Once I shot an Elephant in my pjamas

How he got in there, I'll never know.

Okay, onto my great love, old movies, new movies, just plain movies.

Pass the popcorn, dim the lights, and turn off your cellphone and I will begin this new venture with my top 25 comedies I have seen. Doesn't count if I have not seen the movie, so if I would appear to have missed one, it's likely I have not seen it yet. We'll start off with movies 25 backward to 20, with the countdown continuing.

# 25
Victor Victoria , a film directed by Blake Edwards, and starring Julie Andrews, James Garner and Robert Preston. Amongst others cast were Lesley Ann Warren and ex footballer Alex Karros

A comic farce, " a woman playing a man who is a female impersonator ", well Julie Andrews explained better, but is it has all the ingredients of a John Sturges screwball comedy. Robert Preston does some his most finest work since The Music Man. James Garner plays a Chicago racketeer trying to find out if he's a she, or she's a he. Confused, you should be, it's a twisty plot and a wonderful look at Paris in the 30's.

# 24
One , Two, Three... Trust Billy Wilder to take East/West Berlin, Jimmy Cagney, and crazed Russians and turn it into an international farce. One of Cagney's rare comedic efforts, and with Wilder's direction he puts his stamp on this comedy. Cagney, in a tour de force performance plays a Coca Cola executive who would love to do such a great job that he and his wife get either the cushy London job, or at least out of West Berlin. Great fun, and some very witty dialogue delivered by a stern and proper Cagney.

# 23
Defending your Life, with Albert Brooks and Meryl Streep in the key roles, with great support from Lee Grant and Rip Torn as rival attorneys. Brooks plays the role of a man who has been avoiding facing major fears all his life, and an unfortunate car accident sends him to Limbo, a halfway house , neither Heaven, nor Hell, where he gets a chance to defend his life choices, in a court room setting. If he is deemed ready, he will be sent forward , whatever that means. He meets up Meryl's character and he falls for her, but realises his chance a true love is doomed if he cannot defend his life. Watch for 2 great sketches at the Hall of History and a suishi bar.

# 22
The Wrong Box. Is a wonderful British comedy with the 1960's comic duo of Peter Cook and Dudley Moore, with a young Michael Caine as rival cousins, with aging family members who look to inherit a fortune, but must be the lst surviving heir of a tontein. They both belive each other's uncle has passed on, but try to collect the family treasures and is done with the usual classic British flair.

# 22
My Favourite Year,,, Poor Benji Stone hs the honor to trying keep British Film Star Alan Swann out of trouble, and for the most part sober, so he fulfill his commitment to a 1950's live comedy television show. Looks like a "Your Show of Shows", or Milton Berle all rolled into on, with Joe Bologna starring as King Kaiser. Peter O'Toole steals every scene he's in and Mark Lin Baker ( Benji Stone ) is the frustrated comedy writer trying get Swann to learn his lines, and stay out of jail. The best prop in the whole thing is Live TV, and the way it was done 50 years ago, and it just brings all those shows back to life.

# 21
Silver Streak... no list of my faves should have at least one Gene Wilder/Richard Pryor buddy film. Thrown in evil Patrick MaGoohan, Jill Clayburgh, Scatman Crothers and Ned Beatty, and the backdrop of Toronto's rail yard, forged artwork, murders in dark tunnels, and a 3 day train trip from LA to Chicago. Best moments are left to Wilder as he is confronted with challenges at every turn, heck he cannot even stay on the train !!! Pryor is also wonderful as a car thief who ends up getting mixed of with Wilder. The duo were so good together, they went onto make more buddy pictures. Watch for Wilder hopelessly trying to milk a cow in hopes of soliciting help from a female farmer.

# 20
Midnight Run ... a buddy picture starring De Niro and Charles Grodin. Grodin plays a mob accountant who is turning states evidence, but skips bail, and is hunted and located by De Niro, and h ahs to get him to LA in 72 hours. The 2 are handcuffed together, and Grodin treies to chnge th chain smoking, foul mouth De Niro and are then hunted themselves by mobsters who want to silence Grodin. De Niro rarely ventures into comedy, and plays his role straight up a s a beleaguered bounty hunter.

More to come soon......keep watching ...