Best Comedy Films of 1972
Pulp
A year after Get ... Get Carter, Pulp (1972) was championed by a few and became something of a cult favorite over subsequent decades. [ best comedy films - 1972 ]
All in the Family: Season 03
Securely imbedded as America's ... (Carroll O'Connor) that there is a limit to the amount of jokes about his race that he will tolerate. [ best comedy films - 1972 ]
Play It Again, Sam
Herbert Ross directed this ... feels comfortable around. Linda proves unexpectedly receptive to Allan's advances, since Dick's workaholic ways leave Linda neglected and ignored. [ best comedy films - 1972 ]
Now You See Him, Now You Don't
If anyone is interested ... Higgins can spout out "Wha? Wha? Wha?,." Arno continues onward with the chase for Dexter and the invisibility spray. [ best comedy films - 1972 ]
Butterflies Are Free
Leonard Gershe based his ... tense when Jill's boyfriend (Paul Michael Glaser) enters the scene. Eileen Heckart won an Academy Award for her performance. [ best comedy films - 1972 ]
Snowball Express
In this light-weight Disney ... a grizzled old miner (Harry Morgan). In typical Disney fashion, the plot culminates in a wild, slapstick snowmobile race. [ best comedy films - 1972 ]
L'Aventure C'est L'Aventure
In the French L'Aventure ... Along the way, planes get hijacked, ambassadors are kidnapped and held for ransom, and the Pope is similarly abducted. [ best comedy films - 1972 ]
Cry of the Penguins
A great deal of ... film's reputedly spectacular and affecting Antarctic footage (shot by Arne Sucksdorff) in order to concentrate on the love story. [ best comedy films - 1972 ]
M*A*S*H: Season 01
One of the most ... But CBS eventually got the message, and moved M*A*S*H to a more desirable Saturday-night slot for its second season. [ best comedy films - 1972 ]
Last of the Red Hot Lovers
Based on a play ... that director Gene Saks would bring to the screen; Saks also directed a number of Simon's successes on Broadway. [ best comedy films - 1972 ]
The Brady Bunch: Season 04
Even after four seasons ... Subject Was Noses," the one in which a misguided football smashes Marcia's nose flat -- and we mean flat! [ best comedy films - 1972 ]
Savages
This hippie parable, co-written ... estate. One of Ivory's co-writers was Michael O'Donoghue, infamous bad boy of the original Saturday Night Live writing staff. [ best comedy films - 1972 ]
The Adventures of Barry McKenzie
The popular Australian comic ... the Heart, breezes through his scatalogical material with the abandon of a schoolboy scribbling naughty words on the sidewalk. [ best comedy films - 1972 ]
Sanford and Son: Season 01
With All in the ... as America's sixth highest-rated program. The series would remain securely in the Top Ten list throughout its six-season run. [ best comedy films - 1972 ]
Sanford and Son: Season 02
A confirmed hit in ... as the second most popular TV series in America (another Norman Lear effort, All in the Family, was first). [ best comedy films - 1972 ]
The Groove Tube
Channel One was a ... thanks to such bits as "Safety Sam," wherein the audience is offered cheerful anti-VD advice by a talking penis. [ best comedy films - 1972 ]
Oh! Calcutta!
A production of Oh! ... record of the play rather than a cinematic adaptation, leaving its staging, revue-like structure, and frankly sexual content intact. [ best comedy films - 1972 ]
Private Parts
A teenage runaway gets ... for MGM, but was released through their Premier Productions subsidiary, perhaps in deference to the film's kinky sexual content. [ best comedy films - 1972 ]
El Rey de Acapulco
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Suburban Wives
Written and directed by ... earned this film an X rating. Current prints of Suburban Wives have been toned down to a hard "R". [ best comedy films - 1972 ]
Up the Front
Zany British comedian Frankie ... several opportunities in Up the Front to directly address the audience and crack wise about the situation at hand. [ best comedy films - 1972 ]
Mutiny on the Buses
On the Buses was ... Hare repeat their TV series roles. On the Buses was "Americanized" as the 1973 Dom DeLuise sitcom Lotsa Luck. [ best comedy films - 1972 ]
That Darn Punk
That Darn Punk is ... the pre-orders for the soundtrack are said to have paid for the production of the movie four times over. [ best comedy films - 1972 ]
Till Death Us Do Part: Dock Pilfering
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Till Death Us Do Part: To Garnett a Grandson
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Emma
Jane Austen's well-intending cupid ... her protégée Harriet Smith, her longtime friend Mr. Knightley looks on with a bemused mix of delight and dismay. [ best comedy films - 1972 ]
Monty Python's Flying Circus: Season 3
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Pobre Pero Honrada
Beloved Mexican screen star ... discovers that there's a new shaman around, the comic trouble that follows is sure to keep viewers in stitches. [ best comedy films - 1972 ]
Me He de Comer Esa Tuna
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Ubalda, All Naked and Warm
Italian screen legends Edwige ... a bored miller's wife named Ubalda (Fenech) whose husband has gone to great lengths to ensure she remains faithful. [ best comedy films - 1972 ]
Snot Rocket and Super Detective
In the years before ... collectionj of surreal comedy clips featuring energetic rock and roll music, slapstick mayhem, and an abundance of juvenile humor. [ best comedy films - 1972 ]Supplemental Navigation
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