Research Guides: Movies (fiction) by Category: Musicals

Musicals DVDs

Abhimaan Abhimana 2004

Hrishikesh Mukherjee, Pawan Kumar, Susheela Kamat, Amitabh Bachchan, Jaya Bhaduri, Amiya Art International, Mohan Studios, Rajkamal Studios, Chandivli Studios, and Sky Entertainment (Firm)

The story of a very popular singer who marries a village girl with a beautiful voice. When she becomes more popular than her husband, he is overcome with envy and the marriage is in trouble. 1 videodisc (180 min.)

MEDIA 10-981

An American in Paris 2008, 1951

Arthur Freed, Alan Jay Lerner, Vincente Minnelli, Gene Kelly, Leslie Caron, Oscar Levant, Georges Guétary, Nina Foch, George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin , Loew's Incorporated, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and Warner Home Video (Firm)

Jerry Mulligan is an ex-G.I. and a struggling American painter in Paris. He is 'discovered' by an influential heiress with an interest in more than Jerry's art. Jerry in turn falls for Lise, a young French girl already engaged to a cabaret singer. Jerry jokes, sings and dances with his best friend, an acerbic would-be concert pianist. Romance between Jerry and Lise becomes complicated. 1 videodisc (114 min.) :

MEDIA 10-3327

Annie get your gun 2000, 1950

Sidney Sheldon, Herbert Fields, Dorothy Fields, Arthur Freed, George Sidney, Betty Hutton, Howard Keel, Louis Calhern, J. Carrol Naish, Edward Arnold, Keenan Wynn, Judy Garland, Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein, Irving Berlin, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Loew's Incorporated, Warner Home Video (Firm), and Turner Entertainment Co

Frank Butler, handsome star of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, bags clay pigeons and ladies' hearts. He's the best marksman in the world--until a backwoods hoyden challenges him. Her name? Annie Oakley . 1 videodisc (107 min.) :

MEDIA 10-3078

Awara c2000

Raja Kapura, Nargis Dutt, Prthviraja Kapura, Khwaja Ahmad Abbas, Vasudeva Purushottama Sathe, Shailendra, Shankar Jaikishan (Musical group), R.K. Films, and Yash Raj Films

Renowned judge Raghunath sentences an innocent man on the conviction that a criminal's son would end up as a criminal. His blind belief is put to test when he is estranged from his wife and son Raj who in turn grows up to become a petty thief. The only bright spot in Raj's deprived childhood was his school friend Rita whom he meets once again many years later. Rita is now a young lawyer and the ward of Judge Raghunath. The childhood friendship blossoms into love. Raghunath, who is suspicious of the young man finds his suspicions well founded when Raj steals a necklace from him to gift to Rita on her birthday. Raj's attempts to reform and win back Rita's trust are thwarted by society and he finally ends up in court on the charge of attempting to murder Judge Raghunath. Rita defends him and Raghunath finds himself forced to question his own beliefs when he discovers that the accused criminal is his "own son.". 1 videodisc

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Bees saal baad 2005? 1962

Biren Naug, Dhruva Chatterji, Devki Shen, Waheeda Rehman, Manmohan Krishna, Biswajeet, Asit Sen, Madan Puri, and Geetanjali Pictures

"After a lusty Thakur rapes a young girl, she kills herself. Thereafter, the Thakur is killed by what the local people call the girl's vengeful spirit. Then the Thakur's son is also killed in a similar way. Thereafter the brother of the Thakur is also killed. The grandson of the Thakur, Kumar Vijay Singh (Biswajeet) returns from abroad to claim his ill-fated legacy. He is warned to stay away from the grounds that have killed his ancestors, but he intends to find out who or what is behind the killings, and hires a private detective"--IMBD website. 1 videodisc (144 min.) :

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Bride & prejudice 2005

Deepak Nayar, Anupam Kher, Martin Henderson, Aishwariya Rai Bachchan, Naveen Andrews, Gurinder Chadha, Nayar Chadha, Annu Malik, Jane Austen, Alliance Atlantis (Firm), UK Film Council, Pathé Pictures, and Miramax Home Entertainment (Firm)

Based on Jane Austen's classic novel, Pride and Prejudice, with a Bollywood twist. In Ammritsar, the determined Mrs. Bakshi sets out to find matches for her four daughters. Second sister, Lalita, meets American Will Darcy - is it love? 1 videodisc (111 min.) :

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Cabaret 1998

Bob Fosse, Cy Feuer, Jay Presson Allen, Liza Minnelli, Michael York, Helmut Griem, Joel Grey, Joe Masteroff, John Van Druten, and Christopher Isherwood

An egocentric American girl dreams of becoming a star while working in a third-rate Berlin cabaret. 1 videodisc (124 min.) Videotape

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Cadillac Records 2009

Andrew Lack, Sofia Sondervan, Darnell Martin, Adrien Brody, Jeffrey Wright, Beyoncé, Gabrielle Union, Columbus Short, Cedric, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Eamonn Walker, D. e. f. Mos, Marshall Chess, Terence Blanchard, Parkwood Pictures (Firm), Sony Music Film (Firm), and Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm)

Chess Records was located on the south side of Chicago. In 1947, it began recording blues music with Muddy Waters and Little Walter. This eventually gave birth to rock and roll in 1955 with Chuck Berry. Record producer Leonard Chess has an ear for this different type of music and believes he can cash in by signing up new talent such as songwriter Willie Dixon, Howlin' Wolf, and Etta James. Chess makes all of his artists part of his family and takes care of them. This is not easy since they spend a small fortune on booze, drugs, and the high life. When Chuck Berry goes to jail, Leonard is able to find another talented performer, Etta James, to take his place. In the late sixties, as their music goes out of favor, Leonard Chess gets out of the record business. 1 videodisc (109 min.) :

MEDIA 10-3607

The cocoanuts 2004

Classic Marx Brothers comedy with Groucho as a hotel owner, Chico and Harpo as con men and Margaret Dumont as a wealthy matron. 1 videodisc (ca. 94 min.)

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"Damn Yankees" 2004, 1958

George Abbott, Stanley Donen, Jerry Ross, Tab Hunter, Gwen Verdon, Ray Walston, Russ Brown, Shannon Bolin, Nathaniel Frey, Jimmie Komack, Rae Allen, Robert K Shafer, Jean Stapleton, Albert Linville, Frederick Brisson, Robert E Griffith, Harold Prince, Richard Adler, Douglass Wallop, Warner Bros. Pictures (1923-1967) , and Warner Home Video (Firm)

What if you could help your favorite team win the pennant? And what if you got to be the star of that team? For lifelong Washington Senators fan Joe Boyd that dream comes true when after seeing his team lose yet again, he rashly declares that he would sell his soul to the devil to see his team beat the Yankees. The Devil goes by Mr. Applegate now, and he agrees that Joe--a one-time baseball standout--will play for the Senators and help them reach the promised land. But Joe persuades Applegate to give him an escape clause, should he dislike his new identity. Applegate declares that he can back out at any time before the last game of the season--if he plays in the final game, he'll belong to the Devil. Featuring members of the original Broadway cast (Tab Hunter was not in the original cast). 1 videodisc (111 min.) :

MEDIA 10-3072

Dilwale dulhania le jayenge 1995

Rahul and Simran fall in love while travelling in Europe on a rail holiday. Simran's father, settled in London for twenty-two years, is determined that his daughter should marry a family friend, back in their homeland of rural Punjab. All his plans undergo serious revision once the family travels to India and Rahul also shows up. 1 videodisc (190 min.)

MEDIA 10-3849

Duck soup 2004

In this political satire, Groucho is Rufus T. Firefly, the dictator of mythical Freedonia, while Harpo and Chico are commissioned as spies by his political rival. 1 videodisc (ca. 69 min.)

MEDIA 10-5401

Duck soup 2011

After being appointed the dictator of Freedonia, Rufus T. Firefly proceeds to bring the mythical nation to a halt by showing up late and insulting everyone at his inauguration. Hoping to oust the unfit new leader, two spies are sent from the neighboring Sylvania. Soon enough, war is declared between the two nations with outrageous results. Including Groucho's famous mirror scene and final battle scene, it remains as entertaining and relevant today as it did when first released in 1933. 1 videodisc (69 min.)

MEDIA 10-5024

Funny girl 2005, 1968

Barbra Streisand, Omar Sharif, Jule Styne, Bob Merrill, Ray Stark, William Wyler, Isobel Lennart, Columbia Pictures Corporation, and Rastar Productions, Inc

Follows the early career of stage comedienne Fanny Brice. 1 videodisc (155 min.) :

MEDIA 10-3074

Funny lady 2005, 1975

Barbra Streisand, Omar Sharif, James Caan, Herbert Ross, Jay Presson Allen, Arnold Schulman, Ray Stark, John Kander, Fred Ebb, Columbia Pictures Corporation, and Rastar Productions, Inc

Continues the life and career of stage comedienne Fanny Brice. 1 videodisc (138 min.) :

MEDIA 10-3075

A funny thing happened on the way to the Forum 2005, 1966

Melvin Frank, Michael Pertwee, Richard Lester, Zero Mostel, Phil Silvers, Buster Keaton, Michael Crawford, Jack Gilford, Annette Andre, Michael Hordern, Leon Greene, Roy Kinnear, Nicolas Roeg, George Martin, Ethel Martin, Stephen Sondheim, United Artists Corporation, and MGM Home Entertainment Inc

A conniving slave attempts to help his master's son win the love of the girl-next-door. 1 videodisc (97 min.) :

MEDIA 10-3217

Gentlemen prefer blondes 2001

Sol C Siegel, Howard Hawks, Charles Lederer, Marilyn Monroe, Jane Russell, Charles Coburn, Jule Styne, Joseph A Fields, Anita Loos, Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation, and Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc

A musical about two showgirls from Little Rock searching for love and marriage aboard a luxury-liner bound for France. 1 videodisc (97 min.)

MEDIA 10-373

Gigi 2008, 1958

Arthur Freed, Vincente Minnelli, Alan Jay Lerner, Leslie Caron, Maurice Chevalier, Louis Jourdan, Hermione Gingold, Eva Gįbor, Frederick Loewe, Colette, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and Warner Home Video (Firm)

A wealthy Gaston finds out he prefers a young Parisian girl to be his wife rather than his mistress. 2 videodiscs (115 min.) :

MEDIA 10-3071

Go west c2004

In Go West: It's 1870 and the Marx Brothers are out to get rich in Dead Man's Gulch. In The Big store: The Brothers reduce an enormous inventory of upscale merchandise into a multilevel disaster as they pursue and evade villains via bicycles, skates, unicycles, broad jumps, shipping chutes, elevator cables, high wires, pole vaults and pseudo-Tarzan chandelier swinging. 1 videodisc (163 min.)

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Guide Gaida = Ga'id 2001, 1965

Vijay Anand, Deva Ananda, S. D Burman, Shailendra, Waheeda Rehman, Leela Chitnis, Anwer Hussain Jafri, Kishore Sahu, R. K Narayan, Navketan International Films, and Shemaroo Video (Firm)

Raju falls in love with the dancer wife of an archaeologist. The dancer and her husband break up and Raju becomes the dancer's manager. He is charged with theft and goes to prison. When released he travels to a village where the people mistake him for a holy man. To bring rain to the village he fasts with the results inevitable. 1 videodisc (171 min.) :

MEDIA 10-3639

Guys and dolls c2005, 1955

Samuel Goldwyn, Joseph L Mankiewicz, Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons, Frank Sinatra, Vivian Blaine, Robert Keith, Stubby Kaye, B. S Pully, Regis Toomey, Sheldon Leonard, Dan Dayton, George E Stone , Veda Ann Borg, Kathryn Givney, Cy Feuer, Ernest H Martin, Michael Kidd, Frank Loesser, Jo Swerling, Abe Burrows, Goldwyn Girls, Samuel Goldwyn, Inc, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and MGM Home Entertainment Inc

Times Square is all a bustle with petty crooks, lazy cops, and especially, gamblers. Gamblers are everywhere, but Nathan Detroit--who maintains the "Oldest Established Permanent Floating Crap Game in New York"--Is short the $1000 he needs to secure a site for a fleet of big players coming into town. Nathan's other problem is his burlesque showgirl fiancée, Miss Adelaide. Her fourteen-year long engagement and Nathan's failure to give up the gambling racket as he promised have given her a permanent, psychosomatic cold. When Sky Masterson, with a reputation as a fast and loose bettor, arrives in New York Nathan devises a plan. Nathan bets Sky that Sky won't be able to convince Sergeant Sarah Brown, local Salvation Army Sergeant and goody two shoes extraordinaire, to go to Havana for dinner. Sky only has 24 hours to succeed or sacrifice the cash. What he doesn't count on is losing his heart as well. Thus, the die is cast, the fates engaged, as songs, dance, and old-fashioned gambling good fun ensue. 1 videodisc (149 min.) :

MEDIA 10-3069

Hairspray c2007

It's 1962 Baltimore and change is in the air. Tracy Turnblad, a plus-sized girl with big hair and big dreams, has only one passion in life - to dance on the 'The Corny Collins Show.' When her chance arrives, she grooves her way into instant stardom and the eyes of teen dream Link Larkin. But with the program's scheming stage manager against her, trend setting Tracy will need the help of her best friend Penny, her big hearted mom and sassy co-host Motormouth Maybell to show the world that all it takes to make a dream come true is a toe-tappin' beat. 2 videodiscs (117 min.)

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Hedwig and the Angry Inch 2011, c2001

Adapted from the off-Broadway musical hit, "Hedwig and the Angry Inch" presents a drama queen getting not only what she needs, but also what she wants: love, unfettered and unconditional. Hedwig, a surgically botched transsexual from East Germany, travels the States with his band, playing a string of Red Lobster-type restaurants to audiences rendered incredulous by his boyish brand of girl glam; he reveals his story in flashbacks between musical numbers. For Hedwig, who exists in an indeterminate but politically charged space between freedom and frustration, life is about looking for her personal dividing wall - to smash it into ruin. 1 videodisc (91 min.) :

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Hrishikesh Mukherhee's chupke chupke Cupake cupake 2001

Hrishikesh Mukherjee, N. C Sippy, Rupam Pictures Pvt. Ltd, and Shemaroo Video (Firm)

Parimal, a professor of botany, has never met his new brother-in-law, Raghav. He decides to play a practical joke by getting himself hired as Raghav's driver. Complications arise as one of Parimal's friends starts to impersonate Parimal and Raghav thinks his sister is having an affair with "the driver.". 1 videodisc (ca. 140 min.)

MEDIA 10-986

Hum aapke hain koun--! Hama apake haim kauna--! 2011, 1994

Two families are brought together by a marriage. When the wife dies, leaving a child, the wife's sister is pressured to marry the widower and become the mother of the child. However, the husband's brother has already fallen in love with the sister. 1 videodisc (198 min.)

MEDIA 10-3850

Jamesie king of scratch c2006

Andrea E Leland, James Brewster, All Stars (Musical group : James Brewster), Nine Morning Productions, and New Day Films

A spirited musical journey to the Caribbean focusing on scratch band music (also known as Quelbe), an indigenous, grass-roots form of folk music from the Virgin Islands that was recently declared the "official" music of the Virgin Islands. 79-year old James Brewster, the central character of this documentary, is an uncompromising, humorous, and provocative musician known for his playful compositions and lively performances and is the legendary "King of Scratch". Included are performances by Jamesie and the All Stars at a St. Croix nightclub, various fairs, music festivals, performing and teaching in Denmark, and jamming with his friends. Interspersed with these performances is more intimate footage of Jamesie talking with other musicians at his home about the historical significance of the music and explaining how he came to create some of his songs. 1 videodisc (70 min.)

MEDIA 10-2242

The jazz singer c2007, 1927

The melodramatic story of a Jewish cantor's son who aspires to be a jazz singer, despite his father's strenuous objections. 3 videodiscs (96 min.)

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Kiss me Kate 2003, 1953

Dorothy Kingsley, Jack Cummings, George Sidney, Bella Cohen Spewack, Samuel Spewack, Kathryn Grayson, Howard Keel, Ann Miller, Keenan Wynn, Bobby Van, Tommy Rall, James Whitmore, Kurt Kasznar, Hermes Pan, Cole Porter, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and Warner Home Video (Firm)

Two squabbling, 20th-century ex-marrieds are cast as squabbling Renaissance romantics in a musical version of The taming of the shrew. On stage they fight it out and backstage they continue to clash. 1 videodisc (110 min.) :

MEDIA 10-3070

Lost in the stars 2003, 1974

Daniel Mann, Kurt Weill, Maxwell Anderson, Brock Peters, Melba Moore, Raymond St. Jacques, Clifton Davis, Paul Rogers, Ely Landau, Alan Paton, American Film Theatre, and Kino International Corporation

Stephen Kumalo, a black South African minister, searches the unfamiliar back alleys and shanty towns of Johannesburg for his son, Absalom. But Kumalo's unwavering faith is put to the test when he finds Absalom in jail facing a capital murder charge. Courage, dignity, and sacrifice fall prey to the whirlwind of racist hypocrisy and hollow justice in Absalom's trial. Absalom's reunion and reconciliation with this father, his jailhouse marriage to his pregnant sweetheart, and his heroic determination to tell the truth set the stage for a tragic climax. 1 videodisc (97 min.) :

MEDIA 10-3345

The love parade c2007

The queen of mythical Sylvania marries a courtier, who finds his new life unsatisfying. 1 videodisc (109 min.)

MEDIA 10-5379

Made in Jamaica 2009

Jaer ome Laperrousaz, Pascal Haerold, aHerold and Family, Lawrence Pictures, ArtMattan Productions, and Facets Video (Firm)

A musical documentary that presents an overview of the reggae music movement past and present, from the crime and violence of the ghetto to political responsibility, showcasing performances and interviews with such artists as Capleton, Elephant Man, Bunny Wailer, Toots & the Maytals, Bounty Killer, Gregory Isaacs, Tanya Stephens, Beres Hammond, Third World, Lady Saw, Sly Dunbar & Robbie Shakespeare, Joseph Current, Vybz Kartel, Shiah Coore, Koolant, Alaine, Doc Marshall, Brick & Lace, Blessed and Bogle. 1 videodiscs (110 min.)

MEDIA 10-1686

Le Million The million 2000

Renae Lefaevre, Annabella, Louis Allibert, Renae Clair, A Bernard, Philippe Paraes , Georges van Parys, Georges Berr, Marcel Guillemaud, Filmsonor (Firm), and Criterion Collection (Firm)

A musical comedy about a pair of young lovers who lose a lottery ticket worth a million francs and chase it frantically across Paris. Considered one of the very first musical films. 1 videodisc (81 min.)

MEDIA 10-2050 2-168

Monte Carlo c2007

An independent-minded countess leaves her foppish prince fianc© at the altar and whisks away to the Riviera. 1 videodisc (90 min.)

MEDIA 10-5380

Moulin Rouge! 2001

Fred Baron, Martin Brown, Baz Luhrmann, Craig Pearce, Nicole Kidman, Ewan McGregor , John Leguizamo, Jim Broadbent, Richard Roxburgh, Garry McDonald, Jacek Koman, Matthew Whittet, and Kerry Walker

Christian, an idealistic and impoverished young writer who, newly arrived in Montmartre, is haphazardly inducted into a circle of young bohemians led by Toulouse-Lautrec. A comedy of mistaken identities ensues, quickly enmeshing the young poet in a love triangle involving the unobtainable and consumptive Satine, queen courtesan of the Moulin Rouge, and the foppish Duke of Roxbury, his villainous rival for her affections. 2 videodiscs (feature approx. 128 min.)

MEDIA 10-125

New York, New York A musician meets and falls in love with a lounge singer at the end of World War II. The couple struggles to balance their passions for music and each other under the pressures of show biz. 2 videodiscs (163 min.)

MEDIA 10-5467

A night at the opera 2004

A New York scandal, a riot on a ship, and an evening of insanity in a concert hall are some of the problems resulting from Groucho's outrageous business schemes. The goal, to bring Milan's finest opera stars to Manhattan. 1 videodisc (91 min.)

MEDIA 10-5026

Nine 2010, 2009

Arrogant, self-centered movie director Guido Contini finds himself struggling to find meaning, purpose, and a script for his latest film endeavor. Ten days away from the start of principal filming of his latest movie--ambitiously titled "Italia"--he has no idea for the movie at all. Escaping all the pressure at a seaside resort, he thinks about the women who have shaped his life: Mamma, judgmental but affectionate; Luisa, cherished yet under appreciated wife; Claudia, actress/muse of the picture; Carla, his flashy, passionate mistress; longtime costumer Lilli; bubbly American journalist Stephanie, and Saraghina, the salacious, witchy temptress of his childhood memories. 1 videodisc (118 min.)

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Oliver! c2005

Lionel Bart, Donald Albery, Vernon Harris, John Woolf, Carol Reed, Ron Moody, Shani Wallis, Oliver Reed, Harry Secombe, Hugh Griffith, Mark Lester, Jack Wild, Charles Dickens, Columbia Pictures Corporation, Romulus Productions, Warwick Film Productions Ltd, Columbia TriStar Home Video (Firm), and Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm)

A young orphan, Oliver is left to fend for himself until he is befriended by a band of young thieves who quickly train him in their craft. But Oliver is not content to be a thief--for he knows that life holds great joys and true happiness cannot be stolen--but must be earned. Arguably the last great old-fashioned movie musical to receive near-universal critical acclaim, Oliver! first hit screens more than 37 years ago. As transformed into a film, the timeless West End and Broadway show remains incredibly faithful to the classic work of literature by Charles Dickens, dank and dark, an anomaly of song-and-dance cinema. A film of many facets, it is both a warts-and-all view of Victorian London, an adaptation of a classic novel, a salient slice of significant social commentary, and a rip-roaring tune-filled toe tapper to boot. 1 videodisc (153 min.)

MEDIA 10-1815

On the town c2008, 1949

Sailors Gabie, Chip, and Ozzie have a 24-hour leave in New York. Chip wants to sightsee, but the only sights Gabie and Ozzie are interested in are of the female variety. 1 videodisc (98 min.)

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One hour with you c2007

A seemingly blissful couple's marriage hits the skids when the wife's flirtatious school chum comes on to her husband a bit too strong. 1 videodisc (78 min.)

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The pajama game 2005, 1957

George Abbott, Richard Bissell, Stanley Donen, Bob Fosse, Richard Adler, Jerry Ross, Doris Day, John Raitt, Carol Haney, Eddie Foy, Reta Shaw, Barbara Nichols, George Abbott, Richard Bissell, Richard Bissell, Warner Bros. Pictures (1923-1967), First National Pictures, Inc, and Warner Home Video (Firm)

A labor/management dispute at the Sleeptite Pajama Factory is the subject of this musical comedy. Employees of the Sleeptite Pajama Factory are looking for a whopping seven-and-a-half cent an hour increase and they won't take no for an answer. Babe Williams is their feisty employee representative but she may have found her match in shop superintendent Sid Sorokin. When the two get together they wind up discussing a whole lot more than job actions! 1 videodisc (101 min.) :

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Les Parapluies de Cherbourg The Umbrellas of Cherbourg 1997

Jacques Demy, Mag Bodard, Catherine Deneuve, Nino Castelnuovo, Anne Vernon, Marc Michel, Ellen Farner, Mireille Perrey, and Harald Wolff

Two lovers, separated by the Algerian war, meet again after she has remarried. A cinematic triumph unique in its presentation--all of the dialogue is sung. The haunting music and beautiful photography combine to make this an outstanding dramatic romance. 1 videodisc (ca. 91 min.)

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Pete Kelly's blues 2008

A Kansas City singer and his jazz band bow down to pressure from a local gangster and take on the thug's alcoholic girlfriend as a singer. 1 videodisc (95 min.)

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Phantom of the paradise 2001, 1974

An outrageous horror-rock comedy cult movie and satire on the music business. A freak accident leaves a meek rock composer horribly disfigured. He hides his face beneath an eerie mask and haunts the Paradise Theatre, seeking revenge. 1 videodisc (92 min.) :

MEDIA 10-3753

Ray 2005

Taylor Hackford, Stuart Benjamin, Howard L Baldwin, Karen Baldwin, James L White, Jamie Foxx, Kerry Washington, Clifton Powell, Aunjanue Ellis, Harry J Lennix, Terrence Howard, Larenz Tate, Bokeem Woodbine, Sharon Warren, Curtis Armstrong, Richard Schiff, Wendell Pierce, Chris Thomas King, David Krumholtz, Kurt Fuller, Warwick Davis, Regina King, Ray Charles, Universal Pictures (Firm), Bristol Bay Productions (Firm), Anvil Films (Firm), and Baldwin Entertainment (Firm)

Ray is the triumphant and remarkable story of one of America's true musical geniuses, Ray Charles. 2 videodiscs (153 min.)

MEDIA 10-378

Richard III a Bollywood musical 2003 distributed 2007

William Shakespeare, Serge Tampalini, and Murdoch University

A musical adaptation of the play by William Shakespeare. Presented as part of the Advanced Production unit at Murdoch University, 2003. 2 videodiscs (ca. 85 min.) sd., col

MEDIA 10-1430

The Rocky Horror picture show c2002

Jim Sharman, Michael White, Susan Sarandon , Barry Bostwick, Richard O'Brien, Tim Curry, and Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation

A mixture of fantastical rock opera and horror movie spoof. A couple of ordinary kids have car trouble one dark and rainy night and knock on the door of a looming gothic mansion. They are stunned to learn that they have stumbled into an ongoing convention of kinky characters, hosted by Dr. Frank-N-Furter, a mad scientist from the planet Transsexual. 1 videodisc (ca. 100 min.)

MEDIA 10-1907

Rodgers and Hammerstein's The King and I 2006, 1955

Darryl Francis Zanuck, Ernest Lehman, Leon Shamroy, Charles Brackett, Walter Lang, Deborah Kerr, Yul Brynner, Rita Moreno, Martin Benson, Terry Saunders, Rex Thompson, Carlos Rivas, Patrick Adiarte , Alan Mowbray, Geoffrey Toone, Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein, Jerome Robbins, Margaret Landon, Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation, and Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc

"[B]ased on the true story of Anna Leonowens, an English widow who comes to Bangkok in the 1860s to serve as governess to the many children of the King of Siam ... [T]he King is a magnetic and unforgettable figure. When Anna and the King get to know each other, it is mutual respect -- and the surprising lessons they learn from each other -- that leads to one of the most unusual and spellbinding friendships in musical history."--Container. 2 videodiscs (133 min.) :

MEDIA 10-3076

Satyam shivam sundaram 2002

Raja Kapura, Shashi Kapoor, Zeenat Aman, Padmini Kolhapure, Narendra Sharma, Anand Bakshi, Vithalbhai Patel, and Jainendra Jain

A man, enthralled with his wife's singing, struggles to overcome his revulsion at her hidden disfigurement. 1 videodisc (ca. 160 min.)

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Seven brides for seven brothers 2004, 1954

Stanley Donen, Jack Cummings, Albert Hackett, Frances Goodrich, Dorothy Kingsley, Jane Powell, Howard Keel, Jeff Richards, Russ Tamblyn, Tommy Rall, George J Folsey, Gene De Paul, Johnny Mercer, Stephen Vincent Benét, Warner Home Video (Firm), Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and Loew's Incorporated

Adam, the eldest of seven brothers, goes to town to get a wife. He convinces Milly to marry him that same day. They return to his backwoods home. Only then does Milly discover that Adam has six other brothers all living with him in his cabin. Milly sets out to reform the uncouth siblings, who are anxious to get wives of their own. Then, after reading a story, Adam develops an idea that will create the solution to his brothers' loneliness - kidnap the women they want! 2 videodiscs (102 min.) :

MEDIA 10-3077

Singin' in the rain 2002, 1952

Gene Kelly, Stanley Donen, Adolph Green, Betty Comden, Arthur Freed, Donald O'Connor, Debbie Reynolds, Jean Hagen, Millard Mitchell, Cyd Charisse, Douglas Fowley, Rita Moreno, Nacio Herb Brown, Lennie Hayton, Harold Rosson, Cedric Gibbons, Randall Duell, Adrienne Fazan, Douglas Shearer, Conrad Salinger, Wally Heglin, Skip Martin, Jeff Alexander, Edwin B Willis, Jacque Mapes, Warren Newcombe, Irving G Ries, Walter Plunkett, Kathleen Freeman, Baz Luhrmann, Rudy Behlmer, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Loew's Incorporated, Warner Home Video (Firm), and Turner Entertainment Co

Silent movies are giving way to talking pictures, and a hoofer-turned-matinee idol is caught in that bumpy transition, as well as his buddy, prospective ladylove, and shrewish co-star. 2 videodiscs (103 min.) :

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The singing blacksmith Yankl der shmid 2005?, 1938

Edgar G Ulmer, David Pinski, Roman Rebush, Ludwig Landy, Moishe Oysher, Miriam Riselle, Florence Weiss, Anna Appel, Michael Gorrin, Lea Noemi, Max Vodnoy, Judel Dubinsky, Herschel Bernardi, Jacob Weinberg, David Pinski, Collective Film Producers, Inc, and National Center for Jewish Film

Yankel drinks too much and womanizes too much, but, when he finally meets a woman who appears to change all that, it may not really be the end to his high living after all. 1 videodisc (105 min.) :

MEDIA 10-2957

Sita sings the blues c2009, 2008

An animated reinterpretation of the Indian epic Ramayana blends the stories of Sita, a goddess separated from her husband Rama, and Nina, an animator whose husband moves to India, then dumps her by email. Set to the 1920s jazz vocals of Annette Hanshaw. 1 videodisc (82 min.)

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The smiling lieutenant c2007

A Viennese lieutenant is enamored of a freethinking all-girl-orchestra-leading cutie. But complications ensue when the sexually repressed princess of Flausenthurm sets her sights on him. 1 videodisc (89 min.)

MEDIA 10-5381

Tano da morire Tano 2011, 1997

A Mafia man of honor, Tano Guarrasi has moved up through the ranks of the Passo Rigano clan to terrorize his neighborhood. Famous for his violent, passionate character, Tano's all-consuming jealousy has doomed his four sisters to spinsterhood -- until the day he is murdered by a Corleonesi clan hit man during the bloody 1988 Mafia war. Now Tano's sister Franca, a strong-willed, buxom woman in her forties, hopes to finally free herself from his violent legacy and find happiness and fulfillment by marrying her true love. But will she ever be able to truly liberate herself from Tano's tyrannical spirit? 1 videodisc (74 min.)

MEDIA 10-3916

The three penny opera 1983

"Macheath, the most notorious criminal and ladies' man in Victorian London, presides over an exciting world of thieves, murderers, beggars, prostitutes, and corrupt officials. ... Mack carries things too far when he marries innocent Polly Peachum"--accompanying card. 1 videocassette (100 min.)

MEDIA 10-5299

Topsy-Turvy 2000

Mike Leigh, Simon Channing-Williams, Jim Broadbent, Allan Corduner, Timothy Spall, Lesley Manville, Ron Cook, Wendy Nottingham, Kevin McKidd, Shirley Henderson, W. S Gilbert, and Arthur Sullivan

Tensions abound and the music swells in the story about the famous musical team of Gilbert and Sullivan. The two men who were extremely different in size and stature were even more different in temperament and style. Yet, they still managed to create memorable theater. This is the story of the making of one of their most famous collaborations, The Mikado. 1 videodisc (161 min.)

MEDIA 10-26

La vie est un roman 2008

Alain Resnais, Philippe Dussart, Jean Gruault, Vittorio Gassman, Ruggero Raimondi, Geraldine Chaplin, Fanny Ardant, Sabine Azaema, Pierre Arditi, Soprofilms, Films A2 (Firm), Fideline Films (Firm), Films Ariane, Filmaedis (Firm), KimStim, Inc, and Kino International Corporation

Divided into three narratives. First section is set around the first decade of the twentieth century in the Ardennes, where Count Forbeck unveils his architect's design for a utopian city. In a modern day mirroring of the first story, a group of professors now inhabiting Forbeck's castle seek a new form of education through the use of the imagination, under the guidance of a guru named Guarini. The last segment depicts a Wagnerian fantasy landscape of kings and dragons, which arises from the imagination of the children of some of the professors at the school. 1 videodisc (110 min.)

MEDIA 10-1991

Wattstax c2004, 1974

Mel Stuart, Richard Pryor, Isaac Hayes, Luther Ingram, Johnnie Taylor, Staple Singers, Emotions (Musical group), and Warner Home Video (Firm)

On Aug. 20, 1972, more than 100,000 people attended a concert that came to be known as 'the Black Woodstock.' Wattstax documents this historic event and includes the once-lost original ending. 1 videodisc (103 min.)

MEDIA 10-579

The Wizard of Oz 1985, 1939

Judy Garland, Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger, and Bert Lahr

Tossed "over the rainbow" by a Kansas twister, Dorothy finds herself in a very different land. She learns that the only person who can help her get home is the great and powerful Wizard of Oz. So, with three delightful friends and her little dog Toto, Dorothy sets off for the mysterious Emerald City pursued by the Wicked Witch of the West. 1 videocassette (101 min.)

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You and me c2014

Projecting the message that "crime doesn't pay", a group of ex-cons works in a department store whose owner believes in rehabilitation. It's a romantic crime story, laced with comedy and social commentary. 1 videodisc (94 min.)

MEDIA 10-5509

Zero patience 2005

"John Greyson has woven a tall tale of love and loss, sex and science, history and hysteria in the age of AIDS. Greyson revives renowned Victorian Sir Richard Burton who constructs a sensationalist multimedia museum display focusing on Patient Zero, the gay French-Canadian flight attendant accused of bringing AIDS to North America"--Container. 1 videodisc (101 min.) :

MEDIA 10-3809

Musicals

Die 3 Groschen Oper The 3 penny opera 198-?, 1931

G. W Pabst, Simon Nebenzal, Thomas Brandon , Bertolt Brecht, Béla Balázs, Leo Lania, Ladislaus Vajda, Kurt Weill, Lotte Lenya, Rudolf Forster, and Carola Neher

Social satire set in Victorian London in which both government and underworld are portrayed as amoral and polluted by economic and political chaos. Polly Peachum, daughter of the king of the beggars, with the help of Mackie Messer and his gang, opens a bank in the belief that legal thievery is more profitable than larceny. In the end, Polly's father, Mackie, and the corrupt police commissioner become partners in the bank and mainstays of society. 1 videocassette

MEDIA 2-1300

42nd Street 1933, 1987

Lloyd Bacon, Bradford Ropes, Busby Berkeley, Ruby Keeler, Dick Powell, Bebe Daniels, and Warner Baxter

A Broadway musical director has troubles during rehearsal, promotes the understudy and has a successful opening night. 1 videocassette (89 min.)

MEDIA 2-828

Abhimaan Abhimana 2004

Hrishikesh Mukherjee, Pawan Kumar, Susheela Kamat, Amitabh Bachchan, Jaya Bhaduri, Amiya Art International, Mohan Studios, Rajkamal Studios, Chandivli Studios, and Sky Entertainment (Firm)

MEDIA 10-981

American pop 1981, 1998

Ralph Bakshi, Ronni Kern, Martin Ransohoff , Ron Thompson, Marya Small, Gerald W Holland, Lisa Jane Persky, Jeffrey Lippa, and Roz Kelly

The story of four generations whose lives revolve around the beat of American popular music. The story is told in animation with songs by The Doors, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Pat Benatar and Lou Reed among others. 1 videocassette (96 min.)

MEDIA 2-3772

Awara c2000

Raja Kapura, Nargis Dutt, Prthviraja Kapura, Khwaja Ahmad Abbas, Vasudeva Purushottama Sathe, Shailendra, Shankar Jaikishan (Musical group), R.K. Films, and Yash Raj Films

MEDIA 10-333

The Band wagon 1953, 1985

Vincente Minnelli

A Hollywood song-and-dance man finds trouble when persuaded to star in a Broadway musical. 1 videocassette (112 min.)

MEDIA 2-109

The bartered bride 1932, 1995

Max Ophuls, Jarmila Novotná, Karl Valentin, Otto Wernicke, Willi Domgraf-Fassbaender, Paul Schiller, Leo Mittler, Harry Welchman, Bedrich Smetana, and Oscar Straus

Bartered bride: Adaptation of Smetana's opera about the bartered bride who finally married the young Bohemian she loved. Last waltz: A prince must choose a bride so a countess and three of her four daughters are brought for the playboy monarch's choosing. Complications set in, but all is righted when the missing fourth daughter arrives. 1 videocassette (ca 150 min.)

MUSIC 450

The Beautiful blonde from Bashful Bend 1989, 1949

Betty Grable, Cesar Romero, Rudy Vallée, Olga San Juan, Preston Sturges, and Earl Felton

Wild six gun farce set in the old West about a hot-tempered saloon entertainer who's as quick with a pistol as she is to kick up her heels. 1 videocassette (77 min.)

MEDIA 2-3475

Big fella 1997, 1937

J. Elder Wills, Fenn Sherie, Ingram D'Abbes, Paul Robeson, Claude McKay, Cyril Bristow, Henrik Ege, Elisabeth Welch, and Roy Emerton

Joe is a Marseilles dockworker who is asked by police to help find a young boy missing from an ocean liner. When Joe finally discovers the child, he learns that the boy escaped of his own will, and takes him to stay with a local cafe singer, Miranda. Joe and Miranda become surrogate parents to the boy, offering a welcome change from his wealthy and somewhat repressed white parents. 1 videocassette (73 min.)

MEDIA 2-3444

Bird 1989

Forest Whitaker, Diane Venora, and Clint Eastwood

Early days -- The hospital -- "Charlie from just aroud" -- 4 a.m. improvisations with Dizzy -- I can't believe that you're in love with me -- Mounted homecoming -- Bebop invades the West -- Calling on Stravinsky -- The recording studio -- Reunion with Chan -- Glory in France -- New York return -- The Southern tour -- Back at Birdland -- Laura montage -- Another daughter -- The drive to La Guardia -- Crisis -- Recalling violet wells with Rodney -- Return to 52nd Street -- Final phone call to Chan -- Balancing act overThe life of legendary jazz musician Charlie "Yardbird" Parker, directed and produced by jazz fan, Clint Eastwood. The film uses actual recordings by Parker with the backgrounds removed, and accompaniment by modern musicians attuned to the Yardbird's improvisations. 2 videodiscs (161 min.)

MEDIA 2-809

Bombay Bombayi c2000

Mani Rathnam, S Sriram, Jhamu Sughand, Arvind Swami, Manisha Koirala, Amitabh Bachchan Corporation, Aalayam Productions, Eros International (Firm), and B4U (Firm)

A romance occurs between a south Indian Hindu man and a Muslim woman. They marry against family wishes and move to Bombay. The time period of the film is set in the December 1992-January 1993 period when the "Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid" controversy had raised racial tensions in Bombay (and other parts of India). 1 videodisc (130 min.)

MEDIA 10-231

Cabaret 1998

Bob Fosse, Cy Feuer, Jay Presson Allen, Liza Minnelli, Michael York, Helmut Griem, Joel Grey, Joe Masteroff, John Van Druten, and Christopher Isherwood

An egocentric American girl dreams of becoming a star while working in a third-rate Berlin cabaret. 1 videodisc (124 min.) Videotape

MEDIA DOUGLASS 10-68 84

Cabin in the sky 1943, 1970

Vincente Minnelli, Vernon Duke, Eddie Anderson, Lena Horne, and Ethel Waters

This glowing musical fantasy combines a heart-warming story of faith and devotion with a brace of memorable songs. 1 videocassette (99 min.)

MEDIA 2-1223

Camelot 1987, 1967

Richard Harris, Vanessa Redgrave, David Hemmings, Franco Nero, Joshua Logan, Jack L Warner, Alan Jay Lerner, Frederick Loewe, Alan Jay Lerner, Frederick Loewe, and T. H White

A musical retelling of the rise and fall of England's mythical King Arthur. 2 videocassettes (177 min.)

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Carmen Jones 1994

Otto Preminger, Harry Kleiner, Harry Belafonte, Dorothy Dandridge, Pearl Bailey, Olga James, Joe Adams, Diahann Carroll, Oscar Hammerstein, and Georges Bizet

Joe, a military policeman about to make officer, is infatuated with the flirtatious and sexy Carmen Jones. Their ill-fated romance comes to a grisly end by the conclusion of the drama but not before their liaison has wreaked havoc with their lives and all who cross their paths. 1 videocassette (105 min.)

DANA. MEDIA 1347 2-3790

Dames 1984, 1934

Ray Enright, Busby Berkeley, Ruby Keeler, Dick Powell, Joan Blondell, F. Hugh Herbert, ZaSu Pitts, and Guy Kibbee

Musical extravaganza surrounding the story of three relatives who stand to inherit a multi-millionaire's money if they turn against his pet hate, the theater. 1 videocassette (VHS) (90 min.)

DANA 92

Duke is tops 1994, 1938

Lena Horne, Ralph Cooper, Monte Hawley, Lawrence Criner, Vernon McCalla, Edward Thompson, Harry M Popkin, and William L Nolte

Lena Horne, in her film debut, plays a successful singer who very nearly loses her man because his career as a producer is on the skids. 1 videocassette (72 min.)

DANA 597

Fiddler on the roof 1988

Topol, Norma Crane, Norman Jewison, Joseph Stein, Jerry Bock, and Sheldon Harnick

Tevye is a poor Jewish milkman with five unmarried daughters to support in a villiage in Czarist Russia. With a sharp tongued wife at home and growing anti-Semitism in the villiage, Tevye talks to God about his troubles. His people's traditions keep him strong when his existence is as precariously balanced as a fiddler on a roof. 2 videocassettes (180 min.)

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The Five Heartbeats 2005

Loretha C Jones, Keenen Ivory Wayans, Robert Townsend, Michael Wright, Leon, Harry J Lennix, Tico Wells, Harold Nicholas, Diahann Carroll, Stanley Clarke , and Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc

Five young friends are drawn together by music. Their dreams of fame and fortune take them from amateur nights in ghetto clubs to the pinnacle of show business success and personal tragedy. When the vocal group The Five Heartbeats get to the top of music world they learn the hard reality of the music industry. 1 videodisc (ca. 121 min.)

DANA 308

French cancan une comédie musicale 1988, 1955

Jean Renoir, Françoise Arnoul, María Félix, and Jean Gabin

A night club owner tries to fulfill his dream of opening a cancan stage show, but must first overcome the complications caused by romantic love. 1 videocassette (105 min.)

MEDIA 2-616

A Funny thing happened on the way to the Forum 1991

Richard Lester, Stephen Sondheim, Zero Mostel, Jack Gilford, Buster Keaton, Phil Silvers, Burt Shevelove, Larry Gelbart, and Melvin Frank

A farce set in ancient Rome where a conniving slave sees a way to gain his freedom. 1 videocassette (100 min.)

DANA 472

Gentlemen prefer blondes 2001

A musical about two showgirls from Little Rock searching for love and marriage aboard a luxury-liner bound for France. 1 videodisc (97 min.)

MEDIA 10-373

The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess 1993

Trevor Nunn, Willard White, Cynthia Haymon , Gregg Baker, Cynthia Clarey, Marietta Simpson, Damon Evans, Simon Rattle, Stephany Marks, DuBose Heyward, Dorothy Heyward, George Gershwin, and Ira Gershwin

This video is the adaptation of the Glyndebourne Festival Opera stage production of the Gershwins' classic musical drama Porgy and Bess, which portrays the lives of the occupants of Catfish Row. 2 videocassettes (184 min.)

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Gold diggers of 1933 1933, 1984

Avery Hopwood and Mervyn LeRoy

Musical comedy which pictures a group of chorus girls in search of millionaire husbands. A series of cine-ballets, enhanced by the artistic use of the camera, augment the story line. 1 videocassette (98 min.)

MEDIA 2-97

Gold diggers of 1935 1935, 1989

Busby Berkeley and Dick Powell

Dick Powell stars as a young medical student working his way through school as a hotel clerk. The shenanigans begin when a wealthy society matron asks Dick to be a summer escort for her beautiful daughter. 1 videocassette (96 min.)

DANA. MEDIA 1357 2-827

A Good dissonance like a man 1988?

T. W Timreck, Charles Ives, John Bottoms, Richard Ramos, Sandra Kingsbury, Louis Zorich, and Louis Turenne

A dramatization of the life of American composer Charles Ives (1874-1954). Remarkably rich portrait of the man and his music. 1 videocassette (60 min.)

MUSIC 399

The green pastures 1993, 1936

Marc Connelly, William Keighley, Rex Ingram, Oscar Polk, Eddie Anderson, and Marc Connelly

An all-Black cast presents Marc Connelly's religious allegory, based on the premise of a Southern Black preacher telling Bible stories to his Sunday school class in terms of the world they are familiar with. 1 videocassette (90 min.)

MEDIA 2-6201

Hair 1993

Milos Forman, John Savage, Treat Williams, Beverly D'Angelo, Annie Golden, Michael Weller, Lester Persky, Michael Butler, Gerome Ragni, and James Rado

Young Oklahoman and Vietnam draftee Claude Bukowski walks into a "happening" in New York Central park - an undulating mass of hippies singing, dancing and cavorting to the music of the age of Aquarius. Enter the beautiful debutante Sheila and instantly Claude and Sheila are smitten . 1 videocassette (122 min.)

MEDIA 2-3184

A hard day's night 1984, 1964

Richard Lester

Documents the excitement of the Beatles' early days. A percursor to MTV style music videos. 1 videocassette (90 min.)

MEDIA 2-253

Hrishikesh Mukherhee's chupke chupke Cupake cupake 2001

Hrishikesh Mukherjee, N. C Sippy, Rupam Pictures Pvt. Ltd, and Shemaroo Video (Firm)

MEDIA 10-986

Jailhouse rock 1957, 1985

Elvis Presley, Pandro S Berman, Richard Thorpe, Judy Tyler, Mickey Shaughnessy, and Dean Jones

Sent to prison for accidentally killing a man the convicted young man learns to sing and when released he becomes a pop music star. 1 videocassette (96 min.)

MEDIA 2-1831

Jamesie king of scratch c2006

Andrea E Leland, James Brewster, All Stars (Musical group : James Brewster), Nine Morning Productions, and New Day Films

MEDIA 10-2242

The Jazz singer 1991, 1927

Al Jolson, May McAvoy, Warner Oland, Samson Raphaelson, William Demarest, Alan Crosland, and Alfred A Cohen

A melodramatic story of a Jewish cantor's son (Al Jolson) who aspires to be a jazz singer despite his father's objection and religious tradition. In motion picture history, this marks the first feature film to utilize synchronous sound. Jolson's songs include "Toot, toot, tootsie", "Blue skies", and "Mammy". 1 videocassette (89 min.)

MEDIA 2-2845

Karmen Gei 2002

Joseph Gai Ramaka, Richard Sadler, Djeďnabe Diop Gaď, Magaye Niang, Stephanie Biddle, Thierno Ndiaye, Dieynaba Niang , Prosper Mérimée, Euripide (Firm), Arte France cinéma (Firm), Canal+Horizons, and California Newsreel (Firm)

Karmen escapes prison through her lesbian relationship with the warden. She then wrecks the marriage and career of a police corporal by making him her lover and co-conspirator in a smuggling ring. She abandons the corporal who, in a fit of jealous rage, stabs her. Contains much singing and dancing. 1 videocassette (83 min.)

DANA. MEDIA 1976 2-6434

Lady sings the blues 2005

Berry Gordy, Jay Weston, James S White, Terence McCloy, Chris Clark, Suzanne De Passe, Sidney J Furie, Diana Ross, Billy Dee Williams, Richard Pryor, James Callahan, Paul Hampton, and Paramount Home Entertainment (Firm)

Diana Ross stars in this musical drama charting the life of Billie Holiday, a life tormented by racism and drug abuse. 1 videodisc (143 min.)

DANA MEDIA 264 2-1903

Limonádový Joe aneb Konská opera Lemonade Joe ala horse opera 2001

Oldrich Lipský, Jirí Brdecka, Jaroslav Jílovec, Karel Fiala, Milos Kopecký, Olga Schoberová, Facets Video (Firm), FilmoveŢ studio Barrandov, and Národní filmový archív

A spoof of westerns. 1 videocassette (87 min.)

MEDIA 2-6944

Made in Jamaica 2009

Jaer ome Laperrousaz, Pascal Haerold, aHerold and Family, Lawrence Pictures, ArtMattan Productions, and Facets Video (Firm)

MEDIA 10-1686

Meet me in St. Louis 2000

Sally Benson, Arthur Freed, Vincente Minnelli, Irving Brecher, Fred J Finklehoffe, Judy Garland, Margaret O'Brien, Tom Drake, Marjorie Main, Mary Astor, and Lucille Bremer

A musical set in St. Louis in 1903. The well-off Smith family has four beautiful daughters, including Esther and little Tootie. Seventeen-year-old Esther has fallen in love with the boy next door, John, who has just moved in. He, however, barely notices her at first. The family is shocked when Mr. Smith reveals that he has been transferred to a nice position in New York, which means that the family has to leave St. Louis and the St. Louis Fair. 1 videocassette (113 min.)

MEDIA 2-5933

The Mikado 1999, 1982

W. S Gilbert, Marie Baron, Eric Donkin, Henry Ingram, Christina James, Richard McMillan, Gidon Saks, Berthold Carričre, Brian Macdonald, Norman Campbell, and Arthur Sullivan

1 videodisc (150 min.)

DANA 4

Le Million The million 2000

Renae Lefaevre, Annabella, Louis Allibert, Renae Clair, A Bernard, Philippe Paraes , Georges van Parys, Georges Berr, Marcel Guillemaud, Filmsonor (Firm), and Criterion Collection (Firm)

MEDIA 10-2050 2-168

Moon over Harlem 1993/1939

Edgar G Ulmer, Bud Harris, Cora Green, Izinetta Wilcox, Carl Gough, Mathew Mathews , Meteor Productions, and Facets Video (Firm)

An unusual musical melodrama about a Harlem widow who unwittingly marries a double-talking gangster involved in the numbers racket. 1 videocassette (67 min.)

DANA 1911

Moulin Rouge! 2001

Fred Baron, Martin Brown, Baz Luhrmann, Craig Pearce, Nicole Kidman, Ewan McGregor , John Leguizamo, Jim Broadbent, Richard Roxburgh, Garry McDonald, Jacek Koman, Matthew Whittet, and Kerry Walker

MEDIA 10-125

My sister Eileen 1955, 1992

Blake Edwards, Bob Fosse, Jule Styne, Janet Leigh, Betty Garrett, Jack Lemmon, Joseph A Fields, Richard Quine, Fred Kohlmar, Jerome Chidorov, and Leo Robin

The Sherwood sisters, Ruth (Garrett) and Eileen (Leigh), move from Ohio to New York City to seek their fame and fortune, Ruth as an author, and Eileen as an actress. When Ruth writes about her sister in one of her short stories, magazine editor Robert Baker (Lemmon), to whom Ruth has sent the story, expresses an interest in meeting the head-turning Eileen. 1 videocassette (ca. 108 min.)

MEDIA 2-2073

New York, New York 1989

Martin Scorsese, Liza Minnelli, and Robert De Niro

Jimmy Doyle and Francine Evans become romantically involved, marry, and develop a professional working relationship as musicians. Their drive and ambition which attracted them to each other originally, ultimately pulls them tragically apart. This musical is a salute to the Big Band Era of the 30's and 40's. 2 videocassettes (164 min.)

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Musicals Cont'd

Oliver! c2005

MEDIA 10-1815

Les Parapluies de Cherbourg The Umbrellas of Cherbourg 1997

Jacques Demy, Mag Bodard, Catherine Deneuve, Nino Castelnuovo, Anne Vernon, Marc Michel, Ellen Farner, Mireille Perrey, and Harald Wolff

MEDIA 10-30

Pennies from heaven 1991, 1981

Herbert Ross, Steve Martin, Bernadette Peters, Christopher Walken, Jessica Harper, Nora Kaye, Marvin Hamlisch, and Billy May

A musical drama about a young sheet-music salesman during the Depression who is doomed forever to believe in the lyrics of the songs he sells. 1 videocassette (108 min.)

MEDIA 2-6047

Princess Tam Tam 1989

Josephine Baker, Albert Préjean, Edmond T Gréville, and Pepito Abatino

An exotic Pygmalion-like musical comedy about a French author who goes to North Africa to write a novel but becomes distracted--then entranced--by a native girl whom he transforms into a "princess.". 1 videocassette (80 min.)

DANA. MEDIA 305 2-1293

Quadrophenia 1991

Sting, Roy Baird, Bill Curbishley, Franc Roddam, Phil Daniels, and Leslie Ash

Songs by The Who set the background for this story of the passions of British street kids, circa 1964. 1 videocassette release of the 1979 motion picture

MEDIA 2-2361

Ray 2005

Ray is the triumphant and remarkable story of one of America's true musical geniuses, Ray Charles. 2 videodiscs (153 min.)

MEDIA 10-378

Richard III a Bollywood musical 2003 distributed 2007

William Shakespeare, Serge Tampalini, and Murdoch University

A musical adaptation of the play by William Shakespeare. Presented as part of the Advanced Production unit at Murdoch University, 2003. 2 videodiscs (ca. 85 min.) sd., col

MEDIA 10-1430

The Rocky Horror picture show c2002

Jim Sharman, Michael White, Susan Sarandon , Barry Bostwick, Richard O'Brien, Tim Curry, and Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation

MEDIA 10-1907

Rodgers & Hammerstein's Carousel 1956/2006

Henry King, Phoebe Ephron, Henry Ephron, Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein, Gordon MacRae, Shirley Jones, Cameron Mitchell, Barbara Ruick, Claramae Turner , Robert Rounseville, Gene Lockhart, Ferenc Molnár, Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation, and Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc

A smooth-talking carnival barker falls in love with a millworker. Tragedy strikes these star-crossed lovers, though, and their journey is not easy. How Billy makes his way to heaven and back again, providing love and solace to his wife and daughter, and redemption for himself, is the story of one of the most unique and powerfully uplifting musicals ever written. 2 videodiscs (ca. 129 min.)

MUSIC 128

The Rose 1990

Bette Midler, Alan Bates, and Mark Rydell

The triumphs and lonely restlessness of the current rock scene provide background to the film which is loosely based on the life of Janis Joplin. Bette Midler stars as a multi-talented but self-destructive singer. 1 videocassette (134 min.)

MEDIA 2-2630

Satyam shivam sundaram 2002

Raja Kapura, Shashi Kapoor, Zeenat Aman, Padmini Kolhapure, Narendra Sharma, Anand Bakshi, Vithalbhai Patel, and Jainendra Jain

A man, enthralled with his wife's singing, struggles to overcome his revulsion at her hidden disfigurement. 1 videodisc (ca. 160 min.)

MEDIA 10-182

Show boat 1990, 1936

Irene Dunne, Allan Jones, Charles Winninger, Paul Robeson, Helen Morgan, Helen Westley, Edna Ferber, Oscar Hammerstein, Jerome Kern, Carl Laemmle, and James Whale

"Edna Ferber's classic tale of life and love among a theatrical troupe on a Mississippi riverboat...."--Container. 1 videocassette (115 min.)

MEDIA 2-5936

Singin' in the rain 1952, 1985

Adolph Green, Betty Comden, Gene Kelly, and Stanley Donen

An affectionate spoof of the turmoil that afflicted the motion picture industry in the late 1920's during the changeover from silent films to sound. 1 videocassette (103 min.)

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South Pacific c1999

Paul Osborn, Oscar Hammerstein, Buddy Adler, Joshua Logan, Rossano Brazzi, Mitzi Gaynor, John Kerr, Ray Walston, Juanita Hall, France Nuyen, Richard Rodgers, James A Michener, Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation, Magna Theatre Corporation, Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc, and CBS Fox Video

Set in the Pacific theater during World War II, this musical film explores the theme of racial prejudice in two parallel stories--that of a Navy nurse's love for a plantation owner with two Eurasian children, and a Marine lieutenant's love for a native woman. 1 videodisc (150 min.)

MUSIC 282

Sparkle 1990, 1976

Joel Schumacher, Howard Rosenman, and Sam Osteen

Three sisters from a ghetto in Harlem bercome a phenomenally popular singing group, but find that success takes its toll on their lives. 1 videocassette (98 min.) ;

MEDIA 2-3734

The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle 1939, 1987

Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, H. C Potter, and Walter Brennan

The story of the famous dance team, Vernon and Irene Castle, and their meteoric rise to stardom. 1 videocassette (93 min.)

MEDIA 2-1493

They shall have music 1939, 1990?

Archie L Mayo, Joel McCrea, Andrea Leeds, Jascha Heifetz, Walter Brennan, Gene Reynolds, Samuel Goldwyn, John Howard Lawson, and Irmgard Von Cube

A young juvenile delinquent in trouble at home and with the law becomes involved in a music school which teaches youngsters of poor parents. The school's backer wants to make a profit from the school and threatens to close it if they don't keep up with the rent and payments on the instruments. At the last moment Jascha Heifetz is talked into giving his support to the school. 1 videocassette (102 min.)

MUSIC 359

The three penny opera 1983

Bertolt Brecht, Kurt Ulrich, Wolfgang Staudte, Guenter Weisenborn, Curd Jürgens, Hildegard Knef, Gert Fröbe, Hilde Hildebrand, June Ritchie, Sammy Davis, Peter Sandloff, Dick Price, Eric Bentley, Marc Blitzstein, and Kurt Weill

MEDIA 2-3779

The three penny opera 1996

Joseph E Levine, Bertolt Brecht, Kurt Weill, Kurt Ulrich, Wolfgang Staudte, Sammy David, Curd Jürgens, Hildegard Knef, and June Ritchie

A political satire set in Victorian London. Macheath, a notorious criminal and ladies' man, gets away with robbery and criminal acts until he marries Polly Peachum, daughter of the king of the beggars. The king sends a force of crooked cops after Mack, and he must run for his life. 1 videocassette (ca. 100 min.)

DANA 1600

Till the clouds roll by 198-?, 1946

Judy Garland, Robert Walker, Frank Sinatra, Myles Connolly, Jean Holloway, Arthur Freed, Richard Whorf, and Robert Alton

A musical biography of songwriter Jerome Kern, with an all-star cast performing a cavalcade of his great tunes. 1 videocassette (137 min.)

MEDIA 2-3420

Top hat 1935, 1999

Mark Sandrich, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers , Edward Everett Horton, Pandro S Berman, Dwight Taylor, Allan Scott, and Irving Berlin

Rogers and Astaire are caught up in a mistaken-identity plot, in which Rogers assumes that Astaire is already married and is alternately charmed and disgusted by Astaire's advances. 1 videocassette (97 min.)

MEDIA 2-5937

Topsy-Turvy 2000

Mike Leigh, Simon Channing-Williams, Jim Broadbent, Allan Corduner, Timothy Spall, Lesley Manville, Ron Cook, Wendy Nottingham, Kevin McKidd, Shirley Henderson, W. S Gilbert, and Arthur Sullivan

MEDIA 10-26

TSirk c1996

Grigorii Vasil evich Aleksandrov, Liubov Petrovna Orlova, Vladimir Volodin, Evgeniia Mel nikova, N Massal skii, Sergei Stolyarov, Aleksandr Komissarov, Gosfil mofond SSSR, Moskovskaia kinostudiia "Mosfil m.", Polart (Firm), and Facets Multimedia (Chicago, Ill.)

Alexandrov's attempt at importing American musical comedy into Soviet film. An American circus star who has a black baby can only find happiness with the Soviet people in the Soviet Union. 1 videocasette (89 min.)

MEDIA 2-7618

Two gun man from Harlem 1938, 1996

A singing cowboy wrongfully framed for murder ends up in Harlem. He assumes the identity of a look-alike murdered gangster and joins a gang to catch the men who framed him. 1 videocassette (60 min.)

MEDIA 2-6198

Under the roofs of Paris Sous les toits de Paris 1983

René Clair, Pola Illery, Albert Préjean, and Edmond T Gréville

A Parisian street singer falls in love with a girl, fights her lover, and proves himself innocent of theft. This light musical was director Clair's first sound film as well as the first French sound film. 1 videocassette (95 min.)

MEDIA 2-1391

Veselye rebiata muzykal naia kino-komediia = The world is laughing 1996

Grigorii Vasil evich Aleksandrov, Nikolai Robertovich Erdman, V Mass, Leonid Osipovich Utesov, Liubov Petrovna Orlova, Moskovskogo Kinokombinata, Polart (Firm), and Facets Multimedia (Chicago, Ill.)

A musical comedy which pits a whip-cracking, animal-herding, good-hearted rustic with a fine voice and a Pan-like effect on all who hear him against a so-called "finer" stratum of society. Leaving a trail of mirth and mayhem from the seaside to the Moscow theater world, our hero eventually finds harmony and lifelong melody with a pretty, tuneful serving girl. 1 videocassette (93 min.)

MEDIA 2-6644

Voices of Sarafina! 1991

Nigel Noble, Mbongeni Ngema, Diane Kolyer, and Bernard Gersten

Interviews with the young Black South African cast members of the Broadway production of Sarafina!, interspersed with scenes from that musical about the 1976 student uprising at a Soweto high school. 1 videocassette (85 min.)

MEDIA 2-2477

Volga, Volga muzykal naia komedia = Wolga, Wolga c1996

Grigorii Vasil evich Aleksandrov, Nikolai Robertovich Erdman, Vladimir Nilsen, Igor Il inskii, Liubov Orlova, V Volodin, Moskovskaia kinostudiia "Mosfil m.", Polart (Firm), and Facets Multimedia (Chicago, Ill.)

Love story in which the boy and girl quarrel over whether his classical music performance or her folk music performance will win the Moscow amateur talent show. 1 videocassette (90 min.)

MEDIA 2-6392

Wattstax c2004, 1974

Mel Stuart, Richard Pryor, Isaac Hayes, Luther Ingram, Johnnie Taylor, Staple Singers, Emotions (Musical group), and Warner Home Video (Firm)

MEDIA 10-579

West Side story 1988, 1961

Robert Wise, Jerome Robbins, Natalie Wood, and Richard Beymer

Musical based on the Romeo and Juliet story, set in New York's West Side slums during the late 1950's, with gang warfare erupting when Maria, sister of the leader of the Puerto Rican gang, the Sharks, falls in love with the leader of the rival Anglo gang, the Jets. 1 videocassette (153 min.) lazerdiscs

DANA. MEDIA MEDIA 68 2-465 7-72 disc 1 7-73 disc 2 7-74 disc 3

The Wizard of Oz 1985, 1939

Judy Garland, Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger, and Bert Lahr

MEDIA. DANA 10-2181 2-493 102

Zero patience 1994

John Greyson, John Robinson, Normand Fauteux, Dianne Heatherington, Anna Stratton, and Louise Garfield

A tall tale of love and loss, sex and science, history and hysteria in the age of AIDS. 1 videocassette (100 min.)

MEDIA 2-6075

Zou Zou 1989

Marc Allégret, Josephine Baker, Jean Gabin, and Pepito Abatino

Musical in which a talented Cinderella (a laundress played by Baker) takes the place of the lead on opening night and saves the show. 1 videocassette (93 min.)

DANA. MEDIA 308 2-1288

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