Frank Tashlin
Author
Language
English
Description
There once was a happy little possum, the happiest animal in the entire forest, who always wore a great big smile. This jolly creature was content simply to hang by his tail from a tree until he was discovered by a group of picnickers. Mistaking the possum's upside-down smile for a frown, the people resolve to rescue him ― and they turn the little possum's world topsy-turvy. Strikingly illustrated in black-and-white, this memorable satire of cultural...
Series
Fuller Brush Company volume 2
Publisher
Columbia Pictures
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
A slapstick comedy in which a hapless door-to-door saleswoman finds that she is a murder suspect.
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Dog walker Norman Phiffer is in love with Barbara Tuttle, an elevator operator in her parents' department store. Barbara's conniving mother, Phoebe disapproves of the young couple and is determined to break up her daughter's romance with the incompetent boob. With hidden ulterior motives, Phoebe hires Norman to work in her department store and despite the impossible requests of Mr. Quimby, the store manager; Norman manages to do an admirable job in...
Publisher
Olive Films under license from Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"Struggling magician the Great Wooley (Jerry Lewis) and his lop-eared partner Harry Hare plan to dazzle audiences with magical feats during their USO tour of Japan and Korea. Jerry combines his trademark antics with a compassionate central story: an orphaned Japanese boy is drawn out of his shell by the magician's humor and caring"--Container.
6) Cinderfella
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
℗2004, ©1960
Language
English
Description
In a posh Beverly Hills mansion, a kind-hearted soul named Fella works as a downtrodden houseboy for his evil stepmother and his two vain stepbrothers. The fairy godfather helps Fella go to the party where he sweeps visiting Princess Charming off her feet. That is until midnight when Fella loses a glass loafer and his spiffy convertible turns back into a bicycle.
Series
Fuller Brush Company volume 1
Publisher
Columbia Pictures
Pub. Date
[1948]
Language
English
Description
A hapless door-to-door salesman becomes a prime suspect when one of his clients is murdered. Now, he and his girl have to outwit the murderer and the cops 'til they can prove he's innocent! Newly remastered.
Series
Criterion collection volume 1120
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"In 1956, Frank Tashlin brought the talent for zany visual gags and absurdist pop-culture satire that he'd honed as a master of animation to the task of capturing, in glorious DeLuxe Color, a brand-new craze: rock and roll. This blissfully bonkers jukebox musical tells the story of a mobster's bombshell girlfriend--the one and only Jayne Mansfield, in a showstopping first major film role--and the washed-up talent agent (Tom Ewell) who seeks to revive...
11) Love happy
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Harpo Marx is a true patron of the arts, taking from the rich to help feed a group of poor actors struggling to open a new musical without financial backers. He unknowingly makes off with the missing Romanoff diamonds when he shoplifts a tin of sardines from a classy Manhattan market. The smuggler, Madame Egelichi and her henchmen make a madcap race to retrieve the jewels.
Series
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Jerry Lewis is the mad medicine man. Before he flunks out of med school, he'll have you in stitches. Even if you don't bust a gut when he sets a patient's hair on fire, you could die laughing during the high-speed ambulance chase.