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‘SHE WAS KIDNAPPED RIGHT UNDER THE EYES OF HER HUSBAND AND THEN THE FUN STARTED.’ Director Gilbert Miller’s 1933 black and white British film The Lady Is Willing is based on a play by Louis […]
Director Gordon Parry’s 1954 British black and white comedy Fast and Loose is a rather slow and flabby remake of 1933’s A Cuckoo in the Nest about a newly married husband (Brian Reece) having to […]
The venerable, funny Ben Travers farce play Banana Ridge about the shenanigans on a Malayan rubber plantation becomes an actorish, theatrical film in Walter C Mycroft’s 1942 British black and white comedy Banana Ridge. But […]
The swift moving odd-couple (well odd-triple) 1989 slapstick comedy Three Fugitives is slickly directed by Francis Veber, who also writes the screenplay and bases it on his 1986 French farce film Les Fugitifs (with Gérard […]
Director Bud Yorkin’s 1970 film Start the Revolution Without Me stars Gene Wilder and Donald Sutherland, who are hilarious in this funny crazy comedy about mistaken identity involving a couple of pairs of identical twins […]
Director Michael Gordon’s 1965 romantic comedy A Very Special Favor stars Charles Boyer as smooth and mature Frenchman Michel Boullard, who, for scant plot reasons, asks a wealthy American oilman called Paul Chadwick (Rock Hudson) if […]
Director Al Christie’s 1930 Charley’s Aunt is the first sound version of the venerable Brandon Thomas cross dressing comedy farcical play, with an engaging, very entertaining star performance by Charles Ruggles. But it is a […]