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Archaeology Videostore - Comedy
Comic archaeology--now there's an idea, straight from Hollywood.
Bringing Up Baby
1938. Paleontologist Cary Grant stumbles on an intercostal clavicle and Kate Hepburn at the same time. Not really an archaeology movie, but one of my favorites, and close, anyway.
Carry on Behind
1975. One of the really terrible Carry On series (maybe you have to be British to get the humor), comical adventures on an archaeological dig.
Kid Millions
1934. Eddie Cantor! plays the son of a famous dead archaeologist who travels to Egypt and gets into trouble.
Pimpernel Smith
1942. Famous archaeologist Leslie Howard moonlights as a spy during World War II.
The Purple Rose of Cairo
1985. Okay, it's cheating, a little; fictional archaeologist Jeff Daniels makes a play for real-life waitress Mia Farrow.