Movies: Practical joke

Under the watchful eye of his mentor, Captain Mike Kennedy, probationary firefighter Jack Morrison matures into a seasoned veteran at a Baltimore fire station. However, Jack has reached a crossroads as the sacrifices he's made have put him in harm's...

A young teacher is the victim of a cruel joke. When she enters the classroom, all her pupils are naked, standing near their bench. Their clothes are heaped up on the podium....

Thousands of birds flock into a seaside town and terrorize the residents in a series of deadly attacks....

Two best friends play practical jokes on each other until things get out of hand....

A man caught up in the glamor of being a Hollywood celebrity has no idea that the production he's in is a fake....

A group of young professionals decides to play a practical joke on one of their ex-girlfriends who married a rich man who is about to close a major real estate deal. They plan to kidnap her and mess up the deal. Unfortunately, the joke becomes deadly...

A gossip columnist helps a Broadway ingenue who's beholden to a penthouse gangster....

A maid is out walking with her young charge when a soldier takes the boy's place....

A college reunion goes awry when Pete suspects his friends may be out to get him... As their weekend getaway grows more and more uncomfortable, should Pete be worried about his safety, or is it all in his head?...

A man and a woman, who have never met, are forced by pecuniary circumstances to share the same basement apartment in shifts....

Siblings headed to a family wedding endure a night of increasingly frightening practical jokes while staying at a secluded motel....

Charley has in-laws that look down on him because he's not rich. So, to try to keep up, he rushes out to buy a car—but no matter, they still think he's a drip—as does his wife. Later, when he's given a simple job to do by his boss, he screws it up—an...

Jimmy Jump is a cracked reporter at a behind-the-times daily newspaper. He also happens to be in love with the managing editor's daughter. It's Monday, April 1st and the paper's editorial staff has a great deal of trouble telling the difference betwe...

A film version of the classic Allen Funt TV series Candid Camera. The central theme is a series of comedic set-ups revolving around marriage. The situations include an allegedly unfaithful wife, an automated "marriage machine," a swinging marriage ce...

A frustrated, protective father tries to stop his secretaries from falling in love with his charming daughter, Betty. He hires two secretaries— only for them to be in on the practical jokes Betty plays on her father....

Betty Boop's baking is interrupted by her obnoxious practical joking cousin Irving. Can Grampy out-joke the joker?...

A pump stands outside a farmhouse, just inside a picket fence. A boy comes out of the house and dresses up the pump handle and its post as a scarecrow, so that he can play a practical joke on a drunken acquaintance when he passes by. The boy then hid...

A blind teacher is the victim of endless pranks and pranks from his students....

When her practical joker boyfriend dies, a young woman recalls all the pranks he pulled as she tries to figure out who murdered him....

The famous western fiction writer Bob Morris arrives at the Henderson ranch. He quickly realizes the hanging, runaway horses, and the shootout are fakes for his benefit. But when a real robbery takes place he thinks it's another fake....