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A genuinely funny book is one of life's simplest pleasures, but finding the real stand-outs is never as easy.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 73 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
In this classic screwball comedy, newspaperman Frederic March makes a national heroine of a smalltown bumpkin (Carole Lombard) diagnosed with a fatal illness ... but her doctor's assessment turns out to be wrong.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2000.
Edition
Full screen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (118 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An easy-going drama critic discovers that his kind and gentle Aunts Abby and Martha have a bizarre habit of poisoning gentlemen callers and burying them in the cellar.
3) Time bandits
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Language
English
Description
A troupe of tiny bandits, challenged with the task of patching up the handiwork of a Supreme Being who was forced into creating the world in only 6 days, instead steal the priceless map of the universe. Accompanied by an English school boy (Warnock), they are swept away on a whirlwind adventure through time and space, encountering bizarre incarnations of Napoelon (Holm), Robinhood (Cleese), Agamemnon (Connery), and others.
Series
Criterion collection volume 901
Language
English
Description
"With this furiously witty comedy of manners, Katharine Hepburn revitalized her career and cemented her status as the era's most iconic leading lady--thanks in great part to her own shrewd orchestrations. While starring in the Philip Barry stage play The Philadelphia Story, Hepburn acquired the screen rights, handpicking her friend George Cukor to direct. The intoxicating screenplay by Donald Ogden Stewart pits the formidable Philadelphia socialite...
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
Fullscreen version.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 323 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Comedy meets horror when the screen's funniest duo, Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, encounter Universal's classic monsters ..."--Container.
Publisher
RKO
Pub. Date
1938.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (80 min.) : sound, b/w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Madcap heiress and debutante pals solve a murder mystery in spite of disappearing corpses, official disbelief and a newspaperman who claims it is just another of the "mad Miss Manton's" silly hoaxes. In the end, the heiress and the newspaperman fall in love.
Publisher
Columbia Tristar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003.
Edition
Full screen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD)(118 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A fugitive, falsely accused of murder, is aided by a schoolteacher and a Supreme Court nominee in George Stevens' comic look at law and justice in America.
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
It's two weddings and somebody's funeral when a pair of just-married couples discovers that both parties have booked the same reception hall on the same day at the same time. In this delightful screwball comedy, the bride and the groom are falling in love. Which is great, except that they've just tied the knot with someone else.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Language
English
Formats
Description
NASCAR sensation Ricky Bobby is a racing hero because of his "win at all costs" approach. He and his loyal racing partner, childhood friend Cal Naughton Jr., are a fearless duo. Dubbed "Shake" and "Bake" by their fans, the two have the ability to finish so many races in the #1 and #2 positions, with Cal always in second place. When flamboyant French Formula One driver Jean Girard challenges Ricky and Cal for the supremacy of NASCAR, Ricky must face...
11) Bringing up Baby
Series
Criterion collection volume 1085
Language
English
Description
"Screwball sparks fly when Cary Grant and Katherine Hepburn let loose in one of the fastest and funniest films ever made--a high-wire act of invention that took American screen comedy to new heights of absurdity. Hoping to procure a million-dollar investment from a wealthy society matron for his museum, a hapless paleontologist (Grant) finds himself entangled with a dizzy heiress (Hepburn) as the manic misadventures pile up--a missing dinosaur bone,...
12) Be kind rewind
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Two local outcasts attempt to save a local video store. Amateur film director Mike must find a way to save the business after his magnetized friend, Jerry, erases every movie in the store. Using an outdated video camera and their own special effects, the two embark on an adventure to remake all the movies, from "Ghostbusters" to "Driving Miss Daisy," turning the two town misfits into local celebrities.
Series
Language
English
Description
Wallace Ritchie, an American vacationer in London, doesn't know that the bullets are real and the truth serum true. He thinks the intrigue erupting around him is part of an audience-participation theater event. Yet the world's fate depends on this gullible goofus who can't even spell CIA.
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
"Those aren't pillows!" ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (92 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An uptight businessman faces disaster after disaster as he tries to get back home in time for his family's Thanksgiving dinner, and along the way is joined by an insane traveling salesman that will not leave him alone.
16) The awful truth
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Edition
Full screen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 91 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A separated couple sabotages each other's love affairs while waiting for their divorce decree to become final.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. Inc
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (94 min.) : sound, black and wither ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"The town of Lynnfield is up in arms over the local newspaper running excerpts of a scandalous new novel by Caroline Adams, The Sinner. What they do not know is that Caroline Adams is indeed a local girl"--Warner Archive Collection website.
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
2003.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 126 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Comedy about the Sycamores, an eccentric family of free spirits, and the problems that arises when Alice, the one stable member, falls for her boss's son.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 91 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Paul Blart is a mild-mannered, dutiful family man who works as a security guard in a New Jersey mall. He has applied to become a cop for years, but he always fails the physical exam because he is overweight. One day, a gang of organized criminals put the mall under siege and take hostages. Blart becomes trapped inside and because of his sense of duty refuses to leave. He becomes the police department's eyes on the inside and attempts to stop the criminals...
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