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Abbott and Costello in Hollywood (1945)

Director, S. Sylvan Simon. Cast: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Frances Rafferty, Robert Stanton, Jean Porter, Warner Anderson, "Rags" Ragland, Mike Mazurki. Bud and Lou turn Hollywood inside out with their pranks and comedy as they play the role of two barbers who want their own shop in Hollywood and try to raise money by becoming talent agents. 83 min. DVD 7449

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Adam's Rib (1949)

Director, George Cukor. Cast: Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Judy Holliday, Tom Ewell. A romantic comedy in which husband and wife are lawyers on opposite sides of an attempted murder case. 61 min. DVD 2320; vhs 999:100

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The Adventurer (Silent, 1917)

Directed by Charlie Chaplin. In "The Adventurer," Charlie is an escaped convict on the run who borrows a tuxedo and mingles with the rich at a posh party. 31 min. DVD 8; Video Disc 147

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Africa Screams (1949)

Directed by Charles Barton. Cast: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello. Starving cannibals, ferocious lions and awesome apes terrorize Abbott and Costello in this African adventure. 79 min. DVD 1299

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Airplane (1980)

Directed by David Zucker, Jim Abrahams, Jerry Zucker. Cast: Leslie Nielsen, Robert Hays, Robert Stack, Lloyd Bridges, Peter Graves. In this spoof of disaster movies, Ted Striker, an ex-Navy pilot, just got dumped by his long-time girlfriend Elaine Dickinson, who works as a stewardess. In his wish to get her back, he follows her aboard a plane, although he has had a deep aversion against anything winged since he lost several men in the war. During flight, he tries to make up with her again and again, but a crisis looms as the crew and many passengers get seriously ill due to a bad fish meal. Now, it is up to him to land the airplane safely, before the poisoning starts causing casualties. But Ted Striker's aversion to piloting is a serious psychosis, which needs to be cured--right now. 87 min. DVD 4976

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Amazing Grace (1974)

Directed by Stan Lathan. Cast: Moms Mabley, Slappy White, Moses Gunn, James Karen, George Lee Miles, Gary Bolling, Dolph Sweet, Jon Richards, Stepin Fetchit, Butterfly McQueen. A black pious church-going widow and grandmother takes over the political campaign of a neighbor running for mayor of Baltimore, transforming him from a white man's pawn into a serious challenger of Baltimore's blue-blood establishment. 97 min. DVD 3499

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American Pie (1999)

Directed by Paul Weitz. Cast: Jason Biggs, Shannon Elizabeth, Alyson Hannigan, Chris Klein, Natasha Lyonne, Thomas Ian Nicholas, Tara Reid, Seann W. Scott, Mena Suvari, Eddie Kaye Thomas, Eugene Levy. Takes a hysterical look at the hapless adventures of four "unlucky in love" high school friends as they gear up for the prom. 96 min. DVD 2259

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Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (1993)

Director, Adam McKay. Cast: Will Ferrell, Christina Applegate, Paul Rudd, Steve Carell, David Koechner, Chris Parnell, Kathryn Hahn, Fred Armisen, Fred Willard. It's the 70's and Ron Burgundy is the king of San Diego. He's the most popular news anchor in town. He and his all male news team rule the city with their sauve looks, minimal IQ's and unbelievably bad hair. In Ron's world, women don't belong in the newsroom. So when rising star reporter Veronica Corningstone fills in for Ron one night and the ratings soar, it becomes more than a battle ... it becomes war. Special features: Outrageous bloopers and outtakes; over 15 minutes of side-splitting deleted scenes; Bill Kurtis interviewing Ron Burgundy; Ron Burgundy Biography - an A & E special; Ron Burgundy's MTV Music Award interviews; "Afternoon delight" music video; behind-the-scenes of "Afternoon delight" music video; ESPN audition. 102 min. DVD 6444

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And God Spoke: The Making of ...a Documentary (1993)

Director, Arthur Borman. Cast: Michael Riley, Stephen Rappaport, Soupy Sales, Lou Ferrigno, Eve Plumb, Michael Medved, Andy Dick. A "mockumentary" about the making of a big budget Bible picture. Producer Steve Rappaport and director Michael Riley have been given carte blanche to make a multimillion-dollar epic based on the Old Testament. One day into production, they blow their budget and are forced to cut corners with a scythe and to scout around for cheap locations in the L.A. area, making do with whatever stars they can afford. 82 min. DVD 3181

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Animal Crackers (1930)

Directed by Victor Neerman. Cast: The 4 Marx Brothers, Lillian Roth, Margaret Dumont. In this classic comedy, Groucho Marx stars as the immortal Captain Spaulding. The plot concerns a stolen painting, with the zany Marx Brothers quartet swinging into action to solve the mystery. 98 min. DVD 5581; DVD 82; VHS 999:105

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(National Lampoon's) Animal House (1978)

Directed by John Landis. Cast: John Belushi, Donald Sutherland, Tim Matheson, John Vernon, Verna Bloom, Thomas Hulce, Cesare Danova, Peter Riegert, Karen Allen, Kevin Bacon. In this spoof of 1960's college life, members of the Delta fraternity offend the straight-arrow people on campus in a comedy which irreverently mocks college traditions. 109 min. DVD 1874

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Annie Hall (1977)

Directed by Woody Allen. Cast: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Tony Roberts, Carol Kane, Paul Simon. A romantic and sensitive comedy revolving around the diverse and diverting relationships of two nervous New Yorkers, Alvie Singer and Annie Hall. 99 min. DVD 56; VHS 999:263

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Another Fine Mess (1930)

Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy keep running away from trouble, but it keeps finding them. This time they hide in an abandoned mansion owned by a big-game hunter. Includes rare home movie footage and photographs of the boys at work and play collected and narrated by Stan's daughter, Lois Laurel. 28 min. 999:1309

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Anton der Zauberer (Anton, the Magician) (1978)

Directed by Gunter Reisch. In this East German comedy, Anton, a car mechanic, survives the war and rises in the world by his wits and by his cheerful disregard for the orthodox party line. He rips off others but eventually is tricked himself and loses his money in this flamboyant comedy revealing that the "planned" economy produced some unorthodox entrepreneurial methods. 101 min. 999:2548

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Anything Else (2003)

Directed by Woody Allen. Cast: Woody Allen, Jason Biggs, Stockard Channing, Danny Devito, Jimmy Fallon, Christina Ricci, Anthony Arkin, David Conrad, Adrian Grenier. When an aspiring young writer falls head-over-heels in love with a free-spirited, hard-to-please young woman, he soon discover's he is going to have to work doubly hard to make their love work. 108 min. DVD 4947

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Arbuckle & Keaton. Volume Two. (1918-1920)

Director, Roscoe Arbuckle. Cast: Buster Keaton, Roscoe Arbuckle, Al St. John. Back Stage (1919): This film contains many of the routines Buster used in the "Three Keatons" stage act, and can rightly be called the first Keaton directed film. Good Night Nurse (1918): Arbuckle's surrealistic nightmare where he escapes the operating table, runs away and inadvertently enters a "Great Heavyweight Race." Arbuckle also gives his best "in drag" performance, playing a flirting nurse to Keaton's doctor. Coney Island (1918): Presents Roscoe's nephew, Al St. John, who does a series of "tit-for-tats" with Arbuckle to win a girl, only to have her end up with Buster Keaton. The Rough House (1918): Contains Arbuckle's famous "roll dance," where at the breakfast table, he sticks two forks each into a separate roll and then uses them to do a parody of Charlie Chaplin's walk. Chaplin, appreciating the gag, later expanded on it for use in his film "The Gold Rush." Garage (1920): Presents Arbuckle and Keaton as a team who find various ways of destroying cars, how not to clean oil stains and how not to fight fires. Digitally remastered versions. 121 min. DVD 674

[Arbuckle & Keaton] The Best Arbuckle/Keaton Collection (1917-1919)

Written and directed by Roscoe Arbuckle. A collection of 12 two reeler films that Roscoe Arbuckle and Buster Keaton made for producer Joseph M. Schenck between 1917 and 1919. Presented chronologically to highlight the development and growth of the actors. Contents: Disc 1. The butcher boy (1917). The rough house (1917). His wedding night (1917). Oh, Doctor! (1917). Coney Island (1917). Out West (1918). The bell boy (1918). Moonshine (1918) -- Disc 2. Good night, Nurse (1918). Back stage (1919). The hayseed (1919). The garage (1919). Performer: Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, Buster Keaton, Al St. John, Alice Lake, Joe Keaton, John Coogan. 4 hrs, 8 min total running time. DVD 1722

The Aristocrats (2005)

Comedy veterans, Penn Jillette and Paul Provenza, use their insider status and invite over 100 of their closest friends to reminisce, analyze, deconstruct and deliver their own versions of the world's dirtiest joke. The joke is old burlesque and too extreme to be performed in public. It's called The Aristocrats. A film by Penn Jillette & Paul Provenza. 90 min. DVD 5078

Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)

Directed by Frank Capra. Cast: Cary Grant, Raymond Massey, Jack Carson, Peter Lorre, Priscilla Lane, Edward Everett Horton. 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. 120 min. DVD 2205 (b&w); vhs 999:747 (colorized)

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Assisted Living (2002)

Directed by Elliot Greenebaum. Cast: Michael Bonsignore, Maggie Wise Riley, Gail Benedict, Nanci Jo Boone, Clint Vaught, Jose Albovias, Elsie Albright, Malorie Boone. Todd is a pot-smoking janitor at a nursing home who takes pleasure in toying with the senile residents. But when one of the residents mistakes him for her son, he finds himself becoming emotionally attached to his work for the first time. Shot in an actual nursing home, using real residents as many of the actors with mixed footage from a documentary that was made at the facility, lends the film a realistic fly-on-the-wall quality. 75 min. DVD 5127

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Auf der Sonnenseite (On the Sunny Side) (East Germany, 1962)

Directed by Ralf Kirsten.A romantic comedy produced in East Germany about Martin, a steelworker and a poet who wants to become an actor. However, neither the drama school nor Martin's attractive boss is impressed with Martin's tough guy tricks. 97 min. 999:2559

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Auntie Mame (1958)

Directed by Morton DaCosta. Cast: Rosalind Russell, Forrest Tucker, Coral Browne, Fred Clark, Jan Handzlok, Roger Smith. In 1928, 10-year old impressionable Patrick Dennis is left in the care of his eccentric Auntie Mame when his millionarie father drops dead. Young Patrick is quickly indoctrinated into his aunt's philosophy that "Life is a banquet -- and most poor suckers are starving to death." Social-climbing executor Dwight Babcock does his best to raise Patrick as a stuffy American aristocrat, but Mame battles Babcock to allow the boy to be as free-spirited as she is. 143 min. DVD 4601

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Avanti! (1972)

Directed by Billy Wilder. Cast: Jack Lemmon, Juliet Mills, Clive Revill, Edward Andrews. A stuffy Baltimore millionaire falls in love with the daughter of his late father's mistress when he comes to Italy to claim the old man's body after he dies in an automobile accident. 144 min. DVD 1759

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Aventuras de Juan Quin Quin (Cuba, 1967)

Director/screenplay, Julio Garcia Espinosa. A peasant farmer becomes a soldier in the Cuban revolution in this offbeat adventure comedy. His healthy cynicism towards the police, wealthy landlords, and the government serves him well after he joins up with a female guerilla. He rises to become a lieutenant as he waits for the signal for the rebellion to begin. In Spanish, no subtitles. 110 min. 999:3034

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Les Aventures de Rabbi Jacob (The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob) (France / Italy, 1973)

Director, Gerard Oury. Cast: Louis De Funes, Marcel Dalio, Suzy Delair. Victor Pivert, a blustering, anti-Semitic French factory owner en route to his daughter's wedding, unwittingly stumbles on a group of Arab terrorists. After Victor is captured and escapes, he hides himself by dressing up as a rabbi, leading to one madcap situation after another. 100 min. DVD 2478

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The Awful Truth (1937)

Directed by Leo McCarey. Cast: Irene Dunne, Cary Grant, Ralph Bellamy. Comedy in which a divorcing couple do their best to spoil each other's plans for remarriage and eventually wind up reconciling. 91 min. DVD 6534; DVD 6635; vhs 999:41

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B.A.P.S (Black American Princesses) (1997)

Director, Robert Townsend. Cast: Halle Berry, Martin Landau, Ian Richardson, Natalie Desselle. Nesi and Mickey are two waitresses at a crossroads. Underpaid and unappreciated, they dream of owning a combination restaurant/hair salon. There's a problem: they're broke. So when the chance to audition as dance girls for a music video pops up, the girls head to L.A. They fail to get the part, but Nesi lands in the most improbable role of all, impersonating the granddaughter of an ailing billionaires long-lost love for $10,000 and full use of his Beverly Hills estate. 90 min. DVD 4208

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The Bachelor and the Bobby-soxer (1947)

Director, Irving Reis. Cast: Cary Grant, Shirley Temple, Myrna Loy, Rudy Vallee, Ray Collins, Harry Davenport. A playboy is sentenced to date a judge's teenage daughter as punishment for disturbing the peace. The judge hopes it will eradicate the girl's crush for the older man, but the judge's daughter and the playboy fall for each other. Special features: June 13, 1949 Lux Radio Theater Radio production starring Grant and Temple; cartoon Little Tinker; Cary Grant trailer gallery. 95 min. DVD 8218

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Ball of Fire (Silent, 1923)

Directed by Howard Hawks. Cast: Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Oscar Homolka, Dana Andrews, Dan Duryea, Henry Travers. When a serious-minded professor and his high brow colleagues begin work on a new encyclopedia, the professor enlists the aid of a beautiful but shady night club queen to explain slang, unaware that she is on the run from the mob. 22 min. 999:3279

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Balloonatic (Silent, 1923)

Directed by Buster Keaton and Eddie Cline. Cast: Keaton and Phyllis Haver. An afternoon at an amusement park provides a multitude of comic adventures for Buster Keaton, from a hair-raising hitchhike in a balloon to an accident-prone camping escapade. 22 min. DVD 293; Video Disc 117:2; 999:911; 999:908

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Bananas (1971)

Directed by Woody Allen. Cast: Woody Allen, Louise Lasser, Carlos Montalban. Absurd humor borders on insanity as a tester of strange gadgets quits his Manhattan job and flees to South America to eventually become leader of a rebel army in a mythical Latin American banana republic, San Marco. 83 min. DVD 224; VHS 999:937

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Bank Dick (1940)

Directed by Eddie Cline. Cast: W.C. Fields, Una Merkel, Cora Witherspoon, Franklin Pangborn, Shemp Howard, Grady Sulton. Egbert Souse accidently foils a bank robbery and is hired as a bank guard. 73 min. DVD 291; VHS 999:110

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Barbershop (2002)

Director, Tim Story. Cast: Ice Cube, Anthony Anderson, Sean Patrick Thomas, Eve, Troy Garity, Michael Ealy, Leonard Earl Howze, Keith David, Lahmard Tate, Cedric the Entertainer. Calvin never wanted to take over the family business, a barbershop on the south side of Chicago. One morning he decides to sell the shop to Lester. Calvin spends the day cutting heads at the shop, and starts to understand the importance of the legacy left to him. Calvin learns to appreciate his barber friends, and discovers that the place where they work is more than just a place to get a haircut. Calvin gradually changes his mind about selling the shop, but it may be too late. 102 min. DVD 1521

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Battling Butler (Silent, 1926)

Directed by Buster Keaton. To 'make a man' of Keaton, his father sends him on a hunting trip, where he falls in love with a mountain girl. When her family laugh at him, he says he is Alfred "Battling" Butler, the well-known championship fighter. 71 min. DVD 256; Video Disc 117:2

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[Hrishikesh Mukherjee's] Bawarchi (India, 1972)

Directed by Hrishikesh Mukherjee. Comedy about a disfunctional family whose lives are changed when they employ a cook with extraordinary capabilities. They cannot help wondering how a mere cook can sing, dance, write and recite poems, and even prescribe medicine to the ill. All of a sudden, the cook disappears and so do the valuables and the cash. Has he stolen it or ...? 125 min. DVD 1898

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Be Big! (1931)

Directed by James W. Horne. Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Anita Garvin, Isabelle Keith, Baldwin Cooke. The boys duck out on a vacation with their wives in order to attend a stag party at the lodge, but when the wives return home unexpectedly, they discover the deception and come after their husbands with shotguns. 28 min. DVD 6016

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Be Yourself! (1930)

Directed by Thornton Freeland. Cast: Fannie Brice, Robert Armstrong, Harry Green, Gertrude Astor, Marjorie Kane. A nightclub singer falls in love with a boxer and becomes his trainer. When he becomes successful, will it be the beginning or the end for this lovestruck pair? 66 min. DVD 8364

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The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend (1949)

Directed by Preston Sturges. Cast: Betty Grable, Cesar Romero, Rudy Vallee, Olga San Juan, Sterling Holloway, Hugh Herbert, El Rendel, Porter Hall, Pati Behrs. A wild musical six gun farce set in the old West about a hot-tempered saloon entertainer who's as quick with a pistol as she is to kick up her heels. When her boyfriend with a wandering eye, casts too many amourous glances in the wrong direction, she tries to gun the varmint down, only to wind up running from the law and getting caught in the middle of a mining town feud. 77 min. 999:3137

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Bedazzled (UK, 1967)

Directed by Stanley Donen. Cast: Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Eleanor Bron, Raquel Welch, Michael Bates. A short-order cook is hopelessly in love with a waitress who barely knows he's alive. Enter the Devil, who grants him seven wishes in order to win her over, but his efforts are hampered by the Seven Deadly sins including the insatiable Lillian Lust! Special features: Peter and Dud: an interview with the devil ; Peter Cook and Dudley Moore on the Paul Ryan show ; a "Bedazzled" conversation with Harold Ramis ; original theatrical trailer ; still gallery. 104 min. DVD 7840

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Beetlejuice (1988)

Directed by Tim Burton. Cast: Michael Keaton, Alec Baldwin, Geena Davis, Jeffrey Jones, Catherine O'Hara, Winona Ryder. A couple of likable ghosts contact the afterlife's bio-exorcist to rid their home of a trendy New York family that moves in. 92 min. DVD 3998

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Behind the Screen (Silent, 1916)

Directed by Charlie Chaplin. Cast: Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Albert Austin, Henry Bergman, Lloyd Bacon, Charlotte Mineau. Three movies are being shot simultaneously and Charlie is an overworked scene shifter. The foreman is waited on hand and foot until all the shifters but Charlie go on strike. A girl looking for work pretends to be a man and helps Charlie. Charlie discovers her gender and falls in love with her. The foreman thinks they are homosexual and in the ensuing fight they become involved in a long pie throwing scene from one of the movies in production. The frustrated workers dynamite the studio. A satire of life at a silent movie studio, a thinly veiled satire of Mack Sennett's Keystone Company. 15 min. DVD 9; VHS 999:695

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[Benchley, Robert]Robert Benchley and the Knights of the Algonquin

This special collection of rare short films pays homage to the great American satirist Robert Benchley and two other witty literati who shared his company at the Hotel Algonquin's legendary round table and personified the sophisticated literary scene of New York in the 1920's and 1930's. Contents: The witness / directed by Leslie Roush ; photographed by William Steiner (1941) -- The trouble with husbands / directed by Leslie Roush ; photographed by William Steiner (1940) -- The man's angle / directed by Leslie Roush ; photographed by William Steiner (1942)-- Mr. W's little game / directed by Lynn Shores (1934) -- The treasurer's report / directed by Thomas Chalmers (1928) -- Traffic regulations (1929) -- Sex life of a polyp (1928) -- Humorous flights / directed by Fred Fleck (1929) -- Crime control / produced and directed by Leslie Roush ; photographed by William Steiner. Robert Blauvelt (1941). Video/C 999:3224

[Benchley, Robert]Robert Benchley Shorts

How to Be a DetectiveSupplement on DVD 4155

How To Sleep Supplement on DVD 2662

Benchley explains the Depression. Supplement on DVD 1677

A Night At the Movies Supplement on DVD 2661

That Inferior Feeling Supplement on DVD 3635

Why Daddy? Supplement on DVD 4158

Best In Show (2000)

Directed by Christopher Guest. Cast: Jennifer Coolidge, Christopher Guest, John Michael Higgins, Michael Hitchcock, Eugene Levy, Jane Lynch, Michael McKean, Catherine O'Hara, Parker Posey, Fred Willard. A comic look at dog show participants and their pooches. Join the fun as Mayflower Kennel Club competitors -- a fly-fishing shop owner from North Carolina, squabbling yuppies, a dim-bulb trophy wife and her ace handler, and others -- vie for the top prize. 90 min. DVD 3174

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The Best of Victor Borge: Act One and Act Two (1990)

Victor Borge performs his musical comedy routines set at the piano with such favorites as The timid page turner and Phonetic punctuation plus others. Contents: Introducing Mozart -- My favorite barber -- Introducing Marylyn Mulvey -- Aria from "Rigor mortis" by Joe Green -- The timid page turner -- Phonetic punctuation -- Inflationary language -- Sahan Arzruni with the "2nd rhapsody" by Fliszt -- Salieri opera -- Danish lullaby. 90 min. Video/C 9381

Beverly Hills Cop (1984)

Directed by Martin Brest; featuring Eddie Murphy, Lisa Eilbacher, Steven Berkoff, Judge Reinhold, Ronny Cox. Axel Foley is a brash, street smart Detroit detective who follows the trail of a friend's murderer to the posh surroundings of Beverly Hills. And before Axel gets his man, he gets up to his neck in an international network of smugglers and drug peddlers. 105 min. 999:3181

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Der Bewegte Mann (The Most Desired Man) (Germany, 1996)

Director, Sonke Wortmann. A comedy in which heterosexual Axel, having been thrown out by his wife for one more sexual escapade, ends up being taken in by two homosexuals, Norbert and Walter, who promptly begin competing for his favors. This leads to a number of comical misunderstandings, which play with heterosexual and homosexual stereotypes. PAL format. 93 min. 999:3115

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Bhaji on the Beach (UK, 1995)

Directed by Gurinder Chadha. A comedy about a group of Indian women, living in England, who are brought together by a day at the beach. In the course of their day together , their ordinary lives become an extraordinary celebration. A unique look at female friendship. 100 min. 999:1331

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Big (1988)

Directed by Penny Marshall. Cast: Tom Hanks, Elizabeth Perkins, Robert Loggia, John Heard, Jared Rushton. A 12-year-old boy's wish comes true when he asks a mechanical carnival genie to make him 'big' only to awake the next morning and discover he is! He manages to land a job at a toy company where he experiences the complications of being an adult, but eventually he begins to long for the simple joys of childhood. 104 min. DVD 1814

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The Big Black Comedy Show.

Host: Mo'Nique ; co-host: Rodney Perry ; performers: Esau Ali, Doug Williams, DeRay Davis, Chris Spencer. series of large venue, live comedy concerts showcasing the talent of today's most popular African-American stand-up comedians. 2005.

Vol. 1. 88 min. DVD 6922

Vol. 2. 92 min. DVD 6923

Vol. 3. 94 min. DVD 6924

Vol. 4. 94 min. DVD 6925

Vol. 5. 94 min. DVD 6926

The Big Lebowski (1998)

Directed by Joel Coen. Cast: Jeff Bridges, John Goodman, Julianne Moore, Steve Buscemi, David Huddleston, John Turturro. "The Dude" Lebowski is mistaken for another Lebowski who is rich and owes some thugs a lot of money. After Dude comes home one day to find that the thugs have broken in and ruined his favorite carpet, he vows to get even. 98 min. DVD 2062

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Big Momma's House (2000)

Directed by Raja Gosnell. Cast: Martin Lawrence, Nia Long, Paul Giamatti, Jascha Washington, Terrence Dashon Howard, Anthony Anderson, Ella Mitchell, Carl Wright, Phyllis Applegate. A tough-talking FBI agent is sent to Georgia to protect a single mom and her son from an escaped convict. He goes incognito by disguising himself as the woman's grandma. 98 min. DVD 5550

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The Big Noise (1944)

Directed by Mal St. Clair. Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Doris Merrick, Arthur Space, Veda Ann Borg, Bobby Blake, Frank Fenton, James Bush. Laurel & Hardy play janitors accidentally hired as sleuths to protect a new super-bomb destined for the War Department in Washington, DC. Through a series of crazy misadventures, our heroes end up in a remote-controlled airplane, along with the bomb, and headed straight for trouble. 74 min. DVD 5661

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The Big Store (1941)

Directed by Charles Riesner. Cast: Groucho, Chico, and Harpo Marx, John Carroll, Diana Lewis, Tony Martin, Virginia Grey, Margaret Dumont, Douglass Dumbrille. The brothers reduce an enormous inventory of upscale merchandise into a multilevel disaster as they pursue and evade villains via bicycles, skates, unicycles, broad jumps, shipping chutes, elevator cables, high wires, pole vaults and pseudo-Tarzan chandelier swinging. 83 min. DVD 2664

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The Birdcage (1996)

Directed by Mike Nichols. Cast: Robin Williams, Nathan Lane, Gene Hackman, Dianne Wiest. The story of a middle-aged gay couple's comic encounter with a self-righteously straight and conservative family. Armand and Albert reluctantly accept young Val's intention to marry the daughter of a conservative Senator, but when the fiancee's family comes to visit, the whole household is turned upside down. Based on the stage play La cage aux folles by Jean Poiret. 119 min. DVD 1614

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The Blacksmith (Silent, 1922)

Directed by Buster Keaton. Cast: Keaton, Virginia Fox. In "The Blacksmith", Keaton tries his hand at the forge. Film is a parody of Longfellow's poem, The village blacksmith. 20 min. DVD 255; VHS 999:910

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Blazing Saddles (1974)

Directed by Mel Brooks. Cast: Mel Brooks, Cleavon Little, Gene Wilder, Slim Pickens, David Huddleston, Claude Ennis Starrett Jr., Madeline Kahn, Harvey Korman. In this spoof on western films the new sheriff and his sidekick, retired gunfighter Waco Kid, protect the town of Rock Ridge from the men who want to run the railroad through the town. DVD includes a new, exclusive 55-minute interview with Mel Brooks. 148 min. DVD 891

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Block-heads (1938)

Directed by John G. Blystone. Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Billy Gilbert, Patricia Ellis, James Finlayson, Minna Gombell. Unaccustomed as we are: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Mae Busch, Thelma Todd, Edgar Kennedy. During WWI, Stan is left to guard a trench. Twenty years after the war, Stan if found at his post and brought back to America. Ollie, now married, goes to visit Stan in the Old Soldiers' Home and invites him for a meal, but Mrs. Hardy walks out in protest. Stan and Ollie's disastrous attempts to cook bring them into contact with attractive neighbor Mrs. Gilbert -- and her shotgun-wielding husband. 148 min. DVD 1563

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The Blues Brothers (1980)

Directed by John Landis. Cast: John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, James Brown, Cab Calloway, Ray Charles, John Candy, Carrie Fisher, Aretha Franklin, Henry Gibson, Steve Lawrence, The Blues Brothers Band. Jake and Elwood Blues, two hoodlum brothers searching for redemption, set out to locate and reenlist the members of their defunct rhythm and blues band in to raise some honest money to save an orphanage. They may be on a "mission from God," but they're making enemies everywhere they go. 148 min. DVD 1563

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The Boat (Silent, 1921)

Directed by Buster Keaton. "The Boat" is a slapstick comedy about the adventures of a land-lubber in a sailboat. 22 min. DVD 135; VHS 999:1901, and 999:1910

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Bob Newhart: Off the Record (1995)

"Join a live, sold-out concert as Bob Newhart performs his famous side-splitting one-man telephone comedy classics." Contents: Nude police lineup -- Abe Lincoln's PR man -- Diffusing the bomb -- Nervous driving instructor -- School for rude bus drivers -- Sir Walter Raleigh explains tobacco -- King Kong and the new security guard -- Tipsy accountant's retirement party -- Selling baseball to the board game company -- Bob at the unemployment office -- Cruise of the USS codfish -- Edison's real invention -- One-eyed bullfighter. 60 min. Video/C 9380

Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (2006)

Directed by Larry Charles ; screenplay by Sacha Baron Cohen; produced by Sacha Baron Cohen, Jay Roach. Cast: Sacha Baron Cohen, Ken Davitian, Luenell, Pamela Anderson. Fictional Kazakhstani TV personality Borat is dispatched to the United States to report on the "greatest country in the world." With a documentary crew in tow, Borat becomes more interested in locating and marrying Pamela Anderson than in pursuing his assignment. In this mockumentary film his ignorance, prejudice, and boorish behavior produce humorous results. Special features: Censored footages (8 deleted scenes); Propaganda ("Global propaganda tour", "Musics infomercial", "Coming Kazakhstan in 2028"). 84 min. DVD 7632

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Born in East L.A. (1987)

Directed by Cheech Marin. Cast: Cheech Marin, Daniel Stern, Paul Rodriquez, Jan Michael Vincent, Kamala Lopez, Tony Plana. Cheech Marin is accidentally deported to Mexico without I.D. or knowledge of Spanish, and can't convince U.S. officials to let him back in. Film follows Cheech's repeated comic attempts to get back home. 85 min. DVD 1872; vhs 999:163

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Born Yesterday (1950)

Directed by George Cukor. Cast: Judy Holliday, William Holden, Broderick Crawford. Billie, the ignorant chorus-girl mistress of Brock, a corrupt millionaire junk dealer, rebels against her role as a pawn in his business deals after she falls in love with the man whom Brock has hired to teach her "culture." 103 min. DVD 419; vhs 999:741

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Boudu sauvé des eaux (Boudu Saved From Drowning) (France, 1932)

Directed by Jean Renoir. A scruffy tramp is not grateful for being rescued from suicide and plagues the family that takes him in. 87 min. DVD 4359; vhs 999:118

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Bowfinger (1999)

Director, Frank Oz. Cast: Steve Martin, Eddie Murphy, Christine Baranski, Terence Stamp, Heather Graham, Jamie Kennedy. A group of wanna-be filmmakers and actors concocts a scheme to make a movie with a major star without having to pay him in this comedy. With the help of Jiff Ramsey, brother to Hollywoods biggest star, Hollywood's least successful director stops at nothing to get him into his latest low-budget film. 97 min. DVD 3383

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Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)

Directed by Blake Edwards. Cast: Audrey Hepburn, George Peppard, Patricia Neal, Buddy Ebsen, Martin Balsam, Vilallonga, John McGiver, Mickey Rooney. Holly Golightly is an eccentric New York City playgirl determined to marry a Brazilian millionaire. Her next-door neighbor, a writer, is "sponsored" by a wealthy patroness. Guessing who's the right man for Holly is easy; seeing how romance blossoms reveals the enduring popularity of the film. 114 min. DVD 936; vhs 999:703

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Brighton Beach Memoirs (1986)

directed by Gene Saks. Cast: Blythe Danner, Bob Dishy, Judith Ivey, Jonathan Silverman, Brian Drillinger, Stacy Glick, Lisa Waltz. Fifteen-year-old Eugene Jerome is trying to uncover life's mysteries in this adaptation of a Broadway hit about growing up in Brooklyn during the late 1930's. 110 min. DVD 5897

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Bringing Up Baby (1938)

Directed by Howard Hawks. Cast: Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Charlie Ruggles, Walter Catlett, Barry Fitzgerald, May Robson, Fritz Feld. Crazy comedy about an heiress who is determined to catch a stuffy zoologist, and uses her pet leopard, Baby, to help get his attention. 102 min. DVD 3636; vhs 999:885

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Broadway Danny Rose (1984)

Directed by Woody Allen. Cast: Woody Allen, Mia Farrow, Nick Apollo Forte. Comedy about an agent Broadway Danny Rose and his attempt to revive the sagging career of the overweight, aging lounge singer, Lou Canova. Danny has finally booked Lou at the Waldorf, but Lou won't go on unless his girlfriend Tina is there on opening night. It's Danny's quest to round up Tina, an attempt that lands him right in the middle of a gangland battle. 85 min. DVD 1024; vhs 999:883

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Bullets Over Broadway (1994)

Directed by Woody Allen. Cast: Jim Broadbent, John Cusack, Harvey Fierstein, Chazz Palminteri, Mary-Louise Parker, Rob Reiner, Jennifer Tilly, Tracey Ullman, Joe Viterelli, Jack Warden, Dianne Wiest. David Shayne is an idealistic young writer who'll do anything to get his first Broadway play off the ground -- even if it means teaming up with the mob! Surrounded by a wacky cast of characters, including a gangster's ditzy girlfriend, a tipsy actress and a mob hit man, Shayne's got to pull it all off before the curtain falls, and the bullets start to fly. 95 min. DVD 110; VHS 999:1874

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Buster Keaton Collection (1939-1941)

Directed by Jules White, Del Lord. Featuring: Buster Keaton, Elsie Ames, Bud Jamison, Harry Semels, Dorothy Appleby, Monte Collins, Harley Wood, Beatrice Blinn, Ned Glass, Lorna Gragy, Gino Corrado, Matt McHugh, Eddie Fetherston, Don Beddoe, Richard Fiske, Eddie Laughton. Presents ten comedic shorts from the Great Stone Face himself, Buster Keaton. Teamed with the brilliant comediennes Dorothy Appleby and Elsie Ames, Keaton bumbles from one mishap to another, always maintaining his famously blank expression. Contents: Disc One: 1. General nuisance (1941) -- 2. His ex marks the spot (1940) -- 3. Mooching through Georgia (1939) -- 4. Nothing but pleasure (1940) -- 5. Pardon my berth marks (1940) -- 6. Pest from the West (1939) -- Disc Two: 7. She's oil mine (1941) -- 8. So you won't (1941) -- 9. The spook speaks (1940) -- 10. The taming of the snood (1940)-- Special features. 176 min. DVD 5260

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Cabaret Balkan (Bure Baruta) (Federal Republic of Yugoslavia / Republic of Macedonia / France / Greece / Turkey, 1998)

Directed by Goran Paskaljevic. In this dark comedy set in war-torn Yugoslavia, the lives of various citizens -- a cab driver, friends in a gym, a girl on a bus, a performance artist and more -- intersect during one unpredictiable night in Belgrade. 102 min. 999:2523

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La Cage aux folles (France / Italy, 1979)

Directed by Edouard Molinaro. Cast: Ugo Tognazzi, Michel Serrault, Michel Galabru, Claire Maurier, Remi Laurent, Carmen Scarpitti, Benny Luke, Luisa Maneri. A farce involving a flamboyant homosexual couple's attempt to appear to be conventional parents in front of the prospective in-laws of the son of one of the men. 99 min. DVD 782; VHS 999:976

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La Cage aux folles II (France / Italy, 1981)

Director, Marcello Danon. Featuring Ugo Tognazzi, Michel Serrault, Marcel Bozzuffi, Paola Barboni, Giovanni Vettorazzo, Benny Luke. Continues the story of Albin and Renato, a gay couple who are proprieters of a transvestite nightclub. When Albin feels his attractiveness to Renato is waning, he sets out to make Renato jealous, with the disasterous yet hilarious result of embroiling them in a spy caper. 100 min. DVD 783

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California Suite (1978)

Directed by Herbert Ross. Cast: Alan Alda, Michael Caine, Bill Cosby, Jane Fonda, Walter Matthau, Elaine May, Richard Pryor, Maggie Smith. Five couples have come to the Beverly Hills Hotel in Los Angeles for diverse reasons, and they must all confront some rather amusing personal dilemmas. 103 min. DVD 6066

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The Camerman (Silent, 1928)

Directed by Buster Keaton. Cast: Keaton, Marceline Day, Harold Goodwin, Sidney Bracey, Harry Gribbon. Keaton plays a lovestruck tintype photographer who falls for a pretty girl, an employee of MGM News service. Buying an antiquated movie camera, he sets out to film news events in the streets of New York so he can win a job and the girl's affection. 70 min. DVD 5437; 999:144

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Car Wash(1976)

Director Michael Schultz. Cast: George Carlin, Richard Pryor, Franklyn Ajaye, Professor Irwin Corey, Ivan Dixon, Antonio Fargas, Jack Kehoe, Clarence Muse, Lorraine Gary, the Pointer Sisters. An irreverent but affectionate look at a typical day in a Los Angeles car wash. But what a day! There's a would-be robbery and an assembly line of the weirdest, baddest characters you've ever met and lots of booty-bumping music to pass the hours. 97 min. DVD 2573

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Cavalcade of Comedy: U.S. 1929-31

In the late 1920s and early 30s, when the movie industry was just learning to talk, Paramount wisely turned to the New York stage for a new crop of entertainers who had already mastered the nuances of verbal comedy. This anthology serves as a time capsule of the brightest lights of vaudeville, showcasing the early works of such American legends as Jack Benny, Burns & Allen, George Jessel, Eddie Cantor and others. Contents: Fit to be tied (1930), with George Burns & Gracie Allen -- Getting a ticket (1929), with Eddie Cantor -- A Broadway Romeo (1931), with Jack Benny -- What price, pants? (1931), with Smith & Dale -- It might be worse (1931), with George Jessel -- The African dodger (1930), with Tom Howard -- Cleaning up (1930), with Chester Conklin, Mack Swain, Gibson Gowland -- 100% service (1931), with George Burns & Gracie Allen. 111 min. 999:2637

Celebrity (1998)

Directed by Woody Allen. Cast: Hank Azaria, Kenneth Branagh, Judy Davis, Leonardo DiCaprio, Melanie Griffith, Winona Ryder. Following their divorce, the lives of a restless writer and his inhibited ex-wife take off in unpredictable directions. While Lee explores the wilder side of his newfound freedom, Robin begins an improbable transformation from neurotic schoolteacher to high-profile TV talk show host where she encounters movie stars and the cream of high society. 113 min. DVD 109; VHS 999:2504

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Chaplin & Co. (Silent, 1915-1929)

Directed by Charlie Chaplin. Cast: Chaplin, Dee Lampton, Leo White, Bud Jamison, Henry Bergman, Edna Purviance, Eric Campbell, Billie Ritchie, Billy West, Stan Laurel, Lupino Lane. The most celebrated figure of slapstick, Charles Chaplin has risen to become one of popular culture's most recognizable icons. This film salutes Chaplin with a pair of vintage, remastered Chaplin comedies, a rediscovered piece of footage in which he conducts an orchestra and a collection of comedies that explore the music hall roots of the British-born American master. Contents: A Night in the Show (1915) -- Rare Chaplin Snippet (1916) -- The Rink (1916) -- Live Wires and Love Sparks (1916) -- He's In Again (1918) -- Pie-Eyed (1925) -- Only Me (1929). 134 min. 999:1902

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The Charley Chase Collection: Slapstick Symposium (1924-1926)

Directed by Leo McCarey, Ralph Ceder. Cast: Charley Chase, Virginia Pearson, Martha Sleeper, Max Davidson, Oliver Hardy, Vivien Oakland, Ann Howe, William V. Mong, Milla Davenport, William Gillespie, Martin Wolfkeil. Contents: Mum's the Word (1926): Charley poses as a butler for his his newly remarried mother. -- Long Fliv the King (1926): Having to marry within 24 hours or she won't become Queen, a Princess looks for any man who will say yes. -- April Fool (1924): See what happens when you tell someone that they can't be tricked on April Fool's Day. -- Mighty like a Moose (1926): A couple with outrageous facial features transforms themselves so even they can't recognize each other. -- Crazy like a Fox (1926): Two capitalists arrange a marriage between their children. -- All Wet (1924): While driving to meet a train, Charley gets into some car trouble. DVD 4190

The Charley Chase Collection: Slapstick Symposium, Volume 2 (1922-1926)

Presents 6 silent film shorts starring silent comic actor Charley Chase. Cast: Charley Chase, Katherine Grant, Gale Henry, Stuart Holmes, Mildred June, Corliss Palmer, Oliver Hardy. Contents: His Wooden Wedding (1925, 19 min.) -- Isn't Life Terrible (1925, 24 min.) -- Innocent Husbands (1925, 24 min.) -- Dog shy (1926, 23 min.) -- Bromo and Juliet (1926, 22 min.) -- Shine 'Em Up (1922, 15 min.) Producer, Hal Roach ; director, Leo McCarey ; music, Neil Brand. Special feature: Charley Chase biography (2004, 8 min.) DVD 4323

Charleys Tante (1963)

Director, Geza von Cziffra. In this comedy of errors and misunderstandings, a young man is forced by circumstances to dress up as a middle-aged women. Dr. Otto's friends Charley and Ralf, are expecting female visitors but the girls won't show up without a chaperone, so Otto is inveigled into disguising himself as "Charley's Aunt." 81 min. 999:2993

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Check and Double Check (Amos n' Andy) (1930)

Directed by Melville Brown. Cast: Freeman Gosden, Charles J. Correll, Sue Carol, Irene Rich. Cab drivers Amos 'n' Andy (characters from the radio show Amos 'n' Andy) contract to transport Duke Ellington and his band out to Blair estate, where they meet Richard Williams who is in love with Jean Blair. Richard must find the deed to his family property before he can marry Jean. Meanwhile, Amos 'n' Andy, after spending the night in a haunted house, find the deed. Notable as the only motion picture produced staring the radio comedy team, Amos n' Andy. 85 min. 999:793

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Chess Fever (Shakhmatnaya goryachka) (Soviet Union, 1925)

Directed by Vsevolod I. Pudovkin. A Keaton-esque comedy in which a young man's passion for the game threatens to wreck his marriage. DVD 2902; Video Disc 180; vhs 999:1689

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[Cho] Margaret Cho: Assassin A2TV; Here! (2005)

Margaret Cho returns to the concert stage with a "killer" stand-up show that breaks new ground it its hilarious attack on politics and society. Taking aim at the media, organized religion and national policy she pulls no punches in her assault on America's "ever devolving" cultural state. Recorded live at The Warner Theatre, Washington, D.C. 84 min. DVD 4694

[Cho, Margaret] CHO Revolution (2004)

Directed by Lorene Machado. In concert, Margaret Cho tackles the axis of evil, the joy of bodily functions, her loser ex-boyfriend and her now world-famous mother. 95 min. DVD 2854

[Cho, Margaret] I'm the One That I Want (2000)

Comedian Margaret Cho's raunchy and hysterically funny stand-up concert. As one of the country's most visible Asian Americans, she has a unique perspective on identity and acceptance. Filmed live at The Warfield in her hometown of San Francisco, this film is Cho at her very best--funny, shocking and irreverent. 96 min. DVD 1066

[Cho, Margaret] Notorious C.H.O. (2002)

Filmed live in Seattle. Margaret Cho, a comedian in teh spirit of Lenny Bruce, Richard Pryor and George Carlin, is known as much for her raunchy humor as for her enormous contributions as a social equalizer. 95 min. DVD 2854

Choti si bata (India, 1975)

Directed by Basu Chatterjee. An endearing, lovable, comedy about a young man who walks the rocky path of love because his heart is true but timid. 125 min. DVD 2489

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Chris Rock, Bigger & Blacker (1999)

Stand-up comedian Chris Rock performs at the Apollo Theatre in New York in "a wickedly original, brutally honest hour of rapid-fire observational brilliance." Contents: Main title/young white boys -- Gun control -- Parents -- Clinton, men & sex -- Get over the homophobia -- Taxes, doctors, drugs -- Ain't no money in the cure -- Racism -- Black leaders -- Fat black women -- Relationship maintenance -- Shut the fuck up! 65 min. DVD 1547

Christmas in July (1940)

Directed by Preston Sturges. Cast: Dick Powell, Ellen Drew, Raymond Walburn, Alexander Carr, William Demarest, Ernest Truex, Franklin Pangborn. A go-getter clerk in a coffee company is fooled into thinking he has won a fortune. 67 min. DVD 6592; 999:77

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A Christmas Story (1983)

Directed by Bob Clark. Cast: Melinda Dillon, Darren McGavin, Peter Billingsley. A young boy must convince his parents that a toy rifle is the only Christmas gift that will make Christmas worthwhile. Not only do his parents face what many other parents must deal with during the holiday, but their actions reflect the classic All-American response to Christmas. 98 min. DVD 1695

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The Circus (1928)

Directed by Charlie Chaplin. Featuring Chaplin, Merna Kennedy, Allan Garcia, Harry Crocker. Chaplin won the Academy Award for writing, acting, directing and producing this film set in a small traveling circus. Special features: Introduction by David Robinson (6 min.) ; Chaplin today: The circus / by Francois Ede with Emir Kusturica (documentary, 26 min.) ; deleted sequence (10 min.) ; October 7-13, 1926: outtakes from a week of shooting on The Circus (26 min.) ; Mountbatten home movies (7 min.) ; Hollywood premiere (1928) (6 min.); Camera A, camera B., shots made simultaneously from the two cameras used in shooting The Circus (1 min.); 3-D test footage by Roland Totheroh (2 min.); Jackie Coogan: excerpts (12 min.); photo gallery; film posters; trailers (8 min.); Chaplin collection (12 min.) 72 min. DVD 2911

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City Lights (1931)

Written, directed, and scored by Charles Chaplin. Featuring Chaplin, Virginia Cherrill, Harry Myers. Considered by many to be his masterpiece, City lights presents the perfect balance of comedy and pathos that is Charlie Chaplin's trademark. The Little Tramp befriends a blind flower girl and tries to restore her sight. Includes Chaplin's own score. Cast: recorded digitally; Interview with composer-conductor Carl Davis; story notes and production data. 86 min. DVD 217; VHS 999:121

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Close to Eden (Urga) (1991)

Directed by Nikita Mikhalkov. In this cross-cultural comedy, Gombo, a Mongolian shepherd, and Sergei, a Russian road builder, strike up a friendship and go on the road together, headed for the city. Intending to buy a TV and condoms because he already has 2 children (the limit set by the Chinese governement), Gombo is on his way to becoming a modern man. But present-day ways may not be so alluring after all. 109 min. 999:2260

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Clueless (1995)

Directed by Amy Heckerling. Featuring Alicia Silverstone, Paul Rudd, Brittany Murphy, Justin Walker, Wallace Shawn. It's not easy being the most popular and glamorous girl at Beverly Hills High, yet somehow 15-year-old Cher manages, even finding time for extracurricular projects like finding a love match for her debate teacher and giving a dowdy friend a fashion makeover. But Cher's tidy world starts to unravel with the sudden appearance of a sexy, stylish new classmate and Cher's square but cute "ex-stepbrother" 97 min. DVD 979; VHS 999:1403

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The Coca-Cola Kid (Australia, 1985)

Directed by Dusan Makavejev. Cast: Eric Roberts, Greta Scacchi, Bill Kerr. Becker, a wiz-kid marketing man, is sent to Australia to boost the famous soft drink's wavering sales. T. George McDowell is the ruling soda czar in this mini "pop monopoly." When Becker's offer to merge in the hope of tripling profits is rejected, an unlikely chain of events ignites and leads to an amusing solution to the cola war. 94 min. 999:942

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Cocoanuts (1929)

Directed by J. Santley & R. Florey. Cast: he Marx Brothers (Groucho, Chico, Harpo, Zeppo), Oscar Shaw, Mary Eaton, Margaret Dumont. Classic Marx Brothers comedy with Groucho as a hotel owner, Chico and Harpo as con men and the inestimable Margaret Dumont as a wealthy matron. Contains music by Irving Berlin. 94 min. DVD 5581; vhs 999:1137

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Cold Comfort Farm (UK, 1995)

Directed by John Schlesinger. Cast: Eileen Atkins, Kate Beckinsale, Sheila Burrell, Stephen Fry, Freddie Jones, Joanna Lumley, Ian McKellen, Miriam Margolyes, Rufus Sewell. Recently orphaned, Flora ignores the sage advise of Mrs. Smiley and moves to the country to live on a decrepit farm with her eccentric relatives, where she finds ample material for the novel she wishes to write. 105 min. DVD 4820

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College (1927)

Directed by James W. Horne; starring Buster Keaton. Ronald, an idealistic freshman who attends Clayton College finds himself embroiled in a war of athletics as he fights for the heart of his beloved coed, Mary. 66 min. DVD 255; Video Disc 117:3

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The Comedy of Max Linder (1905-1913; silent)

These early short silent comic films capture the zany innovations of Max Linder, the comic who inspired Charlie Chaplin. Over a dozen shorts show Max fighting against a world heavy with comic possibilities. From ice skates to fly paper, Max struggles just to get a grip on things. Contents: Max learns to skate (1905) -- Max gets stuck up (1906) -- Max takes a bath (1906) -- Legend of Ponchinella (1906) -- His first cigar (1907) -- Max's hat (1908) -- Max and the lady doctor (Max et la doctoresse) (1909) / scene de Max Linder -- Max fears the dogs (Max a peur des chiens) / scene de Max Linder (1909) -- Max and the Quinquina (1911) -- Max and the statue (Max et la statue) (1912) -- Max and his mother-in-law (1912) -- Juggling for love (Max, jongleur par amour) (1912) -- Max and his dog (1912) -- Max plays at drama (1913). 118 min. 999:1920

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Comedy, Spectacle and New Horizons. (The Movies Begin; 5)

P. Freres: Policemen's little run (1907); Troubles of a grass Widower (1908). -- A. Ambrosio: Nero, or the Fall of Rome (1909). -- L. Gaumont: Onesime, Clock-maker (1912). -- Vitagraph Co. of America: Windsor McCay or Little Nemo (1911). -- Solax Company: A.G. Blache. Making an American Citizen (1912). -- Biograph Company: D.W. Griffith: Girl and Her Trust (1912). -- Keystone Film Co.: H. Lehrman: Bangville Police (1913). DVD 1100; VHS 999:1010

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Coming to America (1988)

Directed by John Landis. Featuring: Eddie Murphy, Arsenio Hall, James Earl Jones, John Amos, Madge Sinclair, Shari Headley. Murphy plays a very wealthy and pampered African prince who comes to America in search of a bride. Accompanied by his closest companion, Murphy quickly finds a job, new friends, new digs, new enemies--and lots of trouble. 116 min. 999:2123

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Comrade X (1940)

Directed by King Vidor. Cast: Clark Gable, Hedy Lamarr, Oscar Homolka, Felix Bressart, Eve Arden. When the Russian chief of police tells Moscow's foreign correspondents that one of them is the anonymous writer Comrade X, it doesn't worry American reporter McKinley Thompson. He's positive no one would know it's him until Vanya, his bumbling valet, finds his secret camera. Threatening to reveal his identity, Vanya blackmails McKinley into taking his revolutionist daughter out of Russia before she is executed. All he has to do is lure the diehard Communist from the country she loves, get her to marry him and live in Brooklyn. 90 min. 999:3526

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Convict 13 (Silent, 1920)

Directed by Buster Keaton. Cast: Keaton, Sybil Seely, Joe Roberts, Edward F. Cline, Joe Keaton. Buster gets knocked out while playing golf with Sybil, and an escaped prisoner changes clothes with him. Buster goes to prison and learns that he is to be hanged. He changes clothes with a guard just as prisoner Roberts attacks all the guards. 25 min. DVD 113

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The Cook (and Other Treasures) (1917-1920)

Contents: The cook / presented by the Norsk Filminstitutt in cooperation with George Eastman House and the Netherlands Filmmuseum ; directed by Roscoe Arbuckle (22 min, 1918) -- A reckless Romeo / presented by the Norsk Filminstitutt in cooperation with George Eastman House ; directed by Roscoe Arbuckle (23 min, 1917) -- Number, please / directed by Hal Roach (23 min, 1920) Performers: The cook: Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, Buster Keaton, Al St. John, Alice Lake. A reckless Romeo: Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, Corinne Parquet, Agnes Neilson, Alice Lake, Al St. John. Number, please: Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis, Roy Brooks. The Cook : When a tough guy annoys the pretty cashier, the waiter and a feisty dog come to her defense. A reckless romeo : A philandering husband is caught when his attempts at indiscretion are filmed by a newsreel camerman. Number please: A man chases his girlfriend's dog around a seaside resort, on the roller-coaster and merry-go-round. DVD 1609

Cops (Silent, 1922)

Directed by Buster Keaton. Cast: Keaton, Joe Roberts, Virginia Fox, Edward F. Cline. After several instances of mistaken identity Buster finds himself in the middle of parade of policemen with a load of furniture into which is tossed an anarchist's bomb. He lights his cigarette with it, tosses it into the ranks of police, and when it explodes they chase him all over town. 19 min. DVD 112; VHS 999:909

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Le Corniaud (The Sucker) (France / Italy, 1964)

Directed by Gerard Oury. Cast: Bourvil, Louis de Funes, Venantino Venantini, Jacques Eyser, Henri Virlojeux. After the luxury car of an import-export businessman crashes into his car, Antoine Marechal is offered, as compensation, an all-expenses-paid trip to Naples in a Cadillac. Marechal accepts eagerly, never dreaming what he is transporting. 90 min. 999:3174

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County Hospital (1932)

Directed by James Parrott. Cast: Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy. Stan's visit to Ollie, in the hospital with a broken leg, wrecks havoc on both Ollie and his doctor. Ordered out, Stan tried to drive Ollie home, unaware he's been injected with a powerful sedative. 19 min. DVD 6031; vhs 999:1307

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Cour Toujours (Dad on the Run) (France, 2000)

Director, Dante Desarthe. Cast: Clement Sibony, Rona Hartner, Isaac Sharry, Marie Desgranges, Emmanuelle Devos. Jonah, a young musician and father to a newborn son, learns at the last minute that, according to an obscure Jewish custom, he must rush to bury the foreskin of his just-circumcised son. 89 min. DVD 1709

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Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989)

Directed by Woody Allen. Cast: Caroline Aaron, Alan Alda, Woody Allen, Claire Bloom, Mia Farrow, Joanna Gleason, Anjelica Huston, Martin Landau, Jenny Nichols, Jerry Orbach, Sam Waterston. Weaving together several different stories, Woody Allen's film is about people's lives, loves, perceptions and ideals. It takes a bold look at some of the toughest questions surrounding human nature, and does it with a warm and generous perspective. 104 min. DVD 470; vhs 999:780

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The Curse of the Jade Scorpion (2001)

Directed by Woody Allen. Cast: Woody Allen, Dan Aykroyd, Helen Hunt, Brian Markinson, Wallace Shawn, David Ogden Stiers, Charlize Theron. Someone is stealing millions in jewels from New York City's upper crust. It's up to insurance investigator C.W. Briggs to find out who is stealing the goods. Feeling that the heists are an inside job, he uses his instincts to discover which "insiders" are actually responsible. 102 min. DVD 1039

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Dance, Girl, Dance(1940)

Directed by Dorothy Arzner. Cast: Maureen O'Hara, Louis Hayward, Lucille Ball, Virginia Field, Ralph Bellamy, Mary Carlisle, Katharine Alexander, Edward Brophy, Walter Abel, Harold Huber, Maria Ouspenskaya. Bubbles loves to dance. But she also likes to eat. Her friend Judy may choose to suffer for her art, but not Bubbles. She swaps her ballet shoes for a G-string-- and turns patrons' fantasies into dollars as burlesque sensation Tiger Lily White. Vintage comedy short "Just a cute kid"; classic cartoon "Malibu Beach party." 89 min. DVD 8232

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Day at the Races (1937)

Directed by Sam Wood. Cast: Groucho, Chico and Harpo Marx, Allan Jones, Maureen O'Sullivan, Margaret Dumont. In this comedy Groucho is Dr. Hugo Z. Hackenbush, a veterinarian somehow put in charge of a sanitarium for wealthy hypocondriacs. When he gets involved with a demented duo from the racetrack - Harpo the jockey and Chico the tipster - Marxmania breaks loose and the sanitarium nearly collapses. 109 min. DVD 2661; vhs 999:1136

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A Day Without a Mexican (Dia Sin Mexicanos) (2004)

Directed by Sergio Arau. Cast: Yarelli Arizmendi, John Getz, Maureen Flannigan, Muse Watson, Fernando Arau, Eduardo Palomo. California awakens one day to discover that one third of its population has vanished. A peculiar pink fog surrounds the state and communication outside its boundaries has completely shut down. As the day progresses, it becomes apparent the sole characteristic linking the missing 14 million is their Hispanic heritage. 95 min. DVD 3148

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Daydreams (1922)

Directed by Buster Keaton. Cast: Keaton, Ren?e Ador?e, Joe Keaton, Joe Roberts, Edward F. Cline. Buster goes to the city to prove he can succeed to his girl's father. He writes her of his job, which she glorifies in her imagination, seeing a surgeon, a vet's assistant, Buster cleaning up on Wall Street. He's really a janitor. 21 min. DVD 113; VHS 999:911

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Death at a Funeral (USA / Germany / UK / Netherlands, 2007)

Directed by Frank Oz. Cast: Matthew Macfadyen, Keeley Hawes, Andy Nyman, Ewen Bremner, Daisy Donovan, Alan Tudyk, Jane Asher, Kris Marshall, Rupert Graves, Peter Vaughan, Thomas Wheatley, Peter Egan, Peter Dinklage. When Daniel's father dies, it his up to him to organize his funeral. On the morning of the funeral, with a suitably grave expression on his face, Daniel is ready to welcome his father's friends and relatives. But preserving the dignity inherent in such a circumstance will be a hard task. Particularly with an undertaker who botches his work; his famous, but selfish brother has returned from the USA; his cousin's fiance has accidentally ingested drugs; a man takes advantage of the sad event to win back the heart of a woman who is about to marry another; a handicapped old uncle who is also the most unbearable pain in the neck. To cap it all, Daniel notices the presence among the mourners of a mysterious dwarf nobody else seems to know. 91 min. DVD 9484

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Death of a Bureaucrat (La Muerte de un Burócrata) (Cuba, 1966)

Directed by Tomas Gutierrez Alea. A hilarious social satire concerning the tyranny of red tape in Cuba. The comedy begins when a sculptor is buried with his union card and the widow needs his card to get her pension. A nephew who is sent to get permission to exhume the body becomes entangled in a bewildering world of red tape. 87 min. 999:1385

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Deconstructing Harry (1997)

Directed by Woody Allen. Cast: Woody Allen, Kirstie Alley, Bob Balaban, Richard Benjamin, Eric Bogosian, Billy Crystal, Judy Davis, Mariel Hemingway, Amy Irving, Julie Kavner, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Demi Moore, Elisabeth Shue, Stanley Tucci, Robin Williams. Harry Block has gone through three wives, six psychiatrists and dozens of girlfriends during his long literary career. But when Harry writes a bestseller about his best friends, his best friends become his worst enemies. Now, instead of going back to his old school to be honored for his literary achievements, Harry's going straight to hell. 96 min. DVD 105; 999:2015

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Delirious

Eddie Murphy pontificates in his own vulgarly hilarious fashion on everything from bizarre sexual fantasies to reliving the family barbecue. Peppered with Eddie's one-of-a-kind wit, laugh along as he reminisces about his childhood days and the ice cream man intermixed with classic vocal parodies of top American entertainers. Taped live and in concert at Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C. in August, 1983. 70 min. DVD 7491

Desk Set (1957)

Directed by Walter Lang. Cast: Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Gig Young, Joan Blondell. A classic Hepburn-Tracy romance, about the head of the research department at a TV network and an absent-minded computer genius. Sumner, inventor of the Electromagnetic Memory And Research Arithmetical Calculator, is hired by the network to help computerize operations, with orders to keep his mission secret. Soon the rumor mill is working overtime as everyone fears being replaced by the computer. 103 min. DVD 8322; vhs 999:1520

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Dhoop Chaon (India, 198-?)

Directed by Prahilar Sharma. In this romantic musical comedy young women feign illnesses to keep a handsome young doctor from leaving their town after he has cured an epidemic. In Hindi with English subtitles. 120 min. 999:2082

Diary of a Mad Black Woman (2005)

Directed by Darren Grant. Cast: Kimberly Elise, Steve Harris, Shemar Moore, Tamara Taylor, Lisa Marcos, Tiffany Evans, Cicely Tyson, Tyler Perry. Helen McCarter would seem to have it all. She's married to Charles who is one of Atlanta's most successful attorneys. But despite having wealth and prestige, things are not as they seem in the McCarter home. On the evening of their anniversary, Charles drops a bombshell on Helen - he's divorcing her for another woman. Thrown out of the house with nowhere to go, Helen moves in with her grandmother Madea, a sassy woman with no shortage of opinions and a gun that she's not afraid to use. As Madea helps Helen get back on her feet emotionally, she meets Orlando, a nice and handsome man who is obviously attracted to her. But after her experiences with Charles, Helen isn't sure if she's ready to trust a man again. 117 min. DVD 4084

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Dinner at Eight (1933)

Directed by George Cukor. Cast: Marie Dressler, John Barrymore, Wallace Beery, Jean Harlow, Lionel Barrymore, Lee Tracy, Edmund Lowe, Billie Burke, Madge Evans, Jean Hersholt, Karen Morley, Phillips Holmes. Screen play by Frances Marion and Herman J. Mankiewicz. A Park Avenue snob gives a dinner party for a visiting English peer. Little does she realize that her shipping magnate husband is bankrupt and that her daughter is having an affair with an older man. 111 min. DVD 3637

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Dinner Rush (2000)

Directed by Bob Giraldi. Cast: Danny Aiello, Edoardo Ballerini, Vivian Wu, Mike McGlone, Kirk Acevedo, Sandra Bernhard, John Corbett. At New York's hottest restaurant, things are really heating up. Owner and bookie Louis Cropa lost a friend to a mob hit and now his chef's gambling problem has brought the unwelcome mobsters into their restaurant. 97 min. DVD 1694

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Dog's Life (1921)

Featuring Charlie Chaplin, Carl Miller, Jack Coogan, Edna Purviance (The Kid). Charlie Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Tom Wilson, Sidney Chaplin, Albert Austin (A Dog's life). The Little Tramp rescues a mutt from a dog fight and is extravagantly repaid for his kindness. 103 min. DVD 284; DVD 13

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Don't be a Menace to South Central while Drinking your Juice in the Hood (1996)

Directed by Paris Barclay. Cast: Shawn Wayans, Marlon Wayans. From block parties and beepers to high tops and high-powered weapons, it's everything that's funny about growing up in the 'hood ... the Wayans Brothers' neighborhood, that is! 89 min. DVD 1058

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Double Wedding (1937)

Directed by Richard Thorpe. Cast: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Florence Rice, John Beal, Jessie Ralph, Edgar Kennedy. A bohemian painter butts heads with his girlfriend's sister, before they admit their feelings for each other. Special features: Musical short "Dancing on the ceiling"; classic cartoon "The hound and the rabbit"; theatrical trailer. 72 min. DVD 1367

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Down and Out in Beverly Hills (1986)

Directed by Paul Mazursky. Cast: Nick Nolte, Bette Midler, Richard Dreyfuss, Evan Richards, Elizabeth Pena. Rescued from drowning in the swimming pool of a Beverly Hills couple, a disconsolate bum brings startling and hilarious changes to the entire household, including the family dog, Matisse. 103 min. DVD 6065

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Down Argentine Way (1940)

Directed by Irving Cummings. Cast: Don Ameche, Betty Grable, Carmen Miranda, Charlotte Greenwood, J. Carroll Naish, Henry Stephenson, Katharine (Kay) Aldridge, Leonid Kinskey, Chris-Pin Martin, Nicholas Brothers. A musical romance about Glenda, a rich New Yorker who collects fine horses and Ricardo, an Argentine rancher renowned for his prize jumpers. Their families have been feuding for years so they have to conduct a Romeo and Juliet romance. Special features: Commentary soundtrack by film historian Sylvia Stoddard; featurette "Betty Grable: behind the pin-up"; photo gallery; 4 lobby cards; theatrical trailer; trailer for Betty Grable film "The Dolly sisters." 88 min. DVD 7485

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Dress to Kill (1998)

Directed by Lawrence Jordan. Eddie Izzard, stand-up comedian, spins free-flowing jokes about San Francisco, transvestitism, squirrels, American optimism, Hitler, the British royal family, mass murder and Stonehenge. Izzard romps through human history and transforms surprisingly complex ideas into biting satire--as well as knockout bits of sublime frivolity, like describing the movie Speed entirely in French. 180 min. DVD 1497

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Drop Dead Gorgeous (1999)

Director, Michael Patrick Jann. Cast: Kirstie Alley, Ellen Barkin, Kirsten Dunst, Denise Richards, Allison Janney, Sam McMurray, Brittany Murphy. The Sarah Rose Princess America Pageant is a beauty contest to die for. And that's exactly what the contestants in Mount Rose, Minnesota are doing. Ever since the vivacious but vicious former beauty queen, Gladys, has been pushing her charm-challenged daughter, Rebecca, to win at all costs, the competition has been dropping like flies. 98 min. DVD 3179

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Duck Soup (1933)

Directed by Leo McCarey. Cast: Groucho, Harpo, Chico, and Zeppo Marx, Margaret Dumont, Louis Calhern, Raquel Torres, Edgar Kennedy. As Prime Minister Firefly of Freedonia, Groucho soon reduces the kingdom to shambles. Harpo and Chico are secret agents disguised as peanut vendors and Zeppo is Firefly's secretary. 70 min. DVD 5581; DVD 80; VHS 999:128

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Easy Street (Silent, 1917)

Directed by Charlie Chaplin. Cast: Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Eric Campbell, Albert Austin. A love-smitten and reformed Charlie the Tramp becomes a policemen in the city's toughest neighborhood, and starts to clean it up. 29 min. DVD 8

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Eat a Bowl of Tea (1989)

Directed by Wayne Wang. Cast: Cora Miao, Russell Wong. In New York's Chinatown of the late 1940's, young Ben Loy, fresh out of the service, has his whole life spread out before him - including a job, an apartment and a marriage arranged by his father. 104 min. 999:394

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Eat the Rich (1987)

Directed by Peter Richardson. Cast: Ronald Allen, Sandra Dorne, Jimmy Fagg, Lemmy, Lanah Pellay, Nosher Powell, Fiona Richmond, Ron Tarr. A trendy London restaurant is suddenly taken over by maniacal subversives. Surly but sensitive waiter Alex has assembled a small band to join the people's uprising, while suave Commander Fortune, a Soviet double agent, and his sidekick Spider, are plotting the downfall of the second in command to the Prime Minister. 92 min. 999:3491

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Eddie Murphy: Raw

Eddie Murphy delights, shocks, and entertains with dead-on celebrity impersonations; gives his impersonations on '80s love, sex and marriage; his rememberance of Mom's hamburgers and many more raucious, laugh-till-it-hurts anecdotes. Filmed, live, at New York's Felt Forum. 1987. 90 min. DVD 3799

The Egg and I (1947)

Director, Chester Erskine. Cast: Claudette Colbert, Fred MacMurray, Marjorie Main, Percy Kilbride, Richard Long, Louis Allbritton. "For better or worse" begins on their wedding night when a man tells his bride he's quit the brokerage business and plans to raise chickens on a rustic farm miles from civilization. 108 min. 999:3102

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The Egptian Mummy (1914)

Director, Lee Beggs. Cast: Billy Quirk, Constance Talmadge, Lee Beggs, Joel Day. The fourth in a series of rare silent films from the early film-making period of 1911-1915. In order to make money, a man hires a bum to pretend to be a mummy, so he can sell the "body" for scientific experiments. DVD 8450

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Election (1999)

Director, Alexander Payne. Cast: Matthew Broderick, Reese Witherspoon, Chris Klein, Jessica Campbell, Mark Harelik, Phil Reeves. In this satirical comedy, a hotly contested high school election becomes a metaphor for the current state of American politics. Tracy Flick, a straight-A go-getter is determined to become president of Carver High's student body. Popular teacher Jim McAllister decides to derail Tracy's obsessive overachieving by recruiting an opposition candidate. 103 min. DVD 620

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The Electric House (Silent, 1922)

Directed by Buster Keaton. Cast: Keaton, Joe Roberts, Virginia Fox, Joe Keaton, Myra Keaton, Louis Keaton. Buster mistakenly gets a degree in electrical engineering (not botany). When he is hired to wire a new home he installs lots of fanciful gadgets, which are then rewired by the vengeful guy who should have received the degree. All havoc breaks loose. 23 min. DVD 255; VHS 999:910

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Entre Pancho Villa y una mujer desnuda (Between Pancho Villa and a naked woman) (Mexico, 1995)

Directed by Sabina Berman. In this comedy Gina looks for a commitment from her longtime boyfriend Adrian. Angered by his refusal to marry and fed up with his sexist attitudes, she takes a younger man as her lover. Adrian, however, will not surrender his woman or his antiquated ways of thinking. Channeling the spirit of Pancho Villa himself, he tries to fully embrace his machismo and win back the passion of Gina. 100 min. Video 999:3375

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Everyone Says I Love You (1996)

Directed by Woody Allen. Cast: Alan Alda, Woody Allen, Drew Barrymore, Goldie Hawn, Julia Roberts, Tim Roth. Romance meets comedy in Woody Allen's first movie a fun-filled story of one wealthy, eccentric and romantically challenged extended family from New York's Upper West Side. 101 min. DVD 108; VHS 999:1872

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Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex But Were Afraid to Ask (1972)

Directed by Woody Allen. Cast: Woody Allen, John Carradine, Lou Jacobi, Louise Lasser, Anthony Quayle, Tony Randall, Lynn Redgrave, Burt Reynolds, Gene Wilder. A comedy divided into seven segments, each dealing with a sexual question or concern derived from one of Dr. Reuben's questions. 89 min. DVD 225; VHS 999:781

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Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982)

Directed by Amy Heckerling. Cast: Sean Penn, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Judge Reinhold, Phoebe Cates, Brian Backer, Robert Romanus, Ray Walston, Nicolas Cage, Forest Whitaker. Twenty-four-year old first-time screenwriter Cameron Crowe went undercover in early 1980s as a high school student to glean an insider's perspective on the struggles of teenagers as they dealt with independence, success, sexuality, money, maturity, school, and particularly with just making it through the formative years. 92 min. DVD 6058; vhs 999:3085

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Fausse alerte (The French Way) (France, 1940)

Director, Jacques de Baroncelli. Cast: Josephine Baker, Micheline Presle, George Marchal, Raymond Aimos, Jean Tissier, Gabrielle Dorziat, Saturnin Fabre, Marguerite Perry, Lucien Baroux. A rare wartime musical comedy featuring Josephine Baker as a Parisian cabaret singer who assists two lovers in the face of their parents' disapproval while trying to re-open her nightclub. Includes Baker and chorus girls in cabaret rehearsals and performances. 74 min. 999:3496

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Fear of a Black Hat (1992)

Directed by Rusty Cundieff. Cast: Rusty Cundieff, Larry B. Scott, Mark Christopher Lawrence, Kasi Lemmons. A filmmaker infiltrates rap band NWH in this satire of gangsta rappers, which focuses on the hip hop trio Tasty-Taste, Ice Cold, and Tone Def. The movie irreverently pokes fun at white rappers, the L.A. riots, as well as violence in rap. 95 min. 999:3220

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The Fearless Vampire Killers: or Pardon me, But Your Teeth are in My Neck (USA / UK, 1967)

Directed by Roman Polanski. Cast: Jack MacGowran, Sharon Tate, Alfie Bass, Ferdy Mayne. This spoof on old vampire films finds a young maiden kidnapped by a Jewish vampire and his gay son. 111 min. DVD 8548; vhs 999:1025

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Film Geek (2005)

Directed by James Westby. Cast: Melik Malkasian, Tyler Gannon, Matt Morris, John Breen. When Scotty, a movie nerd trying to get a life, is fired from his video store job for annoying his customers, he hits rock bottom. Then he meets free-spirited Niko, who just may be the one to save him from his hopeless existence. 72 min. DVD 6243

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Films of Stan Laurel. Vol. 1.

Contents: Just rambling along (1918, 11 min.) -- Kill or cure / producer, Hal Roach (1923, 13 min.) -- The Noon whistle / Pathe Exchange, producer, Hal Roach (1923, 13 min.) -- White wings (1923, 14 min.) -- The Miner (aka. Pick and shovel) (1923, 12 min.) -- Oranges and lemons (1923, 12 min.) -- Man about town (1923, 13 min.). Cast: Stan Laurel, Clarine Seymour, Katherine Grant, George Rowe, Katherine Grant, Noah Young, Eddie Baker, James Finlayson. Just rambling along: Stan follows a pretty girl into a cafeteria and gets into all kinds of trouble. Kill or cure: Laurel is a salesman for "Knox-all," a patent medicine. Noon whistle: Stan plays a goof-off in a furniture factory. White wings: Laurel tries out a career as a "painless dentist," in order to evade the police. Miner (Pick and shovel): Stan wrecks disaster as a miner but eventually saves a damsel in distress. Oranges and lemons: Stan as an irritating orange picker creates havoc on the assembly line. Man about town: Laurel, told by a street car conductor to "follow that women, she'll be taking the same car as you," follows her about town getting into many hilarious situations. 999:2730

The Fireman (Silent, 1916)

Directed by Charlie Chaplin. Cast: Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Lloyd Bacon. Charlie is a clumsy but eager apprentice fireman. ca. 32 min. DVD 9

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Flying Deuces (1939)

Directed by A. Edward Sutherland. Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Jean Parker, Reginald Gardiner, Charles Middleton, James Finlayson. Complications arise as Stan and Ollie join the Foreign Legion to help Ollie forget his troubled romantic past. Fast-paced good comedy has Ollie ending up reincarnated as a mule. 69 min. DVD 2825

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The Floorwalker (Silent, 1916)

Directed by Charlie Chaplin. Cast: Chaplin, Eric Campbell, Edna Purviance. This first Chaplin Mutual involves Charlie as a lowly clerk with an embezzling manager and a fantastic escalator sequence. ca 29 min. DVD 10

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A Florida Enchantment (Silent, 1914)

Directed by Sidney Drew. Cast: Sidney Drew, Edith Storey, Charles Kent. The unusual fable about a woman who discovers magic seeds that transform women into men (and men into women). 63 min. 999:1022

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For Your Consideration (2006)

Directed by Christopher Guest. Cast: Catherine O'Hara, Ed Begley, Jr., Eugene Levy, Harry Shearer, Christopher Moynihan, Christopher Guest, Jennifer Coolidge, Parker Posey, Michael McKean, Bob Balaban, John Michael Higgins, Fred Willard, Jane Lynch. It's about an indie movie called "Home for Purim," a somewhat inane drama about a dysfunctional Jewish family living in the South during World War II. But while the film is still in production, a reporter for an online entertainment site drops the word -- based on a brief visit to the set -- that one of the ensemble cast performers may be an Oscar contender. It goes on to chronicle how the Oscar buzz affects the director, additional cast members, writers, an agent, a publicist, and the hosts from an Hollywood entertainment-type television program. 86 min. DVD 7294

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The Fortune Cookie (1966)

Directed by Billy Wilder. Cast: Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Ron Rich, Cliff Osmond, Judi West. A TV cameraman, trampled by a half-back while shooting a football game, and his shyster brother-in-law team up to defraud an insurance company in a million dollar law suit. 126 min. DVD 1760

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[Foxx, Red] Fugg it!!! The Very Best of Red Foxx[Sound recording]

Long before Eddie Murphy, Andrew Dice Clay, or Howard Stern raised the ire of censors and threatened the delicate sensibilities of mainstream American good taste, there was Redd Foxx, arguably the most notorious "blue" comic of his day. Prior to finding fame in the 1970s as the star of the popular sitcom Sanford and Son, Foxx found little but infamy throughout the first several decades of his performing career; salty and scatological, his material broke new ground with its point-blank riffs and brazen discussions of sex and color, and although his party albums were generally banned from white-owned record stores, the comedian's funky narrative style and raspy delivery proved highly influential on comic talents of all ethnic backgrounds. Contents: Introduction -- My ugly wife -- A poem -- Voting -- Roadrunner -- Paratrooper -- Drinking and driving -- Electric chair -- Fighting midgets -- Parking it in the park -- Cannibals -- Chick in the bar -- Oh George -- French girl -- You moved -- Almond joy -- Rich girl, poor girl -- Triplets -- Boss -- Boy -- Thanksgiving pussy -- Color matters -- KKK wizard -- Dressmakers -- Fugg soap -- Snot -- Licking ice cream -- Virgin -- Wahoo -- Nurse treatment -- Bras and shorts -- Manischevitz wine -- Sheep in the fence -- Crocodile hunting -- Chains -- That's my wife -- Tiger's lips -- Dairy queen -- Baldness -- Farmers' costume trek -- Meat and fish -- My dick -- Snake bite -- 500 legs and a cherry -- The preacher and the lion -- The preacher's wife -- Costume party I & II -- Confucius I, III -- World war III -- Two fives for a ten -- Tarzan -- Redd Foxx international -- Mop bucket -- Pregnant man -- World war II -- A poem to women -- Confucius IV -- I love England -- Railroad track -- Early bird -- Pancho Villa -- Long Island duck -- LBJ -- Farmer's daughter -- Furniture business -- My front door is open -- Mary -- Lady on a bus -- I've been raped -- Drinkin' -- No lickety split -- Canary -- Brass nuts -- Screwing the boss -- Prejudice in the movies -- No clothes -- Newlyweds -- Raffle win -- The cop and the waitress -- Pussy face -- My dick II -- Teflon and vaseline -- Fukawi Indians -- Hobo in New York -- Elevator operator -- Congo -- In the bar -- Greek/French -- Horse manure to go -- Eyebrows -- Confucius II -- Little red riding hood -- Ham and eggs -- Mexican speed bump -- Black cats -- House of ill repute -- Closing. Sound/D 243

Free and Easy (1930)

Directed by Edward Sedgwick. Cast: Buster Keaton, Anita Page, Robert Montgomery, Trixie Friganza, Fred Niblo. Keaton departs with the newly crowned Miss Gopher City and heads for Hollywood determined to turn her into a star. 93 min. DVD 5437

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The Frozen North (Silent, 1921)

Directed by Buster Keaton. Cast: Keaton, Joe Roberts, Sybil Seely, Bonnie Hill, Freeman Wood, Edward F. Cline. This satirical parody of William S. Hart's melodramatic films finds Buster in the frozen north. A wanted poster is used as his "partner" in robbing a gambling house. Thinking he spies his wife making love to another man he shoots them both only to learn it isn't his cabin after all. 20 min. DVD 256; VHS 999:910

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Fruits of Love.(1926)

Comedy film in which a single man attempts to trick others into caring for his infant child. Silent films with Russian intertitles. PFA print. Video/C 4036

Funny Bones (UK / USA, 1994)

Directed by Peter Chelsom. Cast: Oliver Platt, Lee Evans, Richard Griffiths, Oliver Reed, George Carl, Leslie Caron, Jerry Lewis. Struggling in the shadow of his famous father (Jerry Lewis), a young comic (Oliver Platt) retreats to his hometown when his act bombs in Las Vegas. He's in for more than a few suprises before learning that his own eccentric family has the best material for a perfect act. 128 min. DVD 8254

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Funny Ha Ha (2003)

Directed by Andrew Bujalski. Cast: Kate Dollenmayer, Christian Rudder, Myles Paige, Jennifer L. Schaper, Lissa Patton Rudder, Marshall Lawy, Vanessa Bertozzi, Victoria Haggblom, Justin Rice. Marnie just graduated from college, drinks like she's still in school, and is looking for a temp. job after being fired. Drifting through a series of men and jobs, Marnie just can't seem to get it together...it would be sad if it weren't so funny. 90 min. DVD 4379

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A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1966)

Directed by Richard Lester. Cast: Zero Mostel, Phil Silvers, Jack Gilford, Buster Keaton. A bawdy comedy set in early Rome concerning a slave who can win his freedom if he can hook up his innocent young master with the virgin courtesan next door. 98 min. DVD 623; VHS 999:232

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The Garage (Silent, 1919)

Directed by Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle. Cast: Arbuckle and Buster Keaton. Buster and Fatty try to run a service station resulting in many hilarious misadventures. 18 min. DVD 674; 999:911, 999:1901

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The Geisha Boy (1958)

Directed by Frank Tashlin; performers: Jerry Lewis, Marie McDonald, Sessue Hayakawa, Barton MacLane. The Great Wooley and his lop-eared partner Harry Hare plan to dazzle audiences with magical feats during their USO tour of Japan and Korea. An orphaned Japanese boy is drawn out of his shell by the magicians humor and caring. 98 min. 999:2205

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Le Gendarme a New York (1965)

Director, Jean Girault. Cast: Louis De Funes, Michel Galabru, Jean LeFebvre, Christian Marin, Alan Scott, Genevieve Grad. The St. Tropez police squad goes to the International Police Convention in New York City to represent France. The daughter of the squad's sergeant stows away on the ship and turns the trip into a disaster for her father. 100 min. 999:3173

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The General (Silent, 1927)

Directed by Buster Keaton and Clyde Bruckman. Cast: Keaton, Marion Mack, Charles Smith, Frank Barnes. Engineer Johnnie loves Annabelle Lee and his train, "The General". But when the Civil War begins he is turned down for service because he's more valuable as an engineer, Annabelle thinks it's because he's a coward. Union spies capture The General with Annabelle on board, and Johnny must rescue both his loves. 75 min. DVD 112; VHS 999:58

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Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953)

Directed by Howard Hawks. Cast: Jane Russell, Marilyn Monroe, Charles Coburn. Two show girls set sail on a cruise ship in hopes of catching wealthy husbands. 92 min. DVD 705; VHS 999:135

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George Lopez, America's Mexican (HBO, TV, 2007)

Comedian/actor George Lopez makes his HBO solo debut live in front of a packed house in Arizona. Among the bits he riffs on are: immigration and naturalization, "minute men," dysfunction, modern-day kids, old-school values, hybrid cars, cars that run on corn, interracial relationships, dementia and the future. Performed live at the Dodge Theater in Phoenix, Arizona. Bonus features: Never-before-seen footage from the HBO Comedy Special; "A conversation with George Lopez." 63 min. DVD 8080

Ghostbusters (1984)

Directed by Ivan Reitman. Cast: Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Sigourney Weaver, Harold Ramis, Rick Moranis. When ghosts go on a rampage, only three men can save the world. Soon every spook in the city is loose and our heroes face the supreme challenge If you want your spirits raised, who you gonna call? Ghostbusters! 105 min. DVD 8150

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Ghostbusters 2 (1956)

Directed by Ivan Reitman. Cast: Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Sigourney Weaver, Harold Ramis, Rick Moranis, Annie Potts, William Atherton, Ernie Hudson. Doctors Venkman, Stantz and Spengler regroup to nuke the spooks in this high-spirited comedy. Sidelined after their spectacular save of New York City five years ago, the heroes of the hereafter once again answer the call when an underground river of ghoulish goo threatens to rot the Big Apple to the core. Special features: 2 episodes from the animated series "The real Ghostbusters : Citizen ghost" and "The real Ghostbusters : Partner in slime". 124 min. DVD 8151

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The Girl Can't Help It (1956)

Directed by Frank Tashlin. Cast: Tom Ewell, Jayne Mansfield, Edmond O'Brien, Julie London, Ray Anthony, Barry Gordon. Jayne Mansfield plays a blonde who is being coached to become a nightclub singer by her racketeer boyfriend. To help her along, he hires a hungry talent agent to boost her career into the big time. Non-US format DVD (PAL). 93 min. DVD 4124

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Girl Shy (Silent, 1924)

Directed by Fred C. Newmeyer and Sam Taylor. Cast: Harold Lloyd, Jobyna Ralston, Richard Daniels, Carlton Griffin. Feeling confident after having his col