Classic Film Comedies

The Thin Man is among the most charming films of the '30s, a savvy mix of detective mystery and light comedy that introduced one of the movies' most endearing couples.

Aug 18, 2009 - Barry M. Grey

In the second of twin DVD releases, Columbia Pictures revisits four vintage films -- although only three really qualify as screwball comedies; the fourth is a pretender.

Aug 3, 2009 - Barry M. Grey

In the first of twin DVD releases, Columbia Pictures revisits four of its lesser comedies featuring two great comic actresses and some often-underrated leading men.

Aug 3, 2009 - Barry M. Grey

The Fortune Cookie is a smart, scabrous, deliciously cynical take on greed in general and, in particular, the litigious society America was becoming in the mid-1960s.

Jun 25, 2009 - Barry M. Grey

Duck Soup - the fifth and best of the Marx Brothers' movies - is their funniest and fastest film, a multi-faceted farce that plays as razor-sharp today as it did in 1933.

Jun 5, 2009 - Barry M. Grey

Consistently over-praised, this was the team's first film at highbrow MGM and it shows - with the usual winning Marx formula watered down by a meddling studio.

May 11, 2009 - Barry M. Grey

This 1941 classic is among the most romantic films of Hollywood's Golden Era, a fantasy perhaps hokey by today's standards, yet charming, heartwarming and funny as hell.

Feb 16, 2009 - Barry M. Grey

Comedy and union activism collide in this Jean Arthur vehicle about class struggle within the walls of a big New York City department store.

Feb 15, 2009 - Barry M. Grey