Top 10 Clean Non-Woke Comedy Movies
If you want laughs without crude material doing all the work, try these. The list moves from silent comedy and screwball timing to more recent favorites.
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The General (1926)
IMDb8.1out of 10Older title, not reviewedA Confederate engineer rejected by the army chases his stolen locomotive north, then chases it back south again with the Union army behind him. Keaton did all of it himself, including sitting on the cowcatcher of a moving train, and the collapsing-bridge shot was the most expensive in silent film.
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Families and newcomers willing to try a silent film with nonstop visual invention.
How we picked these
We looked for comedies that create laughs through performance, situation, language, and character rather than explicit sexual material or current political targets.
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