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Comedy Movies of 1971

Plaza Suite

It is not uncommon for actors to double and triple in roles while ... [ Comedy movie - 1971 ]

The Mary Tyler Moore Show: Season 02

Like the series' heroine, Mary Richards, The Mary ... [ Comedy movie - 1971 ]

Evil Roy Slade

Overlooked when it first aired February 18, 1972, the made-for-TV Evil Roy Slade has gained a loyal and protective cult following in the past 20 years. The film was the second pilot for a ... [ Comedy movie - 1971 ]

Support Your Local Gunfighter

This Western action/comedy is told in the same tongue-in-cheek manner as its predecessor, Support Your Local Sheriff. Goldie (Marie Windsor), a madam, is a formidable woman, and Latigo Smith (James Garner) knows perfectly well that his ... [ Comedy movie - 1971 ]

All in the Family: Season 01

From the vantage point of the early 21st century, it is hard to ... [ Comedy movie - 1971 ]

All in the Family: Season 02

Season two of All in the Family was also the series' first ... [ Comedy movie - 1971 ]

Bedknobs and Broomsticks

Bedknobs and Broomsticks was produced several years after Walt Disney's death and released in the fall of 1971. As ... [ Comedy movie - 1971 ]

Little Murders

Actor Alan Arkin has an impressive film directorial debut with Little ... [ Comedy movie - 1971 ]

The Hospital

Directed by Arthur Hiller from the second of three Academy Award-winning screenplays by Paddy Chayefsky, The Hospital is a ... [ Comedy movie - 1971 ]

And Now for Something Completely Different

Monty Python's And Now For Something Completely Different was first released in the US in 1973, but didn't really take off as a midnight-movie fixture ... [ Comedy movie - 1971 ]

Kotch

For his only directorial effort, Jack Lemmon selected his old friend and habitual co-star ... [ Comedy movie - 1971 ]

The Barefoot Executive

At last the secret has been revealed! Prime-time network programming is determined by a chimpanzee! That's the premise of Disney's The Barefoot Executive, a highly ... [ Comedy movie - 1971 ]

Harold and Maude

A young man with a death wish and a 79-year-old high on life find love in Hal Ashby's cult black comedy. Deadpan rich boy Harold (Bud Cort) keeps staging elaborate suicide tableaux to ... [ Comedy movie - 1971 ]

Bananas

One of Woody Allen's earlier, more slapstick-oriented efforts, Bananas tells the story of Fielding Mellish (Allen), a neurotic New Yorker who follows the object of his affections, ... [ Comedy movie - 1971 ]

La Folie des Grandeurs

This French historical comedy/farce, loosely based on ... [ Comedy movie - 1971 ]

Million Dollar Duck

In $1,000,000 Duck, the titular duck is exposed to radiation and begins laying golden eggs, which brings it ... [ Comedy movie - 1971 ]

Is There Sex After Death?

Alan Abel, best known as a purveyor of hoaxes, codirected this porno movie spoof with his wife Jeanne. Alan also stars as an itinerant sex specialist who ... [ Comedy movie - 1971 ]

The Brady Bunch: Season 03

Season three of The Brady Bunch is pretty much the same as seasons one and two, not that anyone is complaining. Once again, the diverse members of the Brady clan, brought together two seasons earlier by the wedding of widow Carol Martin ... [ Comedy movie - 1971 ]

Trafic

This comedy is one of the few films by French ... [ Comedy movie - 1971 ]

The Corpse Grinders

When the owner of Lotus Cat Food learns that his primary financial backer has pulled out upon completion of their new processing facility, he gets his revenge by stuffing the poor dope into a meat ... [ Comedy movie - 1971 ]

The Love Pill

This sex related comedy features the development of a pill to instill insatiable sexual appetites in ... [ Comedy movie - 1971 ]

Snowballin'

Set in the beautiful mountains of Quebec, this lusty downhill skiing adventure follows the exploits of a handsome ski instructor as he ... [ Comedy movie - 1971 ]

Star Spangled Girl

Jerry Paris's Star Spangled Girl (1971), based on Neil Simon's play (a notorious Broadway flop), never made much of ... [ Comedy movie - 1971 ]

Vampire Happening

Italian producer Pier A. Caminnecci went to Germany and hired British director Freddie Francis to make this vampire comedy starring his Scandinavian wife, Pia Dagermark (Elvira Madigan). The resultant international mish-mash is neither ... [ Comedy movie - 1971 ]

When Women Lost Their Tails

In this comic sequel to When Women Had Tails, a group of prehistoric men and women experiment with the recently discovered phenomenon of sex. ~ Iotis Erlewine, ... [ Comedy movie - 1971 ]

Dad's Army

For fans of the British television series Dad's Army, this film is a bonanza. Including the entire cast from the television series, it is a comedy about the Walmington-on-Sea contingent of the Home Guard, set in ... [ Comedy movie - 1971 ]

The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight

In this comedy, based on Jimmy Breslin's novel, a bungling gang of hoods make increasingly ludicrous attempts on the life of a Mafia boss. Each ... [ Comedy movie - 1971 ]

How to Frame a Figg

In this comedy, a bungling bookkeeper's assistant works in the Dalton city hall and finds himself framed for embezzling by his corrupt superiors. A sweet young woman helps him clear his name. He is also assisted by Leo the computer. ~ Sandra ... [ Comedy movie - 1971 ]

On the Buses

Based on a popular British television series from the late sixties, On ... [ Comedy movie - 1971 ]

She'll Follow You Anywhere

She'll Follow You Anywhere concerns two swinging bachelors who discover a love potion that makes women ... [ Comedy movie - 1971 ]

Lenny Bruce: Without Tears

Lenny Bruce was a stand-up comic (though he frequently sat down do deliver his monologues) whose work in the early '50s electrified the intellectual community of his time. It is ... [ Comedy movie - 1971 ]

Percy

Low-brow British humor abounds in this farcical account of Edwin Anthony, the first man to receive a successful penis transplant. Anthony becomes quite attached to his new appendage and even gives it the title name. The alleged humor comes in ... [ Comedy movie - 1971 ]

Women in Revolt

Andy Warhol produced this mordant satire of the women's movement, directed by Paul Morrissey and staring a trio of ... [ Comedy movie - 1971 ]

The Erotic Adventures of Pinocchio

This is a bawdy burlesque version of the famous fairy tale. Instead of Gepetto, the ... [ Comedy movie - 1971 ]

The Policeman

This Israeli film is a good-hearted, gentle, bittersweet comedy ... [ Comedy movie - 1971 ]

Richard Pryor: Live & Smokin'

Richard Pryor's performance at the New York Improv on April, 29th, 1971 features the comedian giving his thoughts on sex, drugs, and race relations. Included is "Wino Preacher & Willie the Junkie," showcasing Pryor in the ... [ Comedy movie - 1971 ]

Chismes De Lavaderos

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Tonta Tonta Pero No Tanto

When an Indian woman from San José of the Burros leaves her friends and family behind to seek out a job that has been promised to her in the big city, she soon finds that live in ... [ Comedy movie - 1971 ]

Departamento de Soltero

Departamento de Soltero concerns a womanizer who decides to take ... [ Comedy movie - 1971 ]

El Nano

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Pepito Y La Lampara Maravillosa

The comedy team that left audiences laughing with Detectives and Contra Los Monstrous finds their morals tested by the sudden appearance of a ... [ Comedy movie - 1971 ]


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