Artists and Models Abroad 1938  N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: Mitchell Leisen
Cast: Jack Benny, Joan Bennett, Mary Boland, Charley Grapewin, Joyce Compton, Yacht Club Boys, Fritz Feld, Monty Woolley, G.P. Huntley
In this second of Jack Benny "Artists and Models" musicals, a musical company is stranded in Paris, but the boss (Benny) knows how to bail them out. Light and entertaining, even today.
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 At the Circus 1939  N/R, 87 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Edward Buzzell
Cast: Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx, Margaret Dumont, Kenny Baker, Florence Rice, Eve Arden, Nat Pendleton, Fritz Feld, James Burke
The Marx Brothers step in to save the circus and encounter a myriad of zany characters (Eve Arden is the Human Fly and Margaret Dumont is shot from a cannon) in the process. One highlight of the film is Groucho's rendition of "Lydia the Tattooed Lady."
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Barfly 1987 R, 100 min.
Genre: Drama / Comedy / Romance
Director: Barbet Schroeder
Cast: Mickey Rourke, Faye Dunaway, Alice Krige, J.C. Quinn, Frank Stallone, Jack Nance, Joe Unger, Sandy Martin, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Fritz Feld, Roberta Bassin, Gloria LeRoy, Harry Cohn, Gary Cervantes, Rik Colitti
This is the story of alcoholic writer Henry Chinasky (Mickey Rourke) who hangs around in a neighborhood bar where barfly Willa (Faye Dunaway) works. Willa also drinks too much and is thought to be more than a little bit crazy. Henry and Faye set off on a weird relationship involving irrational behavior, and Henry moves in with her. Later, book publisher Tully Sorenson (Alice Krige) becomes interested in Henry and wants to publish his writings. As she tries to help Henry out of his drinking problems, they end up in bed together. A cat fight at the bar between Wanda and Fay ends with Henry toasting the patrons with a drink. Written by Charles Bukowski and based on his own experiences.
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 Bringing Up Baby 1938  N/R, 102 min.
Genre: Comedy / Romance
Director: Howard Hawks
Cast: Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, Charles Ruggles, May Robson, Barry Fitzgerald, Walter Catlett, Fritz Feld, George Irving, Tala Birell, Virginia Walker, John Kelly, Leona Roberts, Ward Bond, Jack Carson
This is the movie classic in which Katharine Hepburn plays socialite Susan Vance who is raising a pet leopard, "Baby." Cary Grant takes on the role of a perfect foil as paleontologist David Huxley who is already engaged to be married to Miss Swallow (Virginia Walker), but he finds himself joining Susan in a hunt for the missing "Baby" and a priceless dinosaur bone–and, along the way, falling in love with Susan. A classy, hilarious comedy that remains timeless.
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Come Live with Me 1941  N/R, 85 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Clarence Brown
Cast: James Stewart, Hedy Lamarr, Ian Hunter, Verree Teasdale, Donald Meek, Edward Ashley, Barton MacLane, Ann Codee, Si Jenks, Fritz Feld, Greta Meyer
When an Australian, Johnny Jones (Hedy Lamarr), is in danger of being deported, an American, Bill Smith (James Stewart), marries her, and then the fun begins.
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The Comic 1969 N/R, 94 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Carl Reiner
Cast: Dick Van Dyke, Michele Lee, Mickey Rooney, Cornel Wilde, Nina Wayne, Carl Reiner, Steve Allen, Jay Novello, Fritz Feld, Jerome Cowan
Dick Van Dyke is Billy Bright, a silent movie star, who is not such a great man in real life. Now he has fallen on hard times, and his acting is limited to performing in commercials. Good job by Dick Van Dyke.
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The Errand Boy 1961 N/R, 92 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Jerry Lewis
Cast: Jerry Lewis, Brian Donlevy, Howard McNear, Dick Wesson, Renee Taylor, Kathleen Freeman, Isobel Elsom, Sig Ruman, Doodles Weaver, Fritz Feld
Errand boy Marty S. Tashman (Jerry Lewis) works at a film studio that will never be the same after he "helps out."
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Everything Happens at Night 1939 N/R, 76 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Irving Cummings
Cast: Sonja Henie, Ray Milland, Robert Cummings, Maurice Moscovitch, Alan Dinehart, Fritz Feld, Jody Gilbert, Leonid Kinskey, Victor Varconi, William Edmunds
Two reporters, Geoffrey Thompson (Ray Milland) and Ken Morgan (Robert Cummings), try to find a missing Nobel Prize winner, and both fall in love with the man's daughter, Louise (Sonja Henie).
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The Golem 1920 N/R, 80 min.
Genre: Fantasy / Horror
Director: Carl Boese, Paul Wegener
Cast: Paul Wegener, Albert Steinrueck, Lyda Salmonova, Hans Sturm, Ernst Deutsch, Fritz Feld, Max Kronert, Otto Gebuhr, Dore Paetzold, Lothar Muthel
Set in the 16th century, this is the story of an animated clay giant–a Golem–used to protect Jews. When the Golem goes berserk, terror strikes at the villagers' hearts.
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The Great Lover 1949 N/R, 80 min.
Genre: Comedy / Romance / Musical / Thriller
Director: Alexander Hall
Cast: Bob Hope, Rhonda Fleming, Roland Young, Roland Culver, George Reeves, Jim Backus, Richard Lyon, Gary Gray, Sig Arno, Jerry Hunter, Jack Benny, Paul Bryar, Fritz Feld, Norman Leavitt
Freddie Hunter (Bob Hope) chaperones a group of Boy Scouts on an ocean liner traveling to Europe. En route, they run smack into a series of adventures when they face gambler C. J. Dabney (Roland Young) who is also a murderer.
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 Hello, Dolly! 1969 G, 129 min.
Genre: Family / Musica / Comedy / Romancel
Director: Gene Kelly
Cast: Barbra Streisand, Walter Matthau, Michael Crawford, Louis Armstrong, E.J. Peaker, Marianne McAndrew, Fritz Feld, Richard Collier, J. Pat O'Malley, Danny Lockin, Joyce Ames, Tommy Tune, Judy Knaiz, David Hurst, Richard Monahan
In this musical version of "The Matchmaker," Dolly (Barbra Streisand) works to unite young couples. She is hired by "half-a-millionaire" Horace Vandergelder (Walter Matthau) to find him a mate. Dolly is interested in Horace for herself, yet she goes through the superficial motions of finding him a bride. Complications ensue, but, by story's end, Dolly and Horace will live happily ever after. Three Academy Awards were won and four other nominations were received, including Best Picture.
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Herbie Goes Bananas 1980  G, 100 min.
Genre: Family / Adventure / Comedy / Fantasy
Director: Vincent McEveety
Cast: Cloris Leachman, Harvey Korman, Charles Martin Smith, Stephen W. Burns, John Vernon, Richard Jaeckel, Alex Rocco, Fritz Feld, Elyssa Davalos, Joaquin Garay III, Vito Scotti, Ruben Moreno, Tina Menard, Jorge Morena, Allan Hunt
The "Love Bug"–the intelligent Volkswagen, Herbie–is back. Pete (Stephen W.Burns) has inherited Herbie, and he and his friend D.J. (Charles Martin Smith) take Herbie to Brazil for the Grand Primio race. Along the way, Herbie plays the matador in a bull ring, and more complications await as they encounter a smuggling ring. But, Herbie, of course, foils its plans to steal the gold.
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I Was an Adventuress 1940 N/R, 81 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Gregory Ratoff
Cast: Vera Zorina, Richard Greene, Erich von Stroheim, Peter Lorre, Sig Ruman, Fritz Feld, Cora Witherspoon, Anthony Kemble-Cooper, Paul Porcasi, Roger Imhof
Tanya (Vera Zorina) is a member of a team of con-artists/jewel thieves. She decides to go straight after she meets the love of her life (Richard Greene), though he thinks she is a countess. The other two team members (Erich von Stroheim and Peter Lorre) don't like that and decide to interfere. Stroheim and Lorre are a great pair.
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Idiot's Delight 1939 N/R, 100 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Clarence Brown
Cast: Norma Shearer, Clark Gable, Edward Arnold, Charles Coburn, Joseph Schildkraut, Burgess Meredith, Virginia Grey, Laura Hope Crews, Richard "Skeets" Gallagher, Fritz Feld
Set in the early days of World War II, this is the film adaptation of Robert E. Sherwood's play about vaudevillians Irene (Norma Shearer) and Harry (Clark Gable) who meet years after their brief affair when both are guests at a European hotel. Gable steals the show in his performance of "Puttin' on the Ritz."
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Juke Box Rhythm 1959  N/R, 82 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: Arthur Dreifuss
Cast: Jo Morrow, Jack(2) Jones, Brian Donlevy, George Jessel, Hans Conried, Karin Booth, Marjorie Reynolds, Frieda Inescort, Fritz Feld
Princess Ann (Jo Morrow) flies to New York City to purchase her coronation gown and meets pop singer Riff Manton (Jack Jones). Music abounds and the cast is good, but the plot is meaningless.
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Knickerbocker Holiday 1944 N/R, 85 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: Harry Joe Brown
Cast: Nelson Eddy, Charles Coburn, Constance Dowling, Shelley Winters, Ernest Cossart, Percy Kilbride, Otto Kruger, Chester Conklin, Fritz Feld
Relief from the pressures of politicians is what singing newspaper publisher Brom Broeck (Nelson Eddy) wants in this period film that features Charles Coburn as Peter Stuyvesant. The classic song, "September Song" was introduced in this musical.
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The Last Command 1928 N/R, 88 min.
Genre: Adventure / Drama
Director: Josef von Sternberg
Cast: Emil Jannings, Evelyn Brent, William Powell, Nicholas Soussanin, Michael Visaroff, Jack Raymond, Fritz Feld, Viatseslav Savitsky, Harry Semels, Alexander Ikonnikov, Nicholas Kobliansky
The first Academy Award for Best Actor was won by Emil Jannings for this film and "The Way of All Flesh." In "The Last Command" Jannings plays an ex-commander of defeated Russian Czar Nicholas' army who has immigrated to the United States where he works as an extra in Hollywood films.
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Little Old New York 1940 N/R, 99 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Henry King
Cast: Alice Faye, Fred MacMurray, Richard Greene, Brenda Joyce, Andy Devine, Henry Stephenson, Fritz Feld, Ward Bond, Roger Imhof, Clarence Wilson
This is the fictionalized biography of Robert Fulton (Richard Greene), inventor of the steam engine. This story involves his romance with Pat O'Day (Alice Faye).
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Mexican Hayride 1948 N/R, 77 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Charles Barton
Cast: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Virginia Grey, Luba Malina, John Hubbard, Pedro de Cordoba, Fritz Feld, Tom Powers, Chris-Pin Martin, Frank Fenton
Harry Lambert (Bud Abbott) helps Joe Bascom (Lou Costello) find a lost mine in Mexico and ends up in the middle of a con game. The bullfight scene in which Lou Costello becomes a participant is worth the price of admission.
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The Noose Hangs High 1948 N/R, 77 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Charles Barton
Cast: Lou Costello, Bud Abbott, Cathy Downs, Joseph Calleia, Leon Errol, Mike Mazurki, Jack Overman, Fritz Feld, Joe Kirk, Ben Welden
When Homer and Ted (Lou Costello and Bud Abbott) try to retrieve stolen money, they end up in the middle of a gambling syndicate's activities.
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 The Phantom of the Opera 1943 N/R, 92 min.
Genre: Drama / Horror / Thriller / Romance / Musical
Director: Arthur Lubin
Cast: Nelson Eddy, Susanna Foster, Claude Rains, Edgar Barrier, Leo Carrillo, Hume Cronyn, J. Edward Bromberg, Fritz Feld, Frank Puglia, Steven Geray, Jane Farrar, Barbara Everest, Fritz Leiber, Gladys Blake, Nicki Andre
This remake of the 1925 movie is the first talkie version of this story. Claude Rains does a good job as the masked Phantom who comes up from the sewers under the Paris Opera House to coach singer Christine (Susanna Foster). He terrorizes the singers and even drugs and strangles the lead singer (Jane Farrar) to ensure that Christine will be given the lead. When Christine fails to appear on the stage, the Phantom causes a giant chandelier to crash on the audience. Now, the Phantom kidnaps Christine who does manage to remove his mask. More terror ensues during the dark chase beneath the opera house to rescue Christine.
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Promises! Promises! 1963   N/R, 75 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama
aka: Promise Her Anything
Director: King Donovan
Cast: Jayne Mansfield, Marie McDonald, Tommy Noonan, Mickey Hargitay, Fritz Feld, T.C. Jones, Claude Stroud, Marjorie Bennett, Eddie Quillan, Victor Lundin, Eileen Barton, Patrick O'Moore
Wanting to conceive a baby, Sandy and Jeff Brooks (Jayne Mansfield and Tommy Noonan) set off on what they think will be a relaxing cruise. Their friends Claire and King Banner (Marie McDonald and Mickey Hargitay) join them, and drinks and revelry ensue resulting in both women becoming pregnant but not sure of who the fathers are. 1 User Review
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| | Mickey is still a stud | Candy Kane 01/28/2007 | | A slim story made watchable by the gorgeous stud Mickey Hargitay who lifts weights and takes his shirt off as well as his idiotic but busty wife Jayne Mansfield who takes EVERYTHING off in this film. I prefer Mickey's tits to Jayne's. |
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Riding Shotgun 1954 N/R, 74 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Andre De Toth
Cast: Randolph Scott, Wayne Morris, Joan Weldon, Joe Sawyer, James Millican, Charles Bronson, James Bell, Fritz Feld, Richard Garrick, Vic Perrin
Randolph Scott rides shotgun on a stagecoach and must clear his reputation after the bad guys accuse him of being a crook.
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Shut My Big Mouth 1942 N/R, 71 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Charles Barton
Cast: Joe E. Brown, Adele Mara, Victor Jory, Fritz Feld, Will Wright, Lloyd Bridges, Forrest Tucker, Pedro de Cordoba, Don Beddoe, Russell Simpson
Wellington Holmes (Joe E. Brown) leaves the city and heads to a frontier town where he ends up face-to-face with outlaws.
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Skylark 1941 N/R, 92 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Mark Sandrich
Cast: Claudette Colbert, Ray Milland, Brian Aherne, Binnie Barnes, Walter Abel, Grant Mitchell, Ernest Cossart, Mona Barrie, Fritz Feld, Irving Bacon
Lydia (Claudette Colbert) feels she has been neglected during her five years of marriage to businessman Tony Kenyon (Ray Milland) and is tempted into an affair with Tim Blake (Brian Aherne).
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The Sunshine Boys 1975  PG, 111 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Herbert Ross
Cast: Walter Matthau, George Burns, Richard Benjamin, Lee Meredith, Howard Hesseman, F. Murray Abraham, James Cranna, Ron Rifkin, Jennifer Lee, Fritz Feld
In this is a fine film adaptation of the Neil Simon Broadway hit, the story revolves around two feuding ex-vaudeville stars who try for a comeback through a television special. George Burns was awarded an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor, and Walter Matthau was nominated for Best Actor.
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Three on a Couch 1966  N/R, 109 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Jerry Lewis
Cast: Jerry Lewis, Janet Leigh, Mary Ann Mobley, Gila Golan, Leslie Parrish, James Best, Kathleen Freeman, Fritz Feld, Scatman Crothers, Renzo Cesana
Christopher Pride (Jerry Lewis) wants his fiancee, Dr. Elizabeth Acord (Janet Leigh), to join him on a trip to Paris; he steps in to solve her patients' problems, which will then clear up her time so she can spend time with him.
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True Confession 1937 N/R, 85 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Wesley Ruggles
Cast: Carole Lombard, Fred MacMurray, John Barrymore, Una Merkel, Porter Hall, Edgar Kennedy, Lynne Overman, Fritz Feld, Hattie McDaniel, Irving Bacon
After being accused of a murder she did not commit, Helen Bartlett (Carole Lombard) confesses, and her lawyer husband Kenneth (Fred MacMurray) defends her. The film was remade as "Cross My Heart."
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Victory 1940 N/R, 77 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: John Cromwell
Cast: Fredric March, Cedric Hardwicke, Betty Field, Jerome Cowan, Sig Ruman, Margaret Wycherly, Fritz Feld, Rafaela Ottiano, Lionel Royce, Chester Gan
A loner, Hendrik Heyst (Fredric March), finds his life on a small island is disrupted by the intrusion of unexpected "guests" in this film version of a Joseph Conrad tale.
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Who's Minding the Store? 1963 N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Frank Tashlin
Cast: Jerry Lewis, Jill St. John, Agnes Moorehead, John McGiver, Ray Walston, Francesca Bellini, Nancy Kulp, Mary Treen, Fritz Feld
Raymond Phiffier (Jerry Lewis) is a department store clerk who just cannot seem to get the hang of the retail business, but he does manage a romance with the store's owner.
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The World's Greatest Lover 1977 PG, 89 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Gene Wilder
Cast: Gene Wilder, Carol Kane, Dom DeLuise, Fritz Feld, Cousin Buddy, Hannah Dean, James Gleason, Danny DeVito, Lou Cutell, Candice Azzara
Written by, directed by, and starring Gene Wilder, this is the story of a Milwaukee baker who dreams of success as a heart-throb on the silver screen.
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| 1. Artists and Models Abroad (1938)
2. At the Circus (1939)
3. Barefoot in the Park (1967)
4. Barfly (1987)
5. Bringing Up Baby (1938)
6. Come Live with Me (1941)
7. The Comic (1969)
8. The Errand Boy (1961)
9. Everything Happens at Night (1939)
10. The Golem (1920)
11. The Great Lover (1949)
12. Hello, Dolly! (1969)
13. Herbie Goes Bananas (1980)
14. I Was an Adventuress (1940)
15. Idiot's Delight (1939)
16. Juke Box Rhythm (1959)
17. Knickerbocker Holiday (1944)
18. The Last Command (1928)
19. Little Old New York (1940)
20. Mexican Hayride (1948)
21. The Noose Hangs High (1948)
22. The Phantom of the Opera (1943)
23. Promises! Promises! (1963)
aka: Promise Her Anything
24. Riding Shotgun (1954)
25. Shut My Big Mouth (1942)
26. Skylark (1941)
27. The Sunshine Boys (1975)
28. Three on a Couch (1966)
29. True Confession (1937)
30. Victory (1940)
31. Who's Minding the Store? (1963)
32. The World's Greatest Lover (1977)
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