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Post by teleadm on Mar 10, 2017 20:20:33 GMT
The first one that comes to mind is The Goldwyn Follies 1938, it's both stupid and funny at the same time, with music by the Gershwin brother, and the talents of Adolphe Menjou, Ritz Brothers, Amanda Leads, Edgar Bergen and his dolls, and a chance to see Alan Ladd sing (blink and it's gone). Another I came to think of is The Concorde-Airport '80, Since it belongs to an older serial I think it's OK to iclud it, the plane has been shot be almost anything, yet 24 hours later it's ready to fly again, with Alain Delon, Bibi Andersson, George Kennedy, Martha Raye, Eddie Albert and Charo on board what could possibly go wrong?
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Post by Doghouse6 on Mar 10, 2017 21:54:37 GMT
And silly doesn't mean they can't be good, though it also doesn't mean they can't be bad. I especially enjoy these: Red Skelton's "Whistling in Brooklyn" and "Whistling in Dixie" always amuse me. The Crosby/Hope "Road" movies (save the final one, which was dreadful) The "Maisie" series with Ann Sothern. The "And Hardy" series with Mickey Rooney (and all the Mickey Rooney/Judy Garland films made when they were young). When I was a kid I enjoyed watching "The Bowery Boys" series on tv - not sure I would today. I know there are more that I can't remember right now. Gee, you left out Whistling In the Dark, the first of the three, featuring the wonderful Conrad Veidt ( "We part in radiant contentment").
As might be guessed by my sig line, I have a special weakness for The Raven (1935), the plot developments of which don't come much sillier: when you're a brilliant but bonkers surgeon and Poe aficionado who comes out of retirement to save a lovely young dancer's life, what do you do when she spurns your post-op romantic ardor? Why, you throw a weekend house party for her, her fiance, curmudgeonly father and assorted other guests, entrapping them all in the manse you've already conveniently fitted out with secret panels and trap doors, a basement torture chamber complete with an elaborate board controlling steel shutters on the windows, telephone shut-off and bedrooms that are actually elevators descending lock, stock and box springs into said torture chamber equipped with pit, pendulum and whatnot. Any self-respecting DIY-er would realize you never know when such devices will come in handy. Bela Lugosi goes by turns from intense to affable to full-on lunatic as the surgeon, Boris Karloff is pathos personified as the hapless escaped con blackmailed into assisting him, and dependable character players like Samuel S. Hinds, Ian Wolfe, Inez Courtney and Spencer Charters lend colorful support under the direction of Louis Friedlander who, as Lew Landers, would later direct episodes of the tongue-in-cheek Topper TV series among many others. Irresistible silliness.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 10, 2017 22:59:08 GMT
"My Best Friend's Wedding" I love that film. "Footloose" the original version, gotta love that angry dancing. "Bringing up Baby" "All about Eve" "Airplane" or as it is known in Australia "Flying High". Just curious, but what to you was "silly" about the movie "All About Eve"? That movie was a hard-core drama.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 10, 2017 23:01:37 GMT
Definitely loved all the Topper movies. I enjoyed the Andy Hardy movies too. Not a fan of slapstick so that part escapes me.
Bringing Up Baby is cute, but let's be honest, anything with Katharine Hepburn in is a treasure, and paired with Cary Grant? Priceless....
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Post by CybeRider on Mar 11, 2017 1:08:22 GMT
All from Jacques Tati, he got a new meaning to silly which silly people try ever since to imitate, even when they don't know him or are not aware of it.
(I was going to mention Napoleon Dynamite, but I really couldn't enjoy it as much as I tried to. That one was far too much)
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Post by Deleted on Mar 11, 2017 1:11:56 GMT
@merrida100 I meant "The Lady Eve" sorry.
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Post by Matthew the Swordsman on Mar 11, 2017 13:28:10 GMT
Look-Out Sister (1947), which I recently saw for the first time. The plot is so absurd that it is done as a dream sequence (although the non-dream parts aren't much less absurd). The highlight (or lowlight, depending on your point of view) is where a fat woman is trying to dive into a pool, and the lead character sings a song making fun of her being so fat. Political incorrectness at its best.
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Post by neurosturgeon on Mar 11, 2017 15:07:52 GMT
The first one that comes to mind is The Goldwyn Follies 1938, it's both stupid and funny at the same time, with music by the Gershwin brother, and the talents of Adolphe Menjou, Ritz Brothers, Amanda Leads, Edgar Bergen and his dolls, and a chance to see Alan Ladd sing (blink and it's gone). About 40 years ago, a book came out about the 50 worst films ever, and "The Goldwyn Follies" made the list. It was just a disaster waiting to happen. -Goldwyn is making a cold film, so what does he do? He hires Gregg Toland, one of the best B&W cinematographers ever who has never shot in color. -Hires the best songwriters around, George and Ira Gershwin. George is in the last few weeks of his very short life, dying of a brain tumor before completing the songs. Even though the great songs "Love Walked In" and "Our Love is Here to Stay" are written, the ballet segment was not and they rejected using "An American in Paris." The Ritz Brothers singing "Here Pussy, Pussy, Pussy" was not a film classic. The whole plot of hiring Miss Humanity to decide what film audiences wanted to see is so laughable, as they might have discovered this film wasn't it. But I like the movie. One of the stars, Kenny Baker, graduated from my high school and he does do some very good singing.
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Post by shield on Mar 11, 2017 15:23:14 GMT
Haven't seen this one. Now I must. The Ghost & Mr. Chicken is maybe the funniest Don Knotts picture, of his Universal days anyway. The Uni back lot and interiors are wonderful to see used, and used well. It's also VERY funny. Sort of like a wicked Disney picture. Now I have to see this one as well. Thx for the tip! Mar 11, 2017 2:08:22 GMT 1 CybeRider said: Agree, at least about Monsieur Hulot's Holiday, pure comedic gold and a favorite
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Post by them1ghtyhumph on Mar 11, 2017 23:55:25 GMT
Bio-Dome Easy Money The Oklahoma Kid
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Post by marianne48 on Mar 12, 2017 2:03:17 GMT
It's never on the list of Hitchcock's best films, but I've always had a soft spot for Number Seventeen, maybe because of, rather than despite, its silly plot and cheapie look. It has a jaunty kind of "We know this is a contractual obligation movie, so we'll just toss it off" feel to it.
The 1989 comedy UHF never got the attention it deserved. It's a lot of goofy fun, and even if you're not a fan of "Weird Al" Yankovic's music (I'm not), you might enjoy this. Dramatic actor Kevin McCarthy reportedly enjoyed himself immensely during the making of the film, getting a chance to ham it up as the movie's villain.
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Post by koskiewicz on Mar 12, 2017 16:29:51 GMT
"The Terror of Tinytown" though it is a very bad film...
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Post by divtal on Mar 12, 2017 18:42:57 GMT
- Arsenic and Old Lace
- Topper
- The Paleface
- The Mouse that Roared
- Almost all of the Marx Brothers' movies ... and, a few scenes from those that aren't their best.
- So many of the British comedies of the 50's/60's ... especially from the Ealing studios
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Post by BooRadley on Mar 14, 2017 14:02:05 GMT
Where do I begin ?! I just love me some "silly." My all time favorite silly film has got to be 'You Never Can Tell' (1951) starring Dick Powell. In no order, some favorites that I can easily recall. Bedtime For Bonzo (chances are, if you throw a chimp in a movie you'll have my full attention.) Sitting Pretty The Ma and Pa Kettle series. The Francis the Talking Mule series. Red Skelton's "Whistler" movies. The better of the 60's 'Beach Movies' A lot of the Abbott & Costello movies. Some of the Three Stooges Most of the "Our Gang/Little Rascals" series Amos and Andy series Pretty much any 40's family movies that were set on a farm or in a haunted house. Pretty much any "dream home turns out to be a money pit' type movie. Enjoyable "silly" always seems to put me in a good mood.
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Post by snsurone on Mar 14, 2017 19:16:49 GMT
The first one that comes to mind is The Goldwyn Follies 1938, it's both stupid and funny at the same time, with music by the Gershwin brother, and the talents of Adolphe Menjou, Ritz Brothers, Amanda Leads, Edgar Bergen and his dolls, and a chance to see Alan Ladd sing (blink and it's gone). Another I came to think of is The Concorde-Airport '80, Since it belongs to an older serial I think it's OK to iclud it, the plane has been shot be almost anything, yet 24 hours later it's ready to fly again, with Alain Delon, Bibi Andersson, George Kennedy, Martha Raye, Eddie Albert and Charo on board what could possibly go wrong? That's ANDREA Leeds, teledm.
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Post by Doghouse6 on Mar 14, 2017 19:40:36 GMT
The Ma and Pa Kettle series. Pretty much any 40's family movies that were set on a farm or in a haunted house. Those two items together suddenly rang a memory bell: 1945's Murder, He Says.
Pollster Fred MacMurray ventures onto the remote and ramshackle farm of the larcenous and homicidal Fleagle family of rustics headed by whip-crackin' matriarch Marjorie Main, finding himself embroiled in a hunt for long-hidden loot and many a comic threat to life and limb. Under veteran director George Marshall's practiced comedic hand alongside Porter Hall, Helen Walker, Jean Heather and Barbara Pepper among others, the goofy goings-on are fast and furious, culminating in a Rube Goldberg-esque battle-royal in a barn involving pitchforks, ladders, a hay-baling machine and all manner of accoutrements. Among the visual gags is a forerunner of the Young Frankenstein "dead hand" one, but with two legs and MacMurray astride a semi-conscious and restless Fleagle, it's twice as funny. After watching Murder, He Says, see if you don't agree that MacMurray would have been a better fit for Arsenic and Old Lace's Mortimer Brewster.
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Post by Ass_E9 on Mar 14, 2017 19:44:58 GMT
Son of Godzilla (1967)
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Post by BATouttaheck on Mar 14, 2017 23:10:29 GMT
For "silly" I like:
"The 'Burbs" Incredibly silly type funny with tons of really quotable lines. Dern, Hanks, Fisher and assorted zanies.
"Throw Momma from the Train" DeVito and Crystal and Momma !
"Support Your Local Gunfighter and / or Sheriff". James Garner and Jack Elam.
"Twins" Ahnuld and DeVito as Twins. Yah, right !
All Busby Berkley Musicals.
"All of Me" Steve Martin and Lily Tomlin share a body. Can it get any sillier than that ?
"Big Business" and "Outrageous Fortune" are sillier than "All of Me" Bette Midler is in both.
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Post by gunshotwound on Mar 15, 2017 0:42:23 GMT
I love silly movies. They are easy on the brain.
The Egg and I George Washington Slept here The Long, Long Trailer Cold Turkey Angel in My Pocket What's New, Pussycat? I Was a Teenage Frankenstein I Was a Teenage Werewolf Plan 9 from Outer Space What's Up Doc? The Tingler Homicidal The Lost World (1960) All of the Frankie/Annette beach movies Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number Casanova's Big night
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Post by OldAussie on Mar 15, 2017 1:31:32 GMT
The 60s version of "Casino Royale" is as silly as it gets, but it's fun.
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