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The Muppet Show Joel Grey

The Muppet Show - the great Gonzo and Joel Grey in Razzle Dazzle
The Muppet Show, guest-starring Joel Grey, Rowlf and Miss Piggy in ‘Sherlock Holmes and the case of the missing clues’, music includes ‘Cabaret’, ‘Comedy Tonight’, ‘Razzle Dazzle’ and ‘Pachalafaka’
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Make Mine Mink

Make Mine Mink, starring Terry-Thomas
Make Mine Mink(1960) starring Terry Thomas Make Mine Mink —  a farce about some middle-aged people who decide to break up their boring lives by …  Stealing minks, and donating the proceeds to charity. Starring Terry Thomas
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No Time for Sergeants

No Time for Sergeants, starring Andy Griffith
No Time for Sergeants (1958) starring Andy Griffith Technically, No Time for Sergeants is Don Knotts first movie.   However, his time on-screen is very brief. He plays a neurotic Army officer who gives Andy Griffith’s character, Will Stockdale, one of his tests.   As a consolation, however,...
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The Iron Petticoat

The Iron Petticoat movie poster, starring Bob Hope and Katherine Hepburn
The Iron Petticoat (1956) starring Bob Hope, Katherine Hepburn — €“ a Cold War comedy that’s short on the comedy Synopsis of The Iron Petticoat Set in the midst of the Cold War, Soviet pilot Vinka Kovelenko (Katherine Hepburn) defects to the West, despite her devotion to Communism,...
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The Story of Mankind

The Story of Mankind (1957) starring Vincent Price, Ronald Colman, Cedric Hardwicke, the Marx Brothers (Groucho, Chico, Harpo), and many more
The Story of Mankind (1957) starring Vincent Price, Ronald Colman, Cedric Hardwicke, the Marx Brothers (Groucho, Chico, Harpo), and many more  In a nutshell,  The Story of Mankind has humanity on trial for its’ very existence.   The Devil himself (played delightfully by Vincent Price) is the prosecutor....
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The Three Musketeers

The Three Musketeers (1939), starring Don Ameche and the Ritz Brothers
The Three Musketeers (1939), starring Don Ameche and the Ritz Brothers I’ve known of the Ritz Brothers for some time, although I’ve not seen many of their movies.  Previously, the only one of their movies that I saw  was  The Gorilla (with Bela Lugosi).  And I wasn’t impressed...
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It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World

It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World starring Spencer Tracy, Milton Berle, Sid Caesar, Buddy Hackett, Ethel Merman, Mickey Rooney, Phil Silvers, Jonathan Winters
Review of It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World starring Spencer Tracy, Milton Berle, Sid Caesar, Buddy Hackett, Ethel Merman, Mickey Rooney, Phil Silvers, Jonathan Winters, It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World is a manic, hilarious, slapstick movie. It starred some of the greatest movie clowns of...
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Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, (1953) starring Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Boris Karloff
Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, (1953) starring Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Boris Karloff Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde  is considered by many Abbott and Costello fans to be one of their worst efforts.   Although it has many very funny moments,...
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Bean the Movie [Rowan Atkinson]

Bean: The Movie (1997) starring Rowan Atkinson, Peter MacNicol
 Bean: The Movie (1997) starring Rowan Atkinson, Peter MacNicol In Bean, Rowan Atkinson’s clown character Mr. Bean plays the part of a sleepy watchman at an art museum. He’s sent to America to watch the famous painting, Whistler’s Mother. The reason they sent them is because of his constant...
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Watch the Birdie [Red Skelton]

Watch the Birdie (1950) starring Red Skelton, Arlene Dahl, Ann Miller
Watch the Birdie (1950) starring Red Skelton, Arlene Dahl, Ann Miller  In Watch The Birdie, Red Skelton plays his normal lovable klutz (Rusty Cammeron), who runs a camera shop with him father (also played by Red Skelton, using his Newton J. Numbskull character) — and his grandfather (also...
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