Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Classics > Musical: 220 Films to Rent
- Spinout (1966)
- Dir. Norman Taurog
Feat. Elvis Presley, Shelley Fabares
- Musical comedy starring Elvis as a race car driver and singer in a band, whose carefree single life is threatened by the romantic advances of three…
- Beach Blanket Bingo (1965)
- Dir. William Asher
Feat. Paul Lynde, Frankie Avalon, Annette Funicello…
- Most successful and best known of the ‘Beach Party’ movies, though it shows signs of being fifth in a series by straying quite a way from the…
- Girl Happy (1965)
- Dir. Boris Sagal
Feat. Elvis Presley, Shelley Fabares, Harold J. Stone
- Elvis escorts the daughter of a mobster to a Florida beachside resort for a holiday. Enjoyably kitsch Presley musical.
- Sound of Music, The (1965)
- Dir. Robert Wise
Feat. Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer, Eleanor Parker…
- Enduring Rogers and Hammerstein musical based on the real–life Von Trapp family, who deserted their homeland to escape the Nazis.…
- Christmas Television Classics (Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, Frosty the Snowman, Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town) (1964-1970)
- Feat. Fred Astaire
- Three festive features garanteed to bring nostalgic cheer to any child of the sixties.
- Kissin' Cousins (1964)
- Dir. Gene Nelson
Feat. Elvis Presley, Arthur O'Connell, Glenda Farrell…
- Elvis both an Air Force officer and his hillbilly cousin, and negotiates the affections of two other female cousins, in this cheerfully hick musical…
- My Fair Lady (1964)
- Dir. George Cukor
Feat. Audrey Hepburn, Rex Harrison
- Ever–popular, though rather long musical version of George Bernard Shaw's 'Pygmalion', starring Audrey Hepburn as riffraff transformed into…
- Roustabout (1964)
- Dir. John Rich
Feat. Elvis Presley, Barbara Stanwyck
- Relatively pleasing Elvis Presley vehicle. The King joins a carnival run by Barbara Stanwyk.
- Umbrellas of Cherbourg, The (1964)
- Dir. Jacques Demy
Feat. Catherine Deneuve, Nino Castelnuovo
- Gorgeous French musical with Catherine Deneuve, in her acting debut, one of its many pleasures. A bittersweet romantic story is allied to a lush…
- Unsinkable Molly Brown, The (1964)
- Dir. Charles Walters
Feat. Debbie Reynolds, Ed Begley, Harve Presnell
- Rags to riches musical based on the eventful life of Margaret Brown who survived flooding, snobbery and a trip on a boat called the Titanic. One of…