The Merry Widow (1934), Top Hat (1935), Elena and Her Men (1956), Show Boat (1936), Topsy-Turvy (1999), The Smiling Lieutenant (1931), An American in Paris (1951), The Pirates of Penzance (1983) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Operetta movies.
Storyline: Hat check man Louis Blore is in love with nightclub star May Daly. May, however, is love with a poor dancer, but wants to marry for money. When Louis wins the Irish Sweepstakes, he asks May to marry him and she accepts even though she doesn't love him. Soon after, Louis has an accident and gets knocked on the head, where he dreams that he's King Louis XV pursuing the infamous Madame Du Barry.—Daniel Bubbeo <dbubbeo@cmp.com>
Plot Keywords: musical, comedy, romance, historical, court, song and dance, fantasy ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Shiek Yousseff, poses as a friend of the French while secretly plotting to overthrow them. Apposing Yousseff are the Riffs, whose secret leader, The Red Shadow, is Paul Bonnard, a professor who is studying the desert, and whose attacks on the supply trains intended for Yousseff keep the Riff villages in food. Foreign Legion General Birabeau arrives to conduct an investigation, accompanied by his daughter, Margot. Birabeau hires Bonnard to tutor her, and she is attracted to a Legionaire captain, Claud Fontaine. While the general, Bonnard and Fontaine pay a visit to Yousseff, an American newspaper man, Benji Kidd, discovers a secret way in and out of Yousseff's palace, with the aid of Azuri, a dancing girl in love with Bonnard. The latter is forced to resume his role as the Riffs leader, and kidnap Margot until he can convince her of Yousseff's treachery. But Yousseff's men attack the Riff camp and take Margot prisoner.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
Plot Keywords: musical, romance, adventure, desert, love, singing, dancing ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Traveling Salesman Virgil Smith wants to sell his Grammophones in pre-WWI Austria. To enhance this, he especially wants to sell one to Emperor Franz Joseph, but at first the Austrian palace guards think he is carrying a bomb. He meets the Countess Johanna von Stolzenberg-Stolzenberg and after the usual misunderstandings, falls in love with her, this is especially assisted by his dog Buttons. But the relation between a Countess and an ordinary U.S. citizen cannot work in Austria, that is the Emperor's opinion. Is he wrong ?—Stephan Eichenberg <eichenbe@fak-cbg.tu-muenchen.de>
Plot Keywords: musical, romance, comedy, historical, royalty, love, austria ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Circa 1861, Angelina, ruling countess of an Italian principality, is at a loss when invaded by a Hungarian army. Her lookalike ancestress Francesca, who saved a similar situation 300 years before, comes to life from a portrait to help her descendant. Complicating factor: the newlywed countess feels strangely drawn to the handsome invader...—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
Plot Keywords: musical, comedy, romance, fantasy, historical, drama, colorful ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Working for O.S.I., the Office of Scientific Investigation, A-Man agent Jeffrey Stewart and his partner Dan Forbes are sent to a local hardware store where they find a strong magnetic field has magnetized every metal item in the store. Investigating further, they eventually trace the source of the magnetism to an airborn flight carrying scientist Howard Denker, now dying of radiation poisoning, who has carted on board with him a new radioactive element which he has bombarded with alpha particles for 200 hours. The element, dubbed 'serranium' grows geometrically by creating matter out of energy which it absorbs from metallic objects surrounding it. Stewart calculates that if the substance is not destroyed soon that within 24 hours or so it will have grown large enough to throw Earth out of its orbit.—Doug Sederberg <vornoff@sonic.net>
Plot Keywords: musical, romance, comedy, love, classic, song and dance, hollywood ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: After her father's death, Mary Rainey takes over the Rainey Circus (which operates twice daily, rain or shine) but runs into financial troubles. In one bit reminiscent of the Marx Brothers, the circus performers are up to some ridiculous antics at a dinner party with the family of Bud Conway, Mary's beau. As times become worse and the performers go on strike, Mary must try to save the circus from rioting patrons.—Paul Donahue
Plot Keywords: comedy, musical, romance, classic, black and white, american film, musical film ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A Musical-romance with Dick Powell as a private stationed in Hawaii who gets involved with Ruby Keeler, the general's engaged daughter. In order to avoid a scandal, the pair break up, but meet again years later when Powell's at West Point producing the annual play that turns out to star Keeler.—Alessandro Martini <alemartini@geocities.com>
Plot Keywords: romance, musical, comedy, military, song and dance, romantic comedy, golden age of hollywood ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: An incognito French princess (Jeanette MacDonald) flees to New Orleans and flirts with an Indian scout (Nelson Eddy).
Plot Keywords: musical, romance, comedy, love, adventure, historical, singing ...
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