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It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963) more movies like this

directed by Stanley Kramer
featuring Spencer Tracy, Milton Berle, Sid Caesar, Buddy Hackett, Mickey Rooney, Ethel Merman, Phil Silvers, Dick Shawn, Jimmy Durante, Buster Keaton

With this all-star Cinerama epic, producer/director Stanley Kramer vowed to make "the comedy that would end all comedies." The story begins during a massive traffic jam, caused by reckless driver Smiler Grogan (Jimmy Durante), who, before (literally) kicking the bucket, cryptically tells the assembled drivers that he's buried a fortune in stolen ...

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A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1966) more movies like this

directed by Richard Lester
featuring Zero Mostel, Phil Silvers, Buster Keaton, Jack Gilford, Michael Crawford

Director Richard Lester uses the Burt Shevelove/Larry Gelbart/Stephen Sondheim Broadway musical hit as a launching pad for some of his wildest slapstick gaggery. Zero Mostel repeats his stage role as Pseudolus, the cunning Roman slave who'll do anything to win his freedom. The plot hinges on three Roman houses next door to each another. One is the ...

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The Boatniks

The Boatniks (1970) more movies like this

directed by Norman Tokar
featuring Robert Morse, Stefanie Powers, Phil Silvers, Norman Fell, Mickey Shaughnessy

The inept Ensign Garland (Robert Morse) battles a trio of jewel thieves in this Walt Disney comedy. Garland starts by spilling paint on the lovely Kate Fairchild (Stephanie Powers). Harry (Phil Silvers), Max (Norman Fell) and Charlie (Mickey Shaughnessy) try to recover the jewels accidentally dumped by Garland into a picnic basket. Garland's ...

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40 Pounds of Trouble

40 Pounds of Trouble (1963) more movies like this

directed by Norman Jewison
featuring Tony Curtis, Phil Silvers, Suzanne Pleshette, Claire Wilcox, Larry Storch

Damon Runyon's story "Little Miss Marker" gets a mid-'60s update in this comedy. Steve McCluskey (Tony Curtis) is the manager of a nightspot in Lake Tahoe owned by Bernie Friedman (Phil Silvers). Steve is the kind of guy who has heard every sob story in the book and is not easily impressed, but his hard heart begins to soften a bit when he meets ...

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Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell

Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell (1968) more movies like this

directed by Melvin Frank
featuring Gina Lollobrigida, Shelley Winters, Phil Silvers, Peter Lawford, Telly Savalas

Gina Lollobrigida delivers a bright comic turn in Melvin Frank's farce concerning Carla, an Italian woman who, during World War II, had affairs with three American soldiers who served in the U.S. Army Air Force -- Phil Newman (Phil Silvers), Justin Young (Peter Lawford), and Walter Braddock (Telly Savalas). Finding that she is pregnant after the ...

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The Strongest Man in the World

The Strongest Man in the World (1975) more movies like this

directed by Vincent McEveety
featuring Kurt Russell, Joe Flynn, Eve Arden, Cesar Romero, Phil Silvers

Kurt Russell returns as Dexter Riley, the dedicated student of Medfield College who just can't stay out of trouble, in this follow-up to The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes and Now You See Him, Now You Don't. In this story, Dexter is trying to devise a formula for a chemistry project that will increase human strength . By accident, he discovers that, ...

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Lucky Me

Lucky Me (1954) more movies like this

directed by Jack Donohue
featuring Doris Day, Robert Cummings, Phil Silvers, Eddie Foy, Jr., Nancy Walker

Lucky Me is a mixed-bag musical from Warner Bros., adhering to a tried-and-true formula that was wearing just a bit thin in 1954. Candy (Doris Day), Hap (Phil Silvers), Duke (Eddie Foy Jr.) and Flo (Nancy Walker) are four small-time performers who find themselves stranded in Miami. Forced to take domestic jobs in a fancy hotel, the foursomes's ...

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Footlight Serenade

Footlight Serenade (1942) more movies like this

directed by Gregory Ratoff
featuring John Payne, Betty Grable, Victor Mature, Jane Wyman, Phil Silvers, James Gleason

Victor Mature plays an arrogant champion boxer who opts for an acting career on Broadway. He falls in love with his costar Betty Grable, who's secretly married to actor John Payne. Unwilling to make public her marriage lest it adversely affect her career, Grable is unsuccessful in fending off Mature's advance, which causes her hubby's blood to ...

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Tom, Dick and Harry (1941) more movies like this

directed by Garson Kanin
featuring Ginger Rogers, George Murphy, Alan Marshal, Burgess Meredith, Joe Cunningham, Phil Silvers

Working girl Ginger Rogers (who dresses like movie star Ginger Rogers, despite her meager salary!) cannot decide which of her three suitors will march her down the aisle. Will it be fast-talking automobile salesman George Murphy, wealthy Alan Marshall, or free-spirited, eternally unemployed Burgess Meredith? She mulls over her choices in a series ...

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A Thousand and One Nights

A Thousand and One Nights (1945) more movies like this

directed by Alfred E. Green
featuring Cornel Wilde, Evelyn Keyes, Phil Silvers, Adele Jergens, Dusty Anderson

Thousand and One Nights is an occasionally strident but generally successful satire of the popular Universal Jon Hall/Maria Montez epics. Cornel Wilde stars as a twentyish Aladdin, whose magic lamp yields two genies: Collosus-like Rex Ingram (repeated the role he played in 1940's Thief of Baghdad) and ravishing redhead Evelyn Keyes (who, like ...

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The Happy Hooker Goes to Hollywood

The Happy Hooker Goes to Hollywood (1980) more movies like this

directed by Alan Roberts
featuring Martine Beswicke, Adam West, Phil Silvers, Richard Deacon, Edie Adams

The notorious madam Xaviera Hollander travels to Tinseltown to film her illustrious autobiography in this comedy. The trouble begins when she encounters a few crooked producers looking to exploit her. Look for a variety of second-string and cult stars including Martine Beswick, Dick Miller, and Adam West. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide

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Cover Girl

Cover Girl (1944) more movies like this

directed by Charles Vidor
featuring Rita Hayworth, Gene Kelly, Lee Bowman, Phil Silvers, Jinx Falkenburg, Otto Kruger, Eve Arden

Thanks to its Jerome Kern/Ira Gershwin/Yip Harburg score and the luminescence of stars Rita Hayworth and Gene Kelly, Cover Girl has taken on a legendary status in recent years. In truth, the film has a banal and predictable premise: a chorus girl (Hayworth) is given a chance for stardom by a wealthy magazine editor (Otto Kruger), who years earlier ...

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A Lady Takes a Chance

A Lady Takes a Chance (1943) more movies like this

directed by William Seiter
featuring Jean Arthur, John Wayne, Charles Winninger, Phil Silvers, Mary Field

Manhattan working girl Jean Arthur bids goodbye to her three erstwhile suitors (Grant Withers, Hans Conried and Grady Sutton) to take a bus tour of the west. En route, she meets handsome rodeo-star John Wayne, whose bucking bronco hurls him directly into her lap. Stranded in a tank town with Wayne and his sidekick Charles Winninger, Arthur is ...

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Judy Garland and Her Guests Phil Silvers and Robert Goulet

Judy Garland and Her Guests Phil Silvers and Robert Goulet (1963) more movies like this

This 1963 television performance was meant to be somewhat of a comeback effort for singing and screen legend Judy Garland. Indeed, the short-lived Judy Garland Show was introuduced quickly thereafter. Along with co-stars Robert Goulet, who was at the time reeling from the Broadway success of Camelot, and Phil Silvers, enjoying a similar success ...

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Won Ton Ton, the Dog Who Saved Hollywood

Won Ton Ton, the Dog Who Saved Hollywood (1976) more movies like this

directed by Michael Winner
featuring Bruce Dern, Madeline Kahn, Art Carney, Phil Silvers, Ron Leibman

This spoof makes fun of a certain famous German shepherd movie star from the 1920s. The mayhem begins when the head honcho of a financially struggling studio turns a lost dog into a legend. The story features a number of old stars making cameo appearances. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide

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If I'm Lucky

If I'm Lucky (1946) more movies like this

directed by Lewis Seiler
featuring Perry Como, Harry James, Carmen Miranda, Phil Silvers

The second of Perry Como's two starring vehicles for 20th Century-Fox, If I'm Lucky is an easygoing remake of 1937's Thanks a Million. Como plays the old Dick Powell role as Allan Clark, an entertainer who is maneuvered into politics by conniving manager Wally (Phil Silvers, in the role originated by Fred Allen). It all begins when Clark, hired to ...

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Something for the Boys

Something for the Boys (1944) more movies like this

directed by Lewis Seiler
featuring Carmen Miranda, Michael O'Shea, Vivian Blaine, Phil Silvers, Perry Como, Sheila Ryan

The Cole Porter Broadway musical Something for the Boys was brought to the screen by 20th Century Fox with three new non-Porter tunes thrown in. The dated libretto (by Herbert and Dorothy Fields) involves a crumbling Southern plantation which is converted into a home for servicemen's wives. Running the operation are three cousins: Michael O'Shea, ...

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Follow That Camel

Follow That Camel (1967) more movies like this

directed by Gerald Thomas
featuring Phil Silvers, Jim Dale, Peter Butterworth, Charles Hawtrey, Kenny Williams

Though not advertised as such, Follow That Camel was an entry in Britain's long-running "Carry On" series. Phil Silvers stars as Sgt. Nocker, a self-styled hero of the Foreign Legion. Nocker's feet of clay are readily apparent to young recruit Bertram Oliphant West (Jim Dale), but "orders is orders." When the Arabs attack, however, Nocker saves ...

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Top Banana

Top Banana (1954) more movies like this

directed by Alfred E. Green
featuring Phil Silvers, Danny Scholl, Judy Lynn, Jack Albertson

Shot on location in New York City's Winter Garden Theatre, this is essentially a filmed performance of Phil Silver's hit Broadway show in which he plays a moody and egotistical television comic (allegedly patterned after Milton Berle). Trouble begins when the ratings for Jerry Biffle's (Silvers) television show begin to sag. The producer spice up ...

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