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Road to Bali
Road to Bali (1952) is a Paramount musical comedy directed by Hal Walker, the sixth of seven Road to... films and the only one in Technicolor, starring Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, and Dorothy Lamour as vaudevillians diving for treasure; it fell into the public domain after a failed copyright renewal.
Road to Singapore
Road to Singapore (1940) is a Paramount comedy directed by Victor Schertzinger, the first of seven Road to films starring Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, and Dorothy Lamour, and the top-grossing film of 1940.
Road to Utopia
Road to Utopia (1946) is the fourth Road to... comedy from Paramount, directed by Hal Walker, starring Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, and Dorothy Lamour as Klondike gold rush vaudevillians; filmed 1943-44, released 1946, Oscar-nominated screenplay, narrated by Robert Benchley.
Shadow of the Thin Man
Shadow of the Thin Man (1941) is the fourth of six MGM Thin Man comedy-mysteries, directed by W. S. Van Dyke, starring William Powell and Myrna Loy as Nick and Nora Charles investigating a racetrack jockey murder in San Francisco.
Sissi – Fateful Years of an Empress
Sissi – Fateful Years of an Empress (Sissi – Schicksalsjahre einer Kaiserin, 1957) is Ernst Marischka's third Sissi film with Romy Schneider and Karlheinz Böhm, covering Elisabeth's Hungary years, illness, and Italian journey.
Sissi – The Young Empress
Sissi – The Young Empress (Sissi, die junge Kaiserin, 1956) is Ernst Marischka's second Sissi trilogy film, starring Romy Schneider as Empress Elisabeth adjusting to court life, Sophie's control, and the Hungarian coronation.
Song of the Thin Man
Song of the Thin Man (1947) is MGM's sixth and final Thin Man comedy-mystery, directed by Edward Buzzell, starring William Powell and Myrna Loy as Nick and Nora Charles solving a bandleader's murder on a gambling ship.
The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training
The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training (1977) is Paramount's first sequel to The Bad News Bears, directed by Michael Pressman, following the coachless Bears on an unsupervised road trip to an Astrodome exhibition game in Houston.
The Belles of St Trinian's
The Belles of St Trinian's (1954) is a British comedy directed by Frank Launder, based on Ronald Searle's cartoons, starring Alastair Sim in a dual drag role as headmistress Millicent Fritton and her bookmaker brother Clarence in a horse-racing kidnapping farce.
The Gendarme and the Extra-Terrestres
Le Gendarme et les extra-terrestres (The Gendarme and the Extra-Terrestres), 1979 French comedy by Jean Girault, fifth Gendarme film; Louis de Funès's Saint-Tropez gendarmes face oil-loving human-form aliens; 6.28 million French admissions.
The Love Bug
The Love Bug is Disney's 1968 live-action comedy directed by Robert Stevenson, starring Dean Jones as Jim Douglas and Herbie, a sentient 1963 pearl-white Volkswagen Beetle with racing number 53; it was among 1969's top-grossing films and launched the Herbie franchise.
The Olsen Gang's Last Trick
The Olsen Gang's Last Trick (Olsen-bandens sidste bedrifter, 1974) is the sixth Danish Olsen Gang comedy by Erik Balling: Egon opens a Swiss Franz Jäger safe for the Bedford diamonds, is cheated, takes revenge, and the gang finally succeeds and flies to Mallorca.
The Pink Panther Strikes Again
The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976) is Blake Edwards's fifth Pink Panther comedy, starring Peter Sellers as Inspector Clouseau, hunted by Herbert Lom's insane Dreyfus with a doomsday device; released December 15, 1976, Oscar-nominated song "Come to Me."
The Return of the Pink Panther
The Return of the Pink Panther (1975), Blake Edwards comedy starring Peter Sellers as Inspector Clouseau, with Christopher Plummer as Sir Charles Litton; fourth Pink Panther film, financed by Lew Grade, released 21 May 1975.
Trail of the Pink Panther
Trail of the Pink Panther (1982), Blake Edwards comedy assembled after Peter Sellers's death from unused Clouseau footage, with Joanna Lumley as reporter Marie Jouvet investigating the inspector's disappearance.