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The Graduate
The Graduate (1967), Mike Nichols's comedy-drama starring Dustin Hoffman, Anne Bancroft, and Katharine Ross, adapted from Charles Webb's 1963 novel; Embassy Pictures release that won Nichols the Best Director Oscar and entered the National Film Registry in 1996.
The Great Race
The Great Race (1965) is Blake Edwards' slapstick comedy starring Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, Natalie Wood, and Peter Falk in a 1908 New York-to-Paris auto race; 157 minutes, Oscar for Sound Effects, famous 2,500-pie fight honoring Laurel and Hardy.
The Honey Pot
The Honey Pot (1967) is Joseph L. Mankiewicz's comedy-mystery, also titled It Comes Up Murder, adapted from Ben Jonson's Volpone via Sterling and Knott, starring Rex Harrison, Susan Hayward, Cliff Robertson, and Maggie Smith.
The Incredible Mr. Limpet
The Incredible Mr. Limpet (1964) is a Warner Bros. live-action/animated comedy directed by Arthur Lubin, starring Don Knotts as a bookkeeper turned fish who helps the Navy sink U-boats; last work of the original WB animation studio.
The Italian Job
The Italian Job (1969) is a British crime caper directed by Peter Collinson, starring Michael Caine, Noël Coward, and Benny Hill, in which thieves steal Turin gold via a traffic jam and Mini Cooper getaway; remade in 2003 in Los Angeles.
The Jokers
The Jokers is a 1967 British comedy thriller, also known as Joker, directed by Michael Winner and written by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais, in which Michael Crawford and Oliver Reed play brothers who steal the Crown Jewels for fame, not money.
The Knack... and How to Get It
The Knack... and How to Get It (1965) is Richard Lester's black-and-white comedy, adapted by Charles Wood from Ann Jellicoe's play, about a shy London schoolteacher seeking seduction skills; it won Cannes' Grand Prix and six BAFTA nominations.
The Ladies Man (1961 film)
The Ladies Man is a 1961 Paramount comedy directed by and starring Jerry Lewis as Herbert H. Heebert, a houseboy in an all-female boarding house, filmed on a four-story cutaway dollhouse set with pioneering video assist.
The Libertine (1968 film)
The Libertine (La matriarca) is a 1968 Italian erotic comedy-drama by Pasquale Festa Campanile starring Catherine Spaak and Jean-Louis Trintignant, about a widow using her husband's secret love apartment; a 19th-place 1968 Italian box-office hit that faced censorship cuts.
The Milky Way
The Milky Way (La Voie lactée), Luis Buñuel's 1969 French-Italian surrealist film, follows two beggars pilgriming from Paris to Santiago de Compostela through episodes on six Catholic mysteries and their heresies; it won the 1969 Berlin Interfilm Award.
The Odd Couple (film)
The Odd Couple (1968) is Gene Saks' Paramount comedy adapted by Neil Simon from his 1965 Broadway play, starring Jack Lemmon as Felix Ungar and Walter Matthau as Oscar Madison, two divorced men sharing a New York apartment; a 1968 top-grossing hit with two Oscar nominations.
The Parent Trap (1961 film)
The Parent Trap (1961) is a Walt Disney comedy directed by David Swift, starring Hayley Mills as twin sisters Susan Evers and Sharon McKendrick who scheme to reunite divorced parents Maureen O'Hara and Brian Keith; remade in 1998 with Lindsay Lohan.
The Party (1968 film)
The Party (1968) is a Blake Edwards comedy starring Peter Sellers as Hrundi V. Bakshi, an Indian actor accidentally invited to a Hollywood party; his only non-Pink Panther film with Sellers, largely dialogue-free and an early video-assist production.
The Pornographers (エロ事師たち)
The Pornographers (「エロ事師たち」より 人類学入門) is Shōhei Imamura's 1966 black comedy, adapted from Akiyuki Nosaka's debut novel, about an Osaka 8mm pornographer supporting a makeshift family; Nikkatsu release, 128 minutes, Kinema Junpo Best Ten second place.
The Producers (1967 film)
The Producers (1967) is Mel Brooks's directorial debut comedy, starring Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder as producers overselling a surefire flop, Springtime for Hitler; it won the Best Original Screenplay Oscar and entered the National Film Registry in 1996.
The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming
The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming is Norman Jewison's 1966 Cold War comedy, adapted from Nathaniel Benchley's The Off-Islanders, about a grounded Soviet submarine off New England; it won two Golden Globes and earned four Oscar nominations.
The Thrill of It All (1963 film)
The Thrill of It All is a 1963 American comedy directed by Norman Jewison, starring Doris Day as a housewife who becomes a television soap advertiser.
The Ugly Dachshund
The Ugly Dachshund is a 1966 Walt Disney live-action comedy directed by Norman Tokar, starring Dean Jones and Suzanne Pleshette, about a Great Dane raised as a dachshund, based on G. B. Stern's 1938 novel.
The Wrong Arm of the Law
The Wrong Arm of the Law is a 1963 British comedy crime film directed by Cliff Owen, starring Peter Sellers as crime boss Pearly Gates, Lionel Jeffries, and Bernard Cribbins, about police and crooks uniting against impostor robbers.
Two for the Road (film)
Two for the Road is a 1967 Stanley Donen comedy-drama starring Audrey Hepburn and Albert Finney as a couple shown across five non-chronological French road trips, with music by Henry Mancini.
What's New Pussycat?
What's New Pussycat? (Quoi de neuf, Pussycat?) is a 1965 sex comedy directed by Clive Donner, written by and starring Woody Allen, with Peter O'Toole, Peter Sellers, and Romy Schneider; its Bacharach-David title song was a 1965 Tom Jones Top Ten hit.
Where the Boys Are
Where the Boys Are (1960) is an MGM comedy-drama directed by Henry Levin, adapted from Glendon Swarthout's novel, starring Dolores Hart, George Hamilton, Paula Prentiss, and Connie Francis, whose title song became a hit and which popularized Fort Lauderdale spring break.
With Six You Get Eggroll
With Six You Get Eggroll, 1968 Howard Morris comedy starring Doris Day and Brian Keith as widowed parents blending families; Day's final feature, Cinema Center Films' first production, and George Carlin's film debut.
Yours, Mine and Ours (1968 film)
Yours, Mine and Ours (1968) is a United Artists comedy-drama directed by Melville Shavelson, starring Lucille Ball and Henry Fonda as a widow of eight and widower of ten who marry, based on Helen Beardsley's book Who Gets the Drumstick?; a 1968 top-ten grosser remade in 2005.
Zazie in the Metro
Zazie dans le métro (Zazie in the Metro) is Louis Malle's 1960 French burlesque comedy adapting Raymond Queneau's 1959 novel, starring Catherine Demongeot and Philippe Noiret, a stylistically experimental Paris farce about a girl during a métro strike.