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Welcome to Techsurvivors => Community => Topic started by: Highmac on November 17, 2019, 08:17:16 AM
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Following on from the Chopin thread... (https://techsurvivors.net/forums/index.php?topic=28556.15)
Your top funniest films and a bit about why...
Airplane for the same reason others gave... the most wonderful cringeworthy awful plays on words. I worked with a Shirley who seemed to lose her sense of humour after a few months of being asked if she was joking!
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad Mad World - Zany car race across the US in pursuit of a $350,000 fortune (that would hardly buy a house within 50 miles of London now!!)
The cast features Edie Adams, Milton Berle, Sid Caesar, Buddy Hackett, Ethel Merman, Mickey Rooney, Phil Silvers, Terry-Thomas, and Jonathan Winters.
Back to the Future - Anybody really need a link for that one? :toothgrin:
Over to you :yahoo:
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Another of my favorites: A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum. It stars Zero Mostel, Phil Silvers, Buster Keaton, and Michael Hordern. My favorite line was said by Keaton: "What? My daughter, a eunuch?"
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A particular film I loved was The Wrong Box - Peter Sellers stood out as a drunk old doctor (Dr Pratt) who loved cats.
https://youtu.be/KJbwtyHSu6E
He blotts the prescription with a kitten.
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Sellers was brilliant. If you can receive the Freeview channel Talking Pictures, they have three Sellers offerings: Two-Way Stretch (1960, with Bernard Cribbins; Saturday 9.50pm), The Smallest Show on Earth (1957, Margaret Rutherford, Virginia McKenna and Bill Travers, Sunday 1.45pm) and The Wrong Arm of the Law (1963, Lionel Jeffries, Bernard Cribbins & Nanette Newman, Tuesday 10pm).
One of my favourite Goons (radio) pieces was this one - short and sweet!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8HLfOU3gl4