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Directed by J. Lee ThompsonOrigin United-kingdomGenres Comedy,
MusicalThemes Films about music and musicians,
Théâtre,
Musical films,
Films based on playsActors Jack Buchanan,
Janette Scott,
Norman Wisdom,
Jeannie Carson,
Brenda De Banzie,
Susan StephenRating52%
The film is about an US singer named Bobby Denver, who is known as the "Crying Crooner" (a la Johnnie Ray), who stays with a stockbroker's family by mistake when he comes to England. The stockbroker, played by Jack Buchanan, has three very pretty daughters with the youngest Gwen (played by Janette Scott) madly in love with him so much she wants to marry him. Eventually, the stodgy stockbroker deals with his wife and daughter as well as his maid Linda (played by Joan Sims, who keeps fainting every time Bobby sings) being so infatuated., 1h28
Directed by J. Lee ThompsonOrigin United-kingdomGenres Comedy,
Musical,
RomanceThemes Films about music and musicians,
Musical filmsActors Donald Sinden,
Jeannie Carson,
James Robertson Justice,
Diana Dors,
Stanley Holloway,
Roland CulverRating51%
Returning from a cricket match in Ireland, Peter Weston, an Englishman, is left a pet alligator by another passenger who abandons it to him. He is horrified and his first instinct is to get rid of it as soon as possible. However, he soon develops a bond with a young Irishwoman which appears to be centred almost entirely around the animal. He soon discovers that Daisy is very tame and domesticated, and seems to be the way to Moira's heart., 1h51
Directed by John Flynn,
J. Lee ThompsonOrigin USAGenres Comedy,
Romantic comedy,
Musical,
Black comedy,
RomanceThemes Musical films,
Children's filmsActors Shirley MacLaine,
Paul Newman,
Robert Mitchum,
Dean Martin,
Gene Kelly,
Robert CummingsRating68%
In a dream-like pre-credit sequence, Louisa May Foster (Shirley MacLaine), dressed as a black-clad widow, descends a pink staircase in a pink mansion. As she reaches the bottom, she is followed by pall-bearers carrying a pink coffin. As they round the bend in the staircase, the pallbearers drop the coffin, which sleds down the stairs, leading into the opening titles., 1h18
Directed by Maurice ElveyOrigin United-kingdomGenres Drama,
Comedy,
Musical,
RomanceThemes Films about music and musicians,
Musical films,
Operetta filmsActors Evelyn Laye,
Henry Wilcoxon,
Yvonne Arnaud,
Finlay Currie,
George Grossmith, Jr.,
Max MillerRating64%
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Directed by Tony RichardsonOrigin United-kingdomGenres Comedy,
Comedy-drama,
Action,
Adventure,
Historical,
RomanceThemes Musical films,
Films about capital punishmentActors Albert Finney,
Susannah York,
Hugh Griffith,
Edith Evans,
Diane Cilento,
Joyce RedmanRating63%
The story begins with a silent film sequence during which the good Squire Allworthy (George Devine) returns home after a lengthy stay in London and discovers a baby (played by a girl, Lynn Goldsworthy) in his bed. Thinking that his barber, Mr. Partridge (Jack MacGowran), and one of his servants, Jenny Jones (Joyce Redman), have "birthed" the infant out of lust, the squire banishes them and chooses to raise little Tom Jones as if he were his own son., 1h34
Directed by Peter BrookOrigin United-kingdomGenres Historical,
Musical,
CrimeThemes Films about music and musicians,
Théâtre,
Musical films,
Films about capital punishment,
Films based on plays,
Films based on operasActors Laurence Olivier,
Dorothy Tutin,
Hugh Griffith,
George Rose,
Stuart Burge,
Stanley HollowayRating60%
In the 1700s, a beggar is tossed into London's Newgate jail, along with a pile of papers upon which his unfinished opera is scribbled. The beggar boasts to the other prisoners that his opera, unlike others of the day, is about a real person, the dashing highwayman Captain Macheath, who, dressed in a red coat, holds off the world with a pistol in each hand, seduces women with five notes of a tune, and generally leaps from misfortune. To the beggar's disappointment, the other prisoners point out that his hero Macheath is among them, in irons and behind bars, and Macheath, who is scheduled to be executed the next morning, admits that there is "no arguing with reality." Taking the first page of the opera, Macheath begins singing, and the beggar, encouraged by Macheath's good voice, urges him to continue, until the following story, the beggar's opera, is sung for the prison inmates: While riding to London, feeling merry and free, Macheath robs a carriage, and steals a kiss and a locket from a maiden. Later, in London, Macheath's wife, Polly Peachum, pines for him. Polly's parents, shopkeepers Mr. Peachum and his wife, are scandalized to learn from their employee Filch that Polly has secretly married the highwayman. To make the best of the situation, as they are always eager to make money, they urge her to lure Macheath into a trap and collect the reward for his capture. Meanwhile, outside of town, Macheath encounters a carriage ridden by Newgate's jailor Mr. Lockit, Lockit's daughter Lucy and Mrs. Trapes, whom Lockit is wooing. Lucy, who met Macheath when he was once imprisoned, scolds him for taking her virtue without making good on his promise to wed. When Macheath rides off, Mrs. Trapes suggests that Lucy betray him for the reward and give the money to her father. Later, during a tryst in a hayloft, Polly warns Macheath that her parents are mounting an ambush. Macheath escapes with Polly's help after a swashbuckling fight, then hides in a back room of a tavern, where he is unable to resist socializing with the prostitutes, whom he considers friends. However, prostitute Jenny Diver has been bribed by Peachum and Lockit to betray him, and with the help of her colleagues, Macheath is soon captured. From his jail cell, Macheath urges Lucy to steal the jail keys and set him free, promising to marry her in return, but then Polly shows up and he is forced to introduce the women to each other. During the night, Lucy steals the keys and releases him, but later Polly sneaks back and, finding Macheath gone from the cell, screams in anguish without thinking, thus drawing attention to his escape. Meanwhile, Macheath disguises himself in the stolen cape and gloves of a lord and slips into a gaming house to avoid making good his promise to unite with Lucy. However, the proprietor recognizes the cape and alerts Lockit and Peachum about the impostor wearing it. Back at the jail, Polly is accused of freeing Macheath and is locked in Lucy's room, where Lucy, after losing track of Macheath, attempts to drug her. When they hear the recaptured Macheath being returned to prison, Lucy and Polly proceed to Macheath's cell and demand that he choose between them. He refuses, as he will soon be hanged and sees no reason to disappoint either of them. The next morning, riding atop his coffin as it is carted through the streets to the gallows, Macheath waves farewell to the friendly crowd that has gathered to see him off. At the gallows, after kissing both Lucy and Polly goodbye, Macheath is blindfolded and awaits his fate, and the opera comes to its incomplete end. The real Macheath, who is still in the jail, protests that he should not have to hang twice. After pondering the complaint, the beggar agrees and yells for Macheath's reprieve. The rest of the prisoners join in the chant and mob the turnkey, who comes to investigate the ruckus, allowing Macheath to escape. The highwayman steals a horse from the cart containing his coffin and when safely out of London, sings that his freedom has been returned because of a beggar's opera., 1h34
Directed by Edward BuzzellOrigin USAGenres Comedy,
Musical,
RomanceThemes Musical filmsActors Lucille Ball,
William Gaxton,
Virginia Weidler,
Nancy Walker,
June Allyson,
Chill WillsRating63%
The story centers around Lucille Ball who plays herself against the backdrop of a military academy full of frisky boys. Ball is the reluctant guest of a diminutive cadet, Bud Hooper (Tommy Dix), who wrote her a "mash note" and invitation to be his date at a school prom., 2h1
Directed by Billy WilderOrigin USAGenres Comedy,
Musical theatre,
Romantic comedy,
Musical,
Crime,
RomanceThemes Mafia films,
Films about sexuality,
Transport films,
Erotic films,
LGBT-related films,
Transgender in film,
Rail transport films,
Musical films,
Gangster films,
LGBT-related films,
LGBT-related film,
Cross-dressing in filmActors Marilyn Monroe,
Tony Curtis,
Jack Lemmon,
George Raft,
Joe E. Brown,
Pat O'BrienRating81%
It is February 1929 in the city of Chicago, Joe (Tony Curtis) is an irresponsible jazz saxophone player, gambler and ladies' man; his friend Jerry (Jack Lemmon) is a sensible jazz double-bass player. They accidentally witness the Saint Valentine's Day Massacre. When the gangsters, led by "Spats" Colombo (George Raft), spot them, the two run for their lives. Penniless and in a mad rush to get out of town, the two musicians take a job with Sweet Sue (Joan Shawlee) and her Society Syncopators, an all-female band headed to Miami. Disguised as women and renaming themselves Josephine and Daphne, they board a train with the band and their male manager, Bienstock. Before they board the train, Joe and Jerry notice Sugar Kane (Marilyn Monroe), the band's vocalist and ukulele player.