1958 comedy
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1. Big Deal on Madonna Street (1958)
Not Rated | 106 min | Comedy, Crime
A motley quintet of inept small-time thieves attempt the burglary of a local pawnshop in this Italian farce.
Director: Mario Monicelli | Stars: Vittorio Gassman, Marcello Mastroianni, Renato Salvatori, Totò
Votes: 11,524
2. The Matchmaker (1958)
Approved | 103 min | Romance, Comedy
Thornton Wilder's tale of a matchmaker who desires the man she's supposed to be pairing with another woman.
Director: Joseph Anthony | Stars: Shirley Booth, Anthony Perkins, Shirley MacLaine, Paul Ford
Votes: 1,211
3. Gigi (1958)
G | 115 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Weary of the conventions of Parisian society, a rich playboy and a youthful courtesan-in-training enjoy a platonic friendship which may not stay platonic for long.
Directors: Vincente Minnelli, Charles Walters | Stars: Leslie Caron, Maurice Chevalier, Louis Jourdan, Hermione Gingold
Votes: 24,512
4. Lend Me Your Wife (1958)
83 min | Comedy
The movie takes place in a company that sells baby toys. It is time to fill a leading position, and it is known the owner of the company only places married men on leading positions. This ... See full summary »
Director: Edith Carlmar | Stars: Tore Foss, Sonja Wigert, Atle Merton, Randi Kolstad
Votes: 139
5. Auntie Mame (1958)
Approved | 143 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
An orphan goes to live with his free-spirited aunt. Conflict ensues when the executor of his father's estate objects to the aunt's lifestyle.
Director: Morton DaCosta | Stars: Rosalind Russell, Forrest Tucker, Coral Browne, Fred Clark
Votes: 12,705 | Gross: $23.30M
6. Teacher's Pet (1958)
Approved | 120 min | Comedy, Romance
A hard-nosed newspaper editor poses as a night-school student in order to woo a journalism teacher who cannot stand him.
Director: George Seaton | Stars: Clark Gable, Doris Day, Gig Young, Mamie Van Doren
Votes: 4,855
7. Rally 'Round the Flag, Boys! (1958)
Approved | 106 min | Comedy
All about the citizens of Putnam's Landing and their reactions to an Army missile base in their backyard.
Director: Leo McCarey | Stars: Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Joan Collins, Jack Carson
Votes: 1,376
8. Happy Is the Bride (1958)
84 min | Comedy
In a quiet summer corner of Wiltshire that is forever England, David and Janet decide to tie the knot. Unfortunately, this is the cue for everyone else to take over proceedings, to the ... See full summary »
Director: Roy Boulting | Stars: Ian Carmichael, Janette Scott, Cecil Parker, Terry-Thomas
Votes: 117
9. The Geisha Boy (1958)
Approved | 98 min | Comedy
Gilbert Wooley is a second-rate magician who is sent to entertain the troops in the pacific. During his time in Japan he becomes attached to a little orphan boy.
Director: Frank Tashlin | Stars: Jerry Lewis, Marie McDonald, Sessue Hayakawa, Barton MacLane
Votes: 2,127
10. Damn Yankees (1958)
Approved | 111 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
A frustrated fan of the hopeless Washington Senators makes a pact with the Devil to help the baseball team win the league pennant.
Directors: George Abbott, Stanley Donen | Stars: Tab Hunter, Gwen Verdon, Ray Walston, Russ Brown
Votes: 3,448
11. The Law Is the Law (1958)
95 min | Comedy
Assola is an imaginary village on the border between Italy and France and the borderline crosses the village itself. The French customs agent Ferdinand is always trying to catch the Italian... See full summary »
Director: Christian-Jaque | Stars: Totò, Fernandel, Nino Besozzi, Noël Roquevert
Votes: 1,067
12. Ni vu, ni connu (1958)
95 min | Comedy
In a small French village, everything would be quiet if the local wildlife cop was not being ridiculed by a smart poacher.
Director: Yves Robert | Stars: Louis de Funès, Noëlle Adam, Frédéric Duvallès, Claude Rich
Votes: 2,037
13. The Perfect Furlough (1958)
Approved | 93 min | Comedy, Romance
An Army psychologist oversees her creation: an arctic serviceman sent to Paris with a movie star.
Director: Blake Edwards | Stars: Tony Curtis, Janet Leigh, Keenan Wynn, Linda Cristal
Votes: 1,137
14. Houseboat (1958)
Unrated | 110 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
A widower, his three young children, and an Italian nanny get to know each other better when circumstances have them living together aboard a badly neglected houseboat.
Director: Melville Shavelson | Stars: Cary Grant, Sophia Loren, Martha Hyer, Harry Guardino
Votes: 9,658
15. The Horse's Mouth (1958)
Approved | 97 min | Comedy
An ill-behaved, lovably scruffy painter, Gulley Jimson, searches for a perfect canvas, determined to let nothing come between himself and the realization of his exalted vision.
Director: Ronald Neame | Stars: Alec Guinness, Kay Walsh, Renee Houston, Mike Morgan
Votes: 3,867
16. No Time for Sergeants (1958)
Approved | 119 min | Comedy, War
Will Stockdale is a country bumpkin drafted into the Air Force and too dumb to realize he's driving everyone around him crazy, no one more than Sergeant King.
Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: Andy Griffith, Myron McCormick, Nick Adams, Murray Hamilton
Votes: 4,441
17. The Reluctant Debutante (1958)
Approved | 94 min | Comedy, Romance
While visiting her father, an American teenage girl is thrown into London society during its "Debutante Season."
Director: Vincente Minnelli | Stars: Rex Harrison, Kay Kendall, John Saxon, Sandra Dee
Votes: 1,837
18. The Tunnel of Love (1958)
Approved | 98 min | Comedy, Romance
A series of misunderstandings leaves a married man believing that he has impregnated the owner of an adoption agency, and that she will be the surrogate for him and his wife.
Director: Gene Kelly | Stars: Doris Day, Richard Widmark, Gig Young, Gia Scala
Votes: 1,495
19. Carry on Sergeant (1958)
Approved | 84 min | Comedy, War
Sergeant Grimshawe wants to retire in the flush of success by winning the Star Squad prize with his very last platoon of newly called-up National Servicemen. But what a motley bunch they turn out to be.
Director: Gerald Thomas | Stars: Kenneth Williams, Charles Hawtrey, William Hartnell, Shirley Eaton
Votes: 3,004
20. This Happy Feeling (1958)
92 min | Comedy
On a stormy night, young woman asks another guest at party to rescue her from her lecherous boss and take her to the train station. When her rescuer suggests that she stop at his place to ... See full summary »
Director: Blake Edwards | Stars: Debbie Reynolds, Curd Jürgens, John Saxon, Alexis Smith
Votes: 407
21. Indiscreet (1958)
Approved | 100 min | Comedy, Romance
An actress who has given up on love meets a suave banker and begins a flirtation with him--although he's already married.
Director: Stanley Donen | Stars: Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Cecil Parker, Phyllis Calvert
Votes: 10,234
22. Fortunella (1958)
101 min | Comedy
A poor girl is convinced she is the daughter of a prince.
Director: Eduardo De Filippo | Stars: Giulietta Masina, Alberto Sordi, Paul Douglas, Franca Marzi
Votes: 203
23. Rock-a-Bye Baby (1958)
Approved | 103 min | Comedy, Musical
A TV repair man must care for the newborn triplets of his former hometown sweetheart, now a famous movie star, so her career will not suffer.
Director: Frank Tashlin | Stars: Jerry Lewis, Marilyn Maxwell, Connie Stevens, Reginald Gardiner
Votes: 2,263
24. Me and the Colonel (1958)
Approved | 109 min | Comedy, War
Jacobowsky (Danny Kaye), a Jewish refugee, flees from the Germans with Colonel Prokoszny (Curt Jurgens), an aristocratic, anti-Semitic Polish officer trying to get papers to England. ... See full summary »
Director: Peter Glenville | Stars: Danny Kaye, Curd Jürgens, Nicole Maurey, Françoise Rosay
Votes: 733
25. La vida por delante (1958)
90 min | Comedy
Finished their careers of Law and Medicine, respectively, Antonio Redondo and Josefina Castro, a pair of young Spanish newlyweds, are looking for work to buy an apartment and start a life ... See full summary »
Director: Fernando Fernán Gómez | Stars: Analía Gadé, Fernando Fernán Gómez, José Isbert, Félix de Pomés
Votes: 252
26. Amore e chiacchiere (Salviamo il panorama) (1958)
95 min | Comedy, Drama
An industrialist tries to corrupt the deputy mayor by exploiting his oratory vanity, to prevent the panoramic view of his villa from being disfigured by a hospice.
Director: Alessandro Blasetti | Stars: Vittorio De Sica, Gino Cervi, Carla Gravina, Geronimo Meynier
Votes: 135
27. Law and Disorder (1958)
76 min | Comedy, Crime
A British petty criminal lies to his son about his frequent prison terms by inventing honorable plausible explanations for his absences from home, but things get complicated when his son becomes a judge's assistant.
Director: Charles Crichton | Stars: Michael Redgrave, Robert Morley, Ronald Squire, Elizabeth Sellars
Votes: 327
28. My Uncle (1958)
Not Rated | 116 min | Comedy
Monsieur Hulot visits the technology-driven world of his sister, brother-in-law, and nephew, but he can't quite fit into the surroundings.
Director: Jacques Tati | Stars: Jacques Tati, Jean-Pierre Zola, Adrienne Servantie, Lucien Frégis
Votes: 24,265
29. The High Cost of Loving (1958)
Passed | 87 min | Comedy, Drama
When he's not invited to a boardroom luncheon with the company president and his executives, during the company's merger and downsizing phase, purchasing manager Jim Fry fears he is to be laid-off.
Director: José Ferrer | Stars: José Ferrer, Joanne Gilbert, Jim Backus, Gena Rowlands
Votes: 377
30. Bachelor of Hearts (1958)
94 min | Comedy
German scholar Wolf Hauser arrives for a year at Cambridge. Apart from his studies he tries to muck in with the very English non-academic goings-on while romancing pretty Girton-girl Ann.
Director: Wolf Rilla | Stars: Hardy Krüger, Sylvia Syms, Ronald Lewis, Eric Barker
Votes: 195
31. Up the Creek (1958)
Not Rated | 83 min | Comedy
During the Cold War, an idiotic R.N. lieutenant, who cannot be fired due to his connections, is transferred from the Admiralty to the far away Mothball Fleet to a rusty destroyer whose crew is running an illegal money-making scheme.
Director: Val Guest | Stars: David Tomlinson, Peter Sellers, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Vera Day
Votes: 417
32. Onionhead (1958)
Passed | 111 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
In 1941, an Oklahoma college graduate joins the US Coast Guard and serves as a cook on a ship based in Boston.
Director: Norman Taurog | Stars: Andy Griffith, Felicia Farr, Walter Matthau, Erin O'Brien
Votes: 625
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