Film Index

American cinema: Comedy

You Were Never Lovelier (1942)
William A. Seiter

Robert Davis, an American dancer stranded in Buenos Aires without a peso to his name, is desperate to find work. His friend, bandleader Xavier Cugat, suggests that he should try to impress hotel owner Eduardo Acuña by performing at his eldest daughter's wedding...   [More...]

You'll Never Get Rich (1941)
Sidney Lanfield

Martin Courtland is a womanising theatrical producer on Broadway whose latest fancy is one of the dancers in his company, Sheila Winthrop...   [More...]

You're Darn Tootin' (1928)
Edgar Kennedy

Stan and Ollie are two musicians who play not by ear or by note but by brute force. When they bring a public recital to a disastrous climax, they are dismissed by an irate orchestra leader...   [More...]

Young Frankenstein (1974)
Mel Brooks

Dr Frederick Frankenstein is a medical school lecturer who just happens to be the grandson of the mad scientist Baron von Frankenstein, whose monster-making exploits have been widely reported in books, films and comic books by irresponsible sensationalists...   [More...]

Young Ideas (1943)
Jules Dassin

When best-selling author Josephine Evans mysteriously disappears, her agent Adam Trent appeals to her children, Jeff and Susan, to find her and bring her back to New York...   [More...]

Zelig (1983)
Woody Allen

How strange that history has all but forgotten Leonard Zelig. The man who was a cultural phenomenon in his time seems to have disappeared without trace...   [More...]

Zenobia (1939)
Gordon Douglas

In 1870, in a small town in Mississippi, Dr Henry Tibbett has given up pandering to wealthy hypochondriacs and now dispenses his services to those who really need it, often without payment...   [More...]


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