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Originally Posted by Fremen
If you like old classic comedic movies, I would suggest :
The Man Who Came to Dinner
Arsenic and Old Lace
Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?
Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein
Buck Privates
The Time of Their Lives (all three are Abbott and Costello movies)
Duck Soup
A Night At the Opera
Horsefeathers (all three are Marx Bros. films)
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I can't fault you taste in Marx Brothers, but you also put me in mind of one of the great comedy writer/directors of the 40s: Preston Sturges. Someone described his movies as some of the "densest" ever made, because each character, no matter how minor, has his or her moment to speak his mind or make an impression. Call them cynical screwball comedies. And in some ways, they were as studiously absurd as the Warner Brothers cartoons of the time. In fact, if you were to remake some of these today, it'd be more effective to remake them as cartoons or illustrated novels than as movies.
Written and directed by Sturges and recommended:
The Great McGinty
The Lady Eve
The Palm Beach Story
Sullivan's Travels -- this is the one everybody recommends, but I think that the others are better.