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How to Murder Your Wife

Stanley Ford leads an idyllic bachelor life. He is a nationally syndicated cartoonist whose Bash Brannigan series provides him with a luxury townhouse and a full-time valet, Charles. When he wakes up the morning after the night before - he had attended a friend's stag party - he finds that he is married to the very beautiful woman who popped out of the cake - and who doesn't speak a word of English. Despite his initial protestations, he comes to like married life and even changes his ...

NR

6.4

1965 Comedy 118 min Play

7.2

The Great Race

Professional daredevil and white-suited hero, The Great Leslie, convinces turn-of-the-century auto makers that a race from New York to Paris (westward across America, the Bering Straight and Russia) will help to promote automobile sales. Leslie's arch-rival, the mustached and black-attired Professor Fate vows to beat Leslie to the finish line in a car of Fate's own invention.

NR

7.2

1965 Adventure 160 min Play

6.8

Good Neighbor Sam

To help his divorced neighbor claim a substantial inheritance, a family man poses as her husband. The ruse spills over into his career in advertising, and his recent promotion relies on his wholesome and moral appearance.

NR

6.8

1964 Comedy 130 min Play

6.8

Under the Yum-Yum Tree

A love-struck landlord tries to convince a pretty tanant to dump her fiancé and give him a chance.

NR

6.8

1963 Comedy 110 min Play

7.5

Irma la Douce

A Parisian policeman gives up everything for the love of a free-living sex worker.

NR

7.5

1963 Comedy 135 min Play

7

The Notorious Landlady

An American junior diplomat in London rents a house from, and falls in love with, a woman suspected of murder.

NR

7

1962 Comedy 123 min Play

6.1

The Wackiest Ship in the Army

Lieutenant Rip Crandall is hoodwinked into taking command of the "Wackiest Ship in the Navy" - a real garbage scow with a crew of misfits who don't know a jib from a jigger. What none of them knows, including Crandall, is that this ship has a very important top-secret mission to complete in waters patrolled by the Japanese fleet. Their mission will save hundreds of allied lives - if only they can get there in one piece.

NR

6.1

1960 Comedy 99 min Play

8.2

The Apartment

Bud Baxter is a minor clerk in a huge New York insurance company, until he discovers a quick way to climb the corporate ladder. He lends out his apartment to the executives as a place to take their mistresses. Although he often has to deal with the aftermath of their visits, one night he's left with a major problem to solve.

NR

8.2

1960 Comedy 125 min Play

6.2

It Happened to Jane

Jane Osgood runs a lobster business, which supports her two young children. Railroad staff inattention ruins her shipment, so with her lawyer George, Jane sues Harry Foster Malone, director of the line and the "meanest man in the world".

NR

6.2

1959 Comedy 97 min Play

8.2

Some Like It Hot

Two musicians witness a mob hit and struggle to find a way out of the city before they are found by the gangsters. Their only opportunity is to join an all-girl band as they leave on a tour. To make their getaway they must first disguise themselves as women, then keep their identities secret and deal with the problems this brings - such as an attractive bandmate and a very determined suitor.

NR

8.2

1959 Comedy 122 min Play

6.4

Cowboy

Chicago hotel clerk Frank Harris dreams of life as a cowboy, and he gets his chance when, jilted by the father of the woman he loves, he joins Tom Reece and his cattle-driving outfit. Soon, though, the tenderfoot finds out life on the range is neither what he expected nor what he's been looking for...

NR

6.4

1958 Western 92 min Play

6.5

Bell, Book and Candle

A modern-day witch likes her neighbor but despises his fiancee, so she enchants him to love her instead... only to fall in love with him for real.

NR

6.5

1958 Comedy 106 min Play

6.1

Fire Down Below

Tony and Felix own a tramp boat, and sail around the Caribbean doing odd jobs and drinking a lot. They agree to ferry the beautiful but passportless Irena to another island. They both fall for her, leading to betrayal and a break-up of their partnership. Tony takes a job on a cargo ship. After a collision he finds himself trapped below deck with time running out (the ship is aflame), and only Felix, whom he hates and has sworn to kill, left to save him.

NR

6.1

1957 Action 116 min Play

6.8

Operation Mad Ball

In this wacky military spoof, Lemmon plays a terminally bored Army private waging a war of wits as he tries to throw a party under the nose of his obnoxious commanding officer.

G

6.8

1957 Comedy 105 min Play

5

You Can’t Run Away from It

A reporter stumbles on a runaway heiress whose story could salvage his career.

NR

5

1956 Comedy 95 min Play

6.6

Phffft!

When their marriage finally goes "phffft!", Nina and Robert get a divorce - only to discover that, like it or not, some people are just meant to be together!

NR

6.6

1954 Comedy 88 min Play

6.9

It Should Happen to You

Gladys Glover has just lost her modeling job when she meets filmmaker Pete Sheppard shooting a documentary in Central Park. For Pete it's love at first sight, but Gladys has her mind on other things, making a name for herself. Through a fluke of advertising she winds up with her name plastered over 10 billboards throughout city.

NR

6.9

1954 Comedy 86 min Play