engaged” to all three! And juggles schedules so that they never meet. Until, of course, they do!

Love Laughs at Andy Hardy (1946) starring Mickey Rooney, Bonita Granville, Dorothy Ford, Lewis Stone

Love Laughs at Andy Hardy

June 6, 2020Posted inComedyTags: , , , , No Comments

Love Laughs at Andy Hardy (1946) starring Mickey Rooney, Bonita Granville, Dorothy Ford, Lewis Stone

In a bittersweet entry in the series, Love Laughs at Andy Hardy takes the title seriously. Andy returns home from World War II, and hopes to return to college. And, to reignite his romance with Kay. There are the normal shenanigans, such as locking himself out of the house, or the big dance with 6’2″ Coffy. She’s one of the nicest people in the movie, in fact.

Smokey and the Bandit stars Burt Reynolds and Jackie Gleason in an outrageous comedy

Smokey and The Bandit

May 21, 2020Posted inComedyTags: , , , , No Comments

Smokey and The Bandit (1977) starring Burt Reynolds, Sally Fields, Jackie Gleason, Jerry Reed

One of the all-time big box-office hits, Smokey and the Bandit stars Burt Reynolds and Jackie Gleason in an outrageous comedy that boosts full-throttle laughs and high-velocity thrills. Reynolds is the Bandit, a king-of-the-road trucker hero who accepts the ultimate challenge: pick up a truckload of Coors beer in Texarkana – the closest place it can be legally sold – and haul it cross-country to Atlanta in 48 hours. The reward? $80,000! The result? The wildest series of car chases and crashes ever filmed in this hilarious all time box office smash

Move Over Darling, starring Doris Day, James Garner, with a classic bit by Don Knotts

Move Over Darling [Doris Day]

April 17, 2020Posted inComedyTags: , , , , , , , , , No Comments

Move Over Darling (1963) starring James Garner, Doris Day, Polly Bergen, Chuck Connors

Doris Day, James Garner and Polly Bergen star in Move Over Darling. A romantic comedy about one groom, two wives, and one crazy, mixed-up honeymoon! Five years after his wife Ellen is lost at sea and presumed dead, Nick is finally ready to remarry. But he’s headed for anything but wedded bliss when Ellen turns up alive … And ready to give first love a second chance – with Nick!

Eleven Men And A Girl (1930) starring Joe E. Brown, Joan Bennett, James Hall

Eleven Men And A Girl

March 23, 2020Posted inComedyTags: , , , , No Comments

Eleven Men And A Girl (1930) starring Joe E. Brown, Joan Bennett, James Hall

Eleven Men and a Girl is a frolic on the college campus, with the president’s job depending on winning the football trophy. With a little help from his daughter (Joan Bennett) and her boyfriend (Joe E. Brown) …