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In Reply to: screwball comedy posted by REM on May 15, 2000 at 23:20:03:
My all-time favorite is "His Girl Friday". Brilliant, continuous rapid-fire dialogue that makes the movie seem to last about 30 minutes. Another I really like is "My Man Godfrey", the one with William Powell and Carole Lombard-not the remake. "You Can't Take It with You" is also great. I think all of "The Thin Man" films would qualify even though they're mystery-comedy. "Holiday", "Ball of Fire", "Love Crazy", "It Happened One Night", & "The Lady Eve" are all worth seeing. "Talk of the Town" isn't quite as screwy as some of the others, but it's still pretty funny. I don't usually think of "Ninotchka" as a screwball comedy, but Garbo really cracks me up in that film.
Why not just go through the Hawks library, Sturges has some real winners too, Hail the Conquering Hero and The Miracle of Morgans Creek are both wonderful.
Don't forget Sturges' masterpiece "Sullivan's Travels" or "Palm Beach Story". The sequence in the latter film where runaway wife Claudette Colbert falls in with the Ale and Quail Club on a private railroad car is screwball comedy at its best. Sturges wrote some of the smartest, wittiest dialogue in film history.Rob Doorack
Senior Editor, "Listener" magazine
Check out "The Ex Mrs. Bradford", William Powell/Jean Arthur sleuth comedy; "Star Of Midnight", William Powell/Ginger Rogers sleuth comedy; "The Trouble With Harry", Hitchcock comedy/mystery with a young Shirley McLaine; "Arsenic and Old Lace", Cary Grant.
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Here's some screwball comedies that I like. You might too.Groove Tube
Amazon Women on the Moon (no relation to amazon.com!)
The Kentucky Fried Movie
Liar Liar (out-takes in this one!)
Hot Shots!
Hot Shots, Part Deux!
Monty Python's And Now For Something Completely Different
Bill Cosby: Himself
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