Keyword: based on play or musical

Mexican Hayride

6.5

1948

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Two con men selling phony stock flee to Mexico ahead of the law, where they run into a woman friend from their earlier days, who is now a bullfighter.

The Sunshine Boys

7.2

1975

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A vaudeville duo agree to reunite for a television special, but it turns out that they cant stand each other.

Kongo

6.2

1932

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This remake of West of Zanzibar (1928) made four years later tries to outdo the Lon Chaney original in morbidity. From a wheelchair a handicapped white man rules an area of Africa as a living god. He rules the local natives through superstition and stage magic and he rules the few white people through sadism, keeping them virtual prisoners. He lives for the day he can avenge himself horribly on the man who stole his wife and crushed his spine. Strong and macabre stuff in a nearly forgotten horror film.

The Scamp

6.3

1957

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Tod is a motherless boy, who is mistreated by his violent father. He eventually finds happiness with kindly foster parents.

The Hole in the Wall

5.8

1929

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Mrs. Ramsey sent Jean Oliver to prison on a false charge. To get even, Jean (disguised as Madame Mystera) plans to kidnap her daughter and turn her into a thief. Love entanglements with a gangster known as The Fox and newspaperman Grant complicate her plans.

The Lady with a Lamp

6.4

1951

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Based on the Reginald Berkeley stage play, this compelling historical drama offers a depiction of the life story of Florence Nightingale (Anna Neagle), the young 19th-century Englishwoman famously drawn to a career in nursing. Traveling to Turkey during the Crimean War, Florence gains a reputation for being devoted to the care of wounded soldiers and for pioneering higher standards for sanitary hospital conditions.

Cast a Dark Shadow

7

1955

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A British fortune-hunter playboy is killing his rich wives in order to inherit their wealth.

The Great Waltz

5.1

1972

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Composer Johann Strauss becomes the Waltz-King and woos a barons mistress in 19th-century Austria.

Mickybo and Me

7.3

2004

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This movie tells the story of two boys who become friends at the start of the Troubles in 1970. They share an obsession with Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), with the consequence that they run away to Australia.

New Faces

7

1954

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New Faces was a musical revue with songs and comedy skits tied together by a quirky plot. It ran on Broadway for nearly a year in 1952 and was then made into a motion picture in 1954. It helped jump start the careers of several young performers including Paul Lynde, Alice Ghostley, Eartha Kitt, Carol Lawrence, performer/writer Mel Brooks (as Melvin Brooks), and lyricist Sheldon Harnick. The film was basically a reproduction of the stage revue with a thin plot added. The plot involved a producer and performer (Ronny Graham) in financial trouble and is trying to stave off an angry creditor long enough to open his show. A wealthy Texan offers to help out, on the condition that his daughter be in the show.

Fast and Loose

6.2

1930

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A wealthy family is thrown into turmoil when the daughter falls for the family chauffeur and the son begins to keep company with a chorus girl.

Cosh Boy

5.9

1953

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The life of a juvenile delinquent is threatened by his own incessant desire for trouble.