Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Classics > Musical: 197 Films to Rent on DVD
- 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…
- Blue Hawaii (1961)
- Dir. Norman Taurog
Feat. Elvis Presley
- Lush setting for this Elvis vehicle is easy on the eye. The King's least Rock'n'Roll effort.
- Flower Drum Song (1961)
- Dir. Henry Koster
Feat. Nancy Kwan, James Shigeta
- Amiable if overlong musical comedy telling the story of a Chinese girl who smuggles herself into San Francisco as a "picture bride" to marry a young…
- West Side Story (1961)
- Dir. Robert Wise
Feat. Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer, Russ Tamblyn…
- Oscar–sweeping, hugely influential film version of Bernstein and Sondheim's landmark Broadway musical, updating Romeo and Juliet to dockland…
- Wild in the Country (1961)
- Dir. Phillip Dunne
Feat. Elvis Presley, Hope Lange, Tuesday Weld…
- Unusual Elvis Presley vehicle, playing a country hothead with a literary bent.
- Young Ones, The / Summer Holiday (1961-1962)
- Dir. Sidney J. Furie, Peter Yates
Feat. Cliff Richard, Robert Morley, The Shadows
- A pairing of delightfully dated musical vehicles for Brit pop sensation of the day, Cliff Richard. THE YOUNG ONES has Cliff organising a fundraising…