<u>drama (non-Shakes,non-mus,Eng-only)</u>
The Barretts of Wimpole Street,
The Petrified Forest,
The Grapes of Wrath,
Mr Smith Goes To Washington,
Casablanca,
Maltese Falcon,
Stage Door,
High Noon,
Shane,
Ivanhoe (Robert Taylor & Elizabeth Taylor),
Quo Vadis,
The Silver Chalice,
Excalibur,
Ladyhawke,
The Secret of NIMH,
The Fisher King
<u>comedy (non-Shakes,non-mus,Eng-only)</u>
Bringing Up Baby,
The Philadelphia Story,
Sons Of The Desert * (Laurel & Hardy, 1933)
A Night at the Opera,
A Day At The Races,
Room Service (w/ early Lucy, playing straight to Marx Bros),
The Great Dictator (Charlie Chaplin, 1940)
To Be Or Not To Be (Carole Lombard & Jack Benny)
Snow White And The Three Stooges (great ice skating scene)
<u>musicals</u>
The Magic Flute (Ingmar Bergman - best opera on VHS/DVD),
Jesus Christ Superstar,
Evita,
Phantom of the Opera (Andrew Lloyd Webber),
Amadeus,
Carmen Jones (black cast, 20th cent USA, new lyrics to Bizet),
Kiss Me Kate *,
Yellow Submarine,
Concert For Bangladesh,
Swan Lake (almost any version - greatest ballet ever),
Spartacus (Vladimir Vasiliev w/ Bolshoi Ballet),
Oklahoma,
The Student Prince,
South Pacific,
Camelot,
Can Can *,
Man of La Mancha,
The Magic Bow (Paganini biography),
I'm Not There (surrealistic Bob Dylan biography)
<u>Shakespeare</u>
Taming of the Shrew * (1st WS talkie, Mary Pickford & Douglas Fairbanks),
Henry V (Sir Laurence Olivier, film opens & closes in "The Globe"),
Richard III (traditional version w/ L. Olivier, 1955),
Taming of the Shrew (Elizabeth Taylor),
Romeo and Juliet (Zeffirelli version),
Richard III ** (R3 as 1930s fascist - Ian McKellen, 1995),
Hamlet (Kenneth Branagh & Derek Jacobi version),
Midsummer Night's Dream (Flockhart & Kline version),
<u>foreign, generally non-musical</u>
Alexander Nevsky ** (Eisenstein - medieval Russian hero as WWII metaphor),
Orphee (Jean Cocteau - Orpheus as a 1950s beat poet),
Belle et la Bete (Jean Cocteau),
El Tesoro del Rey Salomon * (Tin Tan & Ana Bertha Lepe),
Carmen (Carlos Saura - a director discovers a lead & fantasizes about her)
<u>Sci-Fi and Horror</u>
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (original version),
War of the Worlds (original version, 1953),
Things To Come (WWI doesn't end & society crumbles, 1936),
The Abominable Dr. Phibes (Vincent Price as Moses - take that, Heston!),
Theater Of Blood (V Price & Diana Rigg having fun with the Bard)
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* = kinky warning
** = maybe too violent
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Robert Meyer
[This message has been edited by Robert Meyer (edited August 12, 2008).]
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