Showing posts with label Comedy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Comedy. Show all posts

Friday, December 23, 2011

Muscle Beach Party (1964)




Muscle Beach Party is a 1964 beach party film about Local beach-goers who find that their beach has been taken over by a businessman training a stable of body builders.


Directed by: William Asher

Starring: Frankie Avalon, Annette Funicello

Distributed by: American International Pictures




Sunday, June 19, 2011

Spring Break (1983)

Spring Break is a 1983 comedy film about two sets of two college guys spending a spring break together in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. There they have lots of fun in and out of the sun.

Directed by: Sean S. Cunningham
Starring: David Knell, Steve Bassett, Perry Lang
Distributed by: Columbia Pictures





Saturday, June 18, 2011

Liquid Sky (1982)

Liquid Sky is a 1982 independant American film.
Invisible aliens in a tiny flying saucer come to Earth looking for heroin. They land on top of a New York apartment inhabited by a drug dealer and her female, androgynous, bisexual nymphomaniac lover, a fashion model. The aliens soon find the human pheromones created in the brain during orgasm preferable to heroin, and the model's casual sex partners begin to disappear. This increasingly bizarre scenario is observed by a lonely woman in the building across the street, a German scientist who is following the aliens, and an equally androgynous, drug-addicted male model.


Directed by: Slava Tsukerman
Starring: Anne Carlisle, Paula E. Sheppard
Distributed by: Cinevista, Media Home Entertainment






Tuesday, May 31, 2011

Just One of The Guys (1985)


Just One of the Guys is a 1985 comedy film.
Terry is determined to win a school writing contest to prove that a pretty girl can be capable and intelligent. In order to be taken seriously, she dresses as a boy and tries to blend in at a new school until the contest results are announced.

Directed by: Lisa Gottlieb
Starring: Joyce Hyser, Clayton Rohner, Billy Jayne
Distributed by: Columbia Pictures





Sunday, May 22, 2011

My Tutor (1983)

My Tutor is a 1983 comedy. The film details high school graduates' attempts to lose their virginity during the summer vacation before leaving to college, and one's eventual relationship with his female French tutor hired by his rich father.


Directed by: George Bowers
Starring: Caren Kaye, Matt Lattanzi
Distributed by: Crown International Pictures


Charade (1963)



Charade is a 1963 American film. It spans three genres: suspense thriller, romance, and comedy.
Romance and suspense in Paris, as a woman is pursued by several men who want a fortune her murdered husband had stolen. Who can she trust?


Directed by: Stanley Donen
Starring: Cary Grant, Audrey Hepburn, James Coburn
Distributed by: Universal Pictures




Saturday, May 21, 2011

Operation Petticoat (1959)

Operation Petticoat is a 1959 comedy film which tells in flashback form the misadventures of a fictional American submarine, the USS Sea Tiger, during the opening days of World War II.

Directed by: Blake Edwards
Starring: Cary Grant, Tony Curtis, Dina Merrill
Distributed by: Universal International




Friday, May 6, 2011

Fraternity Vacation (1985)

Fraternity Vacation is a 1985 low-budget American sex comedy. On spring break in Palm Springs California, several boys compete for the affections of a sophisticated co-ed.



Directed by: James Frawley
Starring: Stephen Geoffreys,Tim Robbins, Leigh McCloskey, Sheree J. Wilson
Distributed by: New World Pictures










Sunday, April 3, 2011

The Girl Can't Help It (1956)


The Girl Can't Help it is a 1956 comedy musical film about a gangster who hires down-and-out press agent to make his blonde bimbo girlfriend a singing star.
The movie was originally intended as a Hollywood screen-vehicle for the American sex symbol Jayne Mansfield, with the subplot being a satire of teenagers and their rock'n'roll music.


The movie features cameo performances of early rock'n'roll stars such as Little Richard, Eddie Cochran and Gene Vincent and his Blue Caps.


Directed by: Frank Tashlin
Starring: Tom Ewell, Jayne Mansfield, Edmond O'Brien
Distributed by: Twentieth Century Fox



Sunday, March 27, 2011

Van Nuys Blvd (1979)


Van Nuys Blvd is a 1979 comedy about a small-town boy who hears about the wild nights of cruising Van Nuys Boulevard in California. He drives out there to check it out, and gets involved with drag racers, topless dancers and bikers.

Van Nuys Boulevard is a major north-south arterial road that runs through the central San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles County, California.

Directed by: William Sachs
Starring: Cynthia Wood (1974 Playboy playmate of the Year), Bill Adler, Dennis Bowen, Melissa Prophet
Distributed by: Crown International Pictures.



Saturday, March 26, 2011

Hardbodies (1984)





Hardbodies is a 1984 comedy film about three middle-aged men who hire a younger man to help them pick up women at the beach.


Directed by: Mark Griffiths
Starring: Grant Cramer, Teal Roberts, Courtney Gains, Gary Wood
Distributed by: Columbia Pictures



Sunday, March 13, 2011

The Toxic Avenger (1984)



The Toxic Avenger is an American cult classic comedy horror film first released in 1984 by Troma Entertainment, known for producing low budget B-movies with campy concepts.

Directed by: Lloyd Kaufmann , Michael Herz.
Starring: Mitch Cohen, Mark Torgl, Andree Maranda, Pat Ryan Jr.
Distributed by: Troma Entertainment