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Free comedy films
Comedy dates faster than anything else and then, past a certain distance, stops dating at all. The silent shorts here still work exactly as built, because a man falling down a flight of stairs was funny in 1922 for the same reason it is funny now.
The talkies are a mixed bag: program fillers, second features, and genuinely sharp pictures made by people whose names nobody kept. Some of it is very funny. Some of it is a historical document about what an audience was once willing to laugh at, which is worth watching for different reasons.
Everything plays in full, free, with no account and no subscription.
21 films
6 of them carry an audio description track written and recorded here — all the described films are listed together.
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A Bucket of Blood (1959)Audio described
Walter Paisley, a busboy at a beatnik coffeehouse, hides a dead cat under a coat of clay and is hailed overnight as a brilliant new sculptor. Now the poets want more. Roger…
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Angel on My Shoulder (1946)Audio described
Eddie Kagle walks out of prison and is shot dead by his partner, Smiley Williams. Below, he meets a man who calls himself Nick, who has noticed that Eddie is the double of Judge…
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Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla (1952)Audio described
Two young entertainers, Duke Mitchell and Sammy Petrillo, fall out of a plane and wake up on a South Pacific island, where Dr. Zabor keeps a laboratory and a chimpanzee named…
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His Girl Friday (1940)Audio described
Hildy Johnson, the star reporter who divorced her editor Walter Burns, comes back to the paper to tell him she is marrying Bruce Baldwin, an insurance man, and leaving for…
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One Week (1920)Audio described
A newly married couple are given a build-it-yourself house, assemble it by the numbers on the boxes, and end up with two storeys twisted round each other and a roof that never…
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The Little Shop of Horrors (1960)Audio described
Seymour Krelboined, the hapless clerk at Mushnick's flower shop on Skid Row, is growing a strange new plant that brings in customers and has an appetite of its own. Roger…
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As You Like It (1936)
In this first film version of William Shakespeare's classic pastoral comedy, Sir Laurence Olivier stars as Orlando while Elisabeth Bergner is Rosalind, his secret admirer who…
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Charlie Chaplin Festival (1938)
Four Chaplin shorts from 1917: The Adventurer, The Cure, Easy Street and The Immigrant, presented with music and sound effects.
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McLintock! (1963)
John Wayne Comedy Western filmed in widescreeen.
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Mr. Robinson Crusoe (1932)
After accepting the wager, Steve and his dog swim ashore and begin to recreate their Park Avenue world by way of various Rube Goldberg type contraptions constructed from local…
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Penny Serenade (1941)
Touching romantic comedy starring Cary Grant and Irene Dunne.
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Royal Wedding (1951)
Brother and sister dancing duo Tom and Ellen Bowen (Fred Astaire and Jane Powell) travel to merry old England. There, against the backdrop of the impending wedding of royals…
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Star Wreck: In the Pirkining (2005)
A Finnish culthit that became internationaly known through it's open CC-license. Originally from the far future, he traveled back to save the world, but was shipwrecked on the…
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Teaserama (1955)
This, uh, documentary is a compilation of performances by strippers and comedians featuring Bettie Page and Tempest Storm.
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The Amazing Adventure (1936)
Cary Grant plays Earnest Bliss a rich socialite who makes a bet with his doctor that he can make a living for one year using none of his current wealth.
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The Flying Deuces (1939)
This was the first comedy that Laurel and Hardy starred in without producer Hal Roach, although they had previously been "guest stars" in four MGM movies. After they finished…
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The Gun and the Pulpit (1974)
An on the run gunfighter, wanted for a crime he didn't commit, stumbles upon the body of a preacher who's been killed. In an attempt to hide from his pursuers, he takes on the…
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The Over-the-Hill Gang (1969)
Captain Oren Hayes (Pat O'Brien) of the Texas Rangers takes a break to visit his daughter (Kristin Harmon) in a neighboring town. When he arrives he find's his daughter Hannah's…
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The Three Stooges - "Color Craziness"
"The New Three Stooges" was produced in 1965. It featured the animated adventures of Moe, Larry, & Curly Joe. The cartoons were introduced by live-action inserts with the real…
- Meet John Doe (1941)
- My Favorite Brunette (1947)