Comedy

Cast: Marilyn Monroe, Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis, George Raft, Pat O'Brien, Nehemiah Persoff, Joe E. Brown, Joan Shawlee, Billy Gray, George E. Stone, Mike Mazurki, Dave Barry, Harry Wilson, Beverly Wills, Edward G. Robinson Jr., Barbara Drew Director: Billy Wilder Synopsis: Prohibition Era (1920-1933). Joe and Jerry are two struggling musicians forced to flee after witnessing a gangland shootout. Unable to find work and pursued by the mob, they decide to dress as women and play in an all-female orchestra. Joe (Curtis), in order to win over Sugar Kane (Monroe), the group's singer, pretends to be an impotent tycoon; meanwhile, Jerry (Lemmon) is courted by a millionaire who wants to marry him.

Cast: Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx, Zeppo Marx, Ruth Hall, Thelma Todd, Harry Woods, Rockcliffe Fellowes, Tom Kennedy, Evelyn Pierce Director: Norman Z. McLeod Synopsis: Mientras se ocultan de las autoridades en un lujoso trasantlántico, los hermanos Marx se convierten en guardaespaldas de dos gángsteres rivales y, como siempre, provocan situaciones caóticas y delirantes.

Cast: Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx, Zeppo Marx, Lillian Roth, Margaret Dumont, Louis Sorin, Hal Thompson, Margaret Irving Director: Victor Heerman Synopsis: Captain Spaulding, the noted explorer, returns from Africa and attends a gala party held by Mrs. Rittenhouse. A painting displayed at that party is stolen, and the Marxes help recover it. Well, maybe 'help' isn't quite the word I was looking for--this is the Marx Brothers, after all.

Cast: Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx, Zeppo Marx, Cyril Ring, Margaret Dumont, Kay Francis, Oscar Shaw, Mary Eaton, Basil Ruysdael Director: Joseph Santley, Robert Florey Synopsis: Mr. Hammer runs a bankrupt Florida hotel. He'll try anything to make money, even make love to rich Mrs. Potter. But his main scheme, selling real estate, is in danger of sabotage from zanies Chico and Harpo, who also reduce the schemes of a pair of jewel thieves to chaos. A subplot involves the star-crossed love of Polly Potter and architect Bob Adams.

Cast: Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Boris Karloff, Joyce Jameson, Joe E. Brown, Alan DeWitt, Buddy Mason, Linda Rogers, Luree Holmes, Paul Barselou, Beverly Powers, Basil Rathbone, Douglas Williams Director: Jacques Tourneur Synopsis: Alcoholic, wife-beater Waldo Trumbull has run the funeral business he inherited from his father-in-law into the ground. His landlord John F. Black demands a year's unpaid rent or else he will foreclose. And so Trumbull and his assistant Felix Gillie decide to resort to murder in order to drum up some business. But when the wife of their first victim leaves town without paying their bill, they decide they can kill two birds with one stone by making Black their next victim.

Cast: Vincent Price, Boris Karloff, Peter Lorre, Hazel Court, Olive Sturgess, Jack Nicholson, Connie Wallace, Williams Baskin, Aaron Saxon Director: Roger Corman Synopsis: Dr. Craven is the son of a great sorcerer (now dead) who was once himself quite skilled at that profession, but has since abandoned it. One evening, a cowardly fool of a magician named Bedlo comes to Craven for help - the evil Scarabus has turned him into a raven and he needs someone to change him back. He also tells the reluctant wizard that Craven's long-lost wife Lenore, whom he loved greatly and thought dead, is living with the despised Scarabus.

Cast: Dick Miller, Barboura Morris, Antony Carbone, John Brinkley, Julian Burton, Ed Nelson, Bert Convy, John Herman Shaner, Judy Bamber, Myrtle Vail Director: Roger Corman Synopsis: Walter Paisley, nerdy busboy at a Bohemian café, is jealous of the talent (and popularity) of its various artistic regulars. But after accidentally killing his landlady's cat and covering the body in plaster to hide the evidence, he is acclaimed as a brilliant sculptor - but his new-found friends want to see more of his work. Lacking any artistic talent whatsoever, Walter has to resort to similar methods to produce new work, and soon people start mysteriously disappearing.

Cast: Carole Lombard, Robert Montgomery, Gene Raymond, Jack Carson, Philip Merivale, Lucile Watson, William Tracy, Charles Halton, Esther Dale, Emma Dunn, Betty Compson, Patricia Farr, William Edmunds Director: Alfred Hitchcock Synopsis: Sophisticated New York couple David and Annie Smith have an unusual marriage with an inordinate number of rules and regulations. One rule entitles them to ask each other one question per month which the other must answer completely honestly. Annie asks David if he would marry her again if he could have the time over again and David confides that he misses his freedom and so probably wouldn't. Later that day, an official from the town where they got married calls to see David. He explains that owing to a state boundary dispute, all couples married between 1936 and 1939 in the county were not legally married. David decides to have fun with this fact, but unbeknown to him, the county official calls to see Annie too and disaster results.

Cast: Jonathan Haze, Mel Welles, Jackie Joseph, Dick Miller, Myrtle Vail, Leola Wendorff, Jack Nicholson, Tammy Windsor, Toby Michaels, Leola Wendorff, Lynn Storey Director: Roger Corman Synopsis: Seymour Krelboin (Jonathan Haze) is a young man who works in a flower store. He manages to create a carnivorous plant that feeds on human flesh. Nobody knows about it, so Seymour and the plant become good "friends". The plant needs food to grow up, so it convinces him to start killing people.

Cast: Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden, James Earl Jones, Keenan Wynn, Slim Pickens, Peter Bull, Tracy Reed, Jack Creley, Glenn Beck, Shane Rimmer, Paul Tamarin, Gordon Tanner, Robert O'Neil, Roy Stephens Director: Stanley Kubrick Synopsis: Convinced that the Russians have infiltrated America's "vital essence", the crazed Ripper gives the go code to the 843rd bomb wing to attack Russia, setting in motion a series of darkly hilarious vignettes involving gung-ho soldiers, wacky generals, spying Russians, drunken premiers, battles with soda machines, fights in the War Room, and the Russians' top-secret Doomsday Machine. The film has three main centers of action: one of the B-52 bombers, on which a group of loyal men know they are about to start World War III; Burpelson Air Force Base, where Group Captain Lionel Mandrake (Peter Sellers) is trying to convince everyone that Ripper has gone mad and the bombing must be stopped; and the War Room, where President Merkin Muffley (Sellers again) is trying to make peace with the Russians.