College (1927), The Sin of Harold Diddlebock (1947), Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948), Carry on Spying (1964), The Party (1968), The Circus (1928), The Cameraman (1928), Safety Last! (1923) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Physical Comedy movies.
Storyline: To impress his sweetheart (Anne Cornwall), a bookworm (Buster Keaton) goes out for baseball and crew.
Plot Keywords: comedy, silent film, campus, sports, youth, slapstick, american film ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: After being fired from his office job, Harold Diddlebock (Harold Lloyd) gets drunk, goes on a wild binge, and buys a near-bankrupt circus.
Plot Keywords: comedy, slapstick, classic, black and white, american film, 1940s, sequel ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In the first of Bud Abbott and Lou Costello's horror vehicles for Universal Pictures, the inimitable comic duo star as railway baggage handlers in northern Florida. When a pair of crates belonging to a house of horrors museum are mishandled by Wilbur (Lou Costello), the museum's director, Mr. MacDougal (Frank Ferguson), demands that they deliver them personally so that they can be inspected for insurance purposes, but Lou's friend Chick (Bud Abbott) has grave suspicions.
Plot Keywords: comedy, horror, classic, black and white, monsters, humor, buddy ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A British spy (Kenneth Williams) and his pupils are sent to recover a secret formula stolen by an agent of STENCH.
Plot Keywords: comedy, spy, british, humorous, franchise, black and white, 1960s ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: While trying to tie his shoe, bumbling extra Hrundi V. Bakshi (Peter Sellers) unwittingly triggers explosives that destroy the set of an epic war film. The furious director tells executive Fred Clutterbuck (J. Edward McKinley) to fire him. Because of a misunderstanding, Bakshi instead mistakenly receives an invitation to an exclusive party at Clutterbuck's Hollywood mansion, where he proceeds to wreak havoc on partygoers as he stumbles through what will become the wildest night he's ever seen.
Plot Keywords: comedy, satire, british film, black and white, 1960s, absurd, social satire ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The Tramp finds himself at a circus where he is promptly chased around by the police who think he is a pickpocket. Running into the Bigtop, he is an accidental sensation with his hilarious efforts to elude the police. The circus owner immediately hires him, but discovers that the Tramp cannot be funny on purpose, so he takes advantage of the situation by making the Tramp a janitor who just happens to always be in the Bigtop at showtime. Unaware of this exploitation, the Tramp falls for the owner's lovely acrobatic stepdaughter, who is abused by her father. His chances seem good, until a dashing rival comes in and Charlie feels he has to compete with him.
Plot Keywords: silent film, comedy, circus, romance, adventure, classic, black and white ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: After becoming infatuated with a pretty office worker for MGM Newsreels, Buster trades in his tintype operation for a movie camera and sets out to impress the girl (and MGM) with his work.—tvman@earthlink.net
Plot Keywords: silent film, comedy, black and white, classic film, american film, 1920s, romantic comedy ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In 1922, the country boy Harold says goodbye to his mother and his girlfriend Mildred in the train station and leaves Great Bend expecting to be successful in the big city. Harold promises to Mildred to get married with her as soon as he "make good". Harold shares a room with his friend "Limpy" Bill and he finally gets a job as salesman in the De Vore Department Store. However, he pawns Bill's phonograph, buys a lavaliere and writes to Mildred telling that he is a manager of De Vore. One day, Harold sees an old friend from Great Bend that is a policeman and when he meets his friend Bill, he asks Bill to push the policeman over him and make him fall down. However Bill pushes the wrong policeman that chases him, but he escapes climbing up a building. Out of the blue, Mildred is convinced by her mother to visit Harold without previous notice and he pretends to be the manager of De Vore. When Harold overhears the general manager telling that he would give one thousand dollars to to anyone...
Plot Keywords: silent film, comedy, romance, adventure, action, classic, american film ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Rival newsmen (Clark Gable, Franchot Tone) and an American heiress (Joan Crawford) get mixed up with spies in Europe.
Plot Keywords: romance, comedy, chase, adventure, romantic comedy, classic, 1930s ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: This anthology, compiled by Robert Youngson, presents a series of silent short films from the 1920s starring the celebrated comedy duo of Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy. In these early collaborations, Hardy plays an uncle embarrassed by the kilt of his Scottish nephew (Stan Laurel), and later the duo portrays a pair of inept butlers at a socialite's lavish dinner. The collection also features films by lesser-known silent comedians including Charley Chase and Max Davidson.
Plot Keywords: comedy, classic, silent film, slapstick, nostalgia, black and white, humor ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Financial broker Jimmie Shannon is nearly bankrupt when an attorney presents grandfather's will leaving him seven million dollars. In order to inherit the money Jimmie must marry before 7 pm on his 27th birthday - today!—Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu>
Plot Keywords: comedy, silent film, black and white, romance, marriage, inheritance, time pressure ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Following through on a promise to his mother, William Canning Jr. goes to River Junction to meet his father who has not seen him since he was a child. The younger Canning isn't quite what the elder was expecting but the old man has bigger problems. He's being put out of business by J.J. King, who not only owns the local hotel and bank, but has recently introduced a new paddle wheel steamer that puts Cannings older boat, the Stonewall Jackson, to shame. Bill Jr. and Kitty King take a liking to each other much to the dismay of both of their fathers. When a fierce storm hits River Junction, Bill Jr. is forced to save Kitty, her father and his father.
Plot Keywords: silent film, comedy, 1920s, american film, black and white, classic film, adventure ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Sam Bisbee (W.C. Fields) is an eccentric optometrist who moonlights as an amateur inventor. Unfortunately his inventions are largely useless and have, along with his own various gaffes, made him the laughingstock of the town. Only his daughter Pauline (Joan Marsh) has any confidence in him. When Bisbee's one shot at fame ends up backfiring spectacularly, it takes the fortuitous intervention of a princess (Adrienne Ames) to set things right and show the world that Sam Bisbee means business.
Plot Keywords: comedy, humor, 1930s, american film, black and white film, classic, family entertainment ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Rollo decides to marry his sweetheart Betsy and sail to Honolulu. When she rejects him he decides to go alone but boards the wrong ship, the "Navigator" owned by Betsy's father. Unaware of this, Betsy boards the ship to look for her father. whom spies capture before cutting the ship loose. It drifts out to sea with the two socialites each unaware of there being anyone else on board.—Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu>
Plot Keywords: silent film, comedy, adventure, black and white, 1920s, nautical, classic film ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Two researchers have come to San Francisco to compete for a research grant in Music. One seems a bit distracted, and that was before he meets her. A strange woman seems to have devoted her life to confusing and embarassing him. At the same time a woman has her jewels stolen and a government whistle blower arrives with his stolen top secret papers. All, of course have the same style and color overnight bag.
Plot Keywords: comedy, romance, farce, barbra streisand, 1970s, american film, misunderstanding ...
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