Best Comedy movies of 1970s

Actors : Paul Le Mat, Ron Howard, Richard Dreyfuss, Charles Martin Smith,
Directors : George Lucas,

A couple of high school grads spend one final night cruising the strip with their buddies before they go off to college.

Actors : Bud Cort, Ruth Gordon, Vivian Pickles, Cyril Cusack,
Directors : Hal Ashby,

Young, rich, and obsessed with death, Harold finds himself changed forever when he meets lively septuagenarian Maude at a funeral.

Actors : Keith Carradine, Shelley Duvall, Ronee Blakley, Karen Black,
Directors : Robert Altman,

Over the course of a few hectic days, numerous interrelated people prepare for a political convention as secrets and lies are surfaced and revealed.

Actors : Dabney Coleman, Jane Fonda, Dolly Parton, Lily Tomlin,
Directors : Colin Higgins,

Three female employees of a sexist, egotistical, lying, hypocritical bigot find a way to turn the tables on him.

Actors : Geoffrey Lewis, William Smith, Sondra Locke, Clint Eastwood,
Directors : Buddy Van Horn,

A trucker turned prize fighter, his brother and their pet orangutan have a series of misadventures involving the mob, corrupt cops, motorcycle gangs and pretty dames.

Actors : Robert Guillaume, Charles Grodin, Goldie Hawn, Chevy Chase,
Directors : Jay Sandrich,

Wrongfully accused of a bank robbery, a writer seeks the help of his ex-wife, who is now married to the soon-to-be D.A. of California.

Actors : Catlin Adams, Bernadette Peters, Steve Martin, Mabel King,
Directors : Carl Reiner,

An idiotic man struggles to make it through life on his own in St. Louis.

Actors : Éva Gábor, Sterling Holloway, Phil Harris, Scatman Crothers,
Directors : Wolfgang Reitherman,

With the help of a smooth talking tomcat, a family of Parisian felines set to inherit a fortune from their owner try to make it back home after a jealous butler kidnaps them and leaves them in the country.

Actors : Magali Noël, Bruno Zanin, Armando Brancia, Pupella Maggio,
Directors : Federico Fellini,

A series of comedic and nostalgic vignettes set in a 1930s Italian coastal town.

Actors : Ryan O'Neal, John Hillerman, Madeline Kahn, Tatum O'Neal,
Directors : Peter Bogdanovich,

During the Great Depression, a con man finds himself saddled with a young girl who may or may not be his daughter, and the two forge an unlikely partnership.

Actors : Geraldine Page, Éva Gábor, Bob Newhart, Joe Flynn,

Two mice of the Rescue Aid Society search for a little girl kidnapped by unscrupulous treasure hunters.

Actors : Tommy Chong, Cheech Marin, Betty Kennedy, Evelyn Guerrero,
Directors : Tommy Chong,

The two stoners and their friends go through another series of crazy, drug-influenced misadventures.

Actors : Jennifer Warren, Michael Ontkean, Strother Martin, Paul Newman,
Directors : George Roy Hill,

A failing ice hockey team finds success using constant fighting and violence during games.

Actors : Roy Scheider, Jessica Lange, Leland Palmer, Ann Reinking,
Directors : Bob Fosse,

Director/choreographer Bob Fosse tells his own life story as he details the sordid life of Joe Gideon, a womanizing, drug-using dancer.

Actors : Angela Lansbury, Roddy McDowall, David Tomlinson, Sam Jaffe,
Directors : Robert Stevenson,

An apprentice witch, three kids and a cynical conman search for the missing component to a magic spell useful to the defense of Britain.

Actors : Mink Stole, Divine, Mary Vivian Pearce, David Lochary,
Directors : John Waters,

Notorious Baltimore criminal and underground figure Divine goes up against a sleazy married couple who make a passionate attempt to humiliate her and seize her tabloid-given title as "The Filthiest Person Alive".

Actors : Barbra Streisand, Ryan O'Neal, Madeline Kahn, Kenneth Mars,
Directors : Peter Bogdanovich,

The accidental mix-up of four identical plaid overnight bags leads to a series of increasingly wild and wacky situations.

Actors : Sylvester Stallone, David Carradine, Mary Woronov, Simone Griffeth,
Directors : Paul Bartel,

In a dystopian future, a cross country automobile race requires contestants to run down innocent pedestrians to gain points that are tallied based on each kill's brutality.

Actors : John Belushi, Mary Steenburgen, Jack Nicholson, Christopher Lloyd,
Directors : Jack Nicholson,

Due to the lack of men after the Civil War, a small western town allows a bachelorette with ulterior motives to save a horse-thief from the gallows by marrying him. They must deal with his old gang, the sheriff, the bank - and each other.

Actors : James Mason, Warren Beatty, Jack Warden, Julie Christie,

A Los Angeles Rams quarterback, accidentally taken away from his body by an overanxious angel before he was meant to die, returns to life in the body of a recently murdered millionaire.