Comedy Movies of 1972

Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex, But Were Afraid to Ask

Woody Allen's in-name-only adaptation of the once notorious sexual reference guide by Dr. David Reuben contains seven episodes based on "helpful" questions answered in the book. In "Do ... [ Comedy movie - 1972 ]

Fuzz

Fuzz treads the line between raucous comedy and gut-churning melodrama. Based on an "87th Precinct" novel by Ed McBain (aka Evan Hunter), the film stars Burt Reynolds and Jack ... [ Comedy movie - 1972 ]

The Mary Tyler Moore Show: Season 03

The eponymous star of The Mary Tyler Moore Show launches her third season in the role of Mary Richards, the still lovable, still unmarried associate producer of "The Six O'Clock News" on Minneapolis TV station WJM-TV. Also returning are the ... [ Comedy movie - 1972 ]

What's Up, Doc?

With Howard Hawks's Bringing Up Baby (1938) as his blueprint, Peter Bogdanovich resurrected and payed homage to 1930s screwball comedy in ... [ Comedy movie - 1972 ]

Pulp

A year after Get Carter (1971), director Mike Hodges and star Michael Caine ... [ Comedy movie - 1972 ]

All in the Family: Season 03

Securely imbedded as America's top-rated series, All in the Family enters its third season with the greatest of ease. This season's episode manifest yields quite a few ... [ Comedy movie - 1972 ]

Play It Again, Sam

Herbert Ross directed this adaptation of Woody Allen's hit Broadway play concerning a shy film critic who has trouble with women. Woody Allen plays Allan Felix, a writer for Film Quarterly consumed by movies, particularly his favorite film ... [ Comedy movie - 1972 ]

Now You See Him, Now You Don't

If anyone is interested in seeing what Kurt Russell used to do before transforming into Snake Plissken in Escape From New York, they can look no further than this labored Disney ... [ Comedy movie - 1972 ]

Butterflies Are Free

Leonard Gershe based his play Butterflies are Free on a real-life blind attorney. The film version stars Edward Albert as Don Baker, a self-reliant, sightless young man who becomes the object of affection for ... [ Comedy movie - 1972 ]

Snowball Express

In this light-weight Disney family fare, Dean Jones plays Johnny Baxter, who -- along with his wife Sue (Nancy Olsen) and his two kids, Chris ... [ Comedy movie - 1972 ]

L'Aventure C'est L'Aventure

In the French L'Aventure C'est L'Aventure, a gang of thieves, suffering a drop in business, enter into a new phase of larceny. Passing themselves off as terrorists, the gang begins committing political crimes, extorting huge sums to prevent ... [ Comedy movie - 1972 ]

Cry of the Penguins

A great deal of director Al Viola's version of this film was pruned away for its general release. The missing portions are not only the heart of the story, but they are the heart of the novel by Graham Billings which ... [ Comedy movie - 1972 ]

MAS*H: Season 01

One of the most famous and successful sitcoms of all time, M*A*S*H was based on the 1970 Robert Altman ... [ Comedy movie - 1972 ]

Last of the Red Hot Lovers

Based on a play by Neil Simon, this comedy concerns Barney Cashman (Alan Arkin), ... [ Comedy movie - 1972 ]

The Heartbreak Kid

In Elaine May's second directorial outing, Charles Grodin stars as Lenny, a slick salesman who, while honeymooning with his new bride, Lila ... [ Comedy movie - 1972 ]

Avanti!

This enchanting yet dark romantic comedy stars Jack Lemmon and Juliet Mills as a pair of mismatched ... [ Comedy movie - 1972 ]

The Brady Bunch: Season 04

Even after four seasons and 73 episodes, The Brady Bunch is still the same old story, but a good story ... [ Comedy movie - 1972 ]

Savages

This hippie parable, co-written and directed by James Ivory and produced by his long-time partner Ismail Merchant, tries to make a heavy-handed parallel between ... [ Comedy movie - 1972 ]

The Adventures of Barry McKenzie

The popular Australian comic strip The Wonderful World of Barry McKenzie was first brought to the screen in this raunchy 1972 romp. Barry Crocker plays ... [ Comedy movie - 1972 ]

Sanford and Son: Season 01

With All in the Family reaping huge ratings and even huger controversy on CBS, producer Norman Lear was able to sell another "chancy" sitcom ... [ Comedy movie - 1972 ]

Sanford and Son: Season 02

A confirmed hit in its inaugural 14-episode season, the NBC sitcom Sanford and Son returned to its familiar Friday-night ... [ Comedy movie - 1972 ]

The Groove Tube

Channel One was a New York-based comedy group which presented short satirical sketches concerning television. What set this ... [ Comedy movie - 1972 ]

Oh! Calcutta!

A production of Oh! Calcutta!, the late-'60s off-Broadway play that received infamy as the first nude musical, is captured here. The film is a ... [ Comedy movie - 1972 ]

Private Parts

A teenage runaway gets more than she bargained for when she moves into an old hotel ... [ Comedy movie - 1972 ]

El Rey de Acapulco

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Suburban Wives

Written and directed by Derek Ford, the British Suburban Wives is a spicy satire of modern manners and mores. ... [ Comedy movie - 1972 ]

Up the Front

Zany British comedian Frankie Howerd, who'd previously laid waste to Ancient Rome in Up Pompeii, does same with World War II in Up the ... [ Comedy movie - 1972 ]

Mutiny on the Buses

On the Buses was an engagingly daffy British TV sitcom set in a bus depot and ... [ Comedy movie - 1972 ]

That Darn Punk

That Darn Punk is the first feature from the film production leg of Vandals bassist Joe Escalante's Kung-Fu Records. Escalante himself stars as Dirk Castigo, a ... [ Comedy movie - 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 comes to the screen once again in this adaptation of her popular novel starring Doran Godwin in the title role and John Carson in the role of Mr. Knightley. ... [ Comedy movie - 1972 ]