Screwball Comedy Movies

Bumbershoot is a silent comedy about a hapless man desperate to find an umbrella strong enough to make his life whole.

Two friends meet in an afternoon to play games and watch movies, but several eerie coincidences related to the number 19 start to happen.

Christy Sloane is sent on a business trip to inform radio personality Peter Lockwood that his uncle has died and left him $2 million. Christy, who's...

Charlie Mason and Rusty Fleming are star reporters on a Chicago tabloid who are romantically involved as well. Although skilled in ferreting out...

When the highly-sought role of SCHOOL MASCOT is up for grabs, a sea of desperate students flock to secure the gig. Among them, a fidgety straggler...

The sidewalks of New York will never be the same, thanks to Johnny Twennies, an ace reporter who bangs out his column on an old manual typewriter and...

An investigator for the District Attorney's office quits to open his own detective agency. However, business is so bad that he finally decides to...

Buddies Meng Yun and Yu Fei break up with their girlfriends and indulge themselves in living the bachelor lifestyle again. However, as their...

Wealthy Kip Artmitage III (Robert Rockwell) honors his late wartime friend's request to look after the friend's "little sister."

A lone receptionist wakes up from her post-lunch nap, her body charged with super static electricity. She needs to get rid of all that energy before...

A comedic montage about two girl friends who spend all day in bed performing cathartic bits

Heiress Nancy Crocker Fleming will only receive her inheritance if she marries a "plain American." Her late father was afraid a foreign gigolo would...

The Jennings family couldn't be more suburban but when Uncle Frank crashes their weekly Sunday dinner, murder turns up on the menu.

While searching for a small fortune of embezzled money, an ex-con, a small-time bandleader, his doting wife and a kooky drifter find themselves being...

College prof Peter Boyd tries to salvage his professional and personal reputation by using a lab chimp to prove that environment trumps heredity in...

Faith and Hope Banner, sisters, are "convention hostesses" in a hotel. A body is discovered next door as the magician's convention is leaving and the...

Rival reporters (George Brent, Joan Blondell) investigate a Hollywood star (Adele Jergens) and the box she receives with a dead man inside.

Three single guys share their personal problems as well as a loft apartment.

In this screwball comedy a WW2 US pilot bombs a Japanese aircraft carrier, is assumed to be dead, and then is misquoted in the press as fondly...

Harriet O'Malley tries to solve a murder aboard a train en route to New York.