Comedy Movies
Road to Bali (1953)
Having to leave Melbourne in a hurry to avoid various marriage proposals, two song-and-dance men sign on for work as divers. This takes them to an idyllic island on the…
The Missing Mouse (1953)
A moment after a bottle of white shoe polish pours on Jerry, Tom hears on the radio that a white mouse, having swallowed an explosive, has escaped from an experimental…
I Love Lucy: The Movie (1953)
The film plays out, with three first-season episodes edited together into a single story: “The Benefit”, “Breaking the Lease”, and “The Ballet”, with new footage included between episodes to help…
There Was a Young Lady (1953)
A super-efficient secretary circumvents the schemes of smash-and grab gangsters.
Off Limits (1952)
Wally Hogan has things going his way. He is the manager-trainer of Bullet Bradley, a fighter who has just won the lightweight championship. However, life suddenly takes a not-so-happy turn…
Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd (1952)
Two hapless waiters in a tavern on the Spanish Main play cupid between aristocratic Lady Jane and tavern co-worker Bruce Martindale, but the two bumpkins mix-up a love letter with…
April in Paris (1952)
A series of misunderstandings leads to a chorus girl traveling to Paris to represent the American theater, where she falls in love with a befuddled bureaucrat.
Hans Christian Andersen (1952)
A small-town shoemaker with a knack for spinning yarns, Hans encounters happiness and heartbreak on his road to becoming a full-fledged writer.
Sky Full of Moon (1952)
A cowboy seeks fame and fortune in Las Vegas where he meets a girl working in a casino.
Folly to Be Wise (1952)
A newly-arrived army chaplain is put in charge of camp entertainment and has the idea of putting on a Brains Trust with local notables. Unfortunately for him, it emerges from…
Androcles and the Lion (1952)
George Bernard Shaw’s breezy, delightful dramatization of this classic fable—about a Christian slave who pulls a thorn from a lion’s paw and is spared from death in the Colosseum as…
Pluto’s Christmas Tree (1952)
Pluto comes bounding outside to help Mickey get a Christmas tree. Chip ‘n Dale see him and make fun of him, but the tree they take refuge in is the…
The Pickwick Papers (1952)
The Pickwick Club sends Mr. Pickwick and a group of friends to travel across England and to report back on the interesting things they find…
Miss Robin Hood (1952)
In this delightful fantasy adventure, a mild-mannered writer of adventure stories for girls finds himself presented with an intriguing proposition from an elderly fan. She suggests that they conspire to…
Made in Heaven (1952)
Residents of the small English village of Dunmow react in comical ways when the Topham family hires a beautiful and young Hungarian maid.
Cruise Cat (1952)
Tom is the official cat on the cruise ship S.S. Aloha, but he’ll be kicked off if the captain finds even one mouse. That one, of course, is Jerry, who…
Trick or Treat (1952)
When the nephews come to Donald’s house in their Halloween costumes he dumps water on them and laughs at his trick. A witch sees this and decides to help the…
Because You’re Mine (1952)
A famous opera singer falls for his sergeant’s sister at boot camp.
Love’s a Luxury (1952)
A theatre producer and actor try in vain to have a quiet week in a country cottage. But their efforts turn into comic disaster as a variety of wives, girlfriends…
Something for the Birds (1952)
A conservationist fights to save the habitat of the California condor and to do it she works her way into the affections of a representative of the oil company that…
The Crimson Pirate (1952)
Burt Lancaster plays a pirate with a taste for intrigue and acrobatics who involves himself in the goings on of a revolution in the Caribbean in the late 1700s. A…
Just for You (1952)
Jordan Blake (a widower) is a successful Broadway Producer who has always been to busy for his children, Barbara and Jerry. Girlfriend, Carolina a musical comedy star, urges Jordan to…
Feudin’ Fools (1952)
Sach learns that he has inherited a farm in rural hillbilly country, and when he and the Boys arrive there, they find themselves mixed up with a hillbilly clan named…
Pluto’s Party (1952)
It’s Pluto’s birthday party, but Mickey’s dozen or so nephews seem to be having all the fun. Their present is a wagon so Pluto can pull them; the “Pin the…
Monkey Business (1952)
Research chemist Barnaby Fulton works on a fountain of youth pill for a chemical company. One of the labs chimps gets loose in the laboratory and mixes chemicals, but then…
What Price Glory (1952)
Two military men, Captain Flagg and Sergeant Quirt, who are rivals to begin with, grow more at odds with each other when Quirt is made Flagg’s top sergeant. And when…
Fearless Fagan (1952)
A young man brings his pet lion with him when he’s drafted into the U.S. Army.
Father’s Doing Fine (1952)
Lady Buckering, an English widow, has four daughters; Doreen, married to Dougall and about to give birth at home, and Gerda, Bicky and Catherine. The story revolves around the impending…
Lost in Alaska (1952)
After two volunteer firemen rescue a gold prospector from suicide, they discover that the police mistakenly want them for murder.
O. Henry’s Full House (1952)
Five O. Henry stories, each separate. The primary one from the critics’ acclaim was “The Cop and the Anthem”. Soapy tells fellow bum Horace that he is going to get…
Fit to Be Tied (1952)
Jerry removes a tack from Spike’s paw. In gratitude, Spike gives Jerry a bell to ring when he’s in trouble.
Dreamboat (1952)
Thornton Sayre, a respected college professor – secretly formerly a silent films romantic action hero – is disturbed, feeling his privacy has been violated, and his professional credibility as a…
The Quiet Man (1952)
An American man returns to the village of his birth in Ireland, where he finds love and conflict.
The Story of Will Rogers (1952)
Biography of humorist and movie star Will Rogers
Son of Paleface (1952)
Peter Potter Jr. returns to claim his father’s gold, which is nowhere to be found.
We’re Not Married! (1952)
A Justice of the Peace performed weddings a few days before his license was valid. A few years later five couples learn they have never been legally married.