Tag: Comedy films

Fancy Pants Blu-ray review

Comedy icons Bob Hope and Lucille Ball team-up in the 1950 Technicolor film Fancy Pants, directed by George Marshall, where Bob gets in over his head with some crazy impersonation shenanigans. The film is a musical version of Ruggles of Red Gap. Fancy Pants was the second pairing of the two icons, as in 1949…


A Night the Opera Blu-ray review

A Night at the Opera is a comedy starring the Marx Brothers, Groucho, Chico, and Harpo. The trio made five films for MGM, with this one being the first. This movie was one of the studio’s biggest hits of 1935. The film starts in Italy, where Otis B. Driftwood (Groucho Marx), a conniving business manager…


Smile (Fun City Editions) Blu-ray review

After watching Smile, you may never feel the same way about beauty or any other pageants ever again. In this picture, you go behind the scenes of the lives of those who are involved in putting together a pageant, in a satirical kind of way. Smile is a 1975 satire comedy drama story directed by…


My Favorite Blonde Blu-ray review

Comedy legend Bob Hope turned every ‘serious’ film genre into something hysterical. He was able to incorporate comedy into Westerns, horrors, dramas and even spy thrillers with including laughter with the shocks, scares and suspense! He used his wits and nuttiness in the 1942 classic spy thriller comedy My Favorite Blonde, which co-starred someone who…