Screwball Comedy Movies

In this screwball comedy a WW2 US pilot bombs a Japanese aircraft carrier, is assumed to be dead, and then is misquoted in the press as fondly...

A man on the lam in the Canadian wilds encounters a young woman in a remote lodge who is also on the run.

Chen Liujin and Zhang Lihong have a chance encounter with Wang Shu and Li Rong during an outing to the beach. Chen admires Wang, but Wang has fallen...

Race horse owner pays so much attention to business he winds up divorced from his wife. His alimony payments are so steep he plots with his lawyer to...

Elmer Whippet inherits the Whippet Pickles company and sets out to meet the two stars, Mary Reynolds and John Stowe, of the radio program sponsored...

After striking it rich in Alaskan gold, a young man returns to marry his fiancé only to be snubbed. Her sister, however, is worth considering,...

Story of staid college professor gathering data for a thesis in criminal psychology who becomes the object of a night-club singers affections.

Blad-Johan and the Nature Filmer are two cartoon characters who are part of this rhapsodic montage of crazy ideas and situations that take place in...

An Arizona gas station owner faces comic adventures after traveling with an eccentric millionaire to New City, where he meets up with a small-time...

Bill Reardon, a private detective, is working on a case involving stolen items from a local jewelry store. The case takes a different turn when...

A police inspector tracks a notorious jewel thief, 'Diamond-Lasse,' to a hotel filled with eccentrics.

A delightful pre-code cocktail recipe. Take three couples (add gin and tonic), their several divorces and the seven children/stepchildren of their...

Christy Sloane is sent on a business trip to inform radio personality Peter Lockwood that his uncle has died and left him $2 million. Christy, who's...

A pretty architect devises a wild scheme to convince a handsome millionaire to fund a new housing development project.

A homage to screwballs and mistaken identity films like The Great Dictator & North by Northwest, set in 1943. It's Cora Apple's birthday, and she...

Hank Medhill, artificial silk manufacturer, has returned to the U.S. from Japan to learn that his former girlfriend, Eleanor Breen is about to marry....

He Learned About Women is a 1932 American Pre-Code comedy film directed by Lloyd Corrigan and written by Lloyd Corrigan, Ray Harris and Harlan...

Two private eyes compete to find an heiress and bring her back, unmarried, to New York.

A group of boys get invited to a party by the popular girl at school. They exude confidence on their way to see her, only to be taught a valuable...

Madge Winton, a beautiful secretary, makes herself look homely in order to avoid advances by lecherous bosses. When her new employer, writer Freddy...