Comedy Movies
Blue Murder at St. Trinian’s (1957)
With their headmistress under lock and key in her majesty’s prison, the St Trinian’s girls find themselves under the protection of the army. However, when the sixth form take a…
April Love (1957)
A teenager, recently in trouble with the police, is sent to live with his aunt and uncle on their Kentucky farm in order to rediscover life’s values.
Lazzarella (1957)
Don’t Go Near the Water (1957)
Madison Avenue-trained Navy men handle public relations on a South Pacific island during World War II.
The Mischief Makers (1957)
Show Biz Bugs (1957)
Bugs and Daffy are vaudevillians competing for praise from the audience. They love Bugs no matter what; just the opposite for Daffy.
Pal Joey (1957)
An opportunistic singer woos a wealthy widow to boost his career.
The Invisible Boy (1957)
A supercomputer plans world domination with the help of Robby the Robot and a 10 year old boy, who is the son of the computer’s inventor.
My Man Godfrey (1957)
The eccentric Bullock household again need a new butler. Daughter Irene encounters bedraggled Godfrey Godfrey at the docks and, fancying him and noticing his obviously good manners, gets him the…
Les Girls (1957)
After writing a tell-all book about her days in the dance troupe “Barry Nichols and Les Girls”, Sybil Wren is sued for libeling her fellow dancer Angele. A Rashômon style…
The Truth About Women (1957)
A man recalls his relationships with the women he loved as he tries to help another man try to understand them as well.
Temptation (1957)
Lucky Jim (1957)
Jim Dixon feels anything but lucky. At the university he has to do the bidding of absent-minded and boring Professor Welch to have any hope of keeping his job. Worse,…
A King in New York (1957)
A recently-deposed “Estrovian” monarch seeks shelter in New York City, where he becomes an accidental television celebrity. Later, he’s wrongly accused of being a Communist and gets caught up in…
The Pajama Game (1957)
An Iowa pajama factory worker falls in love with an affable superintendent who had been hired by the factory’s boss to help oppose the workers’ demand for a pay raise.
Miracles of Thursday (1957)
Operation Mad Ball (1957)
In this wacky military spoof, Lemmon plays a terminally bored Army private waging a war of wits as he tries to throw a party under the nose of his obnoxious…
The Rising of the Moon (1957)
Desk Set (1957)
A computer expert tries to prove his electronic brain can replace a television network’s research staff.
Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (1957)
To save his career, an ad man wants a sex symbol to endorse a lipstick but in exchange, she wants him to pretend to be her lover.
The Teahouse of the August Moon (1957)
In post-WWII Japan, an American captain is brought in to help build a school, but the locals want a teahouse instead.
Silk Stockings (1957)
After three bumbling Soviet agents fail in their mission to retrieve a straying Soviet composer from Paris, the beautiful, ultra-serious Ninotchka is sent to complete their mission and to retrieve…
Scat Cats (1957)
Spike’s owner is going out of town and leaves Spike and Tyke in charge.
The Happy Road (1957)
Spree Lunch (1957)
Popeye opens a diner; Bluto pulls one up right across the street. Wimpy comes along, and they compete for his business. The competition escalates, until finally they are throwing things…
Tammy and the Bachelor (1957)
An unsophisticated young woman from the Mississippi swamps falls in love with an unconventional southern gentleman.
The Prince and the Showgirl (1957)
An American showgirl becomes entangled in political intrigue when the Prince Regent of a foreign country attempts to seduce her.
The Admirable Crichton (1957)
Lord Loam has modern ideas about his household, he believes in treating his servants as his equals – at least sometimes. His butler, Crichton, still believes that members of the…
Second Fiddle (1957)
Deborah and Charles, young executives at the thriving Pontifex Advertising Agency, are very much in love. Deborah is recognised by her employers as the most brilliant TV executive in the…
The Delicate Delinquent (1957)
Sidney Pythias is a bumbling janitor picked up by cop Mike Damon as a teenage gang member worth saving from delinquency. With Damon’s help, Sidney works his way through the…
Spook Chasers (1957)
Sach and the gang (Bowery Boys) find stashed cash in an old farmhouse apparently haunted.
Invasion of the Saucer-Men (1957)
Aliens equipped with venomous claws invade a small town, but the town’s teenage population is mobilized to fight the menace.
Love in the Afternoon (1957)
Lovestruck conservatory student Ariane pretends to be just as much a cosmopolitan lover as the worldly mature Frank Flannagan hoping that l’amour will take hold.
A Toothful Smile (1957)
Designing Woman (1957)
A sportswriter who marries a fashion designer discovers that their mutual interests are few, although each has an intriguing past which makes the other jealous.
This Could Be the Night (1957)
To earn extra money, a prim schoolteacher takes a second job as secretary to the uncouth owner of a boisterous nightclub.
The Smallest Show on Earth (1957)
Jean and Bill are a married couple trying to scrape a living. Out of the blue they receive a telegram informing them Bill’s long-lost uncle has died and left them…