Musical Film from the 1950's -Filter
February 1, 2015 8:38 AM Subscribe
Help me identify a musical film that I saw a snippet of as a child and now barely (and unreliably) remember!
Yeah kind of a long shot, but I feel pretty good about mefi's handle on musical film of the 50's. I remember seeing about 10-15 minutes of this movie on TV Land (or something similar) as a young child, and it's stuck with me for some reason. I'd like to figure out what it was!
Here's what I remember:
Yeah kind of a long shot, but I feel pretty good about mefi's handle on musical film of the 50's. I remember seeing about 10-15 minutes of this movie on TV Land (or something similar) as a young child, and it's stuck with me for some reason. I'd like to figure out what it was!
Here's what I remember:
- It's a musical, and it's in color! The clothes and the production value were definitely 40s or 50s era (but 60s is not out of the question).
- The musical scene was a mother and her son arriving at what seemed to be a resort or maybe a huge mansion. They were dressed for traveling I think, but everyone else (the mostly-women dancing and singing) were in bathing suits or something.
- The mother and son were being welcomed to the resort or mansion(?) by a handsome dark haired man, who- may have known the woman in advance
- Either immediately or shortly after the welcome song/dance, the woman and the handsome man are in bed together (in the dark), when an intruder comes in(!!!) The handsome man hits the intruder, maybe smashing a lamp over his head(??)
- This makes me think the mother and son were at the resort(?) for protection?
Best answer: Bernie's Holiday Camp
posted by Ruthless Bunny at 9:04 AM on February 1, 2015 [2 favorites]
posted by Ruthless Bunny at 9:04 AM on February 1, 2015 [2 favorites]
Response by poster: Amazing!!!! Thank you RB!!! And the lamp scene (what about the boy?)!!!
Watching this now, its clear why this little memory stuck with me - on the surface, and to a kid, this would (and did) seem like a normal 50s era musical film, but there's a dark absurdity and pinch of psychadelia that was confusing and a little disturbing to me at the time. Can't wait to watch this in full- I love that album so much and this looks awesome!
posted by stinkfoot at 9:17 AM on February 1, 2015 [1 favorite]
Watching this now, its clear why this little memory stuck with me - on the surface, and to a kid, this would (and did) seem like a normal 50s era musical film, but there's a dark absurdity and pinch of psychadelia that was confusing and a little disturbing to me at the time. Can't wait to watch this in full- I love that album so much and this looks awesome!
posted by stinkfoot at 9:17 AM on February 1, 2015 [1 favorite]
Response by poster: (Also: Oliver Reed looks just like Javier Bardem!)
posted by stinkfoot at 9:51 AM on February 1, 2015
posted by stinkfoot at 9:51 AM on February 1, 2015
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