Yuri Olesha
One of the delights of Russian literature, a tour de force that has been compared to the best of Nabokov and Bulgakov, Yuri Olesha's novella Envy brings together cutting social satire, slapstick humor, and a wild visionary streak. Andrei is a ... [... more]
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Slapstick Encyclopedia
 From Amazon.com: A veritable gold mine of rarities and little-known treats, Slapstick Encyclopedia lives up to its title as a stupendous compendium of silent-era comedy. Spanning the entire spectrum of slapstick from 1909 to 1927, this definitive [... more]
CDN$116.99
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Marian Schwartz
One of the delights of Russian literature, a tour de force that has been compared to the best of Nabokov and Bulgakov, Yuri Olesha's novella Envy brings together cutting social satire, slapstick humor, and a wild visionary streak. Andrei is a ... [... more]
Random House |
Ken Kalfus
One of the delights of Russian literature, a tour de force that has been compared to the best of Nabokov and Bulgakov, Yuri Olesha's novella Envy brings together cutting social satire, slapstick humor, and a wild visionary streak. Andrei is a ... [... more]
Random House |
Casanova's Big Night
From Amazon.com: Bob "Orson Welles" Hope is at the top of his game in this 1954 Technicolor laugh-fest co-starring Joan Fontaine and Basil Rathbone. Hope plays Pippo Popolino, Casanova's tailor, who finds himself standing in for the great lover [... more]
CDN$11.99
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Chaplin:Gold Rush/Pay Day
Amazon.com Essential Video: After the box-office failure of his first dramatic film, A Woman of Paris, Charlie Chaplin brooded over his ensuing comedy. "The next film must be an epic!" he recalled in his autobiography. "The greatest!" [... more]
CDN$24.98
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A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (Widescreen)
From Amazon.com: "Something familiar, something peculiar, something for everyone: a comedy tonight!" Those words from the opening song pretty much describe the menu in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, a frantic adaptation of the [... more]
CDN$15.98
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Dunston Checks In (Widescreen/Full Screen)
From Amazon.com: High society gets a dose of monkey business in this family-friendly bit of simian slapstick. Less foul and more fun than Clyde from the Clint Eastwood comedies, Dunston is the practical-joking orangutan partner of foppish jewel thief [... more]
CDN$11.98
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Dunston Checks In
From Amazon.com: High society gets a dose of monkey business in this family-friendly bit of simian slapstick. Less foul and more fun than Clyde from the Clint Eastwood comedies, Dunston is the practical-joking orangutan partner of foppish jewel thief [... more]
CDN$11.98
Amazon CA |
Mouse Hunt [DTS] (Widescreen/Full Screen)
From Amazon.com: What might have been a one-note family comedy becomes something more thanks to the comic brilliance of costars Nathan Lane and Lee Evans, as well as the distinctive, dark-fable look given the film by a little-known director named Gore [... more]
CDN$17.98
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M. Hulots Holiday
From Amazon.co.uk: Forefather of Rowan Atkinson's Mr. Bean, Jacques Tati's Monsieur Hulot--a recurring character in several of his movies--is a blithely clumsy troublemaker, an insouciant twit who leaves uproar in his wake without being aware of it. [... more]
CDN$49.99
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Brain Donors
The 14th Marx Brothers Film: This is A Night at the Opera (ballet in this case), without stealing a single joke from the Marx Brothers and every bit as funny as the Marx Brothers at their best. John Turturro as the Groucho counterpart, Bob Nelson as the [... more]
CDN$17.99
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