Best award winning movies with impeccable comic timing from 1960

Check out today’s highest ranked movies with impeccable comic timing from 1960! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best movies with impeccable comic timing from 1960, based on the crowd's interest and popular searches from the country.

1 The Apartment (1960)

Bud Baxter is a minor clerk in a huge New York insurance company, until he discovers a quick way to climb the corporate ladder. He lends out his apartment to the executives as a place to take their mistresses. Although he often has to deal with the aftermath of their visits, one night he's left with a major problem to solve.

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1960-06-21 | Comedy / Drama

Cast

Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine

Rating

rating icon 8.204
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #42 for
    remarkable
  2. Ranked #61 for
    deservedly won awards
  3. Ranked #66 for
    sluttish character

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2 The Facts of Life (1960)

Middle-class suburbanites Larry and Kitty grow bored with their lives and respective marriages. Although each always found the other's manner grating, they fall in love when thrown together--without their spouses--on vacation. On returning home they try to break things off, only to grow closer. A holiday together will finally settle whether they should end their marriages.

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1960-11-14 | Drama / Comedy

Cast

Bob Hope, Lucille Ball

Rating

rating icon 5.2
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #99 for
    sabbatical
  2. Ranked #106 for
    romantic character
  3. Ranked #132 for
    in doldrums

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3 Bells Are Ringing (1960)

Ella Peterson works in the basement office of Susanswerphone, a telephone answering service. She listens in on others' lives and adds some interest to her own humdrum existence by adopting different identities for her clients. They include an out-of-work Method actor, a dentist with musical yearnings, and in particular playwright Jeffrey Moss, who is suffering from writer's block and desperately needs a muse.

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1960-06-23 | Music / Comedy

Cast

Judy Holliday, Dean Martin

Rating

rating icon 6.3
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #70 for
    rousing musical score
  2. Ranked #75 for
    crème de la crème
  3. Ranked #166 for
    dated

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4 Pollyanna (1960)

A young girl comes to an embittered town and confronts its attitude with her determination to see the best in life.

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1960-05-19 | Comedy / Drama

Cast

Hayley Mills, Jane Wyman

Rating

rating icon 6.994
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #53 for
    prissy
  2. Ranked #60 for
    mawkish
  3. Ranked #87 for
    cantankerous

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5 North to Alaska (1960)

After striking gold in Alaska, the romantic George sends his womanizing partner Sam to bring his fiancée up from Seattle. When Sam finds that she has already married, he returns instead with Angel, a dancer originally from France.

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1960-11-07 | Western / Comedy

Cast

John Wayne, Stewart Granger

Rating

rating icon 6.61
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #55 for
    barn-burner
  2. Ranked #143 for
    raucous
  3. Ranked #152 for
    lust

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6 Can-Can (1960)

Parisian nightclub owner Simone Pistache is known for her performances of the can-can, which attracts the ire of the self-righteous Judge Philipe Forrestier. He hatches a plot to photograph her in the act but ends up falling for her — much to the chagrin of her boyfriend, lawyer François Durnais.

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1960-03-09 | Music / Comedy

Cast

Frank Sinatra, Shirley MacLaine

Rating

rating icon 6.621
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #30 for
    sly
  2. Ranked #64 for
    great soundtrack
  3. Ranked #82 for
    memorable tune

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7 Pepe (1960)

Mario "Cantinflas" Moreno is a hired hand, Pepe, employed on a ranch. A boozing Hollywood director buys a white stallion that belongs to Pepe's boss. Pepe, determined to get the horse back (as he considers it his family), decides to take off to Hollywood. There he meets film stars including Jimmy Durante, Frank Sinatra, Zsa Zsa Gabór, Bing Crosby, Maurice Chevalier and Jack Lemmon in drag as Daphne from Some Like It Hot. He is also surprised by things that were new in America at the time, such as automatic swinging doors. When he finally reaches the man who bought the horse, he is led to believe there is no hope of getting it back. However, the last scene shows both him and the stallion back at the ranch with several foals.

Info

1960-12-21 | Comedy / Music

Cast

Cantinflas, Dan Dailey

Rating

rating icon 6.076
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #75 for
    fancy camera work
  2. Ranked #237 for
    bloated
  3. Ranked #243 for
    hodgepodge

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8 Never on Sunday (1960)

An American scholar in Greece sets about improving the local prostitute with whom he is infatuated.

Info

1960-05-24 | Comedy / Romance

Cast

Melina Mercouri, Jules Dassin

Rating

rating icon 6.8
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #92 for
    neon-drenched
  2. Ranked #106 for
    critically acclaimed
  3. Ranked #108 for
    lust

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9 The Sundowners (1960)

In the Australian Outback, the Carmody family--Paddy, Ida, and their teenage son Sean--are sheep drovers, always on the move. Ida and Sean want to settle down and buy a farm. Paddy wants to keep moving. A sheep-shearing contest, the birth of a child, drinking, gambling, and a racehorse will all have a part in the final decision.

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1960-12-08 | Drama / Adventure

Cast

Deborah Kerr, Robert Mitchum

Rating

rating icon 6.7
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #60 for
    good girl
  2. Ranked #102 for
    with cockney accent
  3. Ranked #219 for
    rootless character

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10 Tall Story (1960)

A young insecure college sportsman is in trouble. He wants to marry his very straightforward girlfriend, but has no money. When he is offered a bribe to fix a game, he is torn even more about the matter.

Info

1960-04-06 | Comedy

Cast

Jane Fonda, Anthony Perkins

Rating

rating icon 5.1
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #66 for
    callow
  2. Ranked #108 for
    frivolous
  3. Ranked #121 for
    coquettish acting

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