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Best Comedy Films of 1968


With Six You Get Eggroll

A young widow with ... is the harried housekeeper in this engaging romp. The Grass Roots provide some of the music in this feature. [ best comedy films - 1968 ]

No Way to Treat a Lady

New York detective Moe ... the basis of the third-rate Fields imitation he offers to George Segal during one of his taunting phone calls. [ best comedy films - 1968 ]

The Private Navy of Sgt. O'Farrell

O'Farrell (Bob Hope) is ... troop moral in this uneven and poorly conceived comedy. Gina Lollobrigida and Jeffrey Hunter also star in the feature. [ best comedy films - 1968 ]

The Shakiest Gun in the West

This hilarious oater finds ... has to help the pseudo-hero out of even more trouble before they can ride off together into the sunset. [ best comedy films - 1968 ]

Finian's Rainbow

Nearly 20 years after ... to direct a musical, and indeed the production was a troubled one due to Coppola's inexperience in the genre. [ best comedy films - 1968 ]

The Odd Couple

Compulsive neatnik Felix Unger ... ever written. The Odd Couple was later adapted into a long-running TV sitcom starring Tony Randall and Jack Klugman. [ best comedy films - 1968 ]

Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows

Mother Simplicia (Rosalind Russell) ... the school for boys in this mildly amusing comedy. Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart sing their self-penned title track. [ best comedy films - 1968 ]

I Love You, Alice B. Toklas

One of the few ... patronizes neither the hippies nor the Establishment characters; both groups are shown as human beings rather than agit-prop stereotypes. [ best comedy films - 1968 ]

Hogan's Heroes: Season 04

It's business as usual ... Alice Ghostley replaces Kathleen Freeman in the role of Gertrude Linkmeier, the Wagnerian would-be bride of the unwilling Klink. [ best comedy films - 1968 ]

Blackbeard's Ghost

Blackbeard's Ghost was one ... from Richard Deacon to Gil Lamb, while Peter Ellenshaw performs the visual effects with mattes, miniatures, and process screens. [ best comedy films - 1968 ]

Don't Raise the Bridge, Lower the River

Humorist Max Wilk scripted ... but Dr. Pinto double-crosses them. George flies off to Lisbon with Pamela in pursuit, and the chase is on. [ best comedy films - 1968 ]

Live a Little, Love A Little

Singing stars from two ... to the stage, as his 1960s film career had failed to take on the dramatic seriousness he desperately sought. [ best comedy films - 1968 ]

The Love Bug

Those who worried that ... Gordon Buford, The Love Bug inspired two equally lucrative sequels, Herbie Rides Again and Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo. [ best comedy films - 1968 ]

Inspector Clouseau

The famously inept but ... the other Pink Panther films, though it maintains some interest as a curious aberration in the popular comic series. [ best comedy films - 1968 ]

Bedazzled

Falling somewhere between the ... and allow him to re-enter Heaven. But God doesn't buy this; He's satisfied with Satan remaining mankind's "necessary evil". [ best comedy films - 1968 ]

The Horse in the Gray Flannel Suit

Advertising executive Fred Bolton ... popular and memorable than The Horse In The Gray Flannel Suit, which is one of the studio's less-inspiring efforts. [ best comedy films - 1968 ]

I Dream of Jeannie: Season 04

Season Four of I ... Tony Nelson in his home, causing no end of mischief when the phony Tony tumbles onto Jeannie's secret identity. [ best comedy films - 1968 ]

Greetings

If for nothing else, ... honored at the 1969 Berlin Film Festival. The film was originally rated X due to its considerable sexual content. [ best comedy films - 1968 ]

Paper Lion

Paper Lion is taken ... into acting in films and on television, joining Jim Brown who preceded and Bubba Smith and others who followed. [ best comedy films - 1968 ]

A Midsummer Night's Dream

British director Peter Hall's ... this Midsummer Night's Dream premiered in the U.S. on the CBS TV network on Sunday evening, February 9, 1969. [ best comedy films - 1968 ]

Head

The Monkees -- Micky ... out thanks to poor distribution, but it has since become a fixture of midnight-movie showings and campus cinema classes. [ best comedy films - 1968 ]

The Anniversary

Bette Davis plays a ... in their closets -- and in the case of her eldest son, the women's undies in his dresser drawers. [ best comedy films - 1968 ]

Flesh

Flesh was filmmaker Paul ... to repeat itself, Flesh is still explicit enough to elicit gasps from even the most jaded of underground-film enthusiasts. [ best comedy films - 1968 ]

John Cleese on How to Irritate People

No kidding: they need ... geniuses in their embryonic stage. Originally telecast in 1965, How to Irritate People was restored for video in 1992. [ best comedy films - 1968 ]

Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In [TV Series]

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Capulina Speedy Gonzales

The comedy Capulina Speedy ... popular Mexican comic actor Capulina as a postal worker whose job performance improves dramatically after eating a particular chili. [ best comedy films - 1968 ]

Los Beverly de Peralvillo [TV Series]

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El As de Oros

From director Chano Urueta, ... medicine by taking up with a male tourist. El As de Oros also stars Flor Silvestre and Regina Torne. [ best comedy films - 1968 ]

That Girl: Season 03

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Family Affair: Season 03

For those who dismissed ... as indicated by the fact that Family Affair closed its third season as America's fifth most-watched prime time series. [ best comedy films - 1968 ]




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