Subgenre Sampler
Classics > Musical: 224 Films to Buy & Rent
- Viva Las Vegas (1964)
- Dir. George Sidney
Feat. Elvis Presley, Ann-Margret
- Elvis Presley is paired with Ann–Margret in this rumbunctious Vegas–set musical.
- Bye Bye Birdie (1963)
- Dir. George Sidney
Feat. Dick Van Dyke, Ann-Margret, Janet Leigh…
- Fluffy yet fabulous film version of the hit Broadway musical with rock 'n' roller Dick Van Dyke traveling to small town Ohio to make his final…
- I Could Go on Singing (1963)
- Dir. Ronald Neame
Feat. Judy Garland, Dirk Bogarde, Jack Klugman…
- A successful singer visits her estranged son while on tour in England. Teary melodrama was Garland's last film and featured arguably her best acting.
- It Happened At The World's Fair (1963)
- Dir. Norman Taurog
Feat. Elvis Presley, Yvonne Craig, Gary Lockwood…
- The King plays a pilot–for–hire who hitchhikes to the World's Fair in Seattle to earn some cash after his plane is seized by the local…
- Live it Up! (Sing and Swing) (1963)
- Dir. Lance Comfort
Feat. David Hemmings
- Low–budget, but historically fascinating musical wraps some great mid–60s pop music around its slender plot.
Hemmings plays a…
- Summer Magic (1963)
- Dir. James Neilson
Feat. Hayley Mills, Burl Ives, Dorothy McGuire
- Sweetly sentimental Disney version of the Kate Wiggins novel 'Mother Carey's Chickens', about a poor Boston family who make a drafty Maine homestead…
- Billy Rose's Jumbo (1962)
- Dir. Charles Walters
Feat. Doris Day, Stephen Boyd, Jimmy Durante…
- Cracking musical extravaganza based around the real–life Billy Rose stageshow and doctored with brilliant Rodgers and Hart songs, plus dance…
- Gypsy (1962)
- Dir. Mervyn LeRoy
Feat. Rosalind Russell, Natalie Wood, Karl Malden
- Eye–catching musical comedy–drama based on the memoir of burlesque entertainer Gypsy Rose Lee, whose career was driven by her aggressive…
- Kid Galahad (1962)
- Dir. Phil Karlson
Feat. Elvis Presley, Charles Bronson, Joan Blackman…
- Musical remake sees Elvis enter the ring as an upstart boxer under the tutelage of grizzly Charles Bronson, who's not about to put the champ in…
- Music Man, The (1962)
- Dir. Morton DaCosta
Feat. Robert Preston, Shirley Jones, Buddy Hackett…
- A lively and delightful Broadway musical adaptation with conman Robert Preston (reprising his stage role) diddling a small Iowa town in 1912. Full of…