Musical - English

Cast: Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney, Vera-Ellen, Dean Jagger, Al Bain, Mary Wickes, John Brascia, Ann Whitfield, Leon Alton, Barrie Chase, Joe Ploski, Bess Flowers Director: Michael Curtiz Synopsis: After World War II, song and dance men Bob Wallace and Phil Davis, form a successful partnership eventually becoming top Broadway producers. Bob agrees to take in a nightclub act by the Haynes sisters, Betty and Judy, as a favor, so he thinks, for their brother who served with Bob and Phil in the war. Phil has always been trying to get Bob interested in a girl, usually one in the show but when he realizes that Bob is smitten with Betty, he arranges to accompany them to their show at a small Vermont Inn. Imagine their surprise when they learn that their old commanding officer, Major General Tom Waverley, is the owner. He's sunk his savings and his pension into the venture but it has yet to snow and it looks like he's on the verge of bankruptcy. They come up with a plan to help the General out but a series of misunderstandings leads to a rift between Bob and Betty leaving it Phil and Judy to try and get them back together.

Cast: Bing Crosby, Fred Astaire, Marjorie Reynolds, Virginia Dale, Walter Abel, Louise Beavers, Irving Bacon, Marek Windheim, James Bell, John Gallaudet, Shelby Bacon, Joan Arnold Director: Mark Sandrich Synopsis: Lovely Linda Mason has crooner Jim Hardy head over heels, but suave stepper Ted Hanover wants her for his new dance partner after femme fatale Lila Dixon gives him the brush. Jim's supper club, Holiday Inn, is the setting for the chase by Hanover and manager Danny Reed. The music's the thing.

Cast: John Cleese, Michael Palin, Terry Jones, Terry Gilliam, Graham Chapman, Eric Idle, Carol Cleveland, Simon Jones, Patricia Quinn, Judy Loe, Andrew MacLachlan, Matt Frewer, Valerie Whittington Director: Terry Jones, Terry Gilliam Synopsis: Why are we here, what's it all about? The Monty Python-team is trying to sort out the most important question on Earth: what is the meaning of life? They do so by exploring the various stages of life, starting with birth. A doctor seems more interested in his equipment than in delivering the baby or caring for the mother, a Roman Catholic couple have quite a lot of children because 'every sperm is sacred'. In the growing and learning part of life, catholic schoolboys attend a rather strange church service and ditto sex education lesson. Onto war, where an officer's plan to attack is thwarted by his underlings wanting to celebrate his birthday and an officer's leg is bitten off by presumably an African tiger. At middle age a couple orders 'philosophy' at a restaurant, after which the film continues with live organ transplants. The autumn years are played in a restaurant, which, after being treated to the song 'Isn't It Awfully Nice to Have a Penis?' by an entertainer.

Cast: Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx, Zeppo Marx, Margaret Dumont, Louis Calhern, Raquel Torres, Edgar Kennedy, Dennis O'Keefe Director: Leo McCarey Synopsis: The small state of Freedonia is in a financial mess, borrowing a huge sum of cash from wealthy widow Mrs. Teasdale. She insists on replacing the current president with crazy Rufus T. Firefly and mayhem erupts. To make matters worse, the neighboring state sends inept spies Chicolini and Pinky to obtain top secret information, creating even more chaos!

Cast: Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx, John Carroll, Diana Lewis, Tully Marshall, Robert Barrat Director: Edward Buzzell Synopsis: The Marx Brothers head west to seek their fortune. There they acquire a worthless mine, but the land is highly coveted by a railroad company... Another hilarious comedy from the Marx Brothers with unforgettable gags, including the delirious opening scene of mutual deception at the station.

Cast: Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx, Marilyn Monroe, Melville Cooper, Ilona Massey, Vera-Ellen, Marion Hutton, Raymond Burr, Eric Blore Director: David Miller Synopsis: Clumsy detective Sam Grunion is tasked with recovering a valuable diamond necklace that has been stolen. While searching for the jewel, Sam encounters a host of curious characters, particularly a group of aspiring actors who are about to perform in a musical called “Love Happy.”

Cast: Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx, Douglass Dumbrille, Margaret Dumont, Virginia O'Brien, Anna Demetrio, Henry Armetta, William Tannen, Virginia Grey, Tony Martin, Paul Stanton, Russell Hicks, Marion Martin, Bradley Page Director: Charles Reisner Synopsis: Groucho, Harpo and Chico turn a big department store upside down as New York detectives trying to foil the hostile takeover the store and prevent a murder. Pretty late in the day for the Marxes - but still lost of fun watching the Brothers turn the emporium into their own private playground. This was the final film in which Groucho and Margaret DuMont appear together.

Cast: Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx, Zeppo Marx, Thelma Todd, David Landau, Robert Greig, Nat Pendleton, Reginald Barlow Director: Norman Z. McLeod Synopsis: Professor Quincy Adams Wagstaff is hired as the new president of Huxley College. In order to beat Darwin, their rival school, in a football game, Wagstaff hires two ringers. However, Darwin has beaten him to the punch, and Wagstaff hires the wrong men: Baravelli and Pinky. Desperate, Wagstaff has Baravelli and Pinky kidnap the real players.

Cast: Albert Finney, Alec Guinness, Edith Evans, Kenneth More, Michael Medwin, Michael Medwin, Laurence Naismith, David Collings, Anton Rodgers, Suzanne Neve Director: Ronald Neame Synopsis: In 1860, the stingy and cranky Ebenezer Scrooge that hates Christmas; loathes people and defends the decrease of the surplus of poor population runs his bank exploiting his employee Bob Cratchit and clients, giving a bitter treatment to his own nephew and acquaintances. However, in the Christmas Eve, he is visited by the doomed ghost of his former partner Jacob Marley that tells him that three spirits would visit him that night. The first one, the spirit of past Christmas, recalls his miserable youth when he lost his only love due to his greed; the spirit of the present Christmas shows him the poor situation of Bob's family and how joyful life may be; and the spirit of future Christmas shows his fate. Scrooge finds that life is good and time is too short and suddenly you are not there anymore, changing his behavior toward Christmas, Bob, his nephew and people in general.

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.