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Comedy
The business cycle in Sweden is booming. Hapless Stig-Helmer Olsson (Lasse Åberg) is laid off from a toaster factory and gets an offer to play a one-on-one golf competition against a wealthy man for money, something he has never done before. He travels to Scotland to learn to play golf, taking lessons by the skilled golf veteran Roderic McDougall (Jimmy Logan).
Comedy
Arthur Ashton (a parody of Arthur Askey) is a makeup man working for National Television (a parody of the BBC). During a visit to the local launderette, he meets Sid Gibson, a shady pedlar who is trying to flog Bonko, a brand of washing powder in the shape of a pill. The man cannot afford to advertise on TV, but wishes to do so.
Comedy
Local scientist Dr. Hugo Robbin dies. Curley and his "gang" happen to have been key witnesses to several of the events, and the children's testimonies are told in flashback during the court case.
stand-up comedy
Comedy
Commander Anthony Kent of the Royal Navy and his wife May have three children, ranging from five to eleven years: Peter, Anne and Fusty. Kent comes home after three years abroad with no idea how to handle the children. When Mary has to fly to Canada, Peter takes his children to his father's new country home, which turns out to be a windmill.
Comedy drama, romantic comedy
Drue Van Allen, the daughter of an American general, is in love with communist graduate student Leonard Arner. When Leonard is ejected from a college campus for speaking to the students, a newspaper photographer takes a picture of him in Drue's car and prints it on the front page. When Drue ignores her father’s advice, he tricks her into boarding an airplane bound for Mexico, supposedly to see her aunt Betty off, then locks her in.
Christmas film, Family Comedy, fantasy film
A greedy workaholic father with little time for his family discovers the meaning of Christmas when he is whisked off to the North Pole by an enterprising elf named Lillith.
Comedy
When open auditions are announced for a radio variety program, the local station is besieged by aggressively over-coached "professional kids." Also auditioning is the International Silver String Submarine Band—which turns out to be the gang, equipped (or rather, armed) with home-made instruments. They suffer through an endless parade of cute kiddie troupers, and accidentally knock over the microphone several times, which inadvertently blows tubes and bulbs in the control room, causing the hat worn by the sound man, played by vaudevillian Sid Walker, to be literally blown off his head, and making his hair stand on end. The gang then steal…
Comedy
Ma and Pa Boyer work a small farm in Iowa, where they live with their daughter, Adie. Adie is dating her high school sweetheart, Davy Davenport. Ma thinks that Adie is pretty enough to be in the movies, and convinces Pa to sell the farm and move the family to Hollywood.
Comedy, stand-up comedy
Comedy
Youngsters Wheezer and Dorothy live with their wicked stepmother (Blanche Payson) and her bratty son Sherwood – whom they derisively call "Spud". Their father seems to be long gone, though Wheezer tearfully observes that since he said he'd come back for them, "I know he will". The two-tier class system among the people in the house is reflected by its canine residents: Spud's posh police dog Nero is described by mom as "a pedigreed animal" and has the run of the house, while Wheezer's dog Pete "is nothing but an alley dog" and is banned from entry.
Comedy
Slip loses job after job due to his quick temper, much to the distress of his sister, Mary. Slip applies for a job with Herbert Sayers, Mary's boss. Slip is sure that he will be an executive but he is ordered to work shovelling dirt on a construction site.
Comedy drama, silent film
Ruth stars in the film, playing himself, but the details of his life are completely fictionalized. In the film, Ruth comes from a small country town and has a loving home life, but in real life, he grew up in Baltimore, Maryland, and spent most of his childhood in a reformatory. In the film, shades of the 1984 baseball movie The Natural, Ruth cuts down a tree to make his own bat.
Comedy drama
A new dress plays a key role in the lives of four women who are not acquainted with each other. A daring strapless design, "Nude at Midnight," is unveiled in Paris to the delight of socialite Gogo Montaine, who wants to dazzle the Maharajah of Kim-Kepore, her escort that night. She charges its $900 cost to a former lover, Louis-Jean, who turns up later and refuses to pay.
Comedy
Upon awakening one auspicious morning, the Stooges find themselves joyously anticipating their impending nuptials. Following a hearty breakfast, they embark upon the task of tidying their abode, inadvertently wreaking havoc in the process. Their attempts at reupholstering a Davenport sofa result in a series of mishaps, culminating in Moe being on the receiving end of several unfortunate incidents.
mystery film
Private investigator Lance O'Leary suffers a nervous breakdown from being unable to solve a case and his doctor has him hospitalized for rest. It just happens to be the same place where his lady friend, Sara Keate, is the head nurse. The first night there a murder takes place as wealthy Mr.
musical film, propaganda film
In the Second World War, the undersized Arthur joins the army to prove himself to his girlfriend Susan, who is in the same unit as him. Here, his idealistic notions about King Arthur prompt his messmates to trick him into believing that a sword they have dug up is the fabled Excalibur. Armed with this talisman, Arthur strides forth to deal with the Wehrmacht.
musical film, romantic comedy
Two people get jobs anonymously at a jazz club without telling their upper-class families.
Comedy
Comedy
Denny Lindsay, a radio man, brings back a singer, Carmelita Fuenes, from Mexico.
Adventure, Comedy, Secret Agent
Comedy
Comedy
David Webb is a mild-mannered British planning engineer sent across the Atlantic by his firm to negotiate a deal, a task for which he feels hugely out of his depth. However, a friendly barman, with the aid of a special cocktail, convinces Webb that his personality changes during the hour when the clocks on the ship are stopped as it enters a new time zone.
Christmas film, Comedy
The movie follows the Fletcher family, specifically perfume executive Maya (Caroline Rhea) and her equally busy husband Jack (Barclay Hope). Both of them are busy dealing with the stress of their demanding jobs as well as with the effect that a recent move for Maya's career has had on their children. In order to impress both her boss and a potential new client, Maya agrees to host a Christmas party at her new home.