Movies: Based on play or musical

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....

Hamlet suspects his uncle has murdered his father to claim the throne of Denmark, and the hand of Hamlet's mother, but the prince cannot decide whether or not he should take vengeance....

A live film recording of Disney's hit Broadway musical based on their classic 1992 animated film. Filmed at the Prince Edward Theatre in London's West End....

The story of seedy sideshow barker Nicky, who uses everyone he meets to get ahead. Nicky isn't even above exploiting his singing sweetheart Lily to suit his purposes, but this time it is he who ends up the loser -- at least until he gets wise to hims...

David McVicar's spellbinding production of LE NOZZE DI FIGARO is set in 1830s post-revolution France, where the inexorable unravelling of an old order has produced acute feelings of loss. In the relationship between Finley's suave, dashingly self-abs...

A substantial insurance payment could mean either financial salvation or personal ruin for a poor black family....

Like the play from which it derived, the film tells of the early struggles of composer Edvard Grieg and his attempts to develop an authentic Norwegian national music. It stars Toralv Maurstad as Grieg and features an international cast including Flor...

An ordinary Joe has ambitions to become a Tin Pan Alley writer....

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A series of murders that take place in an old, dark mansion are suspected of being committed by an ape. (lost film)...

Smitty, a young man sentenced to six months in prison for marijuana possession eventually becomes the sexual subordinate of another inmate, Rocky....

A bible publisher is falling in love with a chorus girl and finds himself backing a Broadway show....

Comedy about a protective mother whose dull son seems to have become wayward with the local bottle blonde....

Broadcast live on the Hallmark Hall of Fame series on NBC, a pair of divorced actors are brought together to participate in a musical version of The Taming of the Shrew. Of course, the couple seem to act a great deal like the characters they play, an...

A young man becomes infatuated with the exotic Lady Pitts whose much older husband is not pleased....

In order to boost his own cotton ginning business, Jake Meighan sets the local Syndicate Plantation ablaze. the superintendent of the Syndicate Plantation sends over 27 wagons full of cotton for ginning, and turns aside his suspicions that Jake is th...

The animated adaption of the second stage musical based on the "Peanuts" comics strip, focusing on Snoopy....

The protagonists of this classic are Anabela, in the role of “Eliza Doolitle”, and Carlos Quintas, who plays the demanding professor “Henry Higgins”, at the head of a luxury cast of more than 70 actors, singers, dancers and musicians....

A man honeymooning with his new wife in the Rockies reports her disappearance to the police. A few days later, a woman escorted by the local priest claims to be his missing wife, despite the man's failure to recognize her. Is a stranger impersonating...

When Francis and Douglas Oberon learn that their late grandmother has bequeathed the family fortune to distant cousin Toni, they immediately start plotting to get their hands on the money. They dream up a plot whereby they cannot fail to acquire a co...