Steve Allen Movies

A biography of comedian double act Bud Abbott & Lou Costello

Young Benny Goodman is taught clarinet by a music professor. He is advised to play whichever kind of music he likes best, but to make a living, Benny...

A compilation film of stand up performances and comedy routines featuring some of the biggest stars in the early years of television. This film was...

A documentary about the life of Errol Flynn, with recollections from friends and family.

The story of Tasmanian-born actor Errol Flynn whose short & flamboyant life, full of scandals, adventures, loves and excess was largely played out in...

A documentary made for the PBS program American Masters about the comedy team Nichols and May.

Mitzi Gaynor in a song and dance hour with an all-male, star-studded ensemble featuring her main guests Michael Landon (Little House on the Prairie)...

Members of a town's Jewish community decide to substitute for their Christian friends and neighbors so they can enjoy Christmas. The good folk...

In the mid-1950s, Dickson Hughes and Richard Stapley, young composers and romantic partners, are hired by legendary silent film star Gloria Swanson...

A bumbling art expert, hired by an insurance company to protect a Rembrandt on loan from the Louvre, schemes to steal it.

Homemaker Lucy Whittaker calls up President Carter to complain about a local political issue—and to her astonishment, he agrees to come dine at...

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...

Hounded by the press for shooting a doctor, an ousted Los Angeles policeman works his own case.

Roast of Rodney Dangerfield recorded in Aspen on his 75th birthday.

Nostalgic history of the Friars Club. Aired on Cinemax Reel Life

"The Television Years" examines the events that took place in the years between 1956 and 1960, in which Elvis Presley excited a whole nation as the...

An account of the rise and fall of a silent film comic, Billy Bright. The movie begins with his funeral, as he speaks from beyond the grave in a...

The sun's too bright, the traffic's going to be bad, there's too many people out there... It's just easier to sit back on the couch and laugh with...

Rodney Dangerfield wants the hottest up-and-coming comedians for his new HBO special, but as always, he gets no respect.

An exploration of the relationship between Beat Generation writers Jack Kerouac and Neal Cassady, and Cassady's wife, Carolyn.