1961 Comedy Movies

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One Hundred and One Dalmatians(1961)

| 1h 19min | Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Kids & Family

3.6/5 (with 2,788 votes)

When a litter of dalmatian puppies are abducted by the minions of Cruella De Vil, the parents must find them before she uses them for a diabolical fashion statement. In a Disney animation classic, Dalmatian Pongo is tired of his bachelor-dog life. He spies lovely Perdita and maneuvers his master, Roger, into meeting Perdita's owner, Anita. The owners fall in love and marry, keeping Pongo and Perdita together too. After Perdita gives birth to a litter of 15 puppies, Anita's old school friend Cruella De Vil wants to buy them all. Roger declines her offer, so Cruella hires the criminal Badun brothers to steal them -- so she can have a fur coat.

Directed by Clyde Geronimi, Hamilton Luske, Wolfgang Reitherman

One, Two, Three(1961)

| 1h 55min | Comedy

3.8/5 (with 169 votes)

C.R. MacNamara will do anything to get a promotion within the Coca-Cola company, including looking after boss W.P. Hazeltine's rebellious teenage daughter, Scarlett. When Scarlett visits Berlin, where C.R. is stationed, she reveals that she is married to a communist named Otto Piffl -- and C.R. recognizes that Otto's anti-establishment stance will clash with his boss's own political views, possibly jeopardizing his promotion.

Directed by Billy Wilder - With Horst Buchholz, Pamela Tiffin, Arlene Francis, James Cagney, Liselotte Pulver, Ralf Wolter, ...

Divorce Italian Style(1961)

1h 44min | Comedy

4.0/5 (with 179 votes)

Ferdinando Cefalù is desperate to marry his cousin, Angela, but he is married to Rosalia and divorce is illegal in Italy. To get around the law, he tries to trick his wife into having an affair so he can catch her and murder her, as he knows he would be given a light sentence for killing an adulterous woman. He persuades a painter to lure his wife into an affair, but Rosalia proves to be more faithful than he expected.

Directed by Pietro Germi, Renzo Marignano - With Marcello Mastroianni, Daniela Rocca, Stefania Sandrelli, Leopoldo Trieste, Odoardo Spadaro, Lando Buzzanca, ...

El analfabeto(1961)

2h 8min | Comedy

3.8/5 (with 45 votes)

Inocencio Prieto y Calvo receives a letter telling him he is the heir to his uncle's fortune of two million pesos. Not being able to read he has no idea of who sent the letter or its content. So he goes to the drugstore because the pharmacist can read the letter to him. But while waiting to be helped he sees that a young girl can read. He figures he has to be able to discover the letter's content by himself and decides he will save the letter and go to school, and wait to read the letter on his own.

Directed by Miguel M. Delgado - With Cantinflas, Lilia Prado, Sara García, Ángel Garasa, Miguel Manzano, Carlos Agostí, ...

Pocketful of Miracles(1961)

| 2h 16min | Comedy, Drama

3.7/5 (with 70 votes)

Boozy, brassy Apple Annie, a beggar with a basket of apples, is as much a part of downtown New York as old Broadway itself. Bootlegger Dave the Dude is a sucker for her apples -- he thinks they bring him luck. But Dave and girlfriend Queenie Martin need a lot more than luck when it turns out that Annie is in a jam and only they can help: Annie's daughter Louise, who has lived all her life in a Spanish convent, is coming to America with a Count and his son. The count's son wants to marry Louise, who thinks her mother is part of New York society. It's up to Dave and Queenie and their cronies to turn Annie into a lady and convince the Count and his son that they are hobnobbing with New York's elite.

Directed by Frank Capra - With Glenn Ford, Bette Davis, Hope Lange, Arthur O'Connell, Peter Falk, Mickey Shaughnessy, ...

Don Camillo: Monsignor(1961)

1h 49min | Comedy

3.4/5 (with 72 votes)

Don Camillo (now bishop) and Peppone (now senator) return to the town of Brescello and rekindle their friendly rivalry.

Directed by Carmine Gallone - With Fernandel, Gino Cervi, Leda Gloria, Gina Rovere, Valeria Ciangottini, Saro Urzì, ...

The Ladies Man(1961)

| 1h 35min | Comedy

3.2/5 (with 48 votes)

After his girl leaves him for someone else, Herbert gets really depressed and starts searching for a job. He finally finds one in a big house which is inhabited by many, many women. Can he live in the same home with all these females?

Directed by Jerry Lewis - With Lillian Briggs, Helen Traubel, Kathleen Freeman, Buddy Lester, George Raft, Jerry Lewis, ...

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The Absent-Minded Professor(1961)

| 1h 36min | Comedy, Kids & Family, Science Fiction

3.3/5 (with 69 votes)

Bumbling professor Ned Brainard accidentally invents flying rubber, or "Flubber", an incredible material that gains energy every time it strikes a hard surface. It allows for the invention of shoes that can allow jumps of amazing heights and enables a modified Model-T to fly. Unfortunately, no one is interested in the material except for Alonzo Hawk, a corrupt businessman who wants to steal the material for himself.

Directed by Robert Stevenson

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A Difficult Life(1961)

1h 58min | Comedy

4.1/5 (with 47 votes)

Silvio refuses to fight for the fascists and joins the resistance with Elena. After the war, his vitriolic newspaper articles cause him to be sentenced to imprisonment.

Directed by Dino Risi - With Alberto Sordi, Lea Massari, Franco Fabrizi, Claudio Gora, Lina Volonghi, Antonio Centa, ...

Bootleggers(1962)

19min | Comedy

3.8/5 (with 51 votes)

This is the second silent (save for a song) slapstick comedy short about adventures of Worldly, Coward, and Fool. In a small hunting lodge three friends are making illegal moonshine. Bottled "product" fills shelves quickly. Life is good. But their dog Barbos doesn't understand that bringing a moonshine condenser coil to a police station is a bad idea...

Directed by Leonid Gaidai - With Georgy Vitsin, Yevgeny Morgunov, Yuri Nikulin, Vladimir Pitsek

Totòtruffa '62(1961)

1h 47min | Comedy

3.9/5 (with 56 votes)

Antonio, a former variety actor, keeps his daughter in an excellent boarding school by organizing small scams with his friend and colleague Felice. Commissioner Malvasia good-naturedly persecuted him. When their respective unsuspecting children fall in love, the two fathers make peace.

Directed by Camillo Mastrocinque - With Totò, Nino Taranto, Amedeo Girard, Estella Blain, Carla Macelloni, Ernesto Calindri, ...

On the Double(1961)

1h 32min | War, Comedy

3.5/5 (with 6 votes)

American GI Ernie Williams, admittedly weak-kneed, has an uncanny resemblance to British Colonel MacKenzie. Williams, also a master of imitation and disguise, is asked to impersonate the Colonel, ostensibly to allow the Colonel to make a secret trip East. What Williams is not told is that the Colonel has recently been a target of assassins. After the Colonel's plane goes down, the plan changes and Williams maintains the disguise to confuse the Nazis about D-Day.

Directed by Melville Shavelson - With Danny Kaye, Dana Wynter, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Margaret Rutherford, Diana Dors, Gregory Walcott, ...

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The Last Judgment(1961)

1h 41min | Comedy

3.2/5 (with 15 votes)

The Last Judgement (Italian: Il giudizio universale) is a 1961 commedia all'italiana film by Italian director Vittorio De Sica. It was coproduced with France. It has an all-star Italian and international cast, including Americans Jack Palance, Ernest Borgnine; Greek Melina Mercouri and French Fernandel, Anouk Aimée and Lino Ventura. The film was a huge flop, massacred by critics and audiences when it was released. It was filmed in black and white, but the last sequence, the dance at theatre, is in color.

Directed by Vittorio De Sica - With Nicola Rossi-Lemeni, Alberto Sordi, Paolo Stoppa, Vittorio Gassman, Nino Manfredi, Renato Rascel, ...

The Errand Boy(1961)

| 1h 32min | Comedy, Kids & Family

2.9/5 (with 19 votes)

Paramutual Pictures wants to know where all the money is going so they hire Morty to be their spy. Morty works for Mr. Sneak and gets a job in the mail room so that he can have access to the lot. But all that Morty ever finds is that he can cause havoc no matter what he does.

Directed by Jerry Lewis - With Brian Donlevy, Howard McNear, Dick Wesson, Jerry Lewis, Kathleen Freeman, Isobel Elsom, ...

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The Best of Enemies(1961)

| 1h 44min | Comedy, War

3.5/5 (with 15 votes)

During World War II, a plane full of RAF fighter crashes in the Ethiopian desert and they are met upon by an enemy Italian patrol that allows them to go free. But, when the Brits are given orders to attack the Italians, lots of problems ensue.

Directed by Guy Hamilton - With David Niven, Alberto Sordi, Michael Wilding, Harry Andrews, Noel Harrison, David Opatoshu, ...

Carry On Regardless(1961)

1h 30min | Comedy

3.3/5 (with 20 votes)

It's non stop romps as the Carry On team deliver the goods in one of the rudest and funniest of the Carry On films. The cast are all on top form as a bunch of no-hopers who join an agency in the search for a job. The anarchy mounts as they do a series of odd jobs, including a chimps tea party, trying to stay sober at a wine tasting and demolishing a house.

Directed by Gerald Thomas, Ralph Thomas - With Sid James, Kenneth Connor, Charles Hawtrey, Joan Sims, Kenneth Williams, Bill Owen, ...

The Joy of Living(1961)

2h 12min | Comedy

3.1/5 (with 6 votes)

Ulisse is a naive young man out looking for a job after being released from the army. He drops the offer he gets from a group of fascists to go in with the Fossatis, a family of anarchists (unknown to him).

Directed by René Clément - With Alain Delon, Barbara Kwiatkowska-Lass, Gino Cervi, Rina Morelli, Carlo Pisacane, Paolo Stoppa, ...

Sua Eccellenza si fermò a mangiare(1961)

1h 36min | Comedy

3.4/5 (with 16 votes)

A petty thief pretends he is Mussolini's personal physician, wins the confidence of a family, and succeeds in stealing their gold cutlery.

Directed by Mario Mattoli - With Ugo Tognazzi, Virna Lisi, Totò, Lauretta Masiero, Lia Zoppelli, Raimondo Vianello, ...

The Rebel(1961)

1h 45min | Comedy

3.9/5 (with 12 votes)

Anthony Hancock gives up his office job to become an abstract artist. He has a lot of enthusiasm, but little talent, and critics scorn his work. Nevertheless, he impresses an emerging very talented artist. Hancock proceeds to con the art world into thinking he is a genius.

Directed by Robert Day - With Dennis Price, George Sanders, Grégoire Aslan, John Le Mesurier, Elizabeth Fraser, Mervyn Johns, ...

The Fascist(1961)

1h 40min | Comedy, War

3.4/5 (with 26 votes)

1944. Primo Arcovazzi a fanatic member of Brigate Nere (fascist organization) is in charge to bring an opponent to the regime, Prof. George Wilson, from Abruzzo to Roma. He accepted the mandate because of his wish to be upgraded to "Federale". They travel by a sidecar trough the disastrous Italy, near to the final collapse, under bombings and in agony. Nevertheless the bad situation, they manage to build up a kind of friendship. Primo, even if the signals of final destruction are near, doesn't lose his trust in the regime. The end is near.

Directed by Luciano Salce - With Ugo Tognazzi, Georges Wilson, Stefania Sandrelli, Gianrico Tedeschi, Elsa Vazzoler, Luciano Bonanni, ...

Alice in the Navy(1961)

1h 27min | Comedy

3.4/5 (with 9 votes)

Aliki is in love with someone who serves his duty in the greek navy. Wanting to see him, she disguises as a navy soldier and gets aboard her lover's ship. Things get more complicated when she comes accross the ship's captain; her father!

Directed by Alekos Sakellarios - With Aliki Vougiouklaki, Dimitris Papamichael, Georgia Vassiliadou, Kostas Voutsas, Lambros Konstantaras, Yannis Gionakis, ...

The Wonders of Aladdin(1961)

| 1h 33min | Adventure, Fantasy

2.5/5 (with 6 votes)

Young Aladdin has a series of wild adventures after he discovers a magic lamp containing a genie (Vittorio De Sica).

Directed by Mario Bava, Henry Levin - With Donald O'Connor, Vittorio De Sica, Aldo Fabrizi, Michèle Mercier, Terence Hill, Fausto Tozzi, ...

Totò, Peppino and... the Sweet Life(1961)

1h 30min | Comedy

3.4/5 (with 22 votes)

Antonio goes to Rome to represent his fellow peasants, to request a highway that will be built in their region. But the guy is mastered by 'la dolce vita' and wastes the money entrusted to him for his mission. When Peppino is sent to to find out what happened, he lets himself be trapped by the gentle grip of 'la dolce vita'.

Directed by Sergio Corbucci - With Totò, Peppino De Filippo, Mara Berni, Francesco Mulè, Rosalba Neri, Antonio Pierfederici, ...

The Two Marshals(1961)

1h 33min | Comedy

3.6/5 (with 30 votes)

September 1943: in the general confusion a thief dressed as a priest and a sergeant exchange clothes and roles.

Directed by Sergio Corbucci - With Totò, Vittorio De Sica, Gianni Agus, Arturo Bragaglia, Franco Giacobini, Elvy Lissiak, ...

The Honeymoon Machine(1961)

| 1h 27min | Comedy

3.4/5 (with 9 votes)

Lieutenant Fergie Howard, Ensign Beau Gilliam and navy scientist Jason Elderidge use their ships computer, designed to calculate missile trajectories, to calculate a roulette ball's trajectory and hit the Venice Casino. Things get complex when Admiral Fitch arrives at the same Casino.

Directed by Richard Thorpe - With Steve McQueen, Jim Hutton, Paula Prentiss, Dean Jagger, Jack Weston, Brigid Bazlen, ...

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Hercules in the Valley of Woe(1961)

| 1h 30min | Comedy, Adventure, Fantasy

2.5/5 (with 2 votes)

Two boxing promoters travel via time machine back to the days of Hercules, who must save them from Genghis Khan and the Mongol Horde.

Directed by Mario Mattoli - With Kirk Morris, Bice Valori, Raimondo Vianello, Mario Carotenuto, Liana Orfei, Carlo Croccolo, ...

Ghosts of Rome(1961)

1h 41min | Fantasy, Comedy

3.7/5 (with 28 votes)

An old prince lives in his ancient palace in Rome together with the ghosts of his ancestors. For years he has proudly rejected huge offers by a real estate group seeking to buy the palace and build a department store in its place, but when he suddenly dies his nephew signs the deal. The palace seems lost, but the ghosts forge a plan to save it from destruction.

Directed by Antonio Pietrangeli - With Marcello Mastroianni, Sandra Milo, Eduardo De Filippo, Tino Buazzelli, Lilla Brignone, Vittorio Gassman, ...

The Black Monocle(1961)

1h 28min | Crime, Thriller, Comedy

3.0/5 (with 9 votes)

The Marquis de Villemaur reunite strange visitors in his Castle, to meet a survivor of the Third Reich. There is an Italian fascist, Heinrich; a German, Matthias; a Russian; and Dromard, a blind French war hero with a black monocle.

Directed by Georges Lautner - With Paul Meurisse, Alain Bouvette, Albert Rémy, Bernard Blier, Catherine Sola, Elga Andersen, ...

Liar Wanted(1961)

1h 22min | Comedy

3.8/5 (with 5 votes)

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Directed by Yannis Dalianidis - With Pantelis Zervos, Thanasis Veggos, Dimitris Nikolaidis, Aggelos Mavropoulos, Anna Kyriakou, Popi Lazou, ...

Do You Believe in Angels?(1961)

1h 48min | Comedy, Romance / Love

3.0/5 (with 4 votes)

Jan Froman is a young man with great plans for the future. He gets a job as an assistant janitor at a bank, but with inherited money he starts to buy and sell real estate which eventually increases in value. He falls in love with Margareta, whose father is a naval officer. Margareta is slighted by her fiance and follows Froman on a sailing trip in the archipelago. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.

Directed by Lars-Magnus Lindgren - With Jarl Kulle

1961 Comedy Movies

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One Hundred and One Dalmatians(1961)

One, Two, Three(1961)

Divorce Italian Style(1961)

El analfabeto(1961)

Pocketful of Miracles(1961)

Don Camillo: Monsignor(1961)

The Ladies Man(1961)

The Absent-Minded Professor(1961)

A Difficult Life(1961)

Bootleggers(1962)

Totòtruffa '62(1961)

On the Double(1961)

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The Last Judgment(1961)

The Errand Boy(1961)

The Best of Enemies(1961)

Carry On Regardless(1961)

The Joy of Living(1961)

Sua Eccellenza si fermò a mangiare(1961)

The Rebel(1961)

The Fascist(1961)

Alice in the Navy(1961)

The Wonders of Aladdin(1961)

Totò, Peppino and... the Sweet Life(1961)

The Two Marshals(1961)

The Honeymoon Machine(1961)

Hercules in the Valley of Woe(1961)

Ghosts of Rome(1961)

The Black Monocle(1961)

Liar Wanted(1961)

Do You Believe in Angels?(1961)

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