It could be argued that Dick Van Dyke was the most gifted comic actor of the 1960s. Combining the natural likeability of Jack Lemmon, the
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The boutique video label ClassicFlix has undertaken an ambitious multi-volume project to scan and restore all of the sound-era Our Gang comedies produced at Hal
Few movie comedians have had as consistent a run of quality comedies as Bob Hope. After finding his “wisecracking brave coward” character in his breakout
Both W.C. Fields and Mae West are more or less unknown to younger audiences. From the 1980s onward, their films did not get much broadcast
For most kids who grew up in the Sixties and Seventies, The Little Rascals was a staple of their television diet. However, few of those
Alastair Sim was one of the greatest character actors in the history of British cinema, but he is largely unknown in the United States. If
When most people think of Euro-Westerns, the theme song from The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1967) pops in their heads, because both the
Last year, the Warner Archive Collection released a Blu-ray of the new restoration of Michael Curtiz’s two-strip Technicolor horror Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933).
For as far back as I can remember, The Producers (1967) has always been one of my favorite films. I originally saw Mel Brooks’ first
A Pain in the Ass (L’Emmerdeur, 1973) is a comedy that succeeds by playing it totally straight. The film really contains no “jokes,” and the
On March 2nd, Kino Lorber Studio Classics will continue their fantastic string of Blu-ray releases of classic Bob Hope comedies with three of the comedian’s
On March 2nd, Kino Lorber Studio Classics will continue their fantastic string of Blu-ray releases of classic Bob Hope comedies with three of the comedian’s
