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1. International House (1933)
Passed | 68 min | Comedy
Assorted wacky characters converge on a Chinese hotel to bid on a new invention: television.
Director: A. Edward Sutherland | Stars: W.C. Fields, Peggy Hopkins Joyce, Rudy Vallee, Stuart Erwin
Votes: 1,469
Talkin bout that funny reefer man
2. Vivacious Lady (1938)
Approved | 90 min | Comedy, Romance
A professor marries a nightclub singer, much to the consternation of his family and friends back home.
Director: George Stevens | Stars: Ginger Rogers, James Stewart, James Ellison, Beulah Bondi
Votes: 4,187
3. Delightfully Dangerous (1945)
Approved | 92 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Young Sherry Williams dreams of having a singing career, and she idolizes her older sister Josephine, who has gone to New York to perform on the stage. When Sherry is distraught just before... See full summary »
Director: Arthur Lubin | Stars: Jane Powell, Ralph Bellamy, Constance Moore, Louise Beavers
Votes: 329
4. It's in the Bag! (1945)
Passed | 87 min | Comedy
The ringmaster of a flea circus inherits a fortune...if he can find which chair it's hidden in.
Director: Richard Wallace | Stars: Fred Allen, Jack Benny, Don Ameche, William Bendix
Votes: 633
Jack Benny
5. The Admiral Was a Lady (1950)
Approved | 87 min | Comedy, Romance
Ex-WAVE encounters four fun-loving, work-hating men, all of whom want to marry her.
Director: Albert S. Rogell | Stars: Edmond O'Brien, Wanda Hendrix, Rudy Vallee, Johnny Sands
Votes: 407
6. The Pink Panther (1963)
Approved | 115 min | Comedy, Crime, Romance
The bumbling Inspector Clouseau travels to Rome to catch a notorious jewel thief known as "The Phantom" before he conducts his most daring heist yet: a princess' priceless diamond with one slight imperfection, known as "The Pink Panther".
Director: Blake Edwards | Stars: David Niven, Peter Sellers, Robert Wagner, Capucine
Votes: 56,704 | Gross: $10.88M
Not as good as I remembered it.
7. If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium (1969)
G | 99 min | Adventure, Comedy, Romance
The humorous adventures of a group of American tourists taking an 18-day guided bus tour of nine European countries.
Director: Mel Stuart | Stars: Suzanne Pleshette, Ian McShane, Vittorio De Sica, Murray Hamilton
Votes: 2,418
8. Guest Wife (1945)
Approved | 90 min | Comedy, Romance
A newspaper correspondent who has convinced his publisher he is married implores his friend's wife to pose as his bride.
Director: Sam Wood | Stars: Claudette Colbert, Don Ameche, Dick Foran, Charles Dingle
Votes: 500
9. Pillow to Post (1945)
Approved | 92 min | Comedy, Romance
A traveling saleswoman convinces an army lieutenant to pose as her husband so that she can rent an apartment during the World War II housing shortage.
Director: Vincent Sherman | Stars: Ida Lupino, Sydney Greenstreet, William Prince, Stuart Erwin
Votes: 648
10. You Gotta Stay Happy (1948)
100 min | Comedy, Romance
A spoiled heiress who has jilted multiple fiancés embroils a commercial pilot in a series of wacky misadventures.
Directors: H.C. Potter, Walter Lantz | Stars: Joan Fontaine, James Stewart, Eddie Albert, Roland Young
Votes: 942
11. A Woman of Distinction (1950)
85 min | Comedy
Ice-cold college dean Susan Middlecott feels there's no room in her life for romance. Enter Prof. Alec Stevenson, British lecturer on astronomy, touring North America and in possession of a... See full summary »
Director: Edward Buzzell | Stars: Rosalind Russell, Ray Milland, Edmund Gwenn, Janis Carter
Votes: 544
12. Theodora Goes Wild (1936)
Passed | 94 min | Comedy, Mystery, Romance
The author of a controversially racy best-selling book tries to hide her celebrity status from her provincial small-town neighbors, who would be scandalized if they knew.
Director: Richard Boleslawski | Stars: Irene Dunne, Melvyn Douglas, Thomas Mitchell, Thurston Hall
Votes: 2,953
13. Third Finger, Left Hand (1940)
Passed | 96 min | Comedy, Romance
A single magazine editor pretends to be married in order to avoid advances from male colleagues, but complications ensue when she meets a potential suitor.
Director: Robert Z. Leonard | Stars: Myrna Loy, Melvyn Douglas, Raymond Walburn, Lee Bowman
Votes: 1,138
14. Margin for Error (1943)
Approved | 74 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Karl, Nazi consul in the US and a compulsive gambler, embezzles state funds and enrages his wife Sophia, his secretary Max as well as US police officer Moe who is detailed to duty in the consulate and to protect the German diplomats.
Director: Otto Preminger | Stars: Joan Bennett, Milton Berle, Otto Preminger, Carl Esmond
Votes: 322
Preminger surreal whipped cream
15. The Crystal Ball (1943)
Approved | 81 min | Comedy, Mystery, Romance
A woman becomes a fortune teller after losing a beauty contest.
Director: Elliott Nugent | Stars: Ray Milland, Paulette Goddard, Gladys George, Virginia Field
Votes: 819
16. The Pleasure Seekers (1964)
Approved | 107 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Three American lovelies rooming together in Madrid all manage to get themselves into seemingly-unhappy relationships with fellows.
Director: Jean Negulesco | Stars: Ann-Margret, Anthony Franciosa, Carol Lynley, Gardner McKay
Votes: 775
17. The Swinger (1966)
Not Rated | 81 min | Comedy
An authoress writes a steaming sex-novel and proceeds to live out her heroine's adventures.
Director: George Sidney | Stars: Ann-Margret, Anthony Franciosa, Robert Coote, Yvonne Romain
Votes: 568
18. Sam Whiskey (1969)
PG-13 | 96 min | Comedy, Western
A widow hires an ex-gambler to retrieve gold bars from a sunken river boat in Colorado and discreetly return them to the Federal Mint, from where they had been stolen by her dead husband.
Director: Arnold Laven | Stars: Burt Reynolds, Angie Dickinson, Clint Walker, Ossie Davis
Votes: 1,741
19. Cold Turkey (1971)
PG-13 | 99 min | Comedy
Hoping for positive publicity, a tobacco company offers $25 million to any American town that quits smoking for 30 days. Amidst a media frenzy, Eagle Rock, Iowa accepts the challenge while the company's PR man tries to sabotage the effort.
Director: Norman Lear | Stars: Dick Van Dyke, Pippa Scott, Tom Poston, Edward Everett Horton
Votes: 2,437 | Gross: $11.99M
Dick Van Dyke!
20. Sail a Crooked Ship (1961)
Approved | 88 min | Comedy
An odd assortment of criminals steals a mothballed Liberty vessel to use it as a getaway after a planned bank robbery in Boston.
Director: Irving Brecher | Stars: Robert Wagner, Dolores Hart, Carolyn Jones, Frankie Avalon
Votes: 275
Ernie Kovacs!
21. What Did You Do in the War, Daddy? (1966)
Approved | 116 min | Comedy, War
In World War II, a strategic Italian village agrees to surrender to the Allies only if it's allowed to organize a celebratory festival while giving aerial reconnaissance the false impression of fierce ground fighting.
Director: Blake Edwards | Stars: James Coburn, Dick Shawn, Sergio Fantoni, Giovanna Ralli
Votes: 2,255
Dick Shawn, James Coburn
22. Don't Make Waves (1967)
Approved | 97 min | Comedy
Carlo goes on a vacation to Southern California, where he quickly becomes immersed in the easygoing local culture and becomes entangled in two beach-side romances.
Director: Alexander Mackendrick | Stars: Tony Curtis, Claudia Cardinale, Robert Webber, Joanna Barnes
Votes: 1,948
23. Never a Dull Moment (1968)
G | 99 min | Comedy, Crime, Family
Actor Jack Albany, who plays gangsters on TV, is mistaken for notorious hit-man Ace, and is hired by mob boss Leo Smooth to pull a heist, but Jack must find a way out of it.
Director: Jerry Paris | Stars: Dick Van Dyke, Edward G. Robinson, Dorothy Provine, Henry Silva
Votes: 796
Dick Van Dyke
24. Sophie's Place (1969)
M/PG | 106 min | Comedy, Crime
Two crooks are hired to rob an eccentric old lady's estate, but once they get to know her, they can't bring themselves to do it.
Director: Jim O'Connolly | Stars: Telly Savalas, Edith Evans, Warren Oates, Cesar Romero
Votes: 301
Telly, baby!
25. Whistling in the Dark (1941)
Passed | 78 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Radio crime show host 'The Fox' along with his fiancée and ex-girlfriend are kidnapped by a larcenous cult who demand that he help them plan a perfect murder.
Director: S. Sylvan Simon | Stars: Red Skelton, Conrad Veidt, Ann Rutherford, Virginia Grey
Votes: 1,098
Red as the Fox Whoooooooo
26. Whispering Ghosts (1942)
Approved | 75 min | Comedy, Horror, Mystery
An actor who plays a detective on a radio show and his sidekick get it into their heads to try to solve a murder that had been committed several years previously.
Director: Alfred L. Werker | Stars: Milton Berle, Brenda Joyce, John Shelton, John Carradine
Votes: 207
27. Whistling in Dixie (1942)
Passed | 74 min | Comedy, Mystery, Crime
Radio sleuth Wally "The Fox" Benton forgoes his honeymoon to help his wife's old friend solve a murder and hunt for Civil War gold inside a spooky mansion and fort.
Director: S. Sylvan Simon | Stars: Red Skelton, Ann Rutherford, George Bancroft, Guy Kibbee
Votes: 708 | Gross: $0.22M
The Fox goes south
28. His Butler's Sister (1943)
Passed | 87 min | Comedy, Music
A young girl visits New York for two reasons: to see her half-brother, and to try to start a musical career.
Director: Frank Borzage | Stars: Deanna Durbin, Franchot Tone, Pat O'Brien, Akim Tamiroff
Votes: 557
29. The Big Broadcast of 1937 (1936)
Approved | 100 min | Comedy, Musical
The employees of a failing radio station must put on a huge ratings winner to have any chance of continued operation.
Director: Mitchell Leisen | Stars: Jack Benny, George Burns, Gracie Allen, Bob Burns
Votes: 389
Jack Benny
30. Artists and Models Abroad (1938)
Approved | 90 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Buck Boswell and his all-girl troupe are stranded in Paris, but Buck manages to con the manager of the 'Hotel de Navarre' in furnishing accommodations for his group, but the proprietor's ... See full summary »
Director: Mitchell Leisen | Stars: Jack Benny, Joan Bennett, Mary Boland, Charley Grapewin
Votes: 142
Jack Benny
31. Buck Benny Rides Again (1940)
Passed | 84 min | Adventure, Comedy, Music
Jack Benny (as himself) tries to make good his fictitious boasts about roughing it in Nevada, in a spoof of Western cliches.
Director: Mark Sandrich | Stars: Jack Benny, Ellen Drew, Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson, Andy Devine
Votes: 370
The best Jack Benny movie ever
32. George Washington Slept Here (1942)
Approved | 93 min | Comedy
When Bill and Connie Fuller are forced to move out of their Manhattan apartment because of their pet dog, Connie purchases a dilapidated old Pennsylvania house where George Washington allegedly slept, and persuades Bill to renovate it.
Director: William Keighley | Stars: Jack Benny, Ann Sheridan, Charles Coburn, Percy Kilbride
Votes: 1,956 | Gross: $0.66M
Jack Benny
33. The Meanest Man in the World (1943)
Approved | 57 min | Comedy
A compassionate lawyer pretends to be heartless in order to boost his clientele, but it jeopardizes his romantic life.
Directors: Sidney Lanfield, Ernst Lubitsch | Stars: Jack Benny, Priscilla Lane, Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson, Edmund Gwenn
Votes: 352
Jack Benny and Rochester
34. Hold That Ghost (1941)
Passed | 86 min | Comedy, Crime, Horror
After inheriting a fortune from a gangster, two dim-witted service station attendants find themselves stranded in a haunted house.
Director: Arthur Lubin | Stars: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Richard Carlson, Joan Davis
Votes: 4,268
35. Pardon My Sarong (1942)
Passed | 84 min | Comedy
A pair of bus drivers accidentally steal their own bus. With the company issuing a warrant for their arrest, they tag along with a playboy on a boat trip that finds them on a tropical island, where a jewel thief has sinister plans for them.
Director: Erle C. Kenton | Stars: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Virginia Bruce, Robert Paige
Votes: 2,405
36. Ride 'Em Cowboy (1942)
Approved | 82 min | Comedy, Drama, Western
Two peanut vendors at a traveling rodeo show get in trouble with their boss and hide out on a railroad train heading west. They get jobs as cowboys on a dude ranch, despite the fact that ... See full summary »
Director: Arthur Lubin | Stars: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Dick Foran, Anne Gwynne
Votes: 1,736
37. Who Done It? (1942)
Passed | 77 min | Comedy, Mystery
Two dumb soda jerks dream of writing radio mysteries. When they try to pitch an idea at a radio station, they end up in the middle of a real murder after the station owner is killed during a broadcast.
Director: Erle C. Kenton | Stars: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Patric Knowles, William Gargan
Votes: 2,708
Watts Volts
38. Bud Abbott Lou Costello Meet the Killer Boris Karloff (1949)
Passed | 84 min | Comedy, Crime, Horror
Two employees of a secluded hotel investigate a murder on the premises in which the goofy bellboy is the prime suspect.
Director: Charles Barton | Stars: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Boris Karloff, Lenore Aubert
Votes: 4,230
Film noir
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