Private Meredith C. Bixby (Jerry Lewis) is a bumbling hero with a photographic memory. He winds up in Morocco as a private in the French Foreign Legion. He is kidnapped by a band of Arabian plotters and, guarded by the knife-happy Abdul, is ordered to assemble a stolen American cannon. He still hasn't adjusted after 18 months. Among other things, he's lost a tank. Based on the comic strip character by George Baker.

Based on the long-running radio show. A slapsticky saga related by comparatively bright brunette Irma and her wheeler-dealer fiancé interfere in her level-headed roommate's love life. Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis's in their movie debut, are juice-bar operators who are discovered when a self-proclaimed manager hears Martin's golden voice. Irma's roommate wants to marry her rich boss, but instead falls in love with Martin.

Fleeing from a murder charge, nightclub singer Larry Todd (Dean Martin) and his friend Myron Mertz (Jerry Lewis) find gangsters and ghosts on a spooky Caribbean island, newly inherited by heiress Mary Carroll (Lizabeth Scott).

Indian scout Johnny Ware (James Craig) is determined to stop an all-out war plotted by crooked Indian Affairs agent Jim Sawyer (Dean Jagger). Facing court-martial in a devious frame, Ware escapes and heads to Washington to try to stop Sawyer. But on the way, he meets and weds Sawyer's fiancée, Christine (Ball), before all three are caught between the famous chiefs Cochise (Antonio Moreno) and Geronimo (Tom Tyler).

Alan Ladd and Veronica Lake star in this film noir classic The Blue Dahlia displaying sizzling screen chemistry in their final movie together. A WWII veteran (Ladd) is accused of killing his unfaithful wife and races against time to find the real murderer with the help of a sympathetic stranger (Lake). Adapted for the screen by acclaimed detective writer Raymond Chandler, the stylized film features moody black and white cinematography and earned an Academy Award® nomination for Best Original Screenplay.

What would you do if you were suddenly in charge? In the midst of a heated tank battle, a lowly sergeant takes the rains of command when his general is killed in action. But the soldiers don't know they are being led into battle by an Imitation General. World War II. When Brigadier General Charles Lane suddenly dies, the situation is on the brink of becoming lethal chaos. To avoid a rout and the deaths of his fellow soldiers, Master Sergeant Murphy Savage (Glenn Ford) assumes command with only the knowledge and backing of Corporal Chan Derby (Red Buttons). But somehow, under Savage's direction--who actually has first-hand experience in tank battles--the tide of battle turns. The allies follow Murphy to victory ... and Derby enjoys a personal victory over his private nemesis, Orville Hutchmeyer (Tige Andrews), in this comedy lampooning the military chain of command.

A rootin-tootin' funfest! Songs, dances, laughs and purty girls! Yippie-ti-yi-yo! A spirited cast kicks up its heels in a lively musical spoof of cowboy films crammed with spur-jangling tunes by Jay Livingstone and Ray Evans (creators of The Paleface's Oscar.-winning "Buttons and Bows") and decked out with colorfully stylized, Oscar.-nominated sets. Rosemary Clooney heads up the high-kicking, red-gartered girls of the Red Dog Saloon. They can-can, but she won't-won't unless Jason (Jack Carson) asks her to get hitched. Guy Mitchell and Gene Barry are gun-totin' polecats who think they've got a feud to settle. And Frank Faylen and Buddy Ebsen are among the folks who hope the gunslingers get itchy fingered - so they can hold a town barbecue during the funeral!

Misfit army rookies survive The Great War, then try to reunite their deceased army buddy’s daughter with her family. However, since his name was “Smith, ” this is not easy. There were many variances from the shooting script, and key scenes were re-shot with different supporting players. Nevertheless, their second fast-paced full-length film brims with great gags, inside jokes and some heart tugs. Co-directed by Ray McCarey, but mostly by George Marshall, who played the tough army cook when the actor cast failed to show up! With Donald Dillaway, James Finlayson, Billy Gilbert, meanie Charles Middleton and scene-stealer Jacquie Lyn.

With increasing domestic entanglements, Stan suggests Ollie adopt a baby to ease tensions with his wife. “A classic, ” declared film historian William K. Everson, “one of the best and most original Laurel & Hardy comedies. ” Author Charles Barr concluded, “Laurel & Hardy’s world is pre-sexual, a nursery world. ” Hal Roach always maintained that with their innocence and loyalty to one another, they processed life around them through the prism of childhood. Directed by George Marshall (who can be seen as the hallway neighbor). With Mae Busch and Billy Gilbert.

Traveling fish peddlers — crabs a specialty — devise a big business idea: buy a dilapidated old boat to fix up and “eliminate the middle-man. ” A superb blend of relaxed slapstick and sophisticated visual humor, this short offers a concise assessment of the team’s comedic relationship when Ollie pauses during a breach of friendly relations to ask Stan, “Isn’t this silly? Here we are, two grown-up men, acting like a couple of children. ” Directed by George Marshall. With Billy Gilbert.

A white boy grows up with Indians and later suffers from divided loyalties.

Debbie Reynolds and Glenn Ford play a Broadway star and her television mystery writer husband--who will do anything to protect his wife and her honor. So when a blackmailer threatens to reveal compromising photos of Nell Nash (Reynolds) taken long ago, Elliot Nash (Ford) believes he has no recourse but to kill the blackmailer. But after his victim's body is discovered across town, Nash finds himself deeply entwined in a plot as comically twisted as the best of his mysteries when he tries to discover who really murdered the blackmailer ... and who is buried under The Gazebo.

When a company of lovable Civil War misfits with no particular urge to fight or die is sent to garrison a remote Western fort rather than cause more mischief, its soldiers become reluctant heroes for the Union when they Advance to the Rear. After proving themselves more a liability than an asset in the war, Colonel Claude Brackenby (Academy Award winner Melvyn Douglas), Captain Jared Heath (Glenn Ford) and their men encounter Martha Lou (Stella Stevens), a Southern spy posing as a lady of the evening, working aboard a riverboat for madam Easy Jenny (Joan Blondell). Now, these losers hilariously become heroes when they somehow save a shipment of Union gold and rout the enemy along the way.

Honey Talk Nelson (Dean Martin) enlists the aid of his cousin Virgil Yokum (Jerry Lewis) to fix a horse called “My Sheba” before a big race. It’s the only way that Honey Talk can pay off a big debt to bookie Jumbo Schneider (Sheldon Leonard). But when Nelson meets Phyllis Leigh (Marjie Miller), the beautiful owner of the horse to be fixed, and Virgil spies Autumn Claypool (Pat Crowley), the luscious lady veterinarian, it’s obvious that the team of Nelson and Yokum will do everything possible to help “My Sheba” win, and worry about Jumbo later.

Well, fancy that! Bob Hope and Lucille Ball join forces in a Technicolor. Remake of Ruggles of Red Gap and let loose a stampede of laughs. Wise-cracking Bob is a teddibly, teddibly British valet brought to the Old West to teach Old World charms to a certain redheaded tomboy. Of course, Bob's not really a valet. He's an out-of-work actor who's stumbled across the role of his life. It's tea at 4:00 p.m. and don't fan your soup with your hat, but will proper etiquette protect Bob from Lucy's jilted beau?

Jack Griffith, known as "Papa" to all, is a family man in a Texas town, but an irresponsible one. To impress his 6-year-old daughter Corinne, he spends the family's savings to buy his own circus, simply so the little girl can have her own pony. After his squandering leaves the Griffiths in debt, wife Ambolyn packs up Corinne and older sister Augusta and moves to Texarkana, Texas, where her father, Anthony Ghio, is the mayor. Griffith attempts to use his circus to help Ghio's bid for reelection, but accidentally causes Ambolyn to end up with a broken hand. Despondent, he leaves for Louisiana and is little seen or heard from by the family. Talked into an attempt at reconciliation, Papa is reluctant, believing the Griffiths want nothing more to do with him, but he is welcomed back with open arms.

No sex, please – we're on our honeymoon! After a showgirl (Debbie Reynolds) and an Air Force sergeant (Glenn Ford) head to the altar on the basis of one torrid smooch, the bride begins having second thoughts. After all, marriage can't be based on sexual chemistry alone. So she decrees a month of connubial celibacy to test if the newlyweds are really meant for each other. Think they'll make the whole 30 days? Funny, frisky and (just a bit) risqué, Reynolds and Ford aren't the only joys in this romantic comedy set in and around a Madrid U.S. air base. Other pluses include a strong supporting cast, exotic Spanish locales and a glamorous, plot-promoting red Lincoln Futura, which found fame a few years later as TV's Batmobile.

Tony Curtis gives a winning performance as the great Houdini, the struggling circus performer who emerged as the world’s most captivating magician and escape artist. From his beginnings as a “wildman” carnival act to the internationally famous feat of escaping from a locked trunk in an ice-jammed river, Houdini effectively captures the amazing life and courage of this fascinating man. Also stars Janet Leigh.

Golden-Globe nominated and Emmy Award-winning Tony Randall ("Pillow Talk," TV's "The Odd Couple") plays Lorenzo Charlton, a stuffy tax investigator sent to the farm of Pop Larkin (Paul Douglas) and Ma Larkin (Una Merkel) to find out why they haven't been paying taxes. He discovers that the Larkins, instead of money, use a homegrown barter system. Overwhelmed by their complex economic network, Lorenzo drinks one home brew too many. Awakening from a hangover, he sees a vision of loveliness before him -- the Larkin's spunky daughter Mariette (Debbie Reynolds). Enraptured by Mariette, he decides to stick around and find a way to get the family out of their onerous tax burden. George Marshall ("How the West Was Won," "Destry Rides Again") directs this breezy romantic comedy.

Academy Award-winning epic follows the trials and tribulations of three generations of a frontier family as they embark to tame the wild American West. Narrated by the great Spencer Tracy, it features an Oscar-laden cast that includes John Wayne, Gregory Peck, James Stewart, Henry Fonda, Debbie Reynolds, Richard Widmark, Lee J. Cobb, George Peppard, Raymond Massey, Robert Preston, Karl Malden, Eli Wallach & Carrol Baker. Helmed by three acclaimed directors, including Oscar-winner John Ford ("Stagecoach," "Mogambo," "The Grapes of Wrath"). Inducted into the Library of Congress National Film Registry.