Columbia Laff Hour

Jan 1, 1956

1h 30m

★ 7.0

Top selections from Columbia Pictures' greatest array of comedies

Overview

A Columbia Pictures feature, featuring 4 unedited shorts, released between 1947-1956, featuring Shemp Howard.

Genres

Comedy

Production Companies

Columbia Pictures

Columbia Laff Hour Trailers

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Cast

Curley

Curly Howard

Moe

Moe Howard

Shemp

Shemp Howard

(archive footage)

Walter Catlett

(archive footage)

Andy Clyde

(archive footage)

Sterling Holloway

Joe (archive footage)

Joe Besser

Vera Vague (archive footage)

Barbara Jo Allen

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5.0

Donald Duck - 75th Anniversary

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2.5

Peter Kay's Special Kay

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7.1

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6.4

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7.1

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0.0

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7.2

The Looney, Looney, Looney Bugs Bunny Movie

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Bugs Bunny hosts an award show featuring several classic Looney Tunes shorts and characters.

7.7

Dreamworks: Holiday Classics

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6.9

Everything Is Terrible! The Movie

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The fine folks at EIT have spent years digging thought thrift establishments, video caverns, and haunted houses throughtout the country in order to create the most mind-melting VHS mash-up imaginable. Literally thousands of hours of video gold have been chopped up into millions of pieces and gluded back together into an ever-multiplying bizarre path to allegorical self-enlightenment and surreal resurrection. Obviously!

6.1

2Everything2Terrible2: Tokyo Drift

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The team of smart-talkin' toddlers known as Everything Is Terrible! have once again emerged from their VHS cocoons to conjure a jam on culture so culture-jamtastic that we're sorry we can't be there to hold your hand as you watch in dazed amazement. Thousands of hours of brain-boiling footage have been concentrated into an impenetrable jewel of an experience, teach us once and for all that loving well is the best revenge.

6.5

The Three Stooges Meet Hercules

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The Three Stooges manage to crash through the time barrier with their slap-happy antics in this classic feature-length comedy. Larry, Moe, and Curly-Joe are friends of a young scientist, Schuyler Davis, who has created a time machine. Together with Schuyler's girlfriend, Diane, they are all transported back to ancient Ithaca which is ruled by the tyrannical King Odius. The lecherous king promptly takes a liking to Diane and banishes Schuyler and The Stooges to the galleys. When they manage to escape, they begin promoting Schuyler as "Hercules" at local gladiatorial combats - until the real Hercules shows up. But, with their unique "charm," The Stooges convince Hercules to help them rescue Diane. Written by Robert Lynch

4.4

Stop! Look! and Laugh!

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Moe, Larry and Curly appear in short subjects linked by ventriloquist Paul Winchell and his dummies.

8.0

Inazuma Eleven The Movie: Legendary Kickoff

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0.0

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6.0

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6.9

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7.4

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A collection of Warner Brothers short cartoon features, "starring" the likes of Daffy Duck, Porky Pig and Wile.E.Coyote. These animations are interspersed by Bugs Bunny reminiscing on past events and providing links between the individual animations which are otherwise unconnected. This 1979 feature-length compilation includes several of his best cartoons. Among the 11 shorts shown in their entirety are the classics "Robin Hood Daffy," "What's Opera, Doc?," "Bully for Bugs," and "Duck Amuck". The Bugs Bunny Road Runner Movie provides a showcase not only for Jones's razor-sharp timing, but for the work of his exceptional crew, which included designer Maurice Noble, writer Mike Maltese, composers Carl Stalling and Milt Franklyn, and voice actor Mel Blanc.

5.1

Have Rocket, Will Travel

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7.2

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