Experience the very best of The Spike Jones Show with this collection featuring more than 60 of the comedic bandleader's...
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2009
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With his nerves at the breaking point, Frasier (Kelsey Grammer) is in no mood for the rude behavior he encounters at every...
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1996
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A blend of screwball farce and whodunit murder mystery, this madcap period piece was the brainchild of executive producer...
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1994
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In this broad comedy, two buddies named Frank, with more ambition than sense, are en route to Hollywood in hopes of breaking...
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1992
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Poor Michael Moore is one messed-up screenwriter who is more depressed than usual when his girl friend abruptly dumps him....
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1992
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In this Navy spoof, a mismatched bunch of sailors are sent to sea as the incompetent crew of the U. S. S. Substandard, a...
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1991
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If a comedy is to be made from the plight of the homeless, who have to scrape through their days returning deposit bottles...
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1991
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1991
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Originally titled Vendetta: Secrets of a Mafia Bride, this 2-part TV movie stars supermodel Carol Alt as Nancy, the ward of...
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1991
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Bernard (voice of Bob Newhart) and Miss Bianca (voice of Eva Gabor), the intrepid mouse squad from the International Rescue...
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1990
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UHF is the film debut of comedy rock satirist Weird Al Yankovic, who also co-wrote the screenplay. George Newman (Yankovic)...
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1989
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This farcical send-up of the movie business borrows a plot from the classic 1968 Mel Brooks film The Producers. It stars...
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Mr. Throckmorton
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1989
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When her grandfather the mortician goes on holiday, a young woman must run the family business. The comedy begins when she...
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1989
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Though Willow was one of director Ron Howard's few box-office disappointments, it definitely deserves a second look. At once...
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1988
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This television documentary chronicles the career of Spike Jones, a talented musical satirist who had audiences of the '50s...
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1988
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This animated adventure tells of Ralph the talking and motorcycle riding mouse. Episodes include "The Mouse and the...
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1988
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The highlights of this classic children's story are the performances of Diana Rigg as the Mean Queen and Billy Barty as Biddy...
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Iddy
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1988
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Dolph Lundgren stars in this live-action film version of the popular television cartoon series (based on a collection of...
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Gwildor
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1987
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This uneven comedy came and went quickly in commercial release. An American triathlete (Mark Neely) trains for an upcoming...
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1987
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Billy Barty, one of the world's biggest little people, stars in this musical children's fable from the Brothers Grimm....
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Rumpelstiltskin
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1986
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Harry Similac (Dirk Benedict) is a music promoter who must scramble to stay out of debt in this slapstick comedy. He hits...
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1986
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1986
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This lavishly staged and costumed fantasy is about young Jack (Tom Cruise) and his lady love Princess Lili (Mia Sara), and...
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1986
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Essentially a knock-off of the "Police Academy" series, this slapstick comedy tells the idiotic tale that contains humor to...
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Capt. Lewis
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1984
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In this "Who done it?," a home-schooled detective (Tim Conway) gets to the bottom of a complicated crime (murder, no less) in...
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1983
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Details are sketchy regarding the British Saturday-morning children's program Fun Factory. It is known that the series...
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1983
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Jerry Lewis' first film in a decade stars the comedian as Bo Hooper, an unemployed circus clown who cannot hold down a job. ~...
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1981
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Don't confuse Being Different with those exploitational "freak show" documentaries of the 1950s. This is a sensitive--but...
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1981
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In this comedy, a hotel becomes a chaotic place during the 1938 filming of The Wizard of Oz, when it is inundated with groups...
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Otto Kriegling
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1981
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Although the people of Walnut Grove are delighted when a carnival comes to town, Nels Oleson (Richard Bull) is in despair. It...
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1979
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Set in the Caribbean, Firepower is one of those "celebrity salads," featuring a glittering all-star cast. Sophia Loren heads...
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1979
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The short-lived roller-disco craze of the late 1970s served as inspiration for this dated comedy, which follows the patrons...
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1979
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In this, Joan Rivers' first attempt at film direction, a young virgin male (Billy Crystal) is engaged to be married when he...
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1978
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1978
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When a sex scandal threatens to blow the top off Washington politics, celebrated madame and advice columnist Xaviera...
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1977
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In this mystery, twin gumshoes team up to expose a band of bogus spiritualists involved in murder . ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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1976
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W.C. Fields and Me is the film version of the Fields biography written by the comedian's former mistress Carlotta Monti. W....
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1976
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A circus goes to the dogs (or, more accurately, the dogs come to the circus) in this light-hearted action-adventure tale....
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Clown
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1976
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Love him or hate him comedian Paul Lynde - the master of the slow burn, who presided over the "center square" on Hollywood...
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1976
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In this drama, a man leaves his wife to join the circus. Many years later, he bumps into a pretty teenage girl who turns out...
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1976
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This spoof makes fun of a certain famous German shepherd movie star from the 1920s. The mayhem begins when the head honcho...
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1976
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The Day of the Locust is anything but a cheerful, light look at Hollywood in the '30s. It recreates both the town as well as...
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1975
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Several changes are effected for Sigmund and the Sea Monsters as the Saturday-morning Krofft Brothers comedy series enters...
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1974
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Season One of Sid and Marty Krofft's whimsically wacky Saturday-morning series Sigmund and the Sea Monsters begins as young...
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1973
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1973
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1972
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This children's fantasy is based on Sid and Marty Krofft's popular 1960s kiddy show H.R. Pufnstuff, which combined giant...
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1970
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Elvis Presley plays singer/actor Johnny Tyronne in this formulated quickie directed by Gene Nelson. While on a promotional...
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Baba
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1965
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Pat Buttram (he was Mr. Haney on Green Acres) brings a macabre twist to his standard country-bumpkin characterization in this...
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1964
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Charlie Rogers (Elvis Presley) is a coffeehouse singer who joins a financially troubled carnival in Roustabout. He is hired...
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1964
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1962
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Zany Spike Jones and his noisesome orchestra make musical mincemeat out of numerous American standards in this cacophonous...
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1957
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Season three of Alfred Hitchcock Presents gets under way with one of the series' best and most celebrated episodes -- and one...
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1957
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Little Tom, the Midget
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1957
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1957
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Little Tom, the Midget
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1956
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Spike Jones, America's first great master of musical mayhem, challenges the hit parade to a wrestling match -- best two falls...
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1956
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Best of Spike Jones, Vol. 1 features some of the wildest musical moments from performer Spike Jones' hit 1950s television...
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1955
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An unofficial remake of The Champ, The Clown concerns Dodo Delwyn (Red Skelton), a down-and-out performer with abundant and...
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1953
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Crash! Bang! Squeal! Spike Jones and his City Slickers, still the craziest band of their time or ours, turn music upside down...
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1952
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Pygmy Island was entry number five in Columbia's "Jungle Jim" series. Johnny Weissmuller is back as Jungle Jim, who this time...
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1950
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Mickey the Great was a fast-buck 1938 concoction designed to capitalize on the popularity of Mickey Rooney. In the late 1920s...
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1939
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"This is New York, Skyscraper Champion of the World...Where the Slickers and Know-It-Alls peddle gold bricks to each...
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1937
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1935
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This greatest of all Frankenstein movies begins during a raging thunderstorm. Warm and cozy inside their palatial villa, Lord...
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1935
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In this musical, a radio-announcer is fired after giving a false interview. For consolation he begins to drink heavily. It...
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1934
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This star-laden version of Lewis Carroll's novel combines elements of both the title novel and Carroll's sequel, Through the...
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White Pawn and the Baby
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1933
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In this comedy, a young couple are forced to marry after they are accidentally locked in a store overnight. Unfortunately...
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1933
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Easily the best of Eddie Cantor's gargantuan musical comedies for producer Sam Goldwyn, Roman Scandals begins in the...
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1933
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The last--and to some aficionados, the best--of choreographer Busby Berkeley's three Warner Bros. efforts of 1933, Footlight...
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1933
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The second talkie version of the Avery Hopwood's theatrical war-horse The Golddiggers of Broadway, Gold Diggers of 1933 was...
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1933
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1928
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