Suggestions for WW2 comedy movies?

Stalag 17

Stalag 17 is a WW2  comedy? I don't think so. LOL!

I can think of comedic moments in most every war movie that I've seen... humor is part of life. But I gotta second Black Sheep about Stalag 17. But I am pretty sure that it and The Great Escape were the "inspiration" for Hogan's Heroes ;)

Both had humerous moments. Mike

armornut

I thought the  Great Escape was kinda comical, "back in the hole Fritz?" Got a real chuckle how main character poked fun at the Germans, just forgot actors name was it Paul Newman or Peter Fonda?

Actually, it was Steve McQueen, James Garner, Charles Bronson, James Coburn, Richard Attenborough, Donald Pleaseance, among others.........

Sorry, but if you're counting a few humorous moments in a drama as constituting a comedy film, then pretty much every ever made movie is a comedy. Saving Private Ryan, a dramatic film with with as grim a war scene as any I've ever seen, had some humorous moments. By this new broad definition, it was therefore in fact a comedy.

Awww, come on..... He was just suggesting that there were some funny scenes in those movies, not saying that because of those scenes, the movies should be classified as "comedies". I don't think a new definition of "war comedy" was being suggested.

Gamera

I was thinking the other day 'Fifty Shades of Olive Drab' would make a great name for a movie...

Yeah, 'Kelly's Heroes' is a classic. 

'Operation Petticoat' and 'Father Goose' are pretty good too. That's all I can think of off the top my head though. 

all 3 of those. WACKIEST SHIP IN THE ARMY,  someone already mentioned MR ROBERTS

Thank you for the suggestions gentlemen.

Now, if somebody could ID these two:

1. A B-17 is shot down over Paris, the crew bails and is taken in by the French resistance. They agree to meet in at a certain steam-bath and there is where all the laugh starts. I think Odry Hepburn plays in this one.

2. A US unit surrounds an Italian village and offers the Italian soldiers to surrender to avoid unnecessary loss of life etc etc. The Italian commander would accept but he says to his US counterpart that if they surrender they will just go to the US POW camp while the US soldiers will continue to fight and die. So they stage a prolonged "battle", bombarding in advanced agreed empty positions, burn haystacks in the village to create smoke and doing all they can to appear that they are fighting all the wile enjoying Italian food and vine.

No idea about the second movie, but the B-17 one seems to be 'Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At!'

It starred Terry Thomas, so it could not be anything else but a comedy.

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I found this list which might be interesting to some, there is a lot of movies:

http://www.imdb.com/list/ls057372098/

regards,

Jack

Those two movies (especially the second one) sound pretty funny!  I can't say I had ever heard of either one, though.  I'd be really curious about the second one.

I can't believe all of us have forgotten about the ultimate WW2 movie "FDR: American Bad@ss"!

You NEED to see that cinematic masterpiece.

Eric

PS:  Would "Airplane!" count since some of the scenes took place during the war over Macho Grande?

mississippivol

Don, you type with an accent?????

Any of the Three Stooges shorts from that era....

echolmberg

PS:  Would "Airplane!" count since some of the scenes took place during the war over Macho Grande?

Over Macho Grande? I'll never be over Macho Grande

Severe shell shock, he thinks he's Ethel merman  

I always loved What Did You Do in the War Daddy? with James Coburn and *** Sean.

Whenever I hear someone mention the Three Stooges, I always think of their law firm

"Dewey, Cheatum and Howe"