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Posts Tagged "based on stage musical"
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Stop the World: I Want to Get Off *** (1966, Tony Tanner, Millicent Martin, Leila Croft) – Classic Movie Review 10,884
Director Philip Savile’s 1966 Stop the World: I Want to Get Off is a funny and appealing, if creaky old Technicolor film of Anthony Newley’s memorable swinging sixties, experimental avant-garde stage musical, set against a […]
Cats ** (2019, Francesca Hayward, Rebel Wilson, James Corden, Ian McKellen, Judi Dench, Jennifer Hudson) – Movie Review
Director Tom Hooper’s belated movie version of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s beloved iconic stage musical Cats (2019) is painless, apart from the restless hand held camera and the CGI, which are painful. The film doesn’t look […]
Man of La Mancha * (1972, Peter O’Toole, Sophia Loren, James Coco, Harry Andrews, John Castle, Brian Blessed, Ian Richardson, Julie Gregg, Rosalie Crutchley) – Classic Movie Review 8766
The all-time great hit Broadway musical play by Dale Wasserman about Don Quixote becomes an unhappy film musical in producer-director Arthur Hiller’s 1972 Man of La Mancha because it is miscast and misconceived and the […]
A Little Night Music ** (1977, Elizabeth Taylor, Diana Rigg, Len Cariou, Hermione Gingold, Lesley-Anne Down, Christopher Guard, Laurence Guittard) – Classic Movie Review 8644
Director Hal Prince’s 1977 musical A Little Night Music tells the tale of a weekend in the country, so exciting, for philandering middle-aged actress Desirée (Elizabeth Taylor), her canny old mother Madame Armfeldt (Hermione Gingold), […]
Godspell *** (1973, Victor Garber, David Haskell, Jerry Sroka, Lynne Thigpen, Katie Hanley, Robin Lamont) – Classic Movie Review 8313
Director David Greene’s 1973 film of the deliberately naïve hit musical Godspell (a stage hit for David Essex in Britain) by Stephen Schwartz (music) and John Michael Tebelak (lyrics) turns the story of Christ into […]
Hair **** (1979, John Savage, Treat Williams, Beverly D’Angelo) – Classic Movie Review 6,934
The great Sixties Broadway hippy stage rock musical Hair was filmed in 1979 with vibrant young stars John Savage and Treat Williams as New York hippies who revolt and burn their draft cards when faced […]
1776 *** (1972, William Daniels, Howard Da Silva, Ken Howard, Donald Madden, David Ford, Blythe Danner, Ron Holgate) – Classic Movie Review 6273
Director Peter H Hunt’s 1972 movie is an interesting but ordinary film of Sherman Edwards’s hit Broadway stage musical about America’s independence. The Broadway production won 1969 Tony Awards for Best Musical, Best Featured Actor in […]