Comedy Movies of 1974
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
From its opening multi-language titles (that sure looks like Swedish) to the closing arrest of the entire Dark Ages cast by modern-day bobbies, Monty Python and the Holy Grail helped to define ... [ Comedy movie - 1974 ]
The Front Page
This third film version of the 1928 Ben Hecht/Charlie MacArthur Broadway hit The Front Page was the first one permitted to utilize all the salty profanities in the original play. Director Billy ... [ Comedy movie - 1974 ]
Uptown Saturday Night
Uptown Saturday Night is a delightful comedy directed by and starring Sidney Poitier. Steve Jackson (Sidney Poitier) is a factory worker. One evening, when boredom ... [ Comedy movie - 1974 ]
Bank Shot
This crime-caper film from director Gower Champion stars George C. Scott as a visionary thief. He doesn't merely intend to rob ... [ Comedy movie - 1974 ]
The Longest Yard
Ex-football star Paul Crewe (Burt Reynolds) ends up in a prison run by sadistic sports-nut Warden Hazen (Eddie Albert). Strong-armed into forming an inmate football team, Crewe manages to instill an ... [ Comedy movie - 1974 ]
Young Frankenstein
Lending his burlesque touch to 1970s genre revision, Mel ... [ Comedy movie - 1974 ]
Blazing Saddles
Vulgar, crude, and occasionally scandalous in its racial humor, ... [ Comedy movie - 1974 ]
Rhinoceros
Rhinoceros is another American Film Theatre movie recording a notable stage production. The incomparable duo of Zero Mostel and Gene ... [ Comedy movie - 1974 ]
The Holes
The title refers to the means of entry into the sewers of Paris. Here we find a group of misfits who've given up on humanity and have decided to dwell below the pavement. The ... [ Comedy movie - 1974 ]
For Pete's Sake
Barbra Streisand returns to the screwball-comedy milieu of What's Up Doc? in the lightweight ... [ Comedy movie - 1974 ]
All in the Family: Season 05
Season five of All in the Family begins with a four-part story arc, in which Archie Bunker (Carroll O'Connor) faces a long stretch of unemployment during a union strike, while ... [ Comedy movie - 1974 ]
The Prisoner of Second Avenue
A lesser but still entertaining Neil Simon work, The Prisoner of Second Avenue was ... [ Comedy movie - 1974 ]
Herbie Rides Again
Herbie Rides Again is the first sequel to Disney's fabulously successful The Love Bug. The emphasis ... [ Comedy movie - 1974 ]
Mame
Lucille Ball stars in this film version of the ... [ Comedy movie - 1974 ]
Romance with a Double Bass
You never heard of this one? It might be because Romance with a Double ... [ Comedy movie - 1974 ]
Happy Days: Season 01
[ Comedy movie - 1974 ]
Amazing Grace
Veteran black comedienne Jackie "Mobs" Mabley is featured in her first (and last) starring vehicle, Amazing Grace. ... [ Comedy movie - 1974 ]
S*P*Y*S
In 1974, flanked by such filmic monuments to paranoia and corruption as Chinatown and The Parallax View, Elliott Gould and Donald Sutherland tried to re-create the screwball nonchalance of their earlier M*A*S*H performances in ... [ Comedy movie - 1974 ]
M*A*S*H: Season 03
With an ever-increasing viewership and three Emmy awards to its credit, M*A*S*H had no trouble easing into a third successful season in the fall of 1974. Not wishing to tinker with the success, the ... [ Comedy movie - 1974 ]
Chico and the Man [TV Series]
Produced by James Komack (Welcome Back, Kotter), the ... [ Comedy movie - 1974 ]
Good Times: Season 02
Having posted good, if not spectacular, ratings during its freshman year on CBS, Good Times was moved from Fridays to a more ... [ Comedy movie - 1974 ]
Rising Damp: Series 01
[ Comedy movie - 1974 ]
Sanford and Son: Season 04
Season four of Sanford and Son was ushered in on ... [ Comedy movie - 1974 ]
The Swinging Cheerleaders
This effort from exploitation auteur Jack Hill was a profitable early entry in one of the most beloved subgenres of sexploitation cinema, the ... [ Comedy movie - 1974 ]
Dark Star
The directorial debut of horrormeister John Carpenter comes in the way of Dark Star a parody of Stanley Kubrick's masterpiece, 2001--A Space Odyssey. The story follows four hippyish techno-nerds in their mission through deep ... [ Comedy movie - 1974 ]
Candy Stripe Nurses
Three teenage candy stripers find adventure in love within the walls of the local hospital in this silly exploitation vehicle. Marissa (Maria Rojo) is a hotheaded Mexican girl who has been ordered by the principal of her high school to serve ... [ Comedy movie - 1974 ]
Games Girls Play
In this film, the mischievous girls at a British boarding school concoct a competition to see who ... [ Comedy movie - 1974 ]
El Karateca Azteca
[ Comedy movie - 1974 ]
The Carhops
Despite her best efforts, a pretty drive-in restaurant waitress just doesn't seem to be able to lose her ... [ Comedy movie - 1974 ]
Holiday on the Buses
Various bus crashes combined with damaged property puts a bus depot manager in financial problems. ~ All ... [ Comedy movie - 1974 ]
Can You Keep It Up for a Week?
In this romantic comedy a young women will only marry her boyfriend is he can hold a job for seven days. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide [ Comedy movie - 1974 ]
Watch Out, We're Mad
This film is a madcap slapstick comedy about a pair of racing drivers who tangle with crooks ... [ Comedy movie - 1974 ]
Much Ado About Nothing
Set in early 20th century America, this production of Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing was originally performed at the New ... [ Comedy movie - 1974 ]
The Uncle Floyd Show [TV Series]
The Uncle Floyd Show has been running on and off for over a quarter of a century on New Jersey television -- somewhere on New Jersey television, whether on public access cable TV, low-power UHF, or what sometimes ... [ Comedy movie - 1974 ]
Thick As Thieves [TV Series]
This British sitcom made excellent use of a brace of future TV and film stars named Bob Hoskins and John ... [ Comedy movie - 1974 ]
Good Times: Season 01
Like so many other Norman Lear-produced efforts, Good ... [ Comedy movie - 1974 ]
Monty Python's Flying Circus: Season 4
[ Comedy movie - 1974 ]
La Madrecita
A selfless nun who has dedicated her existence to better the lives of orphaned children sets out on a series of zany adventures in a classic Mexican comedy starring screen icon Maria Elena Velasco. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide [ Comedy movie - 1974 ]
El Carita
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Marital Games
Yossi Banaiplays Gamliel, an elderly faith healer with a host of problems on his hands, in Joel Silberg's charming Israeli romantic comedy Marital Games (AKA Hacham Gamliel). Gamliel wishes to marry off his ... [ Comedy movie - 1974 ]
Ritalin Junkies
The manic mind of funnyman David Bumba is working overtime in a collection of wild comedy skits that throw all reason out the door to shoot for total absurdist hilarity. From shell-shocked bears struggling to overcome the trauma ... [ Comedy movie - 1974 ]
Saturday Night Live: The Best of Cheri Oteri
From her overzealous cheerleader to her uncanny Barbara Walters, longtime Saturday Night Live cast member Cheri Oteri kept audiences in stitches from the time she joined the cast in 1995 to her final show in the ... [ Comedy movie - 1974 ]
